We should all know a couple of basic things about Internet marketing.

• If we want people to read what we write, or buy what we sell then we have to get them to visit our sites.

• We are all Internet marketers if we are on the Internet and want to be seen.

• We need good quality backlinks from quality sites to be seen.

• Outside of hub-pages it is quite difficult to get back-links, or to see how your sales are in relation to your sales costs for which keywords used to find you, whereas the tools supplied here give an idea from the analyser page on what to look for, because of the way hub pages sets up our hubs with various options.

The rules go like this:

1. Google is god.
2. Google will not make you any real money without quality back links from google.
3. Quality backlinks are hard to get until you have a decent online presence and good contents.That take time and learning.
4. Despite all the other search engines, (hundreds of them) Google is still god.
5. Google shows results better than all the other search engines for those looking on the net to find what they need.
6. If they were not the best way to search for things online they would not be number one.

With this in mind I went searching for some way to get better backlink results for my websites.

I have been trying to get more quality hits for some time and found a few problems that seem pretty hard to circumvent.

On my business sites and those of my family we rely on split testing to get reliable information on all aspects of the AdWords ads, the squeeze pages and sales pages that we use to drive traffic.

So much bull crap.

So the next question is: Can you buy software that works as advertised to bring more hits through "better" back-links? Or are they just a waste of bandwidth.

Well, so far I have concluded that back-link software is like most of the other rubbish peddled by Internet marketers. Oversold and under performing. Most of this software is badly written and according to a software engineer I know, you could not sell such crap if not for the fact that it is marketing related, and most people trying to sell this stuff know sweet nothing about software. The code is with some exceptions, sloppy and full of fat.

I have looked at a few products, and so far they are all under whelming.

Back-linking software that works as claimed.

As I wish to contribute to hub-pages I wanted to go out hunting and bag the big one, drag it back here to hub pages and help feed the needy so to speak.

I have failed spectacularly!

Back-link building software like neurolinker do not seem to work even for the people who made it, (See comments) let alone it's user base, as they do not seem to attract customers to their own site or their customer's sites, as they have not generated enough good back links themselves yet.

Neurolinker dispute this and point out that they do not use it on their own site. See explanation in comments. 

Of all the people who gave them very positive testimonials not one has as many back-links as needed and one of them has only four, so it is highly unlikely to works for anyone who buys it. That makes sense doesn't it?

Apparently not! This has also been challenged by neurolinker. 

One of the people selling neurolinker, and proclaiming it's usefulness shows a screen shot of the website he owns in the coveted number one position in Google organic search by keyword.

I have removed the screenshot as neurolinker has no control over what stupid things affiliates may get up to, and Marc from neurolinker explains this in his comment. The first two adds were paid AdWords as they are always coloured yellow. Then under that you see his free or "Organic" add.

He is on the first page of google in an unpaid ad!

First page on google for the words typed in to google.

Whoever searched on google searched for those exact words he has in his ad. Genius! How did he get such a fine keyword.... was it from his years of experience and help from the gods?

Not quite.

In his free ad  the keyword he gets number one position for is.

His Own obscure website name!

Gee I wonder if I put my name in as a keyword I will get number one position every time for the rest of my life.

Johhnynini Ploflychparionopoulos

Yep, that works!

GIMMEABREAK!

What a weak con this is relying on nonsense evidence of performance based on a false model and a false premise, i am pleased that neurolinker have distanced themselves from this sort of marketing.

New marketers will still buy near useless monthly charged software as It can take months for analysis to see if it is working for you.

By then, no refund.These marketers have your money. That's their goal.

There goal is not making you money, why would they? Did you bring up one of their kids?

Your money fo nuthin an ya chicks for free.

Sales reliance is placed on the ignorance of the new Internet marketer to the real fundamentals that they should provide.

Even when matched to good contents and quality back-links hyped dishonest claims are a pain.

I do not give a toss anymore about trying to protect beginners from these pitfalls, even friends and family get caught despite dire warnings to "vet" every offer using all the spying software you can lay your hands on.

I guess most people want an easy way in a world where many other things are now easy.

There is no easy way. Good contents and reputation on other authority websites will pull paying visitors to your site eventually, if you need to get hits quickly you need to do a lot of work building pages for keywords very skillfully before buying your keywords from google AdWords.

It is slow whichever way you go into Internet marketing except for the few who know how to build huge lists of buyers, not just huge lists, lists that are qualified and likely to buy are not cheap to buy or easy to get. If they were it would be a different world. 

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Although analysis software and backlink software are for sale by the gross on the net, most are near useless or will get you Google slapped if you use them.

We have tried online monthly subscriptions, desktop software and the analysis provided by Google and other search engines for free.

As Eric points out in his comment, the most accurate records of your hits come from is in the log file on your server and he suggests software good software to process the log file .  The log file can get pretty big and is a mystery to most marketers, as it involves a lot more learning about how to deal with server side software than many care to know. 

So far Google wins again, even though the diagnosis is a bit of a guess due to the good old rubbish in rubbish out of computing, and the difficulty in getting accurate keyword analysis sourced.

I still have not learnt a method of doing analysis that I can dissect for reliable data. I still try several ways then compare and guess the outcome.

For starters how can I know where my successful hits are coming from, when I know that diagnostics software relies on the input being accurate, and I know it is never completely good input due to different marketing employed.

Split testing squeeze pages, sale pages, and AdWords to assess what works and what doesn't on websites is still the best way to get more traffic for me.

I find split testing brain numbingly boring and time consuming but totally necessary.

I will not go in to why analysis is not generally accurate, as it is not important why, as there are many reasons for this, and in time it becomes evident to all of us when we get a bit of size on that this is one area of learning that is quite difficult to master,and is as much art as science. Lets just say it is complicated and someone with much better writing skills than me should knock up a hub on the subject.

Thanks for reading check back more to come,