Build My Rank is proving to be a pretty effective service thus far, but not without its own quirks and minor concerns.
I’m posting this Build My Rank review a bit earlier than I wanted to but since I got to page 1 today 2 days ago (at the time of this writing) for a certain term (albeit maybe just temporarily) I decided to post my initial findings now since I can attribute the higher SERPs to using Build My Rank for the last 30-40 days.
Here are the findings so far for 2 urls that responded well to links:
URL: http://mlmnetworkmarketingtraining.org
Keyword: Network Marketing
Start Date: 5 May 2010 (10 * 150word posts)
07 May – Ranking: 32
08 May – Ranking: 27
10 May – Ranking: 18
14 May – Ranking: 17
18 May – Ranking: 14
30 May – Ranking: 14
June 7, 2010, ranked #10
June 9, 2010
URL: http://linkvanareviews.com/effective-link-building-services
KEYWORD: Effective Link building Services (long tail)
30 May – Ranking: 15
June 7, 2010, ranked #4
KEYWORD: Link Building Service (tough term to rank for, considering who else is vying for serps for this term)
30 May – Ranking: 19
June 7, 2010, ranked #13
KEYWORD: Effective Link Building Service (long tail, medium level competition)
30 May – Ranking: 14
June 7, 2010, ranked #4
More URLs and results will be posted by end of the month
Build My Rank’s “quirks”
- All content has to be approved prior to going out on to their network, which means some of your written content will get rejected.
- They say they have a scheduling feature to allow for drip-feeding of content but we’re not finding that anywhere, and don’t see it happening if it is in fact there…(somewhere).
Some other Notes about these urls: Just so I don’t present false results here, I want you to know that the MLM site referred to above was getting links from Linx Boss for about one week prior to the rankings changes (from page 1 to page 2). Although I seriously doubt that Linx Boss is the catalyst for getting to page 1, it certainly didn’t hurt, and may have played a small part in getting that url to page 1.
The other URL that responded to links well got links solely from Build My Rank, which is definitely a recommended service.
Is BMR in my top 4-5 services to use?
Yes, it’s currently ranked #1
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Impressive results Daniel. I have some keywords with different levels of competition. With your results, I know BMR would really help in improving my ranks and will be a very good addition to my link building strategy. Thanks again.
Hey Dan, you can control your post speed at the domain level. There’s a drop down menu for each domain to select a daily post speed say of 1-3 posts, etc.
What do we have to do to get in the top 4-5? LOL
John
OK, good to know, but the person I have testing this for me said it just isn’t there, and he’s away for a couple of weeks so I will check this myself.
To get in top 4-5 on my recommended section?
1- Get Skype so I can contact you easier
2- Allow multiple spins of content like BLS does
Then again, it seems like you have a strong network which is probably due to manual review of content and not allowing weak spins to be syndicated, so maybe you don’t want to allow a mass snippets creator to be made, and I’d understand that.
Perhaps BMR is supposed to be a hybrid of LinkVana and BLS , where BLS allows for mass snippets creation, Link Vana does not, and your service is right in between.
Not sure if you were kidding or not, but took your “top 4″ question seriously, and will probably put this in top 4 after I’ve tested it for 3 months, since a lot of services decline in effectiveness after that period of time
If BMR could imitate the spinning system and interface of SEO Link Vine then we now have a ballgame.
Hi Daniel McGonagle
I found the other blog network ,May be you can test it.
http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-special-offers-forum/222727-350-privately-owned-high-quality-article-directories-where-we-spin-submit-promote-your-articles.html#FnGmFCxanzFdEEGc
I like BMR just the way it is without the spinning option. The more unique the better. I think spinning will get some links discounted over time.
Hi Daniel.I am very interested in this product, can you please review it when you have time
http://www.magicsubmitter.com/
I think BMR needs to add a spinner of some sort. Maybe not ADD a spinning tool, per say, but at the very least accept articles which have been formatted using an article spinner. Having to copy & paste EVERY post is not convenient in any way. My spun content is 65% unique (that’s the minimum) and it is always readable — I should know, i spend close to 3 hours making sure everything is just right with each of my spun articles.
I actually have a simple macro tool which I use for blog-blueprint to make the copying and pasting easy — a tool i thought I could use for BMR. But this tool is incompatible with BMR (i signed up for the trial) because you have to hit the drop down button and then select the link you want to enter — OR you have to hit the HTML editor button and then copy and paste it that way; way to involved, imo.
