Get the Internet Marketing Advantage

Those of us involved in internet marketing are always looking for an edge for promoting our business, whether we're running ecommerce stores or selling information products or making a living consulting for other businesses helping them to build theirs.

IM Advantage (or IMA) is a special monthly membership program operated by Steve Clayton and Tim Godfrey that provides a comprehensive suite of tools and training for online entrepreneurs. The tools are valuable for online marketing, especially e-commerce or affiliate businesses. Clayton and Godfrey are best known in internet marketing circles for their Commission Blueprint and Niche Blueprint products. In fact, if you join IMA now you'll get access to both the Niche Blueprint 2.0 and Commission Blueprint 2.0 products in the members area-what a deal!

IM Advantage provides you with the same key set of tools that Steve and Tim have used to build a $10 million dollar per year business! This is not an ebook or a process map or a copy this campaign type of product. It isn't the latest fad marketing strategy. It is a core set of valuable software tools plus continued operating support to use them effectively to market your internet business. These make it much easier for you to build backlinks to a website to improve your search engine rankings and generate traffic-which means more business revenue for you! Tools and training to manage paid advertising campaigns are also included.

There are six cornerstone pieces to IM Advantage for boosting search engine rankings. You can get these all - and more - as a set, or get selected parts:

• Blog Blueprint - Blog network like Linkvana, only better
  
• Article Blueprint - Article spinning and submission tool
  
• Link Blueprint - Community system for getting backlinks to your website
• Social Bookmark Blueprint - Tool for adding social bookmarks for your Blog Blueprint, Link Blueprint, and other pages
• Monthly Updates - Monthly updates include new tools or training on current topics such as site flipping and Facebook advertising
  
• Support Desk and Forum - Unbeatable 24 hr support and the best forum around
  

Steve and Tim maintain and update a blog network that members can post to for obtaining backlinks to their own websites. As a member, you have permanent guest blogger privileges on a large network of blogs with healthy pagerank. All these blogs have PR0-5 on their home pages and blogs are retired after several hundred posts have been published to them.  (Most are PR 2-3.)

In order to use Blog Blueprint, you create a 100 word or so post that includes one hyperlink. This means you have full control over the anchor text for the link. After you enter your post, it goes through a brief review process and is then dispatched by the support team to a suitable blog in the network. You can post on as many topics as you want, on demand, up to 20 posts per day per account! You pay one fee per month to access the system and can use it to generate backlinks to as many different sites as you like!

Blog Blueprint is similar to Linkvana, but much cheaper. If you like Linkvana, but are unhappy with - or simply cannot afford - the higher monthly fee then Blog Blueprint is definitely for you. It is available separately as well as part of the whole IMA program.

Article Blueprint is an article spinning and automated article submission system. You start with an article of at least 400 words and four paragraphs and make two new variations of it inside Article Blueprint. This includes three different titles, different author names if desired, and different resource boxes. Article Blueprint takes it from there! Your material is reviewed manually within 48 hrs and then sent out through the private directory network.  With this private network, there are no concerns as there are with public directories that sites may refuse an article.  The automated submission with Article Blueprint is a real time-saver!

Article Blueprint does not automatically spin each separate text paragraph from the original article. This you either do manually within the tool, or you can employ a separate spinner program to help. Within Article Blueprint, you can add spin tags to words or phrases in your paragraphs to increase the uniqueness of each spun article. For example, "Article Blueprint is a [wonderful|terrrific|marvelous] tool" would be rendered as "Article Blueprint is a wonderful tool", "Article Blueprint is a terrific tool", or "Article Blueprint is a marvelous tool" in different final, spun articles generated in Article Blueprint.

Link Blueprint is a system for backlinking (non-reciprocal links!) that is supported by the user community. In order to request links from others in the community, you specify the URL and anchor text you want and add it to the requested links list. Another user wanting to earn credits in the system can claim this link and add it to his website. The Link Blueprint software then verifies the presence of the correct link and his site is checked again each day to be certain that your link remains active. If a link cannot be verified for several days, then the credits are refunded to you in the system and you can request a new link instead. In order to request links, you must have earned credits in the system yourself.  This is not a free lunch program! Many people outsource this linkbuilding if they can.

Links requests are segregated by pagerank of the requesting URL and subject area of the URL. A request for a pagerank 2 link must be filled by someone with a pagerank 2 URL; a pagerank 0 URL would not be permitted for this. Suitable links include website footers, blog posts (but not blog comments), and blogrolls. Some quality is also enforced: there is a limit to the number of outgoing links per page and links pages (simple lists of URLs) are not allowed. Links from higher pagerank sources require more credits. The subject area may be, for instance, advertising, travel, or home and garden. Relevance of the links is not enforced, i.e., you do not have to have a website about advertising to provide a link from the advertising category.

The support desk that Steve and Tim run, as well as their user forum, can't be beat!  The support desk responds promptly and courteously to questions and concerns.  The user forum really is quite active and Steve Clayton regularly participates in it himself.  Participants range from raw newbies to seasoned pros and anyone can benefit from discussions there.

You can get access to a few selected tools as the SEO Blueprint program from Steve and Tim, or you can get the full-on IM Advantage package with additional tools including an excellent keyword research tool (and a higher monthly fee). To find out more, see the complete IM Advantage review.