Hey, I'm looking to build some backlinks for one of our little project, and I'm giving away free Wordpress site setups.

You'll get:
- a freshly set up Wordpress site with basic settings, little customization
- 1 hour of Wordpress coaching (basics, customization, seo)
- 1 free premium theme of your choice from Elegant Themes ($39 value)

Requirements:
- willing to sign up for 6+ months of hosting (around $55)
- skype (optional)
- 1 tiny backlink from your new site's footer for a workout related site (I'll place it np).


I have done something similar here like 2 years ago: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/17...setups-942643/

Don't want to derail or troll your thread in anyway, but...

1) Installing and setting up Wordpress on a new site is EXTREMELY easy these days.

2) I don't doubt your knowledge or expertise in SEO, but
a) Backlinks to your website from a relatively new, undeveloped, low-content wordpress site is not going to really help your site in any way (no matter where it is located on the site). Are you expecting that the people that take you up on this offer commit to building their site drastically and filling it with content over x amount of time?
b) SEO from 2years ago as compared to SEO today is literally night and day. Have you had this work over the past few months? What kind of results have you had?
c) Didn't Google's most recent update really hurt sites that are actively using tons of footer backlinks? I'd definitely research this if I were you.

I mean, it blatantly says on Google's website:


Once again, not trying to derail your thread or "hate" on your venture, just pointing out that it actually might not be worth your time at all trying to acquire backlinks in this manner. I work with numerous websites that are top 5 or 10 in Google for multimillion search results for main keywords, not some crazy longtail search term... and we have never gone after backlinks via footers of websites.

1) The set-up includes a lot of things which might take long hours for the non-experienced users to figure out. Also I'm preparing a more detailed video series for my clients to fully exploit the potential of wordpress.

2) Valid points, thanks for pointing out this. I was thinking about placing a branded keyword for a different site after rethinking my original post, but yeah it still would hurt more than do good.

Let's cross out the "backlink placement" from the original offer.