5000 Backlinks Review

Content might be king of the Internet, but when it comes to improving your search rankings, content alone won’t do it. You need links, and lots of them. Take a look at the search results for the phrase “weight loss programs” (click images for easier reading).

Now look at the number of inbound links each of those pages has – and note that I’ve filtered out internal links, so these numbers represent only offsite links.

Now this is not to say that one-way, inbound links are the only factor in high search rankings. Clearly not, or that second choice would not have made the cut with only 192 links. But you can see that backlinking should be a big part of your overall SEO strategy.

It’s also the part most everyone seems to have trouble with – trouble with knowing where and how to get backlinks, and trouble with actually doing the work. That’s where 5000 Backlinks comes in.

Lists, Lists, and More Lists

5000 Backlinks is not a miracle-working, answer-to-all-your-Internet-marketing-needs kind of program. You won’t find any promises of instant fame or wealth, or any videos of famous marketers working from their new beach-house. This is a practical guide to generating massive amounts of backlinks in a short period of time, but you still have to do the work.

Inside 5000 Backlinks, you’ll find ten lists of various sites you can comment on, post or trackback to, or register at. They’re divided into sections to help you quickly find what you’re looking for, such as dofollow forums, PR9 sites, .gov and .edu sites. In total, there are 4,698 links (not quite 5,000, but who’s counting?) including the “special” links designed to be used with the Instant Indexing Guide. In addition you get a year of updates, with 60 new links each month. You also get a tutorial that shows you how to find your own high-ranking blogs, forums, .gov and .edu sites.

What’s Missing

5000 Backlinks is not without its problems. First, in terms of niche, the sites listed are all over the map. Not every site will be a good place to leave your link. Not even most of them. Second, many of the sites are either no longer being updated, no longer accepting comments, or (in the case of blogs) no longer using a DoFollow plugin. Plan on spending a few days just going through this massive list of links to find the ones that are relevant to your site and which are still current.

In addition, there’s not much in the way of explanation about how to use the package. The Daily Action Plan asks that you choose three pages from your site every day along with your keywords, and go out and link each page to five sites from your list. On the surface, that seems simple enough, but what about blog comments where keywords are frowned-upon? Or forums where the only link allowed is in your signature? Do you then change your signature every day? Then there are the links to the front page of a site, not the actual blog or forum. You have to find that on your own. While there are some good links you can use, you’re left on your own to figure out the details, because 5000 Backlinks doesn’t tell you.

Still a Great Value

Even with these problems, 5000 Backlinks is still a fantastic value. If nothing else, you’ll discover hundreds of DoFollow forums where a signature link – and active participation, not spam – will bring you some high-quality traffic. I’ve also found several blogs on government and education sites that are great places to comment and trackback, not to mention good sources of research for niche blogs.

I’m using the 5000 Backlinks lists right now to build links to my professional site, AllQualityContent.com. I’ll be keeping an eye on the progress and posting updates as time goes on, so you can see exactly how the program works.

If you’ve got good content on your site and you’re struggling to climb the SERPs, backlinks are the next thing you need to tackle. 5000 Backlinks will give you lots of options for getting a variety of one-way, inbound links, and if you’re willing to put in the work, you’ll see positive results.