I just realized that I never did a full bore Link Farm Evolution review, so here goes:
Link Farm Evolution has evolved much since I bought it, but I didn’t really use it much because I had to keep updating the damn versions. Whilst appreciative of them constantly updating and improving their software, it was a pain in the butt for me to do this so frequently when I saw still trying to wrap my head around it.
What does Link Farm Evolution do?
It basically gives you the ability to create thousands of blogs and various other sites and profiles, and post content to them. The reason it’s called Link Farm Evolution is being their product evolves with new sources to create sites on, plus new places to create profiles on. If you’re a white-hatter SEO like me then you cannot help but be repelled by an SEO link building product with the words “Link farm” in there, cuz link farms are bad, right?
Well, yes and no…
Link farms are bad for direct linking to your main, quality nice sites and these links should be used for other things (not gonna get into that here, as you’ll see why later..)
What kind of quality sites does Link Farm Evolution make?
Low quality sites whose main purpose is to host-and-post your articles and send links outward to other places. since these are all brand new sites residing on WPMU-enabled domains, or even blogger blogs, you need to promote these somehow, and link to them if you want to boost their link juice capabilities.
So in essence, you’re creating a ton of work for yourself here
In the long run it could and probably will bear fruit for you…
- IF you build up the trust of the sites in your LFE network,
- IF you have enough unique content pouring out of your ears to syndicate to your LFE network
- IF you have the patience to wait a long time to see results
- IF you have the capability to send hundreds or even thousands of links to your entire network to get them indexed and buildup their “SEO weight”
- etc…
Link Farm Evolution vs. Unique Article Wizard
Utilizing and leveraging a network
LFE- you need a few weeks just to build a network of sites
UAW- you get instant access to a network of sites
Getting quality backlinks from either network
LFE- you need a month, or months… of hard labor to build the network in to a quality network whose backlinks are actually worth something, buy building links to them somehow
UAW- instant access to a huge network of mostly quality sites and directories. No need to send links their way to “build them up” since their sites are like 99.99% indexed already.
Getting a steady pace of natural seeming backlinks
LFE- you can manually post content to a random number of sites to stagger/schedule your “link blasts”, but it is a manual process.
UAW - you can schedule your submissions, which means you can set the rate to a minimum and let it drip feed their network for along, long time, to create a steady pace of backlinks to your sites. And you will see an absolute HORDE of trackbacks if you are getting links to a blog post with Trackbacks enabled. If you set up Google Alerts for the author name used in your Unique Article Wizard articles, you will see hordes of these alerts as well, which means those articles are getting hosted and posted and noticed, as are the backlinks.
Syndicating content to these networks:
LFE- Recommended that you find some way to hook into some content sources, basically stealing them, and then spin them to a large degree and post. So you’re stealing and spinning, 2 things that bore me
UAW - Write one article, or have one written for you, or even use their recommended source that will write, important and submit articles for you. If you do this yourself, then you’ll be faced with a step-by-step video tutorial that walks you through the spinning, rewriting and submitting processes.
Time and cost factors for using Link Farm Evolution and Unique Article Wizard:
LFE Cost: One-time fee, good deal for under $300.00, minimal cost to get additional captcha-solves if you get that far
UAW Cost: Monthly fee which is between 1/3 and 1/4th of what Link Farm Evolution costs. Easier to see a quicker return on investment with Unique Article Wizard.
LFE time costs: Bit of a learning curve here to use this, plus you need to have your SEO wits about you and realize just how cautious you have to be using it. And you still have to develop and build and enhance a network until it is of some value, and provides some benefits when you start blasting out content to your network.
UAW time costs- watch a few excellent video tutorials and you’re ready to start syndicating in 30 minutes, if that long. ZERO time needed to build up a quality network here since you’re tapping into thousands of sites, directories and various other sites with Unique Article wizard’s service.
Link Farm Evolution and Unique Article Wizard Coolness and Safety factors:
LFE- yeah it’s cool to have the ability to build your own network, but you’d be well-advised to not direct link to white-hat money sites with LFE, at least not for a long time. Therefore, Link Farm Evolution is not as safe to use as Unique Article Wizard, since it restricts how and where you send out backlinks.
