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`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)
Daniel, First of all I would like to say how much I enjoy your site and the info you provide…in a sea of IM hype you provide clear honest reviews that make it easier for us(your readers) to cut through the hype surrounding link building. Please keep up the good work it is much appreciated.
I am curious if you have heard about, used or have any knowledge of the SYNND network by the guys “Social Media Science”. I have been considering their service and at face value it seems to make a lot of sense they way they use a distributed model of syndicating content(and links).
As someone that follows this space closely I am wondering if you don’t mention it because you have heard negatives or is it perhaps that you just have not tried it yet?
If you have(or any of your readers have) any insight or thoughts on the service it would be valuable to hear your opinion. Thanks again, for your work here and thanks in advance for considering my question. – Sandra
SYNDD is much like Submit Your Article in that they’re both good for traffic and exposure just not quality link building tools/service.
So I try to keep things written about here focused on link building stuff, not social media/article syndication to ezines type of thing.
BTW, nice to see a female commenting and reading, seems like most everyone chiming in his is a dude!
Thanks for stopping by and for the question,
Dan
Dan,
Thanks for the quality information you have on your site, i have taken the time to read all articles on your site and I am more confused now then I was before I found you.
Here are my site details. For this particular experiment
How old or new are your site and domain names?1 week old
How much content is currently on site? 10 pages
How much content will be added to the site (e-commerce, mini-sites, review site etc…)? >>Base on your recommendation I can add more quality unique content
How many “money pages” are there going to be on your site? >>Will depend on your recommendation
Competition: About 10,800,000 results | Super competitive
Domain is actual keyword appended with 3 more character.
Goals to achieve: To bring the site in top 5 rank on Google.
What i need: Guidance on what tools to use and for how long each tool should be used.In addition to that i would like to request a 5-10 point step by step plan.
Resources: All reasonable request will be meet.
I do appreciate your time and knowledge.
Thanks
Al
Please read this first, and please also realize that # of results doesn’t really mean anything. all that matter is analyzing the top 10, maybe 20 sites that rank for your main keywords and seeing if you got a chance
Hey Dan,
I posted this over at the “Not Recommended” Page, but I figured this page gets more attention from you cause it’s “Ask Dan”…. Anyways, here is the condensed question about BLS….
How is it possible to check posts that HAVE BEEN indexed or have NOT BEEN indexed? (i’d like to to check for myself so I can feel confident in dropping the service and moving onto something else)
I was able to check Blog-Blueprint posts using the “post title” method in google, but I don’t have any clue how to check with BLS (once I post a snippet, they don’t give me any info about that snippet).
Also, i just wanted to point out that blogblueprint posts are still getting indexed for me, at least the random ones I checked. I saw a few that weren’t indexed, but still quite a few that ARE being indexed. I’ll keep doing checks these next few weeks just to be sure on the quality.
Thanks,
-Sean
Hi Dan,
In your opinion, does getting listed in the Yahoo Directory mean anything anymore? Will you see any results in SERP from it or has its time come and gone?
It’s time is about to go, along with DMOZ
Hi Dan,
Love the site, I’m a regular reader.
Here is my question.
Do you know anything about http://www.articlevideorobot.com/?
I got it because I thought it would help me build good backlinks.
However, I’m reading conflicting information about whether or not posting videos
is a good way to create backlinks.
Thank you.
Mitsu Fisher
I think AVR is a good tool for syndicating videos easily but as for link building it’s not really that great, since there’s hardly any Dofollow entities out there, and if there were, only a small number of THOSE allow desired anchor text
I’m hearing more and more that profile link building (profile link wheels, etc.) is a good part of an overall linking strategy. I’m told it’s not an IDEAL link building strategy, but it can help out nicely if done right. Personally, I’ve never cared for it much — seems like a lot of time for not much reward. However, some sort of automated profile building service might be worth adding to my arsenal. Do you know of any services worth using, or would you recommend AGAINST profile link building?
As always, THANKS!
-Sean
It’s highly recommended, don’t make it your only type of link your sites are getting though, just add it to the mix.
What service you use depends on your budget and /or time constraints.
fully automated- xrumer service, or buy it and hire outsourcer to run blasts for you, or dripfeedblasts
sickprofilemaker- semi-automated
or any of the dime a dozen services that are semi-automated and focus on high PR sites, which means you gotta buy packets
Hi Dan,
I check your site our pretty regular as i do like the real deal comments you make, I did want to ask a question which is not so much about links but more about set up of my home page. I am thinking on building a large directory site and before I dive in was wondering what the best set up would be for SEO.
