Link Farm Evolution vs. Unique Article Wizard

November 25, 2009 by Daniel McGonagle
Filed under: Link Farm Evolution 

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).

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Comments

23 Comments on Link Farm Evolution vs. Unique Article Wizard

  1. David on Wed, 25th Nov 2009 9:48 pm

    2. 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

  2. Anon on Wed, 25th Nov 2009 9:54 pm

    3. 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.

  3. Daniel McGonagle on Wed, 25th Nov 2009 10:02 pm

    4. 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”….

  4. Daniel McGonagle on Wed, 25th Nov 2009 10:17 pm

    5. 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

  5. David on Wed, 25th Nov 2009 10:53 pm

    6. 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.

  6. Troy on Wed, 25th Nov 2009 11:41 pm

    7. 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.
    Troy´s last blog ..Google Adsense Placement

  7. Daniel McGonagle on Wed, 25th Nov 2009 11:53 pm

    8. 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

  8. Daniel McGonagle on Thu, 26th Nov 2009 12:08 am

    9. 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.

  9. Elbert on Thu, 26th Nov 2009 12:53 am

    10. 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.

  10. Daniel McGonagle on Thu, 26th Nov 2009 12:57 am

    11. 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

  11. Stevie Wonders on Sat, 28th Nov 2009 4:44 pm

    12. “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.

  12. Daniel McGonagle on Sat, 28th Nov 2009 9:38 pm

    13. 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

  13. Stevie Wonders on Mon, 30th Nov 2009 10:51 pm

    14. 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.

  14. Daniel McGonagle on Mon, 30th Nov 2009 10:58 pm

    15. 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.

  15. CheStyle on Sat, 19th Dec 2009 1:10 pm

    16. 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

  16. Daniel McGonagle on Sat, 19th Dec 2009 3:31 pm

    17. 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.

  17. orion_pt on Thu, 24th Dec 2009 11:08 am

    18. 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.

  18. orion_pt on Thu, 24th Dec 2009 11:13 am

    19. My bad, above should read UAW instead of ACW.

  19. Daniel McGonagle on Thu, 24th Dec 2009 11:55 am

    20. 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

  20. Georg on Sun, 10th Jan 2010 12:48 pm

    21. 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.
    Georg´s last blog ..Scrapebox – Fantastic SEO Tool

  21. Daniel McGonagle on Sun, 10th Jan 2010 4:58 pm

    22. 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)

  22. james on Fri, 22nd Jan 2010 12:14 am

    23. 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.

  23. Daniel McGonagle on Fri, 22nd Jan 2010 10:16 am

    24. 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

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