Not Recommended

May 26, 2009 · 19 comments

Here’s a list of link building services that I recommend against joining or are pending review.

  • 1waylinks – too much effort to put your articles on junk sites whose poor spidering means that whatever links you DO get will soon becoming non-indexed
  • 10LinksADay, read the 10 links a day review
  • 3WayLinks (use NeuroLinker instead or Automated Link building)
  • Article Marketer – takes long time and your articles get put on junk sites
  • BadAssRSS -  a monthly fee for manual RSS submissions? What a joke, read this post here instead
  • FrontLine Autolinks – read the Frontline Autolinks review
  • Google Annihilation (use NeuroLinker instead or Automated Link building)
  • ISnare – not for links, just traffic
  • LinkVana – Too Expensive, better networks out there doing same job for a lot less
  • Link Racer-  tested for 2 1/2 months no good results
  • My Article Network – IP diversity flaw discussed at the beginning of this post
  • My Link Club – sounds good but it’s an LFE network/WPMU network where 50% plus self-generated links are not found within 2 weeks, probably worse after a month
  • MyWayLinks – been burned too many times by Leger’s stuff
  • NextGenLinks – tried 3 times and never got it to work
  • Traffic Bug – almost a scam but not quite… just miserably run
  • SEO Link Vine – minimal syndication of articles for minimal effect, but full-priced service fee
  • Web2Mayhem – this is a vastly over-priced service whose only inherently good value is the Syndicate Kahuna portion
  • more to come unfortunately…

These non-recommendations are based on:

  • testing done and a lack of results,
  • from research done via other sites’ content and reviews,
  • discussions with other knowledgeable webmasters who’ve used these services
  • and feedback on forums…

1wayLinks - Hello No!  Waste of F-ing Time, this is just a bunch of link-farm junk sites linking to you, only 1500 sites in their network, whereas My Article Network has 20,000 sites in their network that are NOT all junk sites with upside down link juice and for the same price (no brainer!)

MyWayLinks - 1wayLinks was so bad, and the quality of sites was so poor.  that MyWayLinks had to be created.  MyWayLinks is an attempt to create a better quality network of sites with PageRank, but there’s not that many sites in the network, and once again is overshadowed by the 20,000 blogs in My Article Network, and the ease in which someone could get 1100 backlinks from half-way decent sites with just one article with Unique Article Wizard.

NextGenLinks - I am not recommending against using this service, but I’ve yet to hear any good things about it from people I know who are using their services, but they’re Beta Testers so they don’t want to lose their Beta Tester discounted membership by coming out with forthright reviews.

Charles was nice enough to grant me a limited time membership and I will be testing it out soon and will write some reviews and case study results.

OneWaySEO- Been hearing a lot about his service lately since they’re commenting on blogs all the time, but they’re just another X-way linking service and with 3waylinks, NeuroLinker, and Automated Linkbuilding I think there’s already enough of those kinds of services around so I won’t be joining or testing and can only recommend you go with long-time services that have a lot of sites in their network.

3WayLinks- you lose all your links if you cancel so links are IM-permanent and you can only link to your main page urls.  NeuroLinker offers you X-way links as well, with some permanent links added in via their article marketing program which is limited to their members’ s sites…

Google Annihilation - Research and forums show this launch was a bust and is now closed to public, even though more members using this service makes for better use of this type of X-way linking system.