UAW- I think it’s cool to have a network at my disposal that I can leverage at will by writing one article and letting it syndicate on a scheduled basis. I also enjoy the very user-friendly interface for creating and submitting articles they have. Ain’t nothin’ cooler than an easy-to-use almost-zero learning curve system!
Safety-wise, it’s also very cool to be able to link to any type of site at will (Web 2.0, articles, profiles, feeds, money sites etc…)
Conclusion/summary?
Link Farm Evolution is only for a certain breed of SEO-er who has the time budget, wits and overall linking plan locked-in.. in his/her mind. LFE by itself is incomplete as far as a link building mechanisms are concerned due to the very nature of the quality of sites your LFE network will be and the low-level quality types of links they provide.
Unique Article Wizard is more user-friendly but after you’re making money with it, you might want to consider additional streams of link sources. After all, on a good day, you’ll “only” get about 800-100 quality sites that are possible candidates for publishing your article with UAW’s network/PER NICHE! (not bad).
UPDATE: 9/8/2010
All that LFE is good for nowadays is for building out an indexing network with the WPMUs. As far as linking is concerned, it provides little value. If you use it use it for getting bunch of stuff indexed, you’ll have to work real hard to get a solid network of even just 600 WPMUs to post (links) to.
Also, you’ll be blowing through captcha credits by the 100s and those are cheap, but LFE is not exactly a one-time fee tool…
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Thanks for the review on LFE. I always wondered about this compared to UAW, and I am very satisfied with UAW so far. It seems like LFE will be somewhat limited in its capacity of sites to get links from. While unique article wizard has many different ip’s and resources. Anyhow, I had a few questions about unique article wizard that I hope you would answer. So far, I have only done about 2 campaigns and have seen almost immediate results in my rankings, however, only a few backlinks show in in yahoo site explorer. My question is, Is it ok to continue doing unique article wizard submissions(of course using a different article) over and over again to the same site with similar anchor text? I just always read people talking about the myths of getting a certain amount of backlinks from the same ip meaning the backlinks become somewhat devalued.
Also, if you were starting all over again, what linking services would you subscribe to? It seems like bls has gone down hill at the moment with their server issues.
BTW, I hope you can do a scrapebox comment spammer review sometime. You can find it in the WSO section.
Thanks alot Dan
David, there’ some truth to the law of decreasing returns with repeat backlinks form the same sites. Which is why it pays to have similar sites ranking for similar terms, to spread your wings, and more exposure and link-spread form those repeat sites.
LFE is actually not limited at all with it capacity for getting new sources, it constantly looks for new places to build sites on and to get links from, which is way cool, since it means you don’t suffer from repeat-ip-subnet-linking stuff. Just takes a boatload of work to get it to a UAW-quality network. And you should absolutely vary your anchor text, to make it seem as natural a linking pattern as possible use naked links and mixed anchor texts in your articles.
Anon, mentioned there being some poor quality sites in UAW, and this is true but most of them are already indexed, therefore you’re ahead of the (LFE) game there.
Not sure what’s going on with BLS< Colin told me everything was fixed and that it's now better than ever with their new guidelines. I will be updating the top 4 list of services early next year, as some new players have come on the scenes, and there are some tools that need to be recommended as well.
Scrapebox is buggy as hell, works well when it works, has better features than Ultimate WordPress Comment spammer. I have reviewed 10 different blog commenting tools and am waiting for the bugginess of Scrape Box to go away before I recommend it, via the pending blog commenting tools review post.
If I had to start all over again, I'd focus on one site at a time and build up quality link wheels and promote them all heavily, and use Twitter, RSS feeds, autosocial bookmarking tools and the like to enhance things on autopilot. Link building services and tools are merely ways to increase your SERPS quicker after you've done everything else.
At some point quality sites get to a plateau level where they have so much link juice and exposure that they hardly need further promotion due to blog readers and twitter followers re-tweeting and social bookmarking good content. Plus good content from quality sites often get their rss feeds scraped by auto-bloggers, further developing your autopilot backlinking mechanisms.
Please Re-tweet, social bookmark this post, and scrape my feed !
Thanks,
Dan
I would disagree that UAW posts your content to ‘quality’ sites. Most are only article directories and most of the blogs in there are ones built by people who UAW wordpress plugin to create autoblogs which are not quality, have no or little orginal content and only serve as made for adsense sites.
