I joined this service today called Link Aloha.
It’s like renting an Xrumer server without all the costs of running your own Xrumer box.
For close to 400 dollars you can get 5,000 links a month, but as of right now, you can get in for half price, so if you joined today you’d get 5000 links for 194/month or something like that.
I have no opinion on the effectiveness of this service and am just acting as a news reporter here, not an interpreter, like most of today’s “journalists”!
I do have some other opinions, facts, and beliefs I’d like t share, though.
#1- About 33% of Xrumer-generated links get deleted or de-indexed for one reason or another
#2- Paying 400 dollars for 5,000 links doesn’t seem as good a deal as what you could get from regular xrumer services, which promises 10s of thousands of links for pretty cheap prices
#3- This membership will be closed soon, seeing as how the Xrumer box the admin is running can probably only handle a certain amount of link blasting.
Since this will be a closed membership, I’m not going to go into much detail here on how service could be better (like allowing us to provide random, multiple spun versions of site descriptions for our profiles links).
However, I would like to stress that good link building services..at least the ones that require very little writing (like BLS LinxBoss and Link Aloha) close their doors to the public frequently, so if you’re a risk taker head on over to http://linkaloha.com and order some sort of package to test them out yourself.
NOTE: There’s (currently) an order option at bottom for 50% off discounted packages,
- So click that one first
- Then register with service
- Then log back on,
- and select Order button and you’ll be directed to PayPal
Again, I have no opinion on the effectiveness of this service, and if I ever did come out with some sort of detailed Link Aloha review, their doors would be long-closed to public.
Final notes: I would not have ordered this unless the 50% off discount was available because I could get 2-3 this amount of links from Xrumer blasting services for same price as Link Aloha’s top package at non-discounted price. I could also get a crew from the Philippines working for me almost full time for close to 500/month.
UPDATE: I showed the admin/owner this post review and like I sometimes (often) do, conferred with him on how his service could add more value to be deemed cost-effective in some way. There’s 2 things that Link aloha could have going for it, perhaps even three.
1- It’s 100 automated (yet so is outsourcing to an Xrumer service)
2- Had drip-feed capabilities, whic hmost Xrumer blasters don’t do
3- Since he’s in contorl of sites and knows the urls of all profiles, can take steps to ensure a higher rate of indexing for these links, and this is really the most important value-add that could be had here.
I see a lot of people asking how to get the Angel’s, Paul’s, Sick, Xrumer etc…profile links indexed, and that means yet more work for people, whereas if Link Aloha could take care of this, too, then it just might be a good value if you’re cost and/or time-conscious. He may add in a mass pinger, RSS feeds and some other stuff that I showed him/suggested.
I also recommended that he add a feature whereby users provide some spintax-ed site descriptions for the CMS-es that allow site descriptions, so not all 1000 profiles or however many profiles allow for site text descriptions have same text or just show naked links or hyperlinks anchor red text and that’s it.
Also suggested that the spun site descriptions expire in some way, after 1 month and/or 1000 links, so that the spun text descriptions don’t get stale, too
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I thought that you got 1,000 links per month with Linx Boss. How did you get 5000 links per month?
That was an incorrect statement on my end, sorry, got confused with Linx Boss being 5 domain urls and 1k links total plus pricing numbers and comparing the 2, etc…. I updated the review to compare it to something more similar; other xrumer blasting services.
Thanks for catching this for me/us…
Dan
Sorry, but this service is way overpriced. You can build as many profiles and upload as many submission sites as you want with sick profile maker for like 15 bucks a month and unlimited submissions. I’m running over 5k high pr forum profiles with sick each month…and it costs me less than 20 bucks and some captcha solving subscriptions….
Thanks for the reviews Dan. Just got Linxboss yesterday!
David, sick has limited number of sites you can submit to, and is base don how many they give you each month. Of course this only matters if you’re working a few urls at a time, but getting 150 new sites/month could lead to some benefits, its just that the law of diminishing returns comes into play when you get links from same 150 sites even to different urls on a domain.
