Brute Force Linking Loophole Review + Results From Using

November 14, 2009 by Daniel McGonagle
Filed under: Brute Force Authority Linking Loophole 

As you may know if you’re a regular reader of this blog I started to test and review Peter Drew’s Brute Force Linking Authority Loophole or BFLAL for short.

Some questions we’re going to answer here in the Brute Force Linking Loophole Review:

1- Is it really automated?

2- How well does the software work?

3- Do the links work?

4- Is this worth buying?

1- Brute Force Linking automation

Their sales letter promises automation, and that’s true for 38-41% of the sites contained within this software.  Generally speaking there IS some automation to this but as always best results come from extra added manual effort.

Of the 100 or so sites this software goes and makes site profiles for, 38-41% are done successfully by the software, the rest fail or ask you to use one-time logins, then you have to login with one time password and maybe even change the one-time to a regular password.

PLUS, if you want to see any results at all with this method for getting backlinks you have to now promote your profile urls which isn’t done automatically with this software, which should at the very least have a tool that auto-pings the list of successfully posted to site profiles.

2- How well does the Brute Force Linking Loophole software work?

Software works fine, and I am always impressed with software that does captcha-solving.  This software does auto-profile creations and auto-posts your About Me blurbs and links to most sites pretty well.  But as mentioned before less than half of these sites and profile creations can be done automatically, which is probably a site limitation not an issue with how well the software works.

3- Do the links obtained with BFLAL work?

Since I was only able to get about 41 profiles automatically and successfully created per run with this software, I had 4 sets of logins that I used to blast out some profile blurbs. (Special Thanks to D for help with this).  Since the 4 sets of BFLAL- auto-created logins were the same set of 41 sites, I had to vary up my links being tested so their site moderators didn’t see duplicate profile pages being created, albeit with different names.

Since you have the ability to post 4 URLs with anchor text in them along with your About Me profile blurbs, I tested 4 URLs per run.  My tested 4 urls for this software ranged from easy to hard terms so I could see what kind of “power” this software and linking method has.

  • For the difficult terms – no huge difference in the SERPS, but a slight upward movement in SERPs for one term
  • For the medium terms – No discernible effects
  • For the easy terms - No discernible effects

How could I have seen effects for one difficult term but not the medium or easy ones?

After I did this BFLAL profile blasting I realize that I had a Unique Article Wizard article out there that just got its syndication under way and it was linking to my difficult-to-rank-well-for url.  Therefore since there were no noticeable effects from using Brute Force Linking on the easy and medium terms, I’m going to have to attribute the uptick in SERPs to the UAW article’s syndication.

Note: You might want to read How I test link building services some time so you can do the same testing I do on your own.

4- Should you get Brute Force Linking Loophole?

No, absolutely not for a whole slew of reasons

1- This software shouldn’t be software that costs a monthly fee since it’s hardly automated and success rates for using software are less than half. You’d have better results using one-time fee software like LFE that does auto-pligg, auto-blog creations.

2- The costs to use this tool should be one-time fee for using software based on the number of months of Angela’s links packets it contains.  Angela charges $5.00/month for her service so if software comes with 5 months worth they should add that in to the one time fee then charge $5/month to use this tool.

Or this software should be a one-time fee and allow for an import of the Angela Link Packets into the software

3- The links by themselves are ineffective without some sort of promotion of the profiles as a few people have pointed out.

Here are links to some posts that show how profile creations on authority sites don’t give you anything in and of themselves, but need work to be of some value to you..

1- From the Digital Point Forum - Angela’s Links Really Don’t Work

2- From AdHocAds (has vested interest in selling his links service, spent a lot of time on DP forum saying this as well but knowledgeable in SEO) - Angela’s Links Don’t work

3- Quote from my buddy Andy Black: How To Get Powerful Backlinks From Profile Pages

The biggest mistake people are making when they are adding their link to the BIO section is that they are only adding their links to the bio section and nothing else.  Now that does look spammy.  What you need to do is spend a minute or two and write a good bio that includes your links.  This is a great way to NOT come across spammy and also get your keywords and related keywords in there.  This is what adds relevance to the page and makes it stand out ‘contextually’ from all the other profile pages.  It’s also good to add some ‘normal’ interests in their too as it makes you look like a real person.  One that site owners and admin can relate to.