I agree that there are a lot of junk sites in UAW, but article directories are superior to anytihng that an LFE-made site would be. And you can safel ylink to the article dirctories to boost their SERPs and eventual link juice to your sites, and far less work is required to boost your link juice when you’re linking to published articles on directories.
Look at it this way, if senuke can make 20 web 2.0 properties that all need some sort of content, you still have to build links to them to get link juice back, right? And a lot of people build only 1-page web 2.0 sites then work on getting them indexed, whereas UAW is chock full of indexed sites hosting your articles, no matter what their site quality is like, they’re still pre-indexed sites, and the links will be “stickier”….
Thanks Dan. Your blog interaction really is superb.
You know, you would make a very nice profit if you threw all your knowledge, reviews, etc. into a neat WSO.
Thanks David, they keep mentioning that to me over there. Someday I will, when I launch my SEO membership site and release a few SEO products.
Right now, I’m most interested in getting to to the highest level of SEO knowledge possible, all else will follow and I’m glad to share as I go.
I just hate seeing crappy WSOs being bought and sold, and people are thankful for the crap
I don’t want to become a part of that, so I make appearances there and the truly serious ones get on my list, get my feed as a reader and stay informed…
The rest are looking for the next latest trick for traffic…. Otherwise they wouldn’t be lurking in the marketing forums looking for and accepting SEO advice. They’d be reading SEO blogs, SEOMoz, Search Engine Land, the BH forums etc…
Nothing against the WF, but I dislike some things that have happened over there so I try to stay away, and add value whenever I go back
LFE is great if you are disciplined in documenting and following a good plan of attack and linking structure for your domain. You don’t need to work on 1000′s of blogs to make it worth while. Spend the time to set up a decent and quality network and you will benefit in the long run. It isn’t a short term fix though, like you say.
Make sure your content is organised into appropriate categories if you want to utilise your blogs for different niches. This will reduce the requirement of starting fresh each time you make a new domain.
You can do all of the other tips you mention across your site with the blogs in your LFE network as they all have easily accessible RSS feeds. Tie this in with the more aggressive linking tactics that aren’t hindered by a large list of URLs and you will get your blogs indexed and worthwhile relatively quickly.
LFE really lets you put in the foundation for future backlinking endevours, but it does take work.
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Good points Troy.
Some other things I forgot to mention…
Your LFE sites can get deleted if some zealous WPMU owners are watching things closely.
You can use hooks in LFE to get content but will need additional software and scripts to spin the “hooked” content up to the level UAW spins content or beyond
With UAW I spin as much as they recommend, but I use 9 different urls per submissions ( 3 blogs, 3 articles, + 3 other sites, to get hundreds of links to 9 different urls). Like anything good tool lik eLF Eor UAW it’s as good as the plan and the (wo)man behind it.
Yes, I will take discipline and a lot of patience to see results with LFE, and yes it could lead to expanded horizons. It’s actually created a lot more work for me than I’d like, but I like scalability and the idea of having my own network, too.
LFE’s videos suck, am very glad they turned it into auto-update software, but I just don’t like not being able to link directly to my white-hat end destination sites, at least not for months and months from now, if ever. Interlinking your LFE sites creates and easy to see footprint so there’s added complication there, too.
But again, a man with a plan could do well with it
Eventually, some day, just not soon.
Troy please email me at aikidoroll dot com, I have an Adsense question for you.
Speaking of UAW. Dan, you do remember spindistribute.com?
I have been looking for any reviews the last couple days… no luck so far about that service. It look like it went under the radar…
I think it’s time for me to try out their service. I want to see how good their syntaxed articles are.
Hey thanks Elbert, I meant to review that a long time ago, forgot the name.
FYI Free Traffic System was ineffective, didn’t even see any backlinks from it, review/slam coming shortly.
SpinDisitrubte has an outsourcing feature if I remember correctly, so it will be easy to test, just like Free Traffic System
“Scrapebox is buggy as hell”
Huh, you have to be kidding me? What the heck are you trying to do with it to get bugs?