I wanted to know if you would recommend a static home page or not? My idea was to have a brief overview and all the categories listed as names, but hyperlink all the category names to direct the links to categories (which will be posts), then I will begin the posts.
For example, lets say it is all about USA hardware stores, the home page would be static, but with all the states are listed in a table with hardware after them (Florida Hardware Stores etc) but if you click the link they take you to a main post about Florida hardware stores, then I can break that down again to a sub category to all the Cities in Florida which would come under Florida Hardware Stores category, and so on…
Does this make sense? Thanks Dan. Any tips appreciated.
USA Hardware Stores top level – list of states displayed
States – links to list of cities
City- Lists stores, Name description
To me that’s what a human would want, something easy to navigate, only text needed would be in description for the actual hardware store
Then again, for real world advice and example, I guess you could just look to DMOZ’s structure and do something like that
Thanks for getting back to me Dan, Sorry I am still struggling…I understand the structure of my categories but not how to list my home page, i.e, either create a static or not.
My site keyword domain name is so competitive it would take me a life time to rank for, lets say the term is “weight loss” I have “weight loss guru” but the posts keywords I could rank for easily, lets say “weight loss alabama” etc or “hardware stores alaska”, should I create a static home page which is a description of services and list all the states as…”weight loss alaska” etc and create a post and category around the the keyword term with a US state after it rather than creating new pages for each piece of content?
I just notice your site layout and the home page is not a static home page, and you obviously know about SEO so which is best, a home page that is like a magazine style with just links to posts and categories, or a statice home page linking to categories, or is either good?
Or more so, if you were going to build a directory site based around the US states, it could be anything, lawyers in alaska, insurance companies in arizona etc, what would your home page be structured like, a page etc?
Hmm, good questions here…
If I were to run a directory, I would probably make a static front page that linked to the top level categories, and they would list the sub category listings. On side bar I would also list the top level categories and recent entries, so those recent entries get spidered.
Can be complicated when using wordpress for this due to having multiple urls for same post when using category/postname permalinks structure, and with wordpress not making it easy to display list of cities inside a category for example, not without using more plugins.
I would also tell people who wanted to be listed in the directory that a reciprocal link to their listing is required, or link back to home page of directory site is required, so you get backlinks that either boost your main site or ensure that their listings get and remain indexed.
If I were selling my link building service on this blog then the design would be different but I’m just reviewing things here and talking seo, so this isn’t a good model to emulate for a directory site.
Thanks Dan I do appreciate that, the first paragraph made me feel better. I have just started dabbling with directory sites and I have used static front pages but the rest is posts and categories and was just wondering if this is correct.
I see various people doing different things hence the question as I was really unsure, I do also think that nothing is set in stone and either may work, but thanks very much for taking the time to respond you have helped me, I think I like the idea of a concrete home page so I will continue.
I will set my site up with a solid static home page and link to the categories and sub’s and see how it goes. I do appreciate your help Dan, especially on a Sunday…I have to dash as it’s Sunday movie time and the family are shouting for my attention….Thanks again, and have some time off…
I wanted to know if you have a Campaign Setup Video for ‘The Link Juicer ‘?
I am very new to all this and find there documentation very difficult to understand.
Thank you
Kay
I have Multiple Money websites + my customer websites that add by time
As i have more than 50 main/money websites in different topics, it will be hard to create a mininet for each one.
So i come up with this backlink strategy and want your option.
First Tier: (links to Main Site)
1 – 200 Web 2.0 blog that i will update with one spin article weekly.
List of blogs are : ( 20 blogger, 20 wordpress, 20 livejournal, 20 Tumblr, 20 typepad, 20 posterous, 20 Weebly, 10 easyjournal, 10 insanejournal, 20 xanga, 10 Blog.ca, 10 blog.com etc.. )
Blogs will have multiple categories/topics and each article will link to main/money website.
Do you suggest to create split the blogs by topic and link only to related topic instead of each blog will link to all money websites ? So instead of having 200 backlink i will have only 20 backlink from 20 blog.
2 – 120 Class C IP autoblog using WP-Robot.
Do i need to separate them per topics or just create a list of categories in each blog and post all articles with links to my money website ?