It’s too much work and too much time for 1 link — they need to streamline the process and make it faster. I have a couple sites and the idea of manually writing & posting 5-10 UNIQUE articles/snippets a day PER SITE, (or possibly PER PAGE) just makes me want to vomit uncontrollably.
And for those that would say “don’t submit that many, just start small” — I’d say “I like to GET what I pay for, and im paying (or would be paying if I stuck with it) $59 a month”
Alright, I know I babbled a bit with this post and sorry if you don’t understand me — just a little frustrated is all, as I had somewhat high hopes with this program and was hoping to add it to my backlink building arsenal. Doesn’t seem like that is going to happen.
My verdict, if you don’t mind doing things REALLY slowly, then it might be worth a shot. But I’m a speed worker and the act of copying and pasting snippets or articles with my time does NOT interest me at all. Hopefully they will improve this sooner or later.
Hi Sean, we’ll probably incorporate a batch upload feature shortly. You would just need to upload a CSV spreadsheet with your project_id, post title and post body (with links already embedded). We’re also adding API access for selective users.
But I don’t see us every adding spin support on this network. Just too much risk in getting flagged, especially these days when Google is aggressively following up on spam website submissions from users.
BMR is very similar to Linkvana. Therefore, if anyone expects BMR to incorporate a spinning feature, then it would be reasonable to expect the same for linkvana correct? Linkvana has been using that link per post model for some time now and I can’t see them changing this any time soon!!!!
@Buildmyrank
Ahh, thats excellent news about the batch upload addition and would likely meet my needs and bring me back aboard.
As for the spinning support, I suppose i didn’t convey my thoughts clearly enough — which isn’t unusual for me. My spun content is always highly unique & readable, 65% if not 75% minimum uniqueness. I get at least 30-60 snippets/articles from the base article and the idea of manually pasting all those makes me want to puke — as I mentioned earlier. With this “batch upload” feature as you described, this wouldn’t be a problem as I could upload them all in one go and save myself an azz load of time.
I understand the weariness of allowing spun content, I really do. some people spin garbage and then expect others to accept it and post it on their site — which is completely delusional. I take my time, rewrite paragraphs, sentences, phrases, and words and make sure each one connects with the next and flows nicely…. To me this is how spinning works…
1 word turns into a phrase (in length). 1 phrase turns into a sentence(in length). 1 sentence turns into a paragraph(in length). 1 paragraph turns into an article(in length).
When it’s all said and done, i’ve turned a 350 word article into a 2500 word article that has over a thousand variations (maybe 3 times that, I can never be 100% sure). All these variations make for one hell of an article, which many would rightly assume to be COMPLETELY incoherent. But the kicker is I take my time with each and every sentence and paragraph and make sure it meshes together as a readable, informative article that people will actually get use out of. Then after that, I read 15 or so spun versions to make sure there are no errors and it is worth reading. All in all, it takes me 3, sometimes 4, hours to do this (one time it took me ALL DAY!) — but the pay off is immense (in most cases), about 50-80 UNIQUE articles/snippets that can be used on web 2.0 sites, blog posts, article directories, and of course link building services such as blog blueprint, build my rank, & banklink solutions.
Woah… Got a bit carried away there with the spinning topic, sorry about that. Without writing out another page of content, lol, I’ll just say I’m GLAD that you are implementing a batch upload feature and I hope to add BMR to my arsenal as soon as you do.
Thanks
-Sean
@ Build My Rank
Have you got an ETA for the bulk uploading feature. Frankly this is what is stopping me from signing up at the moment as posting content manually would take ages. Especially if you have hired workers writing content or Spin content correctly like Sean.
Thanks.
I joined BLS again on Friday but I also tried out BMR. So far I’m happy with the results from BMR. My new niche site got indexed and ranked no.11 for its keywords in less than 12 hours! I still have 6 free links to go and 4 days before the trial period ends.
good to know Ray…
Build My Rank is definitely a good service from what I’ve seen
Guys, just wanted to let you know that the CSV import is available for paid subscribers.
We’ve also added support for external writers. You can give your own writers access to selected projects and they can login and submit articles on your behalf.
@BuildMyRank
Thanks for the update. Sadly creation of the spread sheet will still take some time. Also the fact that content must now be html which is not the universal standard practical examples:
1) posts are usually written in natural English.
