Since BMR and LB are recommended services, I re-tested them recently.
BMR test- one site
30 posts
Took an EMD to #1 spot for kw 1 (the Exact Match domain keyword) within a week, it was page 2 previously
Took same EMD (Exact Match Domain) to #4 overall for name of a service I recommend.
No additional content was added to this site.
Competition is medium to hard, there’s lots of affiliates vying for top spots for these terms
Linxboss tests- LinxBoss is tricky it either works awesome or not at all
Test 1- Hubpage hub that got renamed during hubpages panda reshuffle.
2 keywords tested
KW1 rankings before LB test- page 2
NOW, page 1 #5
Kw2 rankings before LB test- NOWHERE to be found
Hub was NOT on page optimized for this low ranking extremely long tail keyword
NOw, #4 page 1
Another LB test, 3 KWs tested
NOTE: I added some high PR backlinks to the main url for one KW, and used LB for the other kws for this test
Linxboss got these other keywords to page 2 for all the other keywords, which are fairly competitive but not high in traffic volume due to the niche being internet marketing-related. The High PR backlinks helped make it easier for the site to rank for the other kws, of that I am sure however, Linxboss got the other KWs ranked decently.
Third Linxboss test- Exact Match Domain, page 2 before Linxboss was used
KW traffic is really low (under 1k exact matches/month) it’s not my site so don’t judge me on niche selection!
After 2 weeks of Linxboss, site is Page 1, #3 for the kw getting under 1k searches/month, and moving up page 2 for a higher volume keyword.
So, I stand by my recommendation for these 2 services, in case anyone is doubting the reviews, or “hating” on the services themselves.
Also being reviewed, re-reviewed…
ArticleRanks- review to be posted when I see something worth publishing, good or bad
Synnd- review to be posted when I see something worth publishing, good or bad
Dripable.com Link PWNs- review is done, took 60 days, will be posted within a day or so of this one
BacklinkBanzai- looking good so far for the brand new 5 or 6 EMD MFAs. Don’t join this service please… I will have a discount link available once I deem this worth your investment.
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Thanks for the great tests dan.
One thing I’m wondering about is why do you test using exact match domains, they have the ability to rank well with any backlinks doesn’t matter what service you use.
Most real business websites domains aren’t the exact match for the keywords they target. Most exact match domains are for low value mfa sites
Hi Andrew, some of the test were EMDs and some were not, like the hubpages one. One of the tests compared the EMD versus a non-EMD inner url of another site so the test was more involved than just ranking site A the EMD with service XYZ, but rather…ranking EMD with service XYZ and comparing the effects of that versus using service 123 to rank a non -EMD inner url of another site.
It just so happened I saw a student with a website that was an EMD and needed some links and she didn’t have the means to send links to it so I used it as another test url/kw for the linxboss tests…
ALSO, some people say EMDs are no longer deemed valuable or don’t have enough added extra inherent advantages to rank well, but it seems like they do.
Also, Andrew, real business opportunities websites have doorway pages and plain old lead gen pages, and it’s far easier to rank these thin sites with EMDs than it is with non-EMD and it would make sense to rank inner urls of large sites for dedicated landing page lead gen pages….
Thanks for the comment, feedback and questions,
Dan
Hi Dan,
I was just wondering as to what will be the best strategy for posting into BMR.
Is it better if we dripped, say 1-2 posts daily at BMR?
I would appreciate to hear your views.
Thanks
Raj
Hi VK, it really depends on the link velocity HISTORY of the site getting the links.
For example, a brand new domain recently registered with zero backlinks would have same link velocity history as an older, aged and abandoned site with zero backlinks to it. As far as backlinks velocity is concerned, these sites are equal in nature and should get a steady diet of drip-fed backlinks to them, whereas a site already receiving some velocity via active link building will respond well to more aggressive link building.
I still use BMR and LB though I don’t get those type of stats. Though the niches they are being used for are highly competitive, think “payday, payday loan” or think of “insurance, auto insurance” etc.
Though for less competitive niches I still see some results.
As has been discussed on your site, I don’t get a long term result from using just 1 type of link or network, I have to use a whole grip of different type of links and different content networks.
I do use Dripable, I highly suggest it be part of your arsenal, but be very careful. I suggested it to a friend of mine and he spammed his website with 4,000 links for 1 keyword to his homepage (against my advice) at first he went to page 1 ranked #1, then his site dropped to page 6.
A suggest a doing the following:
1) Social bookmarking (synnd or social adr)
2) Dripable as you get 2,000 blog comments daily and 2,000 profile links daily.