Second Tier: (links back to First Tier)
- Create 100 Blog with backlinks to 200 web 2.0 blog created in first tier + 120 autoblog. ( will update once a week )
- Social Bookmarks of 200 Web2.0 blog + 120 autoblog of First Tier
- 1 Article Submission for each blog in first tier ( total 320 )
- RSS Submission of First Tier
- Blog Comments for first tier blogs
- Forum Profiles for first tier blogs
- UAW Article Submission
- Build My Ranks
- Linxboss
Third Tier: (links back to Second Tier)
- Social Bookmarks of all Web2.0 blog of Second Tier
- RSS Submission of Second Tier
- Forum Profiles for Second Tier
My concern is all 320 blog ( c class ip auoblog + web 2.0 blogs ) will link to each money website i have and future client. So most of them will not be topic related as they will have many topics.
Second concern is that all second tier will link to all first tier blogs, so i am worried it will leave footprint.
The other option is to create a group of 20 blog that related to a topic but then i will have few related backlinks instead of 320.
I just wrote you asking about SubmitYourArticle.com and why it isn’t reviewed on your site. Then I saw the quote below. I don’t understand it. If the article submissions are creating backlinks, why are they not (a) “quality link building tools/service”? What’s the difference between “article syndication” and “linkbuilding”? Thanks
“SYNDD is much like Submit Your Article in that they’re both good for traffic and exposure just not quality link building tools/service.
So I try to keep things written about here focused on link building stuff, not social media/article syndication to ezines type of thing.”
Hi Dan
Here’s what I have and do at the moment:
I have a site with about four main money pages. These pages are linked to the front page directly. I also have a hundred or so articles related to the niche that can be accessed by a small link in the footer of the site, so that they are not too prominent. These are added to every few days by WPRobot.
For promotion, I have an outsourcer doing Senuke hits five times a week. These are bookmarked and RSS’d. He is also submitting to the MAN network on the same days.
I take those URLs and am currently using Linklicious to index them better. I am also putting the URLs into Backlinker (BHSEOs) to provide another tier of links.
Can you see where I may be able to improve my strategy? As you say, there are many services that you have assessed and some may or may not be appropriate.
Thanks for the help!
Pikachu, I’m not really sure what you’re doing with the “SE Nuke hits” and backlinker seems like a BH tool used for guestbook spam, referral spam, etc….
So that, combined with using WP Robot for your content seems to me like you’re trying to get free content and free links and all automated….
Some people may disagree with me, but it requires more effort to index and rank “borrowed” or non unique content than it does to rank 100% unique content, so if you’re using MAN (which I don’t recommend people use) then this seems like a losing battle to me.
I truly hope I’m wrong on all counts here and that your site’s doing really well for you, but it hard enough to index spun content acting and link generation fodder these days, without compounding things by try to rank spun, borrowed, automated content using a service like MAN.
But all I’m doing here is questioning your choice of tools and site building methods, and unfortunately not really answering your question about strategies since I’m not really sure what you’re using SE nuke for exactly, what you’re using MAN to link to, and why you’re trying to use Backlinker to link to so many articles when those a crap links and you’ll need a lot of them to rank just one url, never mind the entire urls list garnered from the sitemap
I hope this helps a little,
Dan
Thanks Dan. Perhaps I can clarify my process so that you have a better understanding of what I am doing and what may be the best way to improve things.
I have four main pages that are sales pages to affiliate products. But for simplicity’s sake, let’s say I have one sales page. I understand that Google likes fresh content, so I can only add a certain amount of fresh info on that one sales page. Instead I opt to add fresh content every few days by drip feeding articles to the site. These are linked to the front page but not too prominent to distract the reader. OK… so what is a better solution here do you think, other than having articles written for me? I don’t have the cash to do that unfortunately.
Promotion: The Senuke blasts are processed every day using the main web 2.0 sites *to my money page only*. The content for these submissions is from the Ultra Spinnable articles from Vita Vee. These are not always targeted to the same niche in terms of context but the keywords are written into the article in a transition sentence. All these are interlinked randomly in a ‘proper’ way. They are also bookmarked and fed to RSS.
MAN submissions: These are also linked to the money page. I can’t confirm or deny your comments but what would you suggest as an alternative to this? Previously SEOLV was used but that became ineffective.
I wanted to add a second tier of backlinks to these URLs from Senuke, so I add them to Linklicious, for better indexing (supposedly) and use Backlinker for a lot of low quality links to the web 2.0s.