4- Quote from SEOOZ Article – Link building has changed:

When I first started in SEO, link acquisition was almost always a manual process. I’d search the engines for links that pointed to the competition, find relevant directories and link lists, email relevant sites and beg, borrow or bribe (aka buy advertising) to get a link. I tried reciprocal link building (and did some pretty dumb stuff). Then, as I got more intertwined in the SEO community, I found vendors who built large networks of sites, spammed blogs/forums/guestbooks and ran text link sales operations. I leveraged these services to help clients rank better, almost always with great success. Then I met Matt Cutts, found out more about Google’s webspam team, saw penalties and their impact (remember Florida?) and even found some sites we worked on in the Sandbox.

Over time, I got smarter. I read papers about Hilltop, Trustrank, Anti-Trustrank and many more. I saw sites escaping the sandbox once they’d earned greater quantities of trusted links. I started understanding that Google’s search quality team was only going to get better at recognizing and counting legitimate links (and tossing out the junk), so I focused exclusively on more “white hat” kinds of links. That’s when I discovered linkbaiting and the power of Digg, Reddit & StumbleUpon to drive traffic that would naturally link. We had success with quizzes (and after Matt left SEOmoz, he had a little too much success) and viral content that earned thousands of links overnight and started offering it as a service.

This coincides with what some readers here have said, that profile creation by itself does nothing and will have zero effects so you have to promote and build these profile pages up just like outer spokes of a link wheel.

If anything, get just Angela’s packets and work on building up your profiles to be keyword-driven and humanized with some theme relevancy to them like Andy says to do.  In other words do it manually if at all, but I wouldn’t do it at all, really.

Profile pages are like outer link wheels spokes… not very powerful, might be good for boosting your Page Rank over time with linking, pining, promotion etc…

What you want to do instead is start on your set up of the most effective and semi-automated link wheel, and understand the points about obtaining long-lasting quality links, easily obtained high SERPs, the value of your time, and just how much you really need to do to get multiple page 1 listings…

One thing I didn’t mention in the post referenced above is articles on article directories like EZA tend to increase in Page Rank over time and I have a few PR2 and 3 articles out there passing PR and deep links down to some of my inner posts and pages.

Last Note:

I’m going to keep working on promoting and pinging and linking to the profiles I auto-created with Brute Force Linking Loophole just to see how much work it takes to make what I did there useful.  Bookmark this post if you’ve read this far and I’ll update the post in a week with more updates on time spent and results gained (if any)

Also, in my own little twisted head, the more time it takes me to get SOME use of this software the more pi**ed off I will be at having bought into another one of Peter Drew’s newbie garbage software tools, like BadAssRSS which charges a monthly fee for doing RSS submissions believe it or not, and there’s 2 much better tools that do the same thing for one time fees ($12.95 for RssBot, and the Secret RSS Weapon I use which is by far the best RSS tool you can use right now).

So far I have been twice bitten thrice shy by Peter Drew’s SEO Tools.  The value has always sucked, but newbies will like the “coolness factor” of such things as auto-captcha-solving which obfuscates the fact that what it is automating isn’t really worth anything..

Link 2 This Post!
1. Click inside either code box
2. Right-Click then Copy
3. Paste the code into page

Thank you for linking to us!
Direct Link (Facebook, MySpace, Hub Pages)
HTML Code (Blogs/Web Pages)

2 Steps For Successful Link building

  1. Get Blog Updates Delivered To Your RSS
  2. Use the Highest-rated link building services

CLICK HERE To Gey My FREE Traffic Tips Newsletter

  1. Brute Force Linking Loophole Review Part 1 Brute Force Authority Linking Loophole is a service/tool that semi-automates...

Comments

20 Comments on Brute Force Linking Loophole Review + Results From Using

  1. Mike on Sat, 14th Nov 2009 1:22 pm
  2. I was very interested in getting this software, but your review has really changed my mind. I have been using uniquearticlewizard with incredible results. Have you seen the Evolution II software that’s coming out on the 18th? It seems like a form of senuke with a profile backlink option. I’d rather just go ahead with the veteran senuke.

    Thanks for the actual reviews. I’m so sick of the salespage rewriter sites.