I still maintain that content surrounded by or adjacent to your anchor text works the best, which is why Sick was a good tool, because it allowed for rotating randomized spun site descriptions in member profiles created.
And also why Linx Boss is a pretty decent tool, due to the links being surround by (amongst content) content or adjacent to it with links at bottom of snippets.
I DO agree about the overpricing for this service; if they can’t ensure a higher stickiness rate for links generated, then it could be a long -term good deal. Of course… I bought it just to test it for others and to give some sort of a review 30-60-90 days from now.
To be clear, I am not a fan of Sick, used it for 3 months with not much to show for it, and would rather do article submissions to get better links from relevant places, and pretty much the same number of links sticking
I agree with David. I just received the email from the launching of linkaloha today and found out it is way overpriced. 5000 links per month for $197, you can actually hire a part time VA to do those stuff with around $150/m.
Hi Jeremy thanks for the input, and I don’t disagree. I’ll tlak to him to see if there’s something he can do to value-add the service, like ensuring all links get and remain indexed, as much as humanly possible, like pinging these profiles or making thread comments in those forums so the member profiles get deep linked via thread comment linking to the member profile and member profile linking to your urls.
Okay, I see where you’re coming from about sick and limited sites….But, that’s if you just use the stock sites. Inside their forum, there are guys that sell Packets, and you can quickly build an arsenal of thousands of link targets that work with sick without waiting for the monthly membership. But again, with linkahola, it is pretty much as automated as it gets which is great. It’s just that, forum profiles are forum profiles, albeit some are better than others due to domain trust rank or page rank…Basically, even if you forget about sick for a moment, there are many people willing to get you lots of profile backlinks very cheaply. Anyway, I hope you can see some great results with it; Because after all, massive amounts of forum profiles, coming in consistently can have an immense impact on your rankings.
Which is another thing….linkahola has the drip feature which is great…something other profile building software doesn’t.
Good Luck Dan..
and P.S
once you get the guys on the sick profile forums upgrade packs…Sick is a beast. And they have a toolkit, which lets you make your own packs..Scrapebox for finding as many sources and then you can import them into sick using their toolkit option.
-Thanks for all the content man….and by the way, Have you checked out the new LinkRacer? It has a new spinning feature finally.. Just curious
Hi David, thanks for these comments they’re helpful.
I consider drip rate an important feature to any service whilst most xrumer blasters just load up a known good working list parse it down to whatever number of links you ordered, then blast out some profiles.
Good to know that there’s ways to add additional urls into sick list, I just lost patience with them after using them for 2-3 months
Curious to see how this goes as I got the same email about this launch. I use Sick in combination with Scrapebox to find forums. I let Sick run overnight while I’m asleep so 5,000 backlinks at that price doesn’t seem worth it to me when I can get that many links easily enough without too much effort. I hope it goes well for you.
Thanks Jay, I might go back and check out Sick and their forums again some time soon.
Once again tohugh I am in complete agrrrement that Aloha is pricey, for most..
For me automation and hands-free stuff that allows me to do nothing but pay and get drip-fed links is worth it.
I had Sick, still own Scrapebox but am too impatient to deal with learning curves of any kind I guess, which is why I haven’t really done a full bore review on SE nuke yet.
Dan
SENuke takes skill to learn until you get the feel for what will get indexed. Running it is easy but getting your links to ‘stick’ takes a lot of trial and error. BTW xrumer links only work if you have the ability to index them. Tell me you didn’t pay for this Dan.
Good points here David, and yup I paid for this. I once approached a guy who owns Xrumer on private server to JV with him on some things, to help him make some more money but he flaked out on me (disappeared), so I either have to do more in depth hands free testing of Xrumer this way or just hope he becomes reliable and steps up to the plate and starts making some coin with me
So Link Aloha is using Xrumer?
I joined the smallest package for 50% off. It is expensive but I like that it is so hands-off. I planned on pointing the links to my Web2.0s just in case profiles disappear, sounds like that may be wise?
Testing it out on web 2.0 properties is a good safe way to go yes. I’ve used it for direct links to established sites without any penalties, too
I can promise you one thing, NONE of these programs work half as good as the HYPE!