I appreciate and understand that you have a good grasp of most of the products and services out there. I look forward your suggestions in anticipation!
Thanks for your help!
Any thoughts on the above please Dan. I was thinking of a couple of months on LinxBoss…?
Hi Dan,
I have several websites in competitve niches and make a full time living directly from these websites. Over the last 3 years I have used mostly article submissions to get my articles republished. It’s worked for sure, but there is so much more I could be doing. I have used articles ranks and magic submitter recently together with the best spinner. I have done some testing whereby I keep a record of a small piece of unspun content in order to see where my content has been republished. To be honest, I’m starting to see less and less republished articles coming from article submissions. My experiment saw article ranks yeild the best results.
I need to find a solution to revive my SEO efforts and I would sign up to a new link network today but I get so confused with all the positive/negative comments posted around the web it’s hard to know what to do!!!
My main priority at this stage is to find a solution that poses the least risk of search engine penalties. That being said, what is your humble opinion as to the best backlink network that is safe and less likely to leave a footprint??
Thanks in advance!
1 more thing Dan, I’m not really interested in building link profiles like Angelas links – sorry but I think that’s straight up spam 101 and doomed for long term ranking success. I’m interested in some kind of safe blog network you may be able to recommend!!
Not sure why you never answered my question about SubmitYourArticle.com. You say it is not a good tool for link building, only for traffic generation. I don’t understand that because every (spun) article will have a link back to my site. How is that not a good backlinking tool? Thanks for clarification.
Hi there, personal growth, sorry I thought I’d answered your questions before.
We’re testing the link building effectiveness of SYA submissions now, and it will be a while before we have those results
Hi,
I was wondering if you had tried, used and reviewed Back Link Booster? : http://www.backlinkbooster.com/Index.asp
Thanks
Read this Backlink Booster
Thanks Daniel.
Also, I honestly couldn’t tell where the search box was on your website, that is why I couldn’t find your Backlink Booster post. You may want to look into optimizing that.
Thanks, it’s not the first time someone mentioned not being able to find the search box on this sit e(right sidebar above my handsome face
). This sites going to get a redesign soon, and I’ll be looking into other plugins or widgets that provide better search capabilities on sites.
Thanks,
Dan
Regarding Linx Boss, I have over 50 small niche sites. Linx Boss offers an option that if I swap out one of the total of five sites allowed with another one of my sites, then over the passage of months, each site in my queue would receive between 200 – 1000 permanent links before it drops off my queue. Now, because I add quite a few new sites to my list or queue of properties each month, those sites that have dropped off the list are never again likely to return to my Linx Boss list of five sites.
Therefore, to the all-understanding eye of Google, shouldn’t this seem a bit unnatural for a site to receive this great flood of activity, and then cease just as suddenly, and all on an even number? Not to mention that every one of these sites, whether they have the who-is covered or not, Google can detect that the domains are owned by the same guy.
Common sense would seem to suggest that Linx Boss would not be a good choice for my model for business. Do you agree?
1. Your sales page on this from 2008 calls these links 1 way links. Neurolinker calls theirs 1 way links, also. Why not pick one of the two numbers, and stick with it?
“The downside to these types of 3-way or X-way link building services is that the quality of links aren’t fantastic since your getting linked to from a links page on other sites with dozens, if not hundreds of links on there.
My 3-way link building service is still free… and does what 3WayLinks does but is not up to par with NeuroLinker (yet).”
What I read above compels me to ask for updated information on your $7/mo. service.
2. How many sites are in your network now?
3. What is “aren’t fantastic”? Does that describe the quality of *your* links, also?
Sorry, you’re still a stranger to me. I’m being careful where I step, because if I find out after months of membership that I should have gone elsewhere or done something else, I’ve lost all the links, precious time, and the dollars, too.
Lately, I’ve been toying with a few linking building strategies and was wonding if you’d have any insight on them, if even worthwhile?
1. I always see that there are tons of coupon websites out there. Hell, I never buy anything online without looking there first. So for those with an ecommerce site, how about offering a coupon as a way to build links? Anybody try this? Results? Is there software that submits your offers in bulk?
2. Years ago I was looking into affiliate marketing. I came across a program where affiliates gave direct links (non-coded) back to your website, hence building your one-way links. I just cannot remember what company that was?! Any ideas?