  3. Daniel McGonagle on Sat, 14th Nov 2009 1:41 pm
  4. Thanks for the feedback Mike. It’s the newbies who are too short-sighted to realize the damage they do to themselves and their online reputation by doing sales letter rewrites as reviews, and they’re the ones who also NEED to recoup their investments in order to get some income rolling in.

    Although I’d love to review EVO, I’m not sure I will since BadAssRSS and BFLAL seem to be not worth the price of admission and going for a 3d try with Pete’s stuff might just be another waste of my time. How many times should I go to that well before I stop reviewing things for review’s sake?

    BFLAL should have had what EVO has, a profiles promoter.

    The thing about SE Nuke is that it costs a lot therefore takes a bit to recoup that investment, and also has a bit of a learning curve. Once my other testing and reviews are done I’ll cancel all other services I’m using that are paid monthly services and do a full-bore test and review of SEN.

    UAW does deliver incredible results, absolutely and the reason for that is the variance of links sources (directories, websites, blogs etc…) and link attributes (nofollow, dofollow) AND you get to put in naked links with no anchor text in resource boxes too so that adds to the necessary links style variation as well.

    Now, the best thing you could hope for in your business for SEO purposes and something I’m going to show people how to do… is create a solid network of quality sites that can syndicate your content for you and provide quality backlinks in a snap using one-time-fee software that you own and control.

    Every underground SEO guru guy/gal I know has built up networks like I described above (and the types of networks you’re tapping into and leveraging with Unique Article Wizard). They built not just link wheels but entire networks linking to each other and from each other and the sites quality is far better than the “left-alone” link wheel spokes and crappy profile pages.

    SO I guess it’s time for me to build up that type of network. It’ll be a lot of work but some tests that I’ve done already show that even non-promoted link wheels spokes can deliver great results if the links are en masse and delivered amidst content within a relevant article. All you really need to do here is write EZA articles and republish them verbatim with links intact on your network of sites to get links to your EZAs which would obviously be linking back to your money sites.

  5. Elbert on Sat, 14th Nov 2009 8:45 pm
  6. In my opinion, I don’t think using automatic software are worth the effort to build these type of links… as a matter of fact, I think manually creating the profile pages uses the same amount of time/effort as using the automatic software.

    Actually, if I want to build these profile links, or use Angela/Paul packages, I’ll rather use their outsource link building service, at least it will save me plenty of time, and better chance of the link sticking.

  7. David N on Sun, 15th Nov 2009 12:22 am
  8. Meh, I have been proven wrong these links held some value. :(

  9. David N on Sun, 15th Nov 2009 12:54 am
  10. I would like to expand on my comment above. I do SEO for a living but maybe sometimes I don’t think about what I’m doing. However, respectfully I disagree with you Dan. I never, ever drop a link and just leave it. We all know that’s worthless. I look at these pages as any other web 2.0 asset except I didn’t have to write content for it. That is what I like about this software. I didn’t have to write content. Then I build it up just as I would any other asset. If I were to go out and build 41 squidoo pages would that have a better effect on my serps? Of Course. But I didn’t have to. I could run this and just build up the profiles. Much easier for me. Both a new squidoo page and a profile created with this software are PR 0.

    That being said is this a rip off for new internet marketers. Yes it is. This software will give you zero benefit unless you know what you are doing and have the ability to build up no content pages.

    That’s my thoughts on this.

  11. Daniel McGonagle on Sun, 15th Nov 2009 5:12 am
  12. Right you are, I probably spent 2-3 hours this month building links with BFLAL and haven’t seen any results from it and even if I did build those profiles up, that’s a whole lot more effort than I wanted to put in for this “automated linking” mechanism.

  13. Daniel McGonagle on Sun, 15th Nov 2009 5:21 am
  14. Hey David, thanks for expanding on that.

    Not sure where we are in disagreement here though. I think LFE does a better job in less time and with less effort than BFLAL does with more time and effort.

    And just like link wheels, profile pages need work and attention in order to be of value.

    So there’s no shortcuts in SEO really, except for using automated software that does what it claims to do.
    BFLAL isn’t 100% automated, not even close and Blog Spamming and Forum Spamming only works a certain % of the time for automated tools that do it.

    This is why I never build too “wide” of a network it just takes more and more of my time, whereas a single article syndicated properly could do more for my destination sites with one hour of work that 3 hours of BFLAL profile creating and promoting, or 2 hour linkwheels set up and promotion, or 25 minutes writing an EZA then another 25 minutes getting links to it, etc, etc, etc,,..

