Outsource Link Building – A Review of Burn Your To Do List
IMPORTANT UPDATE/WARNING (October 2010): This Burn your to do list review was originally written back in August and at that time, this company was working very well and producing great results for me. HOWEVER... recently the company was taken over by new owners and the standards have deteriorated rapidly in the last few weeks. Currenly I am waiting for all my October tasks to be completed, I have helpdesk tickets/tasks that have been closed in the unfinished state or just not answered at all, my monthly credits were reduced with no explanation and they have not paid me any affiliate commissions for the last couple of months. Needless to say, I decided to cancel my account, I have requested a refund for last month, and I do not recommend going anywhere near this company at the current time!
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Outsourcing is a great if you don’t have a lot of time to promote your website and need some help to do this, or if you have multiple websites and can’t give them all your full attention. It’s also great if you simply don’t like or are not good at things like article writing, submission and backlink building.
Personally I fall into pretty much all of these categories! I have almost 20 websites and blogs, so unless I clone myself, there is no chance that I would have time to promote all of these. I also get bored of link building and procrastinate about writing articles. If you are like me, you may want to outsource link building.
I’ve been using a company called Burn Your To Do List now for just over 4 months (since April 2010) and I’ve been quite pleased with the service overall and found them very affordable, so thought I would write a quick review of Burn Your To Do List to help anyone who is considering outsourcing link building or other aspects of marketing their site.
Review of Burn Your To Do List
What is it?
Burn Your To Do List is an outsourcing company that has a number of different staff members who are skilled in different areas inlcuding article writing, press release writing, directory submission, article submission, social bookmarking, backlinking (including Angela’s backlink packets), blog maintenance, video creation and more. You sign up to a monthly credit plan, starting from 10 credits for $75 per month and you can spend these credits on any service you like. The credit costs are very reasonable and you can get an article written for 1 credit, a packet of Angela’s backlinks for 1 credit, 30 blog comments for 1 credit and so on.
How Does it Work?
Whenever you want something done you submit a ticket to their helpdesk with the details of your job. Once the job is complete (usually within a few days) you receive notification that it is ready, along with the work you requested e.g the article, or a spreadsheet of the links that were created for you. If you have any spare credits at the end of the month, these roll over to the next month.
What is the Quality Like?
I waited a few months to write this review as I wanted to test out as many services as possible. I have ordered a few articles and found them all to be of excellent standard, with perfect grammar and spelling. I’ve also had a few of Angela’s backlink packets completed, some blog commenting, article submission, directory submission and various social marketing tasks. In the majority of cases I was very happy with the work. On a couple of occassions I had problems e.g. my resource box wasn’t formatted correctly on one of my article submissions and on another submission my website link with anchor text wasn’t created properly. On these two occassions I raised a ticket on their helpdesk to complain and I was refunded the credits and the work was done again for me. Apart from these two instances, overall the standard has been very high.
How Long Does Each Task Take?
In general my tasks have been completed in some cases within 24 hours and in other cases within 2-3 days. When I first joined there were a few teething problems and some tasks were taking a week or so, but recently the turnaround time has been a lot quicker.
What Does it Cost?
The current costs are all based on monthly plans. $75 a month for 10 credits, $200 a month for 30 credits and $300 a month for 50 credits. There is no minimum signup period, so you can cancel whenever you wish. The method of payment is Paypal so you are in complete control of your subscription. One thing I like is that they carry over unused credits to the next month, so if you don’t get round to using all your credits for a given month you don’t lose them.
The Verdict?
Not recommended due to recent changes in ownership and deterioration in service (see my comment about this at the top)
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