I’ve owned it for 3 weeks, use it daily and in fact if my PC is turned on guaranteed Scrapebox is running in my tray.
The only problems i have ever had are my own fault for doing something retarded/wrong. For example i had name@email <- no .com due to a copy/paste stuff up from a bulk email creator and all comments failed which is only natural Wordpress will refuse that even submitting by hand.
I will say something though, Scrapebox blows the doors off both LFE "and" Xrumer.. Yes it blows the doors off Xrumer in terms of a link building machine.
I have owned Xrumer since back in the 3.0 days, with it i submit to a 1 million linklist and get maybe 5k Yahoo backlinks 10k tops. With Scrapebox i done a 120k linklist and got 17,400 and "still" rising by the day.
Pound for Pound, Dollar for Dollar the Scrapebox knocks Xrumer out of the park.
I own all the tools from Bookmark Deamon/Wiz, Autopligg, Xrumer, LFE, UWCS, UAW, all the Incansoft bots, Friendblaster Pro, SEOLink Pro.. Shoot you name it i bought it and put it through the ringer.
If i had to pick one = Scrapebox.
But hey if you think it's buggy that's cool, the less people who own Scrapebox the better for me lol.
I'm out, nice blog too BTW.
Hi Steve, thanks, just trying to do usual stuff like scrape and comment, I had owner work me through some things, told me it worked perfectly fine, said I wasn’t using it right.
So, I transferred the license and use of SB to another person more patient and technically proficient than I am (not that you had to be technical to work with SB, but it’s not intuitive that’s for sure) and even he says its buggy as hell. But the software can do fantastic things like that ASP loophole thing at least until it gets patched up.
Yes, I do think it’s buggy and/or hard to work with, UWCS worked in very much the same way, but did what it was supposed to do when it was supposed to do it, but doesn’t do it as well as ScrapeBox reputedly can do things.
Disagree with you on SB versus Xrumer, since SB doesn’t create forum profiles and then spam a bunch of forums.
SB ‘s a good tool, thanks for stopping by,
Dan
No problem i found your site looking for something entirely different and when i saw you mention the Scrapebox was buggy i though huh!
As for Xrumer, well it costs 500 bucks, you really need a dedi box with unlimited bandwidth because it’s extremely innefficient and sucks down GB’s like nobodies business so toss on another $200mth for that.
$700 to get your foot in the door, then $2,400 running costs for the first year.
You blast a 1 Million link list, and what do you get? A couple of K backlinks in Yahoo.
Now the Scrapebox, $47 one time and you run it on your desktop and you get three times as many links with a link list a fraction of the size and it’s far more efficient.
So i dont know about your bugs, i am following two forums sales threads for it (100′s of replies on both) and nobody has a bad word to say about it. People are urging the author to raise the price, others have said it knocks Xrumer out of the park as well.
I would post on one of these thread (Warriors or BHW) with your problems i see the author fixes any issues bought up within hours not days. For example…
http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-special-offers-forum/133365-scrapebox-thousands-links-click-button-mass-blog-comment-rss-blogengine-support-4.html#post1432154
Someone mentioned Commentluv was not working, 2 hours later bam new version uploaded and its fixed.
Your experience with this tool seems to be opposite to the hundreds i have read. It could be your computer or something im no expert, but i would for sure seek out one of the sales threads and post about it because your seriously missing out.
Stevie, thanks for the update. I had my tech guy download a new version and was able to transfer license over and new downloadable version had issues. I’ll ask him about it again, but all I can say if that when I DID get it work somehow…magically…it worked well and posted my comments and got some networking going with some people I otherwise would not have been exposed to, nor they me…
About Xrumer et al… yeah, it costs quite a bit to be a link spammer, and a lot of effort goes into getting low-quality links, which at some point will get totally devalued, according to some SEOMOZ and SEORoundtable articles I’ve read.
Scrapebox is incredible.Totally agree with what Stevie Wonders said. The updates are extremely frequent, the support is top notch (needed to reactivate my license, got it in like 3 minutes after the email). It’s fantastic. The price is too damn low too. Your tech guy is probably making excuses to slack off, lol. And why do you people forget that LFE can spam pligg sites? Can’t say that it does it really well, but hey, that’s still a great bonus. The overall diversity and flexibilty are awesome. lots of WPMU hosts out there, blogs get indexed fairly quickly too. And Xrumer.. It’s an insanely powerful tool. When used right. You just can’t get to nr1 in Google in a short amount of time with something Like UAW
Yup, I have no issues with Scrapebox, tech guy’s “issues” weren’t really bugs, just his PC resources got overwhelmed hwen running SE Nuke and ScrapeBox at same time.