    YOU HAVE TO VALUE YOUR TIME….

    I try to treat every day like a mid life crisis, I don’t want to do anything that’s not as effective as doing something else. I get a swarm of links ping backs and trackbacks coming in to my site constantly from all the UAW Articles I have out there and one UAW article did more for my link wheel case study site than building the link wheel.

  15. James on Sun, 15th Nov 2009 7:13 am
  16. Hey Daniel, I agree with you that BFLAL is overpriced for charging 30 bucks for membership, other than that I think it’s not that bad, as you can just skip those websites that require manually input password. After the software sucessfully posting on those website, I just grap all the links and put them into senuke to ping, then go to html2rss.com to create a rss feed for all the profile links, then use senuke to submit the feed to rss sites, it shouldn’t take much time to go through the whole process.

    But I don’t know if the software is useful or not as I just got it yesterday… Another thing is I’m not sure if it’s good idea to put 4 links in each profile as they looks spammy, and could this be the reason that some of your links got deleted, so you didn’t see improvement in your rankings?

    By the way, did you create all the profile links(400+ in theory) for your kw terms in a day or something? I mean would it be dangerous to use this software to build lots of links to many pages of a new website(2 months old) in a short period?

  17. Daniel McGonagle on Sun, 15th Nov 2009 7:58 am
  18. It took me almost a week of sporadic attempts with this software to create the 100 or so profiles successfully. I used 4 links in each since I was promoting 4 different levels of competitive keywords. I pinged almost half of them manually using pingler, which just hurt my brain and isn’t worth my time to do except for knowledge gained.

    I’ve had some readers of this blog give me a helping hand with my list of profiles to ping using software like ScrapeBox, some auto social bookmarking tools, and some other stuff. So I’m pretty sure they all got pinged and promoted, but man! was it worth all that time and effort?

    I keep hearing people tell me that they use SE Nuke to complEment what’s missing from BFLAL, so am wondering id SE Nuke Social Nuke Profile Creator does what BFLAL does?

  19. James on Tue, 17th Nov 2009 7:57 am
  20. No, Senuke and BFLAL has nothing in common except automatic captcha solving… Senuke’s profile creator can create accounts at socialbookmarking sites and web2.0s like hubpage,wordpress,blogger and so automatically, it can help you to post contents on all these web2.0s , so you can use them to create your mininet. As it has many other features like rss submit, mass url pinger, it’s sort of combine many tools in one piece.

  21. Daniel McGonagle on Tue, 17th Nov 2009 12:28 pm
  22. James, right…

    SENuke does complement what BFLAL does by allowing for profiles promotions. A lot of people have told me that they’re using SENuke to add to what BFLAL does, profiles creations, but if you think about it… if SENuke is building all these other better web 2.0 profiles for you, then you really don’t need to do the whole BFLAL thing, right?

    Not sure why people are doing both SENuke stuff and BFLAL Stuff when SENuke should be doing enough to get people’s networks built on high PageRanked sites.

  23. Chris Koltai on Thu, 19th Nov 2009 10:00 pm
  24. What I used SENuke to do with BFLAL was to ping the list of links. Then I took them to Pete’s HTML2RSS.com site and turned them into an RSS feed, which I submitted. Doing that, I saw a bit of movement in the SERPs for longtails and a slight increase in traffic to my sites.

    Realistically though, it’s not worth the money or the effort. In conjunction with the rest of BFSEO EVO II it might be ok, but I wouldn’t know since their captcha solving sucks and won’t fill out as much one captcha for me, and I’ve got better things to do with my time than fill out captchas on software that promises total automation.

    Agreed on the low value of Pete’s products. He puts out a ton of stuff, and has some great ideas, but usually his competition does it better if they do it at all.

  25. Daniel McGonagle on Thu, 19th Nov 2009 10:54 pm
  26. Roger that Chris.

    Imagine paying a MONTHLY FEE to submit RSS feeds? What a joke.

    I won’t review any more of his products because that’d require me getting burned for the third time probably.

    As more and more people are saying about BFLAL it only does about half of what it should and even less than half of what it promises to do.

    Why isn’t SE Nuke getting you all the links you need?