2) external writers might only be good in writing and no html knowledge
3) Converting to HTML will add more time
What would work better is if 1) you take natural text (either .txt or copy and paste one long file)
2) in that file delimit the end of post by something like
As things stand (i,e with the spread sheet) there is some time gain but creating that spread sheet and converting to HTML is no FUN.
If you have your own writers, why not just create a login for them and let them post directly to your account?
@BuildMyRank
Hi. I suppose I could do that. Then what about when I donot have writers and have to do my own submitions? The main point still remains: a spreadsheet has to be created and the two columns have to be filled. This will still take some time and will also be annoying, (formating the columns, copying an pasting into explicit rows, making row spans of more than one etc)although an improvement from the single input.
What would be better is if your system could take one long file with 5 or 10 or x posts, in each file it reads the first line as the heading, the rest as the body. And be able to accept HTML for the more sauvy users.
Another requirement is the ability to schedule posts for the future. On the BMR request’s list two people have stated this a wish. Your reply was that there is a drip that can be set to 1 or 3. This does not address the issue. What if I wanted a drip rate of 7 but from only the last week of the month i,e no linking until a scheduled date,
Hi Jose, you can now schedule your posts individually.
I have no problems whatsoever with posting unique, un-spun content. In my opinion, the quality of the blog network will be kept intact if the administrators ward off spinning features on the articles submitted.
I have to say that BMR is doing a great job when it comes to link building. It also added features like “Pagerank” and “Indexed” column in your dashboard for the user to know the pagerank status of the blog where the blurbs are posted as well as to verify if they’re index or not.
It’s good that BMR is continuously improving its link building service without jeopardizing the quality of its network. Two thumbs up!
Thanks Jesse, we’ve just started tracking whether posts are indexed and it’ll be a week or two before we have our data up to date. The next step afterwards is to work on any unindexed posts, and get them working for our subscribers too.
Oh yeah, and we’re building out the top end of our network too with more PR4+ domains.
Sounds good thanks for the updates.
Btw, we’re about one week away from giving BMR a thumbs-down but will continue to test it for another 30 days after Jul3d. From our discussions, it just doesn’t make sense to me that BMR wouldn’t produce results.
You, as the owner/admin of BMR should have access to what we write and how many links we’ve got so far. If you could shed some light on why we’re not seeing results with the slew of sites, urls and term levels (easy, hard long tail short tail) we’ve tested, that’d be much appreciated
Whooa Dan, and I thought things were going so well for you based on the original review. I don’t have the benefit of knowing your prior rankings except for the ones you posted here. Looks like you moved up 2 spots since your last journal entry for the phrase ‘Network Marketing’.
And looking at your account I don’t see where any posts have been added for this term or your ‘link building services’ terms since mid-May. I think it’s asking a bit much to write 10-15 posts to get in the top 5.
OK, good enough, fair enough. The commenter in this “thread”/post named Jose is my tester for this service. He’s doing the postings and we’re also taking into account how his URLS performed, not just mine. I now have Link Aloha and Linx Boss cranking away at the MLM terms, but I still maintain that BMR had something to do with getting the aforementioned site to page 1, as it surely didn’t hurt, you know?
I don’t like to intermingle services because it skews the reviews, (cannot distinctively determine cause and effects purely) but I also know that using multiple services and link types works pretty well.
Anyhow, I was basing my comments, and we’re basing our overall opinion on what all sites did, how they performed etc…
To anyone reading this: BMR has better sites, ie’ better network than linkvana, the owner/admin has some back-end stuff going on that gets your content indexed quickly, BMR also accepts quality spun content, too.
Back to you though… you’re saying that we just need more content and submissions, since 1 submission equals 1 link? BTW, since I am impatient some of the submissions for my personal websites are getting links from other services now, too so we’re basing review mostly on Jose’s experiences with his sites, which were submitted to under my account.
BTW, I see you’re adding new features like rankings trackings and % of indexed links and what-not which is great. Jose and some other commenters here had some questions and concerns about some features, too but to me ( and to others) the most important thing is, how much of an effect do BMR links have and how much effort does it take to self-generate links with BMR, and is the time it takes to make BMR work effectively worth it.
One of LinkVana’s biggest issues is it costs so much and on top of that, every 100 words is just one link (aside from their reported issues with getting links indexed) so your service and BLS have something better than that, I think. But still, when a service has it set up so 100 words is one link, and 150 is 2 etc… you’d think that the links are powerful enough to have 15 of these links do some “damage”.