3. Redistributing professionally written articles. Years ago I had a bunch of articles written for me, I sent them out via Isnare and today, I can barely find them. I understand we want to try to avoid dup content, but isn’t a link still a link?
Appreciate your insight!
It’s just the way it is, links get buried over time that’s why seo needs to be an ongoing process. There’s a few good private blog networks that will keep your links alive as part of their service but with isnare etc it’s kind of like “submit and hope for the best”
No a “link isn’t a link” Google knows the difference for sure and will give credit for a backlink that’s worthy ie: original content.
“few good private blog networks”
Can you recommend any?
What do u think of Traffic Kaboom (www.traffickaboom.com)?
Looks good, just another article network really…
Yes, the sites might be older, and established but it seems to me the real value might be in the “hand-selected” syndication methods, the method by which they decide where to place your articles. Like any other article network, it will be good for some niches, and not good for other due to the limited number o f”relevant” sites you can syndicate to.
I have access to it via a reader of this blog and will do some testing after the marathon on April 18th
Hi Dan:
I have been looking into Article Marketing Automation (AMA) as a way to create backlinks. I have used SEOLinkVine and other services and have had limited success with those.
However, I can’t find many good reviews on Article Marketing Automation that are not affiliates. Do you have experience with Article Marketing Automation (AMA)? I would love to get some feedback.
I was wondering why you have no review of them as well?
Thank you,
Scott
Hi Scott, thanks for asking. This site started off with me revealing my experiences with services I used on my own. My goal was never to review everything for the sake of giving an opinion/review on everything out there, but to just use these tool and services and reveal what works, or doesn’t work. Some people swear my AMA, others say its same thing, effects-wise as UAW, MAN, 1WL, SEOLV, etc….
Thanks Dan.
So are you ever going to do a review on it or have you ever used AMA? I would like to hear from others as to what they think as well.
Scott
Hi Dan,
About a month ago you sent out a link to Connect Hits. Can you share anymore information about this service, good, bad or not yet? I did create a free account, and am not sure how to proceed, or if I should commit the time until you have a recommendation based on results.
Thank you
Kevin, I’d use the free version for a bit to see if it works well. That’s the main reason I mailed out for that, as it had a free option that couldn’t hurt if people chose to give it a trial. Sick Submitter could probably do a lot more than this for a similar price though.
Hello Daniel,
I was wondering what your thoughts on SENuke X are?
Thanks
I’ll review it sometime in May
Cool, thanks.
Dan you still planning on reviewing SENuke X?
We’re in the process of doing just that, it will take us a while to see what really works, and if its even worth getting
Not sure why you don’t do a review of SubmitYourArticle.com. It’s been over 3 months now since I first inquired. Do you have something against the company?
Hi, we’re still reviewing it, I thought I told you that in previous replies. My apologies if I didn’t.
If you reply to THIS comment please leave real name not a keyword as name
Thanks,
Dan
Hi Dan,
What do you think about linkpushing.net?
Thanks
I’ve been using it for about 2-3 months. However, I haven’t been using it to full capacity. I have done about 7 pushes for one site, an EMD, shallow content and it’s still page 2. The site still only has about 10 credited links to it, too. The best way to use it would be to do tiered linking, and Greg even says so, but the interface makes it REALLY cumbersome to do so. I suggest you wait until the interface makes it easier to get your link urls and do tiered linking easier with it. Otherwise, you just might be better off doing layered links using a variety of different tools (AMR, BMR, social bookmarking, profiles blasts to index things etc…)
That’s the short answer
Dan
Many thanks for the short answer
Alex
Hey Dan,
Just found your blog today, amazing stuff you have here and I love your style and honesty like I’m sure everyone else does.
I am kind of stuck and hoping to get some advice…
First let me say my business model is adsense and I have been building sites since 2009 with varied results.
I’ve been hit semi-hard recently, and lost a lot of rankings on my thin sites (very thin, 1 page) but my sites with 4+ pages seem to be doing fine still.
I am wanting to try the bigger authority-ish like site now. I have a new domain (1 week) with 20 high quality SEO/LSI optimized posts(already indexed) and I want to get each post ranked for its individual keyword. I have built zero backlinks thus far, and adsense code is not on the sites as I never do that before I get rankings. Each post is basically a money KW if you will. The competition varies on these, 10 of them I would say are relatively easy and 10 medium, and the main KW of the site is the most difficult and I don’t expect to rank it any time soon.
