Rating: 3 Stars
Minimum Monthly Cost: $57
Spun Content: Yes
Posts Reviewed: Yes
Choose Distribution Rate: Yes – up to 20 posts per day
Cost Per Post: Free – just your time — Outsourced $.15 a piece
Minimum Post Length: 100 words
Links Per Post: 1 link per post
Average Cost Per 600 Posts: $57 ($82 to $97 if you outsource)
Average PR of Links: 2.8 (based on my experience)
Link URL’s Revealed: Yes
Out Source It: Yes – if you want to take full advantage
Ease Of Use: Easy just time consuming. Wish it was more automated.
Other Features: You can purchase a subscription to Blog Blueprint separately from SEO Blueprint. But for $10 more a month you get Article Blueprint and Link Blueprint.
I just recently joined Blog Blueprint as many people said they are seeing some good results from this network. I can not say from personal experience yet whether or not it is living up to the reviews I have read from other marketers. I will however be updating this post in the future to give my feedback on the effectiveness of this blog network.
Being spoiled by automated software and other more automated blog networks I find this Blog Blueprint a little time consuming. It takes me about 1 minute to add a post. (The post has already been spun) You can add unlimited posts per day but you can only have 20 posts distributed per day. In other words it takes me about 20 minutes to make 20 posts and get 20 links.
To get the most out of this network I think the best way to use it would be to outsource the posting. I am sure you could hire someone on Odesk or Amazonturk to post on a daily basis. If I was to guess I would say between $1 to $1.5 a day to have someone post 20 posts to the network each day. Around $30 to $45 a month. Or another option would be to hire them for about a day and half and add all the posts during that time. At a minute per post this would be about 10 hours worth of work. 20 posts per day for 30 days equals 600 posts. 600 posts is 600 minutes or 10 hours of work.
Hiring someone to add all the posts over a couple of days is the route I take. I got bids from $11.11 to $22.22 an hour. The guy I hired to make these blog posts for this was the highest bidder. However, he has the experience and the necessary tools to get the job done which is critical. But seriously, why would you do this on your own. That is 10 hours of work being done for $22.
To get a list of the links it will cost about $10. So all in all this network is costing me $89 a month.
With the exception of a PR 1 and a PR 2 my posts have all been made on PR 3 blogs. I have mentioned this in other blog network reviews and that is that PR on a blog could change at anytime. Blog Blueprint claims their blogs are all PR3 to PR5 blogs. But if you check you will find that that is not the case. Below is a screen shot of this:
The kicker with these high PR blogs is how much PR love or juice are you really getting from them. I scrolled down to the bottom of the home page and clicked on “older posts”. What I found was that there were often times 3 to 4 pages of posts made on the same day. In other words your post may be on the front page for only 3 to 5 hours. Unless the spiders come by when your post is on the front page you are not getting credit for a high PR link.
The same theme is used for all of these blogs which appears to be the Twenty Eleven theme. Not sure if that really matters or not as there are probably tens of thousands of blogs with that theme since it is the default WordPress theme.
One of the things I like about the Blog Blueprint Blog Network is that you actually get the URL’s of your links. This makes it very nice and easy if you wanted to build links to these links or put them into some kind of link indexer. Unfortunately this again is not automated. It would be nice if you could download a CSV, text or html file with these links. But that is not the case. You would need to do it manually. However, if you are outsourcing the posts you might as well have them send you the list of links on a daily basis as well.
My recommendation for the Blog Blueprint Blog Network is that it would best be used if you outsource the posting other wise you are spending way to much time building links using this network.
Blog Blueprint does offer a 60 day money back gaurantee. So you can try this out for yourself risk free. You can purchase a subscription to Blog Blueprint separately from SEO Blueprint for $57 a month. But for $10 more a month you get Article Blueprint and Link Blueprint.