My ADD meds just kicked in now, so I’m writing way too much, please find me on gmail chat again, and also get Skype would you please? I’d like you to meet Jose and get to the bottom of this issue we’re having with BMR.
Thanaks,
Dan
@ Daniel What issues have you had, I’m a bit confused too as your review after 30 days seems quite positive.
@Build My Rank, how many sites have you got, and can you provide a spread of PR’s.
Hey K,
At the end of my post here I mentioned that it’s not recommended (yet), and the one site mentioned in this post that did do well isn’t enough of a test to warrant a blanket positive review. Am trying to get BMR in touch with my people now to see how we could use what looks like a great service, better
Right now, it’s about 20% PR1, 25% PR2, 25% PR3, 15% PR4 and the rest PR5 and 6. This is spread over 750 domains and growing.
@ Daniel, cool looking forward to finding out more.
Thanks BMR, I signed up to the trial and will check it out.
Doubt about content…
What kind of content is allowed and not allowed?
e.g. If I write about a latest feature of our site (unique content, not copied from anywhere), is that ok? that doesn’t quality as an “article” of course.
How about news content, but put in our own words? like opinion on some news?
Do you have some section, where you have given suggestions/ideas about the kind of content one can quickly create every day without getting bored?
I suggest you go to Build My Rank support site or email admin @ buildmyrank DOT com and ask him these questions. I know he doesn’t wanna make this site his support section.
Thanks,
Dan
Type of content doesn’t really matter to us. Just keep it unique and relevant to your anchor text though.
So what is the general consensus on BMR?
Better than BLS if you have the time to post the blurbs?
Right now I’d have to say no, BLS is still a better option. Going to do one final run of tests before coming to a thumbs up/thumbs-down concusion
I wanted to give this one a try with $59 in mind but it seems price doubled.
Hi Oz, you can still lock in the $59/mo rate during your free trial.
Thanks – good to hear that – I just became a member for free trial.
“BMR also accepts quality spun content”
I just want to check… Can i take a article run it through my own spinner, create 50 or so high quality spins and post them on the BMR network?
If so, this suddenly makes it look more attractive.
Yes, you can, all content is subject to human editorial review though. He’s watchful about his network, as he should be
So what is the final verdict for Build My Rank after all your recent tests?
Undecided, doing a major full bore test on Article Ranks now, BMR is next, sorry for delay. I recommend you get their free trial instead of waiting for me
ok danial mcgonagle if you were not another man i would kiss you… over the past few months i have comment on all kinds of your pages and yes earned you some commission but trust me you have earned me more with the amazing suggestions… BMR should be placed in top 4 in my book it deff has helped me rank better with all 10 of my sites which including a few #1′s…. to be fair i use UAW and Blog commenting demon as well… btw try blog commenting demon 3.0…. amazing…using bmr with all my sites along with all my web 2.0 and article network and exploded my rank over the past month more then i ever though possible
Haha! Sean, I accept that virtual man luving
BMR is getting good reviews from avid, proficient link builders and now that I’m back from my vacation, and buying more websites I will be using BMR’s outsourcing option to do more testing
can you tell me which of these three services is the best:
article ranks
build my rank
drip feed blasts
does article ranks and build my rank accept spun articles the way backlinksolutions does?
Article Ranks and Build My Rank are similar to each other, but quite different from DFB…
AR has a reliance on syndicating content freely for extra links exposure, much like UAW does and so far, UAW is the only service that’s 100% reliant on free content syndication that I recommend. AR is a hybrid private/public network, BMR is solely private and has a top quality network.
DFB I hesitate to mention because I have no conclusive evidence on how well it works, and/or what it is best suited for (tiered linking, VERY old sites, sites with XXXX # of credited links already? etc….)
BTW, If I had to rely on one link building method, it would still be article marketing, not profile link building
does article ranks and build my rank accept spun articles the way backlinksolutions does?
i thought they only posted unique content the way linkvana does?
Nope, they accept spun content, as long as its readable and doesn’t devalue their network in any way
If it looks and smells like spun content, it won’t be accepted.
cant wait to hear the verdict verdict but of course started the free trying and testing with an easy keyword to test 4 tier linking with bmr
We have a huge test under way now, spent about 500 dollars on it so it will be final verdict, for the most part
I got to say I’m not impressed with BMR. My site actually gained a temporary boost to near the top of the SERPs soon after I started using BMR, but then 30-40 days later, it has now fallen out the top 10 for the main keyword which I faithfully built links to, in BMR.