Article Marketer -  too slow is sending out articles and sends out dupe articles

ISnare - same as above, sends out dupe articles, results in very little quality credited backlinks and very little referral traffic (Article Marketing expert Fabian Tan told me this)

If you want X-way links go with NeuroLinker or go with Automated Link Building

 

Types of link building services I advise against using:

Paying for blog reviews: costs too much to get this quality backlink, and it is better for you to leverage some article marketing syndication networks to do more for less

Forum link building - if there are Dofollow links that allow for signature files to get indexed then great, most forums are on to this link building methodas evidenced by the stupid-ass comments some non-Native-english speakers make in some threads

Social bookmarking services - thousands of no-follow, little-value, highly-devalued  links from the same site,  please….  :(

Blog commenting services – even on Dofollow blogs, might be good for the rare blogs that allow Dofollow and actually achieve Page Rank for their URLS… but the time and/or money spent for blog commenting doesn’t translate into as good of an ROI as other link building services do.  Besides, many comments don’t get approved for a long time, especially if it was your first comment on that blog… WordPress default settings for Comments/discussion always holds the first commenter’s comment in moderation before auto-approving  the next ones if that’s how the blog owner managed the Admin Panel settings…

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{ 19 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Graeme July 7, 2010 at 4:49 pm

Thanks for the info ,much appreciated and has saved me heaps of time testing myself,still undecided which way to go but one of your linking recommendations will be my first cab off the rank.

Regards
Graeme

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2 Neil July 26, 2010 at 11:03 am

Great site and many thanks for all the information. Amazing to find a real review site for these services, almost unique !!

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3 Daniel McGonagle July 26, 2010 at 12:01 pm

Thanks Neil, “we” try :)

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4 Andy W August 1, 2010 at 6:36 pm

Hi, been surfing around on here for a couple of hours now – great info! I have just canceled a auto link building service I was using which cost $60 a month.- It was based on WP plugin downloads and was hardly advertised anywhere. It was fantastic for about 7 or 8 months but the downloads seem to have really slowed down and therefore the links have as well but not before I managed to get two sites to Nr 1 for their major keywords :)

Anyways – got $60 a month ish to spend on something new and have been looking at The Link Juicer.
I need a “fire and forget” solution really or something where I don´t need to put loads and loads of time into. Also want to be able to keep varying the anchors for synonyms, plurals etc.
You think The Link Juicer fits the bill? Do you have an aff. link for it that I can use?

Also just opened a free account at IMAutomatrr – cant knock free – right?

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5 Daniel McGonagle August 1, 2010 at 9:42 pm

Hi Andy, thanks for stopping by….

1- What was name of the WP Plugin just curious…
2- The Link Juicer doesn’t get many of its self-generated links indexed, so if you DO get it you’ll have to do some work to get those indexed, or it’ll be a waste of time
If it’s for just one site, or even 3, I recommend you rent out some Linx Boss open spots, there are people selling them here and there

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6 Andy W August 2, 2010 at 3:25 am

I think there were a couple of plugins he was using. It changed peoples comments names to my anchor text and inserted links and also sometimes just left a text link with anchor text at the bottom of a blog post if they had the plugins installed – very nifty!
Lunaticlinks is the website – German bloke called Thomas was advertising it over at Warrior Forum but the links have slowed down so much now that I think I can probably do better for the money – was great though!
I´ll go and have a look at Linx Boss now.
Have a look at Caroline Middlebrooks new project – all social bookmarking but automated, drip fed etc. Looks pretty good to me but its your area of expertise so I´d be interested in your opinion: http://www.imautomator.com/

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7 Andy W August 4, 2010 at 9:51 am

Signed up for LinxBoss a couple of days ago and have done a bit of SEO work and given a slot to a friend of mine whose website ranks for nothing – he paid $100 for the one slot leaving me with for so the first months cost is just about covered. Had to re-write his front page to include his target phrases and will redo his images as they are all called “A,B,C” or “1,2,3″ and have no alt text at all.
His site is targeting a range of phrases of differing competitiveness most of them he doesnt even appear anywhere in the listings for.
My estate agents site already has plenty of traction although its quite new so hopefully this will push it from positions 7 or so on page 1 to the top 3.
Will see how it goes anyway. Also used your aff link and should be renewing for the next couple of months at least.
Thanks very much for the info and reviews – godsend in this world of IM bullshit!