What kind of BL plan would you recommend for this setup?
Getting all 20 of these ranked may be a bit much for my budget at the moment.
I may put that first plan on hold while I do this – I am considering making a smaller site targeting one medium comp money KW, and having 3-4 other posts with the main KW in the post title (don’t know what you call this setup, but it always seems to rank well for me) This way I can test your backlinking plan on a smaller scale. Last thing, and sorry for the rambling/length here, does it make a difference if I get an EMD that is http://www.blue-widgets.com or http://www.blue-widget.com will the non plural be any harder to rank, and what are your experience with dashes in the domains?
So many questions, but I feel like I finally found someone I can get some honest and reliable answers from so please forgive me =D
Ethan
Hi, thanks for the feedback, trust and questions…
I’ve found that the EMDS with thin content can be resuscitated, or reinvented by adding much higher quality content, so you cna either rebuild the sites with top notch content, that’s longer and readable and written by someone in the know, and you will rank your EMDs without links, (just not top 3 without links).
You could build an authority site, (what’s that mean anyways, just a big site with lots of content?) but the only real reason you would want to build an authority site is to rank for more similar things with ease by glomming off the age, and trust of the main site itself. People seem to think that having authority sites is the answer because those sites withstand some algo changes better than most other sites, but reality is… those sites are probably aged longer and have more natural links…
I recommend right now that you improve EMD site content, get some natural seeming links to it, don’t hoard the OBLS, and get those sites built up into quality sites. 1 page sites aren’t quality sites. as far as the backlink plans are concerned, I can’t really delve into that, sorry, but maybe try looking at this for a good start
Hi Dan – I was using the blueprint tools – gave that up. Have now got Build My Rank and Linxboss on your recommendations. Do I need to add Artilce Marketing Blueprint.
I have other sites – PR2 usually and lots of link – 9,000+ – but am still climbing the serps – want top 3 and am at #9 for big paying keyword.
With the top 2 of your 3 choices going – do I need more?
Oh and with BMR – I am doing 3 posts per day per website – is that enough for aged domains?
Sorry – article marketing Robot – if you can give me the advice – do I need your #3 choice as part of that?
Dean, I’d use (right now anyways) Article Marketing Robot instead of Article blueprint. How many BMR links you need all depend son how well or poorly the sites respond to these links, there’s no real way to say X# of links for a site that’s X# of years old should get X# of links per day, per month etc…. Just be smart about things, think of your link velocity during overall history of the site getting the links and how you can ramp things up, or if ramping thing sup is even necessary
Thanks for the insight Dan. As for EMD’s, would these have 4 all have the same SEO benefit in your experience?
bluewidgets.com
bluewidget.com
blue-widgets.com
blue-widget.com
If they do, that would be awesome on many levels being there is plenty of those domains available.
Ethan
Ethan, yes those are fine, try to go with non hyphenated emds since hyphenated EMDs leave little chance for site branding. Just saying… you might wanna rely on branding a domain too, not just going after kw rich domains.
With 2 sites being equal in almost all ways, the kw rich domain will rank better, so yes get an EMD… EMDs are somewhat devalued in order to make it harder to attain a well deserved top ranking with good content, but good content on an EMD will work well, and you won’t need many links to get to page 2 with EMD plus good content, but page 1 will require linking efforts.
This is one of the months long tests I’m doing now, (can I rank an EMD with just good content?)
Dan,
Article marketing robot, Unique Article Wizard- these are good products but the as you mentioned in one of your posts, as you get links from the same domains over and over again they lose the effectiveness.
I submitted a lot of articles using AMR, UAW lately for one of my websites until it became less effective and then submitted 10 BMRs 5 days ago to “feel” the effectiveness – no SERP change. What should I do next? XRUMER? Blog Commenting? Buying links, .edu .gov links?
The first question this: What are the software/service you are using currently?
You aren’t using article marketing robot but it is in your recommended list, which means you are using something else lol
Second: Do you recommend using as many article distribution services as possible or should I just stick to one?
For now, answer these and I’ll ask more
Thank you very much Dan, you are a great person.
Dan,
Looking for optimal return on my backlinking efforts. Have more money than time and am trying to utilize a very diverse group of services for backlinking. Have a few sites that I am building to supersites and then some thinner, product based sites. I usually use one of the services below to build backlinks for a given keyword, monitor progress and see where my targeted page lands. If I need more links I gauge what’s needed and pick an appropriate service based on number of needed links and how heavy my competition is. I have about a dozen sites that are about two years old but also have a new batch coming that are not aged at all.