Considering this site is quite important to me, money wise….I am disappointed. Many other keywords also appeared the same, first they get a boost, either small or sometimes a little bigger, but then comes the fall……
It is disappointing, and I am really thinking of unsubscribing soon. I thought with such high standards, BMR would make a difference, but it sure doesn’t look like it. And I didn’t use other link networks either, except BMR….so what happened, I really don’t know.
Hey Mike, if you want to shoot me an email through the site I’d be happy to look at your account. Have you been continuously building links? Or just an initial batch and nothing since?
I mean I’m not going to say we’ll work for everyone because there are obviously factors beyond our control.
Hi Mike. Could you please elaborate on your issues with BMR? How long/consistently did you use BMR? It appears to be the best link-building site I’ve found so far (for my business), and I haven’t found too many negative reviews on it. Do you think your links were devalued by Google or were they completely deindexed?
My God!
How easily you get to the top for such competitive keyword like “network marketing”?
I am amazed with you Daniel…
Any update on BMR? I’ve been using SEOLV for several months now and hadn’t checked on the indexing % until I started reading your blog. Luckily, my niche is not too competitive, so SEOLV did the trick for me, but I recently noticed a ton of the backlinks disappearing (and they’re all low quality, nothing above PR 0 for me). There’s too much work involved in writing and spinning articles for the links fall of, and be low quality. I just started a BMR trial and I really like everything they appear to do. I would rather write unique articles and get 1 or 2 quality links that stick than use SEOLV. Any update on your trial? Still recommended? I appreciate everything you’re doing here Daniel. It has really helped me out.
Hey Chase, thanks for dropping in and for the feedback.
Updated Build My Rank review is there, and it’s rated #2 on the Recommended Link Building Services page on this site
Thanks for the quick reply Daniel. Just read your updated review, and I’m convinced on BMR. I’m still looking for some other low volume, high-quality link building services. Any other suggestions?
I tried this service, after being recommended here but didn’t find it of any use the backlinks were not as good as Blog Blueprint who have more powerful links and even BLS is better.
Don’t use this service there support is not good at all eithier!
And best of all they dont offer refunds lol
Ricky way off base here in my opinion on all counts.
BlogBlueprint and BLS links get de-indexed, whereas BMR links get indexed and remain indexed at 95% rate or thereabouts.
BMR admin is active her eon this site and on forums and I’ve spoken to him on phone and via Skype and he not only knows his SEO but provides good customer support as well.
Sorry if your experience was different, it’s an exception to the rule for sure
Let’s set the facts straight.
This user set up 3 separate trial accounts over the last few months. We were aware of this, but chose not to say anything. One would hope that during 3 free trials, he would have been able to determine whether BMR met his needs or not.
After his third free trial, he decided to subscribe as a paid user. He added 20 or so posts, pretty much all of which were poor quality. Our editors helped him along by editing most, where possible, and rejecting a handful.
Today, this user files a dispute on the grounds that the service was not as advertised in the following ways: 1) his posts were not indexed at 95% , and 2) our blogs weren’t of good quality.
To address the users concerns: 1) We haven’t even checked your posts for indexing yet as they are so new. Additionally, no where do we promise near 100% indexing overnight, and 2) Assuming you don’t find our blogs of good quality simply for the reason that BB and BLS don’t screen your articles for quality.
So, I’ll let the crowd decide this one. Wouldn’t you think that a person who had completed a trial period – let alone THREE of them – would have a good enough feeling for how the service works to know whether they wanted to subscribe?
been testing BMR and while they have a good interface, not overly impressed with:
- their higher PR blogs. The Google Toolbar – for what that’s worth – may say PR 2, 3, 4, but when you look at the site’s backlinks, there’s no way they have any power.
- They’re uniqueness filters are over the top causing the cost to use BMR pretty dang expensive. While LinkVana doesn’t have a spin function, it does not reject content to the level BMR does. I think if they would require unique titles only they’d get the same effect for a lot less cost to the customer. BMR has been listening to what Goolge says instead of testing what Google actually does. Duplicate content! ha.