LFe’s latest version is terrible, but 1.8.1 is better and I have 1800 blog network going now with this.
What drives me nuts is you gotta create 500 blogs to get 250
Then of the 250, only XX% successfully post content
Sometimes LFE erroneuosly reports that the WPMUs have rpc turned off and it doesn’t.
I’m doing some xrumer blasts now, and I have to say is… if you have nothing to hide and you’re not doing anything sketchy seo-wise, then you shouldn’t need to hide behind proxies.
A lot of people don’t realize the once you do xrumer blasts, you need to do more work after that to make sure those links stick, or you can just do all that blasting to get 5% to stick right away, then o fthat 5% only a certain # will not get deleted and of that remaining % only a certain amount will get indexed and provide value.
No need to worry about that with UAW though.
UAW can and will get you to #1 if you do things properly, like using their option fo r27 resources boxes in your articles to continually get links to all the spoke of your link wheels.
I just want to pose a simple question that troubled my mind as I was reading thru your post and comments.
The fact that your affiliate link to ACW is all over your post and a link for LFE is nowhere to be found, should not be taken as something that affects the credibility of the review and consequently of all your opinions regarding this issue?
I personally think there are better ways to promote something then to put the competition down. Eventually your readers may search for further info, finding out that in the end the “poor competitor” is in fact the stronger.
I know and use both. One works better than the other.
When doing comparisons the better product is going to outshine the lesser product.
My aff link for UAW is all over the place due to using a plugin that hyperlinks certain KWs 100% of the time.
LFE takes forever to do pliggs, create blogs and post to them, and if you linkwheel them you’ll get your whole network de-indexed. That’s not gonna happen with UAW
My bad, above should read UAW instead of ACW.
Great Blog, just came over from warrior’s, reading about LFE. Daniel seems to know what he’s saying, now i am very eager to try out UAW.
And i agree….ScrapeBox is fantastic!! But be careful with pings and TBs. But its so flexible…uses for it are endless.
Georg.
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Hey Georg(e)
Welcome aboard. LFE networks require a lot of maintenance because they periodically get deleted and De-indexed and also have longer-reaching effects on the sites they’re linking to, as well (getting them de-indexed, too)
Hey Daniel, I just got the scrapebox, I’m not sure how to make the best out of it. Do you use it to build links directly to your money site? In the last few days I just used it build links to those web2.0 and ezinearticles. How do you use it to maximum it’s power?
Thanks.
James, building links to Web 2.0 properties is helpful for sure.
I’ve used it for money pages and Web 2.0 properties, but you have to ask…
Are you building links to Web 2.0 properties to get them to rank well on their own or just to give them a little more link juice?
The answer to that helps define your strategy and how you should use Scrapebox
Hey Dan..
Great blog by the way. I don’t know of too many (well any) blogs that review link building services with someone who actually uses the services. I found you looking for a review of link vana..
Anyway to the point. Just wondering if you are familiar with, or have wrote about this (backlinkspro.com) particular link building service, or if you would be willing to use it as an experiment in the future? I don’t know much about it…
BackLinksPro.com
http://www.blacklinkspro.com/
I also want to know if you have completed your experiment with Xrumer? I think I read one of your posts that mentioned you just started using it and will post the results when finished..
I could be completely wrong about the Xrumer thing however – lol. Also, with most of these link services (UAW, etc) how are they developing them?
How do they get sites and blogs to participate? It must take a lot of work and I am sure they are not using LFE to develop their network of sites – or are they?
Thanks for a very useful blog. You have helped shed some light on some of the link building services I had thought about joining but have eliminated due to your reviews..