3)LinxBoss (so you can get your 1,000 constant links: mix up your monthly links by doing 200 to your site, 200 to your face book page, 200 to your twitter page, 200 to your web2.0 pages, 200 to your youtube channel
4) At the very least do 1 No Follow Article (knol.google) article weekly, and 1 DoFollow (ideasmarketer, eza, etc) article weekly.
5) Do a daily snippet on your sites blog.
You can do the first 3 for $250, the 4th is just a little time.
If you have more money get into a good content network.
Just saying – why was my spidey sense tingling to check your blog right now? Oh yeah, you updated it after like a gazillion years.
Happy thanksgiving!
(ok, off to stop gloating about spidey senses and to read your post now
)
I like your blog.
Happy Thanksgiving to you too Aisha
No Doubt Dan, BMR were the best and prolly, they might be the best but, right now, i would say ……stay away ?
Having links from BMR’s network where they use no-follow tag for tags and categories just keeps a small portion of PageRank to the top lvl and then what ?
No follow means something like “Hey, there is a link there, but i do not VOTE for that” which means that you do not trust your own website?
I think that the time where bmr does not know what to do to maintain this network is comming…so bad, BMR helped me so much in the past
Hi Jon McCain, I think I voted for you!
j/k…
The thing with running a network like BMR is scalability issues… the networks need to grow, need to provide link juice without overloading itself with tons of outbound links and the more outbound links a network gives out, the more juice is needed to push INTO the network to maintain the link juice…. It’s a tough thing to maintain, I don’t envy these blog network owners
Thanks,
Dan
Hey Dan,
Can you benefit from Linxboss with large content sites? I’m thinking of adding 5 sites to Linxboss but I’m not sure how to best use the system. Should I just point the links to the main domain and let the L4L handle the inner pages? Would that work? I don’t do the smaller EMDs so I’m wondering if Linxboss will work for me.
Hi William, thanks for the question.
I would try to rank the home page for a long tail kw, or easy to medium kw, competition-wise first, to gauge how LB works for you and your sites, if you see steady upward movement keep it going until it plateaus, then switch over to something else, like maybe an inner url. Keep doing this (if it’s working well, until you get more medium comp terms ranked.
Do this for your 5 sites, L4L… I never really saw it working well, so I just ignore that whole feature
Thanks,
Dan
I noticed that you are testing out “ThePrivateNetwork”. I saw one blog linking back to your site when I was checking out my own links.
I’d like to see some updates on that one and how it stacks up against Build My Rank.
2 weeks on that review… It’s written, just waiting for a little more time to pass.
You can email me for the review if you want
Thanks,
Dan
Any update yet on your results with Backlink Banzai? I’ve talked with them over there quite a bit and they seem like a reputable service.
Hi Matt, thanks for reminding me. The first tes tI did with 5-6 sites was poorly-conceived (brand new websites, MFAs) so I think I’m going to have to start over with that test/case study with an older aged, url on a site that has pre-existing links
What on Earth are you talking about Jon? Since when is BMR nofollow?
Hey Dan would like to see your review on the private network too. But anyways I have a question on BMR. How valuable are these backlinks from blog posts? Cause they only stay on the front of the blog where the actual page rank reside for a few days only and then rolls over to the 2nd page where there may not be any page rank at all…
Hi Dan,
I have a question regarding BMR vs ALN. Have you tried out the ALN network and seen its ranking capabilities? I know that you have to add in your own blogs in ALN to be able to use it, but that apart, how does it rate against BMR solely in terms of ranking power?
Would love to hear your opinion on this.
I’ve used services like it, yes, and they’re pretty much the same as BMR, but if you’ve been with BMR for a long time,then maybe you’ll need to expand your reach by using different sites, IP addresses etc…
It’s the same backbone, basically… Buy a site with PR, throw content on there, some of it rolls of home page, ends up being a PR 0 link, it’s same with ALN services as BMR itself. I just trust BMR more, because you don’t really know how good the domains are in the ALN services…. BMR has withstood all the pandas and still works well, therefore the fact that he requires Unique content, not spin content on 50 sites… is working for him rather well because running a private blog network (content farm) is really hard to do and maintain in a way that still provides solid results.
I guess what I’m saying is, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
I hope you’re earning enough to afford both
Thanks,
Dan
Almost all BMR posts de-indexed by Google.
BMR is almost gone!
It’s true BMR is done…Google de indexed pretty much there whole network…Any suggestions for a suitable replacement, that may not get slapped anytime soon?
Hi,
Same question…BMR is gone, so what private blog networks are recommended?
Do you still recommend TPN and High PR Link Juice?
Thanks!