As a busy webmaster, staying on top of search engine changes can be a constant challenge, one you can finally overcome relying on the information presented by James Martell in his free 5-day Backlinks *audio* mini-course.

I took James Martell’s full-blown Backlinks Workshop in mid-2007, and I was thrilled with the experience as I write elsewhere on this site.  Now, he has taken some excerpts from the full workshop and created a FREE 5-day audio course. 

These five 30-minute informative excerpts and commentary from James Martell’s sold-out Backlinks Workshop will be delivered directly to your inbox (one a day for five days) and will provide you with 21 reasons why you need to achieve top 10 rankings, as well as the latest information on:

• Google and the other search engines so you’re not wasting your valuable time
• How to organize your first backlinks campaign
• How to contact potential link partners
• How to approach these webmasters with the idea of publishing
• How to analyze your competitor’s backlinks
• How you can rank a single page of content
• The truth about duplicate content
• And more…

Each mini series session can be quickly and easily be downloaded to your iPod or iPhone, or listened to from your desktop, or even burned to a CD for later reference.

As you will see, you can count on these free, no-strings-attached "bite-size" teachings to provide you with everything you need to create and maintain your successful own backlinks campaign, which will catapult your site past even your toughest competitor and into the top 10 search results.

Enroll today, the tuition is FREE!
http://www.work-at-home-net-guides.com/lp/backlinks-mini-course.html

You can read my review of Martell’s Backlinks Workshop. Overall, the workshop is fabulous and I highly recommend it to anyone who wants their site(s) to rank higher.

Thanks to James for using my testimonial!

The workshop is an online training session in which you log into an electronic “conference room” and watch as James Martell walks through the step by step process of obtaining inbound links, and calculating how many inbound links you need to rank well.

The length of the training is five weeks, one session per week, each 2 hours in length. Each session is recorded to audio and ‘video’, plus transcripts are made available.

Positives

To summarize the training in a word: fabulous. This training was simply fabulous. I liked the amount  of content that James shared. I liked how he kept the pace quick and covered a lot of valuable information. I also liked that the sessions were ‘video-recorded’  (screen-capture video) because I couldn’t attend most of them live due to scheduling conflicts.

I liked the weekly breakdown of topics, and I liked that we had “assignments” at the end of each week. I had never attended any of Martell’s training events, and I was thoroughly pleased with this one. It was so good, I almost registered AGAIN at a discounted rate, but then I remembered I had all the videos I could review anytime I want. 

There was ample time for questions throughout the sessions, and James answered every one of them.  During the last sessions he had guests on the line talking about how they used the techniques.   In the days between sessions, he created audio recordings of himself answering questions that had come in after the session was over. 

Criticisms

As on other Martell recordings, he spent a little too much time (in my opinion) talking about himself and his background. In the first session he spent a lot of time (an hour) talking about the history of search engine optimization and what it takes to rank well in the search engines.

To a complete newbie, this kind of information may have been very valuable. However, I’ve heard these topics discussed in many Affiliate Buzz recordings already, and any student of Martell already knows who he is and how he has built an amazing publishing empire. Perhaps in future workshops he will trim down this section and get to real meat faster.

He also follows a very labor-intensive process for analyzing competing sites which could be done faster with programs like OptiRank, OptiSpider, or SEO Elite.  He even acknowledges this point during the training. However, he is correct in saying that you need to visit the sites anyway and apply human eyeballs to evaluating a competing site in a way that no software can ever duplicate.

So, it doesn’t matter if you use software to speed up the process. There is still a strong manual component to the process.

Overall Recommendation

Is the Backlinks Workshop worth $497 (or whatever discount special price Martell is running)? Absolutely.  The content is great and Martell really overdelivers in service to the students. 

Sign up for James Martell’s Backlinks Workshop if you really want the inside scoop on getting high-value inbound links to your website so your site(s) rank higher. Be aware, the process is very labor intensive. But, as the saying goes, “if it were easy, everyone would be doing it” and ranking highly in the search engines.

If you follow Martell’s teachings from the workshop, you are very likely to meet with success and improved rankings in the search engines. I’m still reviewing the videos and getting ready to apply the knowledge.

Get details on the workshop and listen to samples at the following address: 
http://www.backlinksworkshop.com