Robert C – The Wholesale Products Guy
Robert, thanks for stopping by, I took a look at the BlacklinksPro, it’s an automated reciprocal link generating tool, yet sales letter says you get tons of ONE-WAY links, which sounds to me like purposeful misleading of noobs there. There’s also some free scripts that do the (same) main thing that BL Pro does, which is searches for relevant link partners and emails them, but that free script doesn’t have all the bells and whistles that BL Pro does. but BL Pro is still a reciprocal link tool, no matter what sales letter says.
Manually, you could accomplish this by blog commenting, but wouldn’t be as effective, and why would someone ranking #1 for term Jamaican recipes for ex. want to exchange links? and why would anyone want to trade down to exchange links with lower-ranked sites for that term. Recip links do work still, but for 197 dollars, there’s better ways to do this.
Also, if you use this tool for getting recip links for every optimized url on your sites, then you’d have a messy site which links OUT to other sites on similar topic urls, if you give recip links form relevant pages ranked for same term, which is really how recip links work best. The free blogtrafficexchange plugin could do pretty much same thing as well as some other similar plugins. This url here shows another similar plugin in development
Xrumer experiment is completed, those links work if you keep a good amount of them indexed, and don’t rely solely on them for all your links (think inbound link diversity)
UAW is unique in that they constantly harvest list of article directories that you can post your content to, albeit real minor directories, but they also expand their network by giving away their free UAW plugin. Downloaders and users of the UAW plugin opt to receive targeted article son a category and tags basis, so they only receive articles relevant to those tags and categories.
Other blog networks use similar tactics, free scripts or interfaces to allow people to accept and hopefully publish free articles. These articles are created by the paid members of these services, and syndicated by other paying and non-paying members.
Thanks for the extensive reply. I have never had anyone really answer the “how to these services work” question. Your reply was more then sufficient..
Just read your review of Xrumer and most of what my suspicions and doubts about the software was reflected in your critique.
The expense of the software and getting a “dedi” is not worth the price. There are cheaper link building software programs out there. Scrape box is one that comes to mind..
Stickiness of links is another issue with Xrumer. Agreed that most forums are well aware of XR and your efforts can be de-indexed over time.
Overall though, I think that if you can afford it and use if responsibly, it is a great tool to have in your link building arsenal.
Anyway, thanks again for your response. I signed up for your newsletter and look forward to future “musings” about link building services..
Regards..
Robert C – The Wholesale Products Guy
My main issues with UAW are threefold.
Firstly, it’s very “clunky”. An eniterly web based system that is often slow and unwieldy. An interface that seems very dated in terms of presentation and process.
Secondly, the spinning method really is very poor. I can write a 500 word article in about 20 minutes, but I find the re-writing required for UAW takes so much longer. I have a licence for Best Spinner and have introduced hundreds of my own niche related synonyms, this gives me excellent results with other distribution services (myarticle network for one) with so much less time spent on preparation than is required with UAW.
Finally, and most importantly. You mention “a lot of junk sites”. All i’ve seen is junk sites. 100% junk. I submitted over 20 articles in a two month period. (average about 1000 subs per article) Checked my backlinks several weeks later and not a single link from anything higher than PR2 – and very few of them were as high as PR2.
45% PR0, 54% PR1 and a fraction of a percent from decent sites. None of the “big” sites (Zine, Alley, Go etc) are included, and given I end up getting 500 site visits a year average from just 1 average Ezine article alone (6000 views at around 8% CTR per annum) then this is a big omission.
We’d all like to buy 100 aged domains set up on dozens of varied hosts and have tools to set up dozens of WEB2.0 sites, and together make our own huge, powerful link farm. Most can’t afford this, but if UAW is the best alternative with it’s 1990′s interface and mass of junk sites (the vast majority of which I’m convinced where made by UAW themselves to dump our work in) then there is a bih hole in the market that someone should fill.
Write an article 3 times for one benefit? Nope, not me.
I disagree with you on this one, agree with you on your Xrumer comment, in semi-agreement with your Linx boss ocmment.
Fact is, UAW works for me, and I know it’s working for others, too on a large basis. Since I know how best to make it work, or know pretty well how to make it work, I check UAWs affiliate center to see if my educational selling was benefiting people to the point whereby retention rates for those members was good or better than before.
To date, UAW still remains the program with the highest retention rate for members so it mus be oding those people some good.
I still use it every month to make sure my recommendation is still valid.