Yeah and Linkvana, BLS, etc doesn’t share any indexing rates with the user. Do you have any idea what your Linkvana indexing rate is? Probably in the range of 50%. You’d be surprised if you ran a check. The fact is dupe content isn’t always possible to get indexed. Whether you’re penalized for dupe content or not is not the point, at the end of the day we get paid for getting content indexed which is obviously the 1st step in getting results.
You’re definitely right about LinkVana not reporting indexing rates. But BMR’s indexing reporting appears to only report that the post was indexed at some point. It is not a current indication of indexing. So, I’m looking at posts from less than a month ago that say “Yes” in the indexing column and less than half are currently indexed. So I think the “Yes” is confusing at best and misleading at worst. So, while you’re probably right that LinkVana is no better, they aren’t nearly as restrictive in the content they accept. So when you factor that in, the cost for the two services (monthly fee plus content costs) are pretty similar. Of course, that’s not using the services for creating content as there are so many cheaper ways to create this content.
Are you basing this off of clicking on the Find icon from your control panel? Or did you have these links bookmarked or something before and know for a fact that the url isn’t indexed?
Because that Find feature is far from perfect. Each time you click it we take a different random 10 word or so snippet of your post and query Google for an exact match. But if that snippet contains an extra space, a comma, etc it may or may not work. So if you don’t find it the first time, just click the Find icon again to query a different snippet.
If you want to shoot me an email I’d be happy to take a closer look at your posts.
But in general having content de-indexed has only been an issue when some splog picked up the post off one of our feeds, and for whatever reason big G gave them credit for the post and de-indexed the original. But I can honestly count on one hand how many times this has been brought to my attention, which is saying something for the volumes we handle everyday.
You guys who are complaining about oh they reject content, it doesn’t get indexed blah blah blah, etc are WAY, way off base. Let me give you my experience with BMR thus far. I have only been a paying member for about 4-5 days, in that time I have submitted about 40 unique posts, I have written each one, not a SINGLE one has been rejected, also each one takes me about 3-4 minutes tops to write. In the 4-5 days I’ve been a member there, my website went from absolutely nowhere to pages 6, 3, and 2 for 3 different keywords. The highest keyword I’m targeting has about 100,000 competing pages in google in quotes, the other two a bit lower. The 100k keyword went from nowhere to page 17, then to page 11, and now 6 in just 4 days or so. To me that is outrageous. If anyone is having trouble ranking with BMR I highly suggest targetting low competition keywords at first. BMR is the real deal for sure. I’m almost positive that you can rank 1st page within 2-3 weeks even for a keyword with millions of competing pages if you know what you’re doing. Powerful stuff guys, learn how to use it.
Brian, you’re the best! Thanks for cutting thru the clutter here.
Wait Brian, one more thing. Maybe if you could edit your post a bit, or add a disclaimer. Some people might not understand why their site is No 1 after 1 post and 24 hours later. LOL
Thankyou Mr. BMR Admin
The truth is, and this is an irrevocable fact, it cannot be argued, this is an unbelievable service and John? goes WAY above and beyond the call. You just need to know how to use it and not be a dummy.
The appeal of being able to enter unlimited websites, set the amount of posts per day I want, put them all in a queue, not have to worry about indexing, AND be able to outsource right through the BMR interface.. Well it all just gives me a BMR boner.
P.S. Can’t wait to start outsourcing to you guys once I get some extra cash. Keep it up!
Love BMR and I can attest to what other users had said. Unfortunately to people who are planning to join, I just happened to saw the other day that they were “temporarily close” to new subscribers.
Yeah…they are closed at the moment…BUMMER for me
When will this service open again? Or do you have backdoor access here Dan for new and interested users? Thanks
OMG, I was totally sold by this review and now its closed!
Hi Guys ,
Just opened a trial account with BMR , so i guess it means they opened their gates !
personally , i’m thrilled to see this service in action
Ron
Hey Dan,
Off topic from Build My Rank. (Which is awesome, thanks for the recommendation) I’m looking into using a couple of other services, that maybe yourself or others here have tried out. They’re all run by Dave Kelly.
LinkuMate: http://www.linkumate.com
LinkitPro: http://www.linkitpro.com
If you visit the sites, it’s pretty self explanatory to what you’re getting from them. Just wanted to know if you’ve looked into them. Again they’re from Dave who owns LinkVana…which is expensive I agree, but I’ve had great result from LinkVana driving med to long tail up the Serps. So just wanted to know what you thought about his other services? Mostly because, I’ve come to value your opinion through this site, and others here as well!