Unfortunately we are stuck with them since time is our most valuable asset. I started using bookmarkwiz the same author of this program and the costumer service is horrendous .
Now I will go back and read this post and if you give honest reviews I will subscribe, if not I will blog about it.
Sure thing Chet, hope my writing hypnotizes you into becoming a believer
lol Well I just have to subscribe after that comment. That was funny!
You sounded like one of those extremely knowledgeable pessimists I recently read about somewhere
Btw,
might beit would be a good idea if you changed your permalinks structure settings to %postname% from your current default http://chetpayne.com/?p=1054Thanks a lot Danial I will do that. I think I will have to install that one plugin to avoid the 404′s. I am still new to all this and I changed the perm structure in the beginning and got a crap load of 404′s (which I am still getting) so I got ticked and when back to default.
I am usually extremely optimistic by my AC is broken.
By the way Danial do you think it may be smarter adding a number to that (/%post_id%/%postname%/) like I read in a post because of word press strings or just go with the post name like you mentioned??? I have been debating this.
Use the SEO 404 plugin for your 404 pages, plus edit your 404 page to link back to sitemap or main url.
Use redirect old slugs plugins to ensure a smooth transition from different /modified permalinks settings
Thanks you Danial I appreciate the advice!
Few questions. Is this 5000 links they just throw out there or 5K indexed links? How many URLS are you testing? Basically, are you splitting your links to more than one url? Thanks
5k links is max package
Their doors are closed
Technically you’re allowed 50 campaigns which means 50 urls 3 kw anchor to each
They have drip feed, scheduling
Can rotate links in and out
He’s overwhelmed with stuff already, keeping fingers crossed that server load and what-not can handle all his member’s stuff.
As you know you can get more links via xrumer BLASTS, but w/ blasts you can’t schedule things so well, nor do they remained indexed well.
I had a series of talks with the owner/admin about value-adding to the service by doing some automated tasks that will vastly increase the rate of indexed links/profiles.
Is it a good idea to just build forum or profile links to your website?
I tried that with one of my websites and the search engine rankings rose up for a little while. But then all of a sudden it dropped like a rock.
It’s always good to have a diversity of link types and sources, which is why I’m now doing combination services reviews, so people don’t have to guess which services would perfectly complement each other.
Article marketing to well known directories, and links from hubs and lenses you build would complement forum profiles linking for example, since you’re getting a variety of links from a variety of IPs addresses etc…
Well it seems like a never ending battle to get to the top of Google.com, & for the keywords that I’d like my website to be know for I am fighting for a competition that has more than 15,000 backlinks already under his belt…. Man this will take forever… But it is worth the journey just to get to the top page…
5000 links for $400 bucks.
Oh dear oh dear.
For a little more you can buy Xrumer yourself (it’s quite possible for someone with a moderate amount of know-how to self host.
Especially if they have a spare PC and a decent internet connection they don’t use for a number of hours a day)
But even without Xrumer comparisons, this is an incredibly expensive service. Writing a decent article and posting it out spun using a decent tool or service will get better results.
Something like Magic Submitter, if you take the time to add many more sites to it (I have about 10x more than it shipped with) is capable of creating for more links per day for a fraction of the cost
If you have many sites, and within each site many individual URL’s you want to link to, then this will mean spreading the link-love very thinly indeed.
IMO an extremely expensiveway to link. Useful for total beginners or people with no tech or writing skills.
[though if you have no tech or writing skills - chances are you'll fail at IM anyway]
Paul
Paul, interesting…to know that Magic can be customized to add more sites into it, kind of like Sick Profile Maker can do….
Can automatic Article Submitter add more sites into itself, too?
I think this is the best Xrumer service around at the moment.