It is…
Recommending against something due to a dislike of its interface; not valid reason to recommend against a service, especially when you should be outsourcing that anyway
I do not think UAW is worth the sub. 90% of the sites are all cheap autoblogs that the domains may not even get renewed. Personally I would go with LFE over UAW for the simple fact that I would have control over a network. I will admit that I did get results from UAW but nothing super special.
I think UAW is a good choice for those who want something fairly simple, but it still takes at the least a half hour to prep an article for submission.
I have however found a tool that pretty much combines features of both for a one time payment of $80 or something like that. scheduled article submissions, includes high PR sites, detailed reports with the actual URL of your articles and you can even log into your accounts from the program and add other directories and wp sites. oh yeah, it successfully submits to about 600 sites. Article Marketing Robot. You should give it a shot if you like UAW.
I like your blog by the by the way, will have to poke around a bit more more.
I think I get the idea behind UAW now.
It’s for second tier linking. Spinning your resource box multiple times with hundreds of your good links getting maybe 1 or 2 lower tier links to them a day. Ideal if done very slowly., So A link is found over and over again over a very long period of time and stays “fresh”.
I don’t have the cash to outsource this yet – but may well return to it when I do. In the mean time, the whole writing an article three times (and then getting really frustrating with the interface trying to get the paragraphs to match, and it giving HTML errors, then deciding 10 minutes later your anchor text is fine) is not something I have the patience to do myself.
1 500 word article = 10 minutes.
Three, where they all have to match up paragraph by paragraph = an hour and a half.
Putting it all into UAW, another 30 minutes.
I could have written 12 unique articles in that time (I use speech to text)
interesting review. can you explain the “9/8/2010″ update? Why is Link Farm Evolution no longer effective for anything other than indexing? What about it changed in September?
It was around that time that we noticed 2 things
1- It become much, much more difficult to create a WPMU and not have it get deleted, even with good content going on there
2- At around the same time we noticed these links didn’t pack much of a punch, didn’t provide much juice
Due to those 2 reasons given above we decided to like LFE sites as an indexing network by link dropping urls onto our pre-existing network. Not me who did that actually, but someone way mor eknwoledgeable than I with these kinds of tools created that
I was always wondering about UAW. They say they have over 10,000 directories but what does that really mean? It could be that after you subtract all the no-follow links, dead sites and sites with 0 PR that submitting to a directory of 10,000 mediocre sites may be just as valuable as submitting to the top 10 articles directories with PR more than 5. What do you think?
I spend a lot of time on the SEO Moz and they say that using article submission programs is a form of spamming and will hurt your rankings in the long run. I love using my article submitter, as it saves tons of time, I just hate to stop using it because it a form of spam that I wasn’t aware of. What are your thoughts on this?
Dorian, 10k network doesn’t mean 10k sites linking to you, the most amount of sites I’ve been able to submit to has been 1800 sites, and no, that didn’t result in 1800 backlinks, but did help with rankings and traffic increases.
I can’t help with with that SEO Moz is telling you, sorry, I don’t listen to nor read anything they have to offer
Can I just say LFE is still working. It takes a few weeks to chug into gear – but it works very well with unspun content.
Also love this comment;
“I can’t help with with that SEO Moz is telling you, sorry, I don’t listen to nor read anything they have to offer”
While do read some of their stuff, I’m never pleasently surprised, they are still the self righteous over chargers. (BOY do they condone massive charges for minimal results).
I’ll add that 50% of my B&M clients previously had SEO and traffic gen done for them by “MOZ” style experts. Typical would be £750 (over $1000) per month for…well very little indeed.
A typical example of first month would be a mass directory submit, an RSS submit and maybe 20 posts on blogs and forums. Perhaps 90 minutes manual work…for a grand. (or three things you could get done on fiverr for 15 dollars)
MOZ is a school for sharks masquerading as “Google friendly – Look how legit we are”.
They might be pleasing Google but the ones I have experience off are ripping of their clients in a breathtaking manner.
Paul, stop holding back and tell us how you really feel!
MOZ method = using seomoz tools for link outreach and focus on branding?
MOS blog gives me ideas, but like everybody else I go there to confirm ideas that I have about certain things, and I don’t really learn anything new there