FrontLine Auto links review

This Frontline Auto links review was conducted and written by Jeremy Barham who has a website on the online dating in uk.  Thanks Jeremy for providing us with this review.

Just finished testing Frontline Autolinks, which claims to be a “high-PR blog network with a special twist”.  The special twist is…. wait for it, the links are “generated automatically”.  Having recently signed up for Linx Boss, I thought that Frontline might be offering genuinely automatically generated links, which to me means that no work is required – you simply give them the urls that need backlinks and they do the rest.

Unfortunately, Frontline is almost the opposite of this; in fact I am struggling to see how anything about it is automatic. The idea is similar to Linkvana, in that you must submit 100 word ‘posts’ or snippets with one anchor text based backlink in each post. They must be unique – I tried spinning an article and submitting 10 HIGHLY spun variations, and the spun versions were rejected.

The posts are then drip fed to the blog network at a rate of your choice, with the maximum rate being 3-5 posts distributed per day. The maximum number of posts allowed in one month is 9999, and these can be spread over as many urls as you like. So apparently lots of backlink possibilities from the outset.

The problems start as soon as you try to use the thing.  First of all, entering in your information is over-complicated by having four separate forms to fill in: First you enter a url you want to direct links to, and this is done on your ‘dashboard’. You then have to ‘edit’ the url you just entered on another page – here you have the option to enter a site name, a category (there are only 12, none of which suited any of my sites) and a drip rate. From there you need to go to a new page to enter your ‘link’ information – the link url (yes, this is exactly the same as the ‘site’ you just entered), the link ‘title’ (anchor text) and the link ‘description’ (whatever that is).

Finally you go to the fourth page to enter a post. You can’t paste in an article from elsewhere very easily (the only way I could get it to work was by pasting, cutting, refreshing page and re-pasting) because of the wysiwyg interface. This strangely has a hyperlink button, right above the ‘add link’ option where you choose what link/anchor text to add in to your post. Why you would want both is a mystery. If you can add hyperlinks into the post, why would you have to do all the link entering fuss beforehand?

OK, so is it worth the hassle – does it produce results? In a word, no. I set my drip rate to the highest setting, 3-5 posts a day, and set up 5 projects. The actual average posting rate worked out at around 3-5 posts per week, so seven times slower than advertised. My most successful project achieved a massive 14 posts in a month!

On Googling the post titles, I found that about 40% of the articles were indexed within the month. Of these, all but one were on PR0 pages on PR1 blogs, ALL of which were brand new in March of this year. Unsurprisingly, the smattering of posts made no difference to my rankings and I cancelled my membership and got a refund. The sales page is a blatant lie. Do I recommend Frontline Autolinks? Errrr… no.