My question is, given my current arsenal, what services would you drop and what would you add? I have my own opinions and would like to see if you verify what I am thinking (since your analysis of these programs is far more in-depth than mine) or give me ideas of services I have not been thinking of. these are listed in the order of use when targeting a page and since i use the top few more often it is also a good indication of the frequency of use of each also.
Directory Maximizer
BMR
Article Marketing Robot
Backlink Booster
Article Ranks
Linkpushing.net
Backlinks Genie
The Link Juicer
Synnd
One Hour Backlinks
Since 7 of these are paid monthly I know it is overkill but I am very analytical in nature and am hoping your feedback matches mine, know that something has to go. If you can whack a few of these from my arsenal and even add a few if warranted I would appreciate it.
Thanks,
Jeff
Hi there Dan,
I have a question: Link Liberation 2.0 is being re-launched again and I was wondering your throughts on this program/software (you may not know it, but you’re my go to guy regarding the best link building strategies!) http://www.linkliberation2.com/fe/10512-heres-the-deal
It sounds great, but also comes with a hefty price tag (which is well worth it if works as well as it says it does).
Looking forward to your critique!
Regards,
Duncan
I thought linklib 1.0 was a total waste o fmoney, just endless meandering about stuff with little details on implementation. I think their marketing sucks, too. Your marketing sucks when you force people to watch vids and jump through hoops to order stuff, at least that was my impressions from linklib1 and 2.0.
They do the usual thing whereby they blast their list with an email, send list to read blog post with vids on it, let the comments and anticipation pile up by not replying to comments, then re-sending a follow up email with new post, new vid, and who knows, maybe an easy to find order button, haha!
But yea, supposedly they’re the Godfathers of SEO and maybe Leslie is, but the other dude didn’t really impress me much with what he had to say
Hello Dan,
I see that your rankings for certain backlink builders go up or down like in the case of Unique Article Wizard. My question is have you dropped using UAW and replaced it with something else or did it just slide down on your list of services? The main reason for my question is that I was thinking about stopping UAW but there is a ton of spun articles in there so it’s hard to do. Thanks!
Lately, just about everything goes up and down. Recently UAW slipped in my estimation and isn’t as good of an article submitter as Article Marketing Robot. I will test UAW out again if there’s some good reason why UAW is so different from AMR that it gets another look/review.
Stick with UAW, keep resubmitting previous spun articles, do highly targeted submissions, get a list of highly targeted relevant sites added to a list somewhere, in case you DO cancel UAW at some point, then you can contact those site owners directly, to buy their sites, to buy traffic from them, to guest blog on their sites, etc…..
Dan,
Thanks for the quick reply. Let me just say that I visit hundreds and thousands of sites in the course of doing my normal business online and LinkvanaReviews.com is one of the few I “BELIEVE” when researching information on backlinking and marketing online. You’ve done a great job of keeping it real and lots of people need that in today’s crazy web world. Way to set the example! Talk to you soon.
Neo
Neo, thanks for the feedback.
PLEASE make your own experience your true source of “seo expertise”…
All I try to do here is relay experiences with some services I’ve used and offer some seo tips along the way. What works for you, no matter how its done, is the BEST thing to do. Hopefully this site helps you find out what that is
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Thanks,
Dan
Dan,
Can you please answer my question above too? I see you just skipped it
Hi dan i am a user of Seo nitro network i am paying 500$ a month and it has been 13 months of good results but this month the network got deindexed…
What you recommend me to use ? with 500$ month for spend on backlinks.
I selected 40 keywords from 15 different sites to test new services.
Hi Dan,
I am really impressed from your insight and providing great help for SEO. I am already using some of your recommended services. But at the moment I need quick 10-15 backlinks for one of my client from actual pages having page rank 3-5 with low external links.
Which service can provide me this?
Thanks,
Paul
Paul, you could rent links, or get homepage backlinks, or outsource some blog commenting, or even try actuallyrank.com for this. I haven’t reviewed ar.com yet but it will allegedly get you what you’re looking for, PR links with low OBLs.
Hi Dan,
Very simple one for you, that bugs me because I never know if I am doing it right. Fairly new to this still.