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8 Daniel McGonagle August 4, 2010 at 7:12 pm

Thanks for popping in Andy.

Please leave any feedback on your result son the Linx Boss posts on this site, if you don’t mind (good or bad, we’re transparent here!)

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9 Ajie August 12, 2010 at 3:27 pm

This is kinda ironic.
Your website is LinkVanaReviews but you don’t recommend LinkVana.
Is this the way people doing reviews now?

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10 Daniel McGonagle August 12, 2010 at 4:15 pm

Yup, its kind of ironic, and rather short sighted on my end

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11 Andy W August 12, 2010 at 3:30 pm

But the title of this site is (as you say) Link Vana REVIEWS not Link Vana RECOMMENDATIONS…

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12 Matthew K August 20, 2010 at 9:06 am

Hey Daniel, First off I love your site. It’s become my mecca for all link building reviews. Thanks for posting all of your reviews and results here.

I did have a question about “blog commenting” that you mentioned above. I agree that it can be very tedious if you do this yourself, but what are your thoughts on outsourcing this? Some services guarantee at least 90% of the links will stick after 60 days and the expense is reasonable.

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13 Daniel McGonagle August 20, 2010 at 10:27 am

Yes, blog commenting is OK I guess, but it’s going to get tougher to get dofollow anchor text backlinks when more and more blog mods are aware that “Cheap San Francisco hotels” isn’t a real user’s name.

Most of the services out there now are using commenting demon, Scrapebox or various other tools to do the mass-commenting, but to asnwer your real question, yes it’s not a bad idea to outsource this if its real cheap

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14 Andy W August 20, 2010 at 9:11 am

I wonder about the value of blog comments sometimes.
It seems to be a “one for the future” method as sticking a comment with followed anchor text on a new post means you have a backlink on a page with zero PR.

Finding posts with PR 2 and higher means there are probably already lots of other comments so any link juice is diluted – sometimes massively.

Isn´t there also something in Googles algorithm which devalues brand new links on old posts with PR to stop people gaming the system?

Answers to these questions and more would be much appreciated!

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15 Daniel McGonagle August 20, 2010 at 10:30 am

I haven’t done blog commenting in a long, long time so I’m no expert at it. The way I see it, services charge what the industry will support, so 2k approved comments/links for 50 bucks (example) must mean that the service isn’t delivering super valuable contextual links or it’s just an under-rated, under-valued link building method, like Xrumer blasts can be….

If someone has a blog commenting SERVICE they’d like me to review or use, please let me know here, in the comments section

Thanks,

Dan

P.S. For a while I was convinced that OBLS on a page DID matter, but I am rethinking that notion, as it may not make a whole lot of difference

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16 Matthew K August 20, 2010 at 11:53 am

Wow guys, thanks for the fast replies. The service I was looking at was http://www.ultraseosolutions.com/index.php/services/blog-commenting-auto or http://www.ultraseosolutions.com/index.php/services/dofollow-blog-commenting-service.

I would love to see a case study. I don’t have the time or patience to learn Scrapebox or to do that myself…too ADD!

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17 Daniel McGonagle August 20, 2010 at 12:46 pm

I chatted with Andy, who was posting in these comments…. He gave me the url of the service he use din the past and we discussed doing a pure test on a domain. It’ll be about 2 weeks before the results are in.

Thanks,

Dan

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18 Matthew K August 21, 2010 at 7:54 am

That’s awesome, Dan! Can’t wait to see the results. Would you mind emailing me the name of the service that Andy used in the past?

Thanks,

Matt

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19 Daniel McGonagle August 21, 2010 at 7:08 pm

Here you go MAtthew…

http://www.jimkarterseo.com/

Sometimes I wonder why he doesn’t use his own service to rank better for Do Follow Blog commenting term, for which he is ranked page 3.

I’ll let you know how it goes, but one thing I can tell you is…. you can use a tool like Scrapebox and do this yourself in a few minutes with a few clicks

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