Jonathan Leger - 1WayLinks Fails To Meet Expectations? (Case Study)

UPDATE 2!: I had to read this a couple times before I stopped laughing.  Here is the reasoning for the original submission rejection:

Post violates the terms of service.  You cannot make it known that a site you are promoting is in the 1WL network.  Besides that, your blog post is trashing 1WL and 3WL, so why would you use the service to promote that blog

This cracked me up for a couple reasons.

1) Someone submitted on my behalf.  The user NEVER made it known they were using 1WL for promotion.  I did.

2) I NEVER specified WHAT site was being promoted.  Why would I?

3) How does the site trash the services?  I simply stated what I had read and was wanting to try the service myself.  Honestly, if the service works, why fight this kind of a test?

The user who submitted on my behalf VOUCHED for the service, so much so that I was more than interested.  But after this display….LOL.  Seriously, if you have a quality service…why deny it?

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UPDATE!: There is a rumor that Mr. Leger himself read this post and then denied the submission based on the results being published. I have to admit that I find this rather suspect. I had high hopes for this service and planned to target the SERPs using reverse psychology when I documented true success. Those who are interested in a product are first going to read what they believe to be negative points. I was then going to leverage this case study to actually rope in some affiliate sales. Apparently, the potential for this service to fail was a bit too tangible and my submission was subsequently denied. To counter this and continue on with the experiment, I have located another individual (thanks for the email btw) willing to do the same experiment on my behalf. HOWEVER, it will be to a completely unrelated site than the first, and with completely unique submission content. Hopefully that will be enough to mask the efforts of this case study and show you the real life results. I will add an update to the results page for this case study and hide any clues about the actual targeted keywords going forward.

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I keep hearing about Jonathan Leger’s products and the things I hear are definitely far from all good. I have to admit that I was curious about 3waylinks when I first got wind. However after some searching and pushing aside of blatant affiliate sales pages that passed themselves off as honest reviews, I began to find MANY forum threads and blog posts about how 3waylinks resulted in de-indexing. Many stories and discussions about how the code snippet used for 3waylinks was detectable by G and therefore a ’slap me’ sign for would be internet marketers.

Please note that I have not personally experienced any of the bad press I am mentioning. I am simply stating that it was enough to convince me that trying the service was not worth the risk. However, knowing all the bad things floating around about 3waylinks, it should be no shock that 1waylinks gives me just as much pause knowing it comes from the same creator.

After a little digging I am finding similar reports of how 1waylinks fails to meet it’s claims. One review goes so far as to detail exactly why the system fails. Before I list those, let me describe how this service works.

To use 1waylinks you must first pay a monthly premium. But on top of that, you must donate a blog to blindly accept incoming content from the service network. Since every user must donate a blog, the service is mostly comprised of these donation blogs. You are then allotted a quota of monthly backlinks you can get from the system. You can increase this quota by adding more sites to the network.

Sounds a lot like AMA to me. So why does this fail? Apparently many of these blogs are haphazardly built and most of them just toss the network content into the ‘uncategorized’ category. Meaning you have no relevancy associated to where the content is posted. Another problem I am seeing come up commonly is that many of the sites your links come from are not indexed. Meaning you do not get credit for the backlink. There is also the dupe content problem. There are reports that many of the posts are too similar and only some of them get indexed by G.

In the end, people are complaining that of the supposed 750 backlinks for the month, some users may see as few as 50. That is a HUGE drop from the claim. But is it true? Well, how about we find out?

A friend has offered to let me submit a post to 1waylinks and record the results. As with the prior case studies, the direct target of the links will be known only to me. However, I hope that the results of past studies lend to the realism of this one. I have nothing to gain here as I am not an affiliate of 1waylinks. If the product is strong, I may be in the near future. However, at the time of writing this post I have no links to offer, and am giving this case study as much for myself as for you.

So, without further ado, here is the base of the case study. I have a blog post that I will submit today. That means it has not been crawled. The site is unranked (as of yet) and will provide very little boost, if any, just by posting. Then I will send my 1waylinks article to my friend and we will record if the page gets crawled and if there is any SERP momentum at all for the chosen keyword(s).

Let’s get started shall we? As usual the results will be listed in the post to follow.

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