They drip your links out on a scheduled basis to however many URL’s you want:
http://www.dripfeedblasts.com/
MUCH cheaper than Aloha
Yes, I’ve been trying them for a while now, nothing conclusive for my personal sites yet, results-wise, but I’ve referred a half dozen people to DFB and they’re seeing results with some long tail terms, so nothing spectacular to report yet from DFB. I have 2 campaigns with them at max submission rate, feeding links to web 2.0 properties and money sites, all of which are aged
Could you please confirm me, as per your instruction i used Automated Link Building System so far i am getting only, 15 backlinks in the past two months, but this system linkaloha also promising some extra ordinary things shall i quit ALB (not getting responses from there also) and start with Linkaloha.please suggest.
I will check the ALB helpdesk for you, ALB gives links out gradually but 15 total in 2 months is sub par for sure.
Link aloha, while expensive, DOES working with a good list of sites, Koen is using a good database, and he’s going to the extra steps to help people get their links indexed.
Thanks,
Dan
Thanks for prompt response. My ID is there in ALB is 1753 – but positively i have read all your reviews about back links creation is only through warrior forums. need immediatel assistance.
My friend just told me about this, and it looks pretty cool – although it looks to be priced a bit high.
However, IF and only if – the service adds some type of automated indexing feature of these profile links – would it be worth it for me.
I’m using the Sick Submitter, and the time it takes to get your profiles registered, posted, etc – then add them to your backlink energizer, BIE, etc – takes a bit of work/time/maintenance.
If this linkahola does all this for you I would get it in a heartbeat. I’m all for the 100% automated stuff.
I got a list of links packets together, close ot 3-5 k, use dit for a month, and not worth all the effort, IMO.
Close to 100 dollars, maybe 150 on packets plus small monthly for sick, plus multiply that TIMES 4 since that’s what my time’s worth… easier to outsource to dripfeedblasts or an xrumer service
Yea, I’m with you on the TIME part. I’ve just got this sick marketing thing down to a science using spreadsheets etc.., and it doesn’t take me long to build thousands of profiles to multiple sites.
It’s the headache of getting them indexed that gets me (rss, bie, energizer blogs, etc).
I think my friend said the owner pings them to about 15 or so ping services. What kind of indexing % are you getting with the profiles that are being built with Linkahola (assuming your doing nothing on your part to get them indexed)?
Not doing Aloha anymore but he’s made some efforts to increase indexing of profiles. Using DFB and dumping links on an indexing net now
Daniel – what’s DFB?
emailed u
hi Daniel, please could you also tell me what DFB stands for?
Guessing it’s “drip feed blasts”
A Xrumer subscription type service
Have to add, that a home set up of Xrumer (will run about 8 threads rather than a server based set up which will hammer 50 threads) will give you the same easily. About $500 one off then a $10 a month for updates.
I reckon about 4 or 5 per minute with this number of threads
So it will tie your internet connection up for a few hours, but do it at night and that’s fine. Buy a cheap 2nd PC $100 2nd hand job to run it on
Ok this isn’t ldeal for all, but for those with a few hundred bucks whoi want a really effective tool with minimal monthly ongoing costs – then this has got to be good.
You would be able to farm out your excess capacity and make your money back in no time if you know what you’re doing!
If you have the cash up front, and don’t mind a 3 or 4 day learning process (and most will need that long to get around the system and set it up right) then it’s a great tool.
Not for all I know. IT’s a bit specialist, and as I’m “grandfathered” with AMR (and that tool is proving to be worth it’s weight in gold) I’m going to be writing a lot more articles in the near future.
I think Dan has done a mini write up of AMR (not a full review) It knocks every article distribustion service or software I have seen into a cocked hat. Here’s my comparison with UAW after owning it two weeks.
AMR = 1500 sites UAW = 10,000 sites Ok UAW has the lead
Submission AMR 950 average and UAW 950 average
PR AMR 300+ sites PR2 or higher 50+ PR4 or higher!
UAW try and find anything above PR2 – Go on try…
It’s a really simple piece of kit to use (I don’t use the spinner though – i use BAS, but it seems ok to me)
Rambling – I’m off
I subscribed to Link Aloha from launch until last month. I like the service, but I think it’s a bit expensive, even with the 50% off discount.