Thanks!
Andy, thanks for the feedback and question…
LinkUmate seems to work best on MSN/BING/YAHOO, not so much with Google, but still it’s a good way to game those other search engines using an advanced.refined version of LinkUBaiter script and/or their network of 800 sites. I will check it out for sure, seeing as how I have some G-slapped sites that are still doing well on Yahoo/Bing and this could propel those higher.
LinkItPro- it’s social bookmarking links and profiles links, but with an emphasis on targeting the higher quality sites here to establish more Search Engine trust, and I’ve seen several sites that DO respond well to SE-trusted backlinks, so getting them done for you can only help, especially since Google claims their looking more closely at “link trust” now as part of their algo changes.
I will join both of these soon, as soon as I can find some sites to test these out on, or stop some linking campaigns on other sites, and use either or bot hof these services on those sites instead.
Thanks for the heads up on these,
Dan
Daniel,
In light of the new Google algo change do you still think BMR works? Do you foresee any changes in its effectiveness in the near future?
Hey David, BMR is still doing a good job, their network’s maintained majority of its PR and what-not, but the network is still a content farm albeit a “farm” consisting of unique content. It still works, I use it periodically just to make sure.
If I knew what future held in store for us, I’d be much happier person, but these Google algo changes are still taking effect, and it will be a while before we can see WHY the sites that rank well, rank well, then it’s reverse-engineering time, and back to the back linking, or other methods
Hey Dan, maybe its off topic, but your site mlmnetworkmarketingtraining dot org has now regained its first page position, but this time it seems to be totally revamped and under new owners. Did you sell the site? Really curious there, hope you can share what happened if you don’t mind
Oh, and great blog. I’ve been a follower for a while now, hehe.
Hi Coolio, thanks for the question. I lent the site to someone, as it’s a niche market/industry/site I’m not really interesting in doing anymore. The theme and site changes did affect it’s rankings, and were on steady decline until recent algo changes, but now it’s back up it seems. I still own the site, its for sale a 5 figures, gets 7-8k uniques a month etc…. so I’m just gonna sit on that domain for a while, maybe even years until I get an offer I like…
Thanks Dan. Hope you get a good sale for it.
Hi Daniel
Is BMR still #1 for you?
Thanks
David
Hi David, thanks for the question, yes it’s still #1, as a standalone service it seems to have withstood the algo changes and is still somewhat effective, but I’m going to have to rewrite the Recommended section to include services that work well with each other, seeing as how most services only provide one type of backlink, and multiple backlink sources and types are really what’s needed to ranks stuff nowadays
I started using BMR a few weeks ago. I run a language tutoring agency in the UK so I decided to concentrate on keywords like “spanish lessons london”, “spanish lessons manchester” etc. I started off with “spanish lessons nottingham” as Nottingham’s my home town. Soon I was on page 2 and most recently I got as high as number 10 on the first page of Google. Once I got to this position I did the same for Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh and London. I’m now trying to optimise for “spanish lessons london” and I’m doing 5 – 10 articles per day. For all the keyword searches mentioned, the URL is the same, it’s a general page for one-to-one tuition throughout the UK. I’ve now noticed that my page has dropped down Google for all of these search terms, even “spanish lessons london” which I am currently creating articles for. I posted 3 new articles yesterday. The company who created my site have recommended that I create a unique page for each language/town combination. As I only intend to optimise for French and Spanish and the five largest cites, this would represent 10 new pages. I’m thinking of starting with just two new pages “french lessons london” and “spanish lessons london” to see how this works. I’ll then create articles with links to these pages with BMR. Is this likely to be any more successful than having lots of keyword searches for one page?
Hi,
I am really frustrated with BMR. I have been a freelance writer for over 5 years writing for top notch new media companies. I signed up with them and submitted my site. First rejection was “not enough content”. Ok. so I added 2 more pages. Second rejection “poorly written content”. I couldn’t believe it. I haven’t got a single rejection from Demand Studios and now this service company is acting as if they were a print newspaper. I’m done with them. There are plenty of other good services out there.
To the guy above me – don’t be so sensitive. If you were a waitress in a restaurant would you get bent out of shape each time someone rejects your offer for coffee?
Look at it as a chance to be a better writer. Miles Davis had bad nights too.