    Does it only work for developing Web 2.0 sites and building up the link juice of those sites which end up linking to your money sites?

  27. James on Fri, 20th Nov 2009 9:19 am
  28. In my own exerperience, Senuke does help you to create blogs on up to 40 web2.0 sites, but it still require backlinks and contents to grow these sites, else they are nothing more than dozens of pr 0 sites which don’t have much seo value on their own.
    I haven’t played around with senuke for a long time, but I’ve used senuke to build many mininet for several terms, I used slightly spun versions of one article for these properties, so each of these web2.0s only had one post, and I haven’t update them ever after. It has been a month or two since I made them, some of them got indexed some didn’t, but so far I haven’t recognized any big jump of ranking for those keywords.
    This may due to the articles on those web2.0s were not unique enough, or they didn’t get constant updates, or they didn’t have enough of linkjuice to pass.
    I bellive with help of other link services could help these web2.0s ranking better and ultimately have enough of juices to pass to money site.
    Just my 2 cents, I’m still sort of noob, don’t take it for granted.:)

  29. Chris on Fri, 11th Dec 2009 12:34 pm
  30. Hey Dan,

    first off, great site, found you in warrior forum researchign traffic bug and have spent the last few hours reading here, so thanks alot for getting me off my other tasks, lol…few things..

    1 – profile links – ive had great success with them. ive had some very tough keywords go to #1 only bc of profile links. now i also do one extra thing is that i fire links at them but even before doing this, i still had good ranking. now on some of these terms, i already had done linking but was stuck around 8-10. i also started to use these ona different site and also had some good success but i stress you have to have other ways to get links, especially for more competetive terms. though on less competitive, i can get 20 links and get a top 1-3 ranking.

    one thing im starting to do is put together a detailed ranking plan and come up with a grading scale that will determine how much and what i do to get a #1 ranking and then a maintenance plan to maintain. no reason to over do it.

    2 – Great stuff on RSS here, i just got done reading some great stuff at stomper regarding juicer/pumper sites that deal with rss and then i found your site that also tremondoulsly helped in what i need to do with rss.

    3- Senuke.. great software, great support and only getting better with all they are adding to it. if you only have 1 site, not sure if it will be cost effective unless its a big site.

    but you have to use it right. just posting content one time and leaving it may give you short term benefits but not long term. just like any blog/content site, you need to post content at least once a month to keep it fresh. ive had bloggger and wordpress blogs lose their indexing though i had unique an 3-4 posts on there but after no touching it for 6 months, i noticed they were no longer indexed.

    senuke also great if you are using a tier strategy.

    its also a time saver bc i was paying someone to manaully posts to those sites before i joined them. it does take some time to really get used to bc there are some easy things to skip which an really screw up posting to wrong accounts, lol

    ok, enough for now, back to more reading here.

  31. Daniel McGonagle on Fri, 11th Dec 2009 1:04 pm
  32. Hey Chris, thanks for stopping by, replies are in bold

    Hey Dan,

    first off, great site, found you in warrior forum researchign traffic bug and have spent the last few hours reading here, so thanks alot for getting me off my other tasks, lol…few things..

    1 – profile links – ive had great success with them. ive had some very tough keywords go to #1 only bc of profile links. now i also do one extra thing is that i fire links at them but even before doing this, i still had good ranking. now on some of these terms, i already had done linking but was stuck around 8-10. i also started to use these ona different site and also had some good success but i stress you have to have other ways to get links, especially for more competetive terms. though on less competitive, i can get 20 links and get a top 1-3 ranking.

    REPLY FROM DAN

    The whole profile linking thing does have some value if you don’t use the same packets that everyone else is using and then go join the hordes of people hitting those sites at the first of the month when the latest links packet comes out.

    You should read Terry Kyle’s report on this and find your own high PR sites to post your profiles on, then do some “cascade linking” so each profile, if/when it gets indexed… is linking to another profile on another site, kind of like a long drawn out link wheel.

    And of course you have to build links to all of these sites and site profiles in order to get them indexed and what-not… so it’s a lot of work but I guess there’s some value to getting the IP diversity from your links.

    I’m still a firm believer in developing quality links amidst content though, maybe I’m too “old school” to do anything different…

    one thing im starting to do is put together a detailed ranking plan and come up with a grading scale that will determine how much and what i do to get a #1 ranking and then a maintenance plan to maintain. no reason to over do it.