I’m thinking about trying Fiverr for forum backlinks. $5 for 5,000 forum profiles, seems like a great deal.
who is the crew you have from the Philippians for only 500 a month? I would like to know more about them and if they are good. Please e-mail me back. Thanks
I think I said I COULD get a crew for that amount, I don’t currently have a crew like that, but if you Google Philippines link building or Philippines seo or outsourcing I’m sure you’ll find something easily enough. Or just try fiverr, too
Do you have any knowledge of or experience with http://www.backlinkengines.com? I like the fact that they ping your links to help with indexing.
Koen is gonna relaunch linkaloha and i am currently testing this and doing some work for him too. I consider this VERY interesting since it allows to combine profile links, bookmarking, articles etc. and even makes it possible to make 2-tiered link schemes, eg. linking profiles to articles and more. It’s all automated, you don’t even need to submit content or anything. Yes the price is on the high-end side, but there is substantial potential in my opinion.
Hi Folks,
Been doing SEO for 18 months. I’ve owned a printing company for 13 years. I have the “dream” to be a full time SEO in the near future. Any feedback with that statement would be be appreciated.
Based on my “experience” products like SE Nuke and Scrapebox are poor because the links don’t get indexed. UAW is great! I’m probably going to give Linkaloha a shot. I’m looking to automate this process as much as possible. Just hope the links are high quality with good PR’s and they actually get indexed.
FYI, one decent Philippino will cost about $500 a month. Most will have some experience, although you will have to spend many hours training, time difference, language issues etc. It’s not a slam dunk.
Just spot checked a VA’s back links that has been with me for the last year. She put an extra space in the html and you know what that means. About have the work she did for me last week is worthless!!!
Thanks,
Jim
Wow, sorry to hear about that happening to you.
I don’t do SEO work for people so I can’t help you there, try some seo forums and ask around
Thanks for stopping by,
Dam
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Just spot checked a VA’s back links that has been with me for the last year. She put an extra space in the html
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Nightmare..sorry for you ;( You could do SO MUCH with $500 month, you could be in several high quality networks like BMR, ALN, Linkaloha etc..focus on that! On the usual forums you can find people who provide services, they submit to BMR, ALN, UAW etc…
Thanks for your response. I’m using UAW. What’s BMR and ALN abbreviations for?
Jim
BMR = BuildMyRank
ALN = Authority Link Network
Regarding ALN, you’re better off using an ALN service than you are in using ALN yourself.
I’m testing out a service now that sends submissions out to ALN, other ALN type networks, plus UAW submissions, a lot more bang for the buck that way and no writing required (extra fee for the service if you don’t want to write the article submission articles yourself)
Dan,
Whats your opinion on LinkAloha? Like everything else there seems to be supporters and detractors of the product. Have you heard about the the issue of the link decaching if you cancel the service because the rss feed will be disconnected?
Thanks for your feedback.
Jim
Hey Jim, LinkAloha is different now, before they were just profile slinks and Koen adapted his service to change with the times…
I’m testing it now, and what it really needs is a best usage guide, and if it is worth getting, then I will post the best practices guide at same time as the updated LinkAloha review, which is about 1 month from coming out
Thanks Dan!
Not at all sure about the new LA. I didn’t get in, so my information is 2nd hand. (Hi Stacey
) but this seems to have some real traction that was not present in the first version, at least not after the first 3 months where it went down the pan pretty darn quick. I have a technique these days which suits me well.
I now only promote about 12 sites (my microsite empire is long gone, I picked the best and “beefed” them up, flipped some and just left some to expire with domin renew turned off) So I can have maybe 2 or 3 subscriptions running at a time and spread the links over this small(ish) number of sites. Every 2-3 months I change. I always have the basic tools to link build myself of course, but for subs stuff, my thinking is, get in, use them for 90 days max..get out and move on. You get a great variety of links and don’t catch many of these offers when they are “on the slide” and even if you do your probably safe as after a couple of years you have links from all sorts of places not just hammering the same link farm month after month after month.
But like asking people to change their credit card to get a better deal..hardly anyone actually does this.
Scritty