Wordpress blog. My keyword im trying to rank is Widgets
my domain is http://www.widgets.com
my post is at http://www.widgets.com/widgets
both of those URL’s have the same content
Do you build links to widgets.com or widgets.com/widgets?
Thank you!
Ethan
Why would both urls have same content?
dupe content issues there if both urls are getting crawled.
That’s one thing I hate about normal wordpress, if you want to make a front page for the site, sometimes an inner url has to serve as the real front page. Anyhow, the root domain url is what you want to build links for, to rank that dupe content
Thanks Dan,
So how do I keep from having dupe content? Just make a static and build links there?
Use blog like a blog, don’t make an inner url post or page into the front page
Hi Dan:
You said:
“Use blog like a blog, don’t make an inner url post or page into the front page.”
It doesn’t really make a difference from an SEO standpoint though does it? You can make a wordpress site function like a normal html site without using it like a blog. What is the difference and I am speaking from on SEO standpoint?
When Google sees the front page of the domain it is not seeing it as an inner page. It is seeing it as the main page of the site correct?
Thanks for a great and helpful discussion!
Sorry for the delay in replying to your comment Steve, and thanks for the follow up question.
If blog display most recent posts then main page is seen as a combination of the words on front page and the meta kws for the main site url, Blogs can be tricky like that, because sometimes you could have a post on front page that adds something good to the overall front page on page seo, in regard to the keywords you want main url to rank for, therefore if that “helper” post slides off the front page after more content is published, then it could affect main url rankings for certain main kws due to the front page on page optimization being viewed differently by the search engines
Dan,
I am wondering about what domain we should get when the EXACT EMD is unavailable? Do you have an opinion regarding this?
For instance, if “widgetbuilders.com” is not available then I’ve heard using a dash like in “widget-builders.com” or adding a suffix like “widgetbuilders1.com” or “widgetbuildersx.com” or “widgetbuildersv.com” is almost just as good.
I’de love to hear what you think about this. Thanks
I’d avoid the suffix and numbers in domain if possible merely because you lose any chance of branding with suffix-ed and or hyphenated domain names, that seems to be a selling point to the search engines nowadays
Although it is great to have the EXACT match domain, I’ve seen many sites with a suffix, prefix, hypen or a number rank in the number 1 position for very competitive niches. As long as you have the keywords in the domain, you can still gain top rankings. It has more to do with back links and other SEO variables.
yup, same here I’ve seen the same things, just saying that if the EMD +additional traffic-generating keyword were available as a non-hyphenated name I’d go for that one instead of the EMD1, or EMD-1.net
Is there any method to the madness of using prefixes or suffixes? Is EMD1.com better than EMD-1.net, or EMD1.net better than E-M-D.com?
Hi Dan,
Great site!
I’ve got three full time writers and I want to get them to have an seo push using private blog networks.
We have started with BMR which is quality. I’m happy to pay $200 to $300 for subscriptions to blog networks what do you suggest are the best one’s? UAW seems obvious but should I go for article ranks and which other one? I think 3 is probably more than enough for now. Budget is not really an issue for me.
Thanks in advance!
Mark, with a budget like yours, I’d suggest building a mini-net, and build links to them using any of the recommended services on here. Some articles on mini-nets
we have been linxboss users for almost a year and have noticed a decrease in the effectiveness of using the service. We started to investigate the links that we were receiving from linxboss by using yahoo site explorer on our main target pages and home pages to find the linxboss sites linking back to ours (they’re easy to spot). Over the past few months we noticed that more and more linxboss sites are not in Google’s index at all. Not only the post with the link to our site, but the entire linxboss blog. I checked many sites in google with – link:www.url.xxx, and also – cache:www.url.xxx. Some days we’ll check 50 or 60 linxboss sites and half of them are nowhere to be found in Google, and the trend is going up.
The question is: if the sites linking back to us have been banned in Google, are we getting any benefit from having them at all? Since these are basically spam blogs that will not generate any user traffic on their own, what is the point of paying for them if they don’t give any link power?
I replied to this yesterday but do not see my post. What’s up?
I too would like to know this about LinxBoss. I have been using them for 6 months. I have looked at many of the places my links were placed and I can tell you that most of the site are all pure rubbish. Out of the thousands of links that have “supposedly” been placed on 5 of my sites, I have seen only a few show up in the backlinks and most are never indexed by Google ever. I really would like to hear what you think of LinxBoss these days Dan
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