    Reply From Dan:

    I don’t think there’s any way to accurately predict just how many links will get you to #1, can only know this after you’ve reached that position, then look back and have a better idea for future projects

    2 – Great stuff on RSS here, i just got done reading some great stuff at stomper regarding juicer/pumper sites that deal with rss and then i found your site that also tremondoulsly helped in what i need to do with rss.

    DAN:

    Yeah, RSS stuff is much under utilized but has great value since it can all be automated. Do you have a link for Stomper’s RSS articles?

    IDEA: For those profiles you created, might be a good idea to do a mass/bulk html 2 rss conversion for them and create a merged RSS feed that lists them all then submit to feedage, which will index and dofollow to those rss items and profile links.

    3- Senuke.. great software, great support and only getting better with all they are adding to it. if you only have 1 site, not sure if it will be cost effective unless its a big site.

    but you have to use it right. just posting content one time and leaving it may give you short term benefits but not long term. just like any blog/content site, you need to post content at least once a month to keep it fresh. ive had bloggger and wordpress blogs lose their indexing though i had unique an 3-4 posts on there but after no touching it for 6 months, i noticed they were no longer indexed.

    senuke also great if you are using a tier strategy.

    its also a time saver bc i was paying someone to manaully posts to those sites before i joined them. it does take some time to really get used to bc there are some easy things to skip which an really screw up posting to wrong accounts, lol

    DAN:

    Yeah SENUKE does do a lot of good stuff but no system is 100% what you need for a total SEO solution, SENUKE is closest thing to that though…

    If I were merely an aff marketer looking to quickly build a whole bunch of niche sites, then I’d use SEnuke. Thing is, SENUKE doesn’t do lenses anymore, and hubs always need unique content so they don’t get deleted, and also need manual intervention because you need to link to other hubs and create certain modules in order to create the hubs for max effects.

    For instance, you want to add your related niche site rss feeds to your hubs and lens modules, but senuke doesn’t do that, so you end up doing things manually anyways.

    ok, enough for now, back to more reading here.

  33. John on Sat, 30th Jan 2010 11:38 am
  34. I’m a relative noob.I do SEO and marketing for local businesses. I don’t have time to test lots of tools and my ability to evaluate the result is limited.

    I tried EVOII for two months and I’m not convinced it did any good. SENuke seems to be a better product and their support seems to be better than what Drew offers.

    Peter Drew might be really smart and perhaps successful, but his products seem to be nominally effective and possibly harmful (if your IP got blocked, for instance).

    Would you be kind enough to offer your opinion of TrafficGeyser, TrafficBug, and TubeMogul?
    What I’m getting from this is that UAW is a better choice for those on a limited budget, correct?
    What one tool is most worth paying for and mastering in order to get better rankings for my clients and higher positioning on Google Maps?

    Thanks in advance!

  35. Daniel McGonagle on Sun, 31st Jan 2010 2:48 pm
  36. I never used EVO and probably won’t use it ever.

    Traffic Geyser is not as good as Content Buzz
    Traffic Bug is a no-go, don’t bother with it, it’s only directory submissions and social bookmarking
    Tube Mogul is well worth the price :)

    About doing Local SEO for Google Maps, I can’t answer that well, so you might want to try some forums in SEO section, or just ask Google in their webmaster forums, they have plenty of actions they suggest taking to achieve results for local SEO and G maps

  37. matt darbuka on Fri, 26th Feb 2010 6:23 am
  38. thanks alot for all this info everyone!) I have been using traffic bug and cant really see one link that its given me? Wierd. I just got the $1 trial for linking loophole and think i will cut it off before the first payment!) Thank god for these forums. Ive worked real hard to get my site off the ground so a bit more hard work wont be a problem;-)

  39. Daniel McGonagle on Fri, 26th Feb 2010 9:27 am
  40. Yeah TB’s a joke, as is BFLAL, get Sick Profile Maker instead, works awesome

COMMENT POLICY: If you want comments approved, please ask real questions or add real value to the conversation.... Please click the ReTweet (TweetMeme) buttons if you want to say "Thanks" for great content





Get Adobe Flash playerPlugin by wpburn.com wordpress themes
Post Links by Link2Post.