Ask Dan
`If you are uncertain about which of the recommended link building services is right for you, that’s completely normal.
Fact is, every service performs just a little bit or a lottabit (as my son would say) differently from each other.
You probably see that there are several recommended services and you might be thinking,
“Well, which one’s the best?
XYZ sounds good and you make it sound good, but I also heard great things about ABC service, too”…
“Which one should I use for my sites/business?”…
Well, I’m “opening the lines for callers” like they say in Talk Radio.
Please leave a comment below (in form of a question) and tell me:
- How old or new are your site and domain names? (don’t leave URLs)
- How much content is currently on site?
- How much content will be added to the site (e-commerce, mini-sites, review site etc…)?
- How many “money pages” are there going to be on your site?
I’ll try to give you complete answers so don’t be shy, if you have a question, others will have the same questions, too.
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Is “askdanmcgonagle” still an active site? I left a question on Monday June 1 about Backlink Solutions, and added a comment a couple days later. Not sure if you monitor this site or have it subbed out, but I have not received a reply and I’m interested in signing up under your affiliate ID. I just need more detail first and somewhere it says that site is the next best way to contact you after Skype.
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Hey Eldon, no time no see (on the blogs). I’ve been backed up on the askdan…site tickets and will reply to all of them tonight. MY Skype’s always on and the easiest way to get me quickly. I will log on to the HelpDesk system and get a reply out to you in a few hours.
You could always ask your questions here, too
Sorry for the delays,
Dan
Eldon I responded to your Help Desk ticket,
Thanks,
Dan
Hi Dan,
Looking at employing some backlinking services and am consdering all those in your recommended list. I am also interested in knowing which servies that you have tested are in a limbo of sorts? That are quite recommended as the links need more time to mature but they aren’t “not recommended” either.
* My sites are 1 to 12 months old. I will mostly be using the link services for new domains with a view of selling them after about 3 months.
* The content ranges but most sites are small, less than 5 pages. My goal in building out the rest of to put around 5 pages on each. But this could be 1 to 10 pages depending on the niche and lower competition keywords available.
* There will end up being maybe 1 or 2 main money pages for each site. Once again this will depend on what is available in each niche.
At this time the goal is to build these sites out, promote them, let them mature a little then either build out more or sell.
Thanks for the awesome site. Very helpful for my current needs.
Luke
Hi Luke I will answer your question properly tomorrow, watching the (MY) Celtics game right now
Thanks Dan. Looking forward to your reply.
Luke.
Hi Luke, sorry for late reply, suffered a mini-depression after my basketball team lost in finals
Seriously though, if these are small sites like mini/micro-niche sites in truest sense of the word, then they don’t need a lot of links, and a cost effective way to build temporary links to a lot of sites is to use a 3 way links service like my AutomatedLinkBuilding.com or 3waylinks.net or Neurolinker.
Another cost effective solution would be using Backlink Solutions
Thanks for the reply, Dan.
I will avoid 3waylinks.net as its on your “not recommended” list
The only issue I have with all the services mentioned is that I believe (and I may be totally wrong) that when you cancel your subs you lose your links. And don’t necessarily want to be in a position where I cancel my link service only to have some angry site buyers hunting me down
Also with your service how many of the up to 250 links per month are from unique domains?
I think for site buyers they want to see a lot of links. So several from one domain is OK but I also want ranking. Out of the services mentioned which would you consider power links? BLS?
Or put another way, what two services would you combine to get a lot of links and some ranking power?
Thanks again for the great site. I am still going through it at the moment. The transparency is nice too. Its not just “service A”rocks and here is my affiliate link. And so does “service B” – aff link, and service….
Luke, the reason I recommended those site sis because they ARE temp links and easily obtained, so when you sell those sites they come with existing links and some rankings, common practice with site sellers, but if you want the top services to use just go to http://linkvanareviews.com/effective-link-building-services
No need to worry about the services that are yet to be proven longer than 3 months, at least not yet…just go with proven services.
If you don’t want to go the temp route with links, then just choose one or two of the services mentioned above.
COMBOS:
Linx Boss for main domain + BLS for inner pages
UAW for site-wide linking, direct traffic and link volume + Build MY Rank, Blog BluePrint or LinkVana for more “powerful” links
Sick Profile Maker + additional custom links packets or Link Aloha combined with guest blogging for high quality links
etc….
Hope this helps, sounds like you don’t want to go the templinks route, and good for you, since that’s kind of misleading to the buyers imo
Hi Daniel,
We have a portal that has a lot of indexed content…onsite SEO is not very great right now…focus has been to create content for users…we will improve on that…
Site is around 1.5 years old and 50,000 pages are indexed.
What combination of tools you would suggest for a budget of around 200-300$ per month? Safety is of utmost importance to us…we can’t afford to be removed from index at any cost…
Is reporting paid links by competitors an issue? Every competitive key phrase will require bought links in some form or other…
Hi Daniel,
We have a portal that has a lot of indexed content…onsite SEO is not very great right now…focus has been to create content for users…we will improve on that…
Creating content for users is great, optimizing them for search engine sis great, too.
2 choices here
1- Modify existing content to be more kw-rich in content body and titles
2- Write new content once you know how to create search engine + user-friendly content
Site is around 1.5 years old and 50,000 pages are indexed.
What combination of tools you would suggest for a budget of around 200-300$ per month?
What’s the goal here, you said content isn’t well seo-ed so what’s the point in getting links to urls and content that won’t respond well due to their admittedly poor on site optimization? Get links to well optimized pages to save yourself a LOT of effort
Safety is of utmost importance to us…we can’t afford to be removed from index at any cost…
Is reporting paid links by competitors an issue?
Not really, if you DO buy links make sure those sites giving you the links aren’t obvious, or well-known link seller sis all
Every competitive key phrase will require bought links in some form or other…
Perhaps, there’s ways to gain high PR and links via proper social media campaigning, and via link bait, too, but most links do cost something whether it be money time or resources
Daniel:
Im thinking of dropping traffic-bug and am looking for another slow and automated Social Bookmark or related service. What do you recommend.
Also, I am currently using backlink solutions and UAW. Looking for other variety in in my linkbuilding.
Thanks
Todd
Todd, it’s good that you want variety in your backlinks. For social bookmarking links, I suggest you get Bookmarking Demon, or The Link Juicer, however with The Link Juicer a lot of your stuff won’t get indexed on its own so you’ll then need ANOTHER tool to use, like an indexing service, so BMD is the solution for you here, one time fee, just don’t expect a lot from social bookmarking links, you’re doing it for creating a varied inbound link profile)