I got notified by a reader of this blog asking for a Linx Boss review, and after some some careful consideration, I’ve decided to move forward with doing a review.
Linx Boss First impression: another one of those automated link building services that never really pan out.
Then I read the sales letter,which emphasizes what a lot of people buying into link building services need to know:
- Backlinks don’t mean squat if your on-page SEO is terrible
- Backlinks that lead to higher rankings don’t always mean you did your keyword research properly
- Higher rankings doesn’t always mean your sites make more money, conversions are your responsibility
Then I watched their video, which basically tells you everything their service does and not to expect miracles, even though this is a 100% automated link building solution
Then I spoke to the co-owner Tommy for close to an hour on the telephone
Tommy’s a link building SEO “geek” like me. He’s into it and loves the constant learning and tweaking needed to stay on top of the ever-present changes in SEO. After our talk I was impressed with what I learned from the phone conversation, and there’s a lot more going on behind the scenes than you think, or could glean form their sales letter.
How does Linx Boss work and what do you get? (Pro SEOs listen up here!!)
What you do:
- You enter in your list of domains
- Enter in your anchor text variances (ex. 3 main kws for a main domain url)
- Wait, watch and use their tracking software to see your results improving
- No writing whatsoever, no spinning, no articles to syndicate nothing
What you get:
- 1000 one way DoFollow backlinks a month
- Maximum 5 urls a month get these links (for best results and best practice)
- You can change urls getting the links later on (after, of course, you see desired results with previous urls being worked on)
- Tracking software that takes BEFORE snapshots (SERPs rankings for those URLS at beginning of campaigns) then updated results periodically
Things to consider before getting Linx Boss:
You (only) get to use this service to get backlinks to 5 domains, and you “only” get 1000 backlinks a month.
The 1k backlinks are divided up by getting 200 backlinks to 5 different domain urls, preferably on 5 different domains. The reason for this stipulation is that the link velocity wants to appear as natural as possible and these backlinks WILL get seen and be credited as active backlinks.
So, if you domain name url is 1 year old and has 1200 backlinks to it, that’s 100 backlinks a month on average. Increasing this link velocity to double it’s pace is as aggressive as you want to get if your link numbers were something like that.
Point being, LinxBoss is curtailing how many links you can get per domain for your sake, in the interest of helping you maintain a somewhat natural inbound link velocity.
Linx Boss compared to Backlink Solutions
- Linx Boss works much like Backlink Solutions does, but has a much wider reach due to having a much larger network of sites, which translates into generating a lot more linking power to your sites.
- Linx Boss is dedicated to getting hordes of links to a minimal amount of urls, whereas BLS allows you to build links to inner pages and posts.
- BLS requires that you spend time writing snippets and spinning them, Linxboss requires no writing whatsoever
- Both services have networks of decent Page Rank-ed sites with good/decent inbound link profiles
- Linx Boss is $127.00/month, BLS is $97.00/month (when it’s open to new members)
BOTH services promote the promoters
What makes Backlink Solutions so powerful is it does it’s self-named Gen-X linking, which builds links to your sites and to the sites linking to you every time posts are made. LinxBoss does this, too
NOTE: Linx Boss has a new feature coming out soon that will address it’s one main drawback of only being useful for getting links to max of 5 urls/month
Linx Boss test results:
Site 1 – Main domain got links for its 3 main keywords
Position before using LinxBoss
KW/URL #1>> Page 1, #9 (very competitive term)
5 days later, #3 !!
KW/URL #2 >> Page 1, #5 (competitive)
5 days later, #5
KW/URL #3 >> Page 1 # 7 (competitive)
5 days later, #3 !!
Site 2
Position before using LinxBoss
KW/URL #1 >> Page 1, # 9
5 days later,, #9
KW/URL #2 >> Page 2, #11 overall
5 days late, #11
KW/URL #3 >>Page 2, #11 overall
5 days later, #19
Site 3
KW1/URL #1 Page 3
5 days later, Page 1, #8
KW/URL #2 Page 2
5 days later, Page 2
KW/URL #3, Page 4
Has a TAG Page 1, #4
Site 4
The list goes on and on and it’s really too much work for me to depict every url i’ve ever tested and with what service was used to boost that url in the rankings.
Linx Boss is recommended, plain and simple
NOTE: As you can see we’re not finished testing yet, and improvements are slow to appear, but Tommy said they’re gonna close this down for good or at least for a very long time very soon, and they do NOT offer refunds.
Test drive it here and see what happens, that’s the best advice I can give right now, and you can also read the comments/reviews in the comments below, too
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Dear Daniel
I submit to Lixboss one month ago after reading your recommendation.
After reading LinxBoss Review I think to stop using LinxBoss service, before I do it please let me know what do you think about this review
Thanks
Esty
Let the results and feedback from actual users be the determining factors. Read feedback here, on this LinxBoss post from multiple users. If it didn’t work I wouldn’t be recommending it
I cannot say enough about how good linxboss has been for me. I’ve tested for longer than a month.. muuuch longer and my results are consistently great.
I think the person who wrote the review you linked to concerned himself with the quality of the sites in the network and the low numbers of links Yahoo reports and decided it was not for him.
I too was not at first happy with the fact most sites in linxboss seem to be nothing more than low PR autoblogs which post duplicate content.
But the results speak for themselves and there are many common sense theories as to why such a network can still be of great SEO value even with duplicate content.
Right, but the $147.00/month nut tends to put pressure on people mentally so they don’t have much patience with services like that. I never thought BLS would be good due to its small sized network, but it worked gangbusters in its heyday, so go figure. I would have left a link to that other review had I thought there was validity to their assessment, but I’ve had 15 domains running for months now and it works well, is admittedly hit or miss sometimes, but I am still rotating new sites in periodically… and am not bothering with L4L at all….
Does L4L even do anything? I just started to put a few links to other blog posts I was using from another network. I figured it couldn’t hurt, but entering those in manually sucks.
They’re going to implement a mass imports feature for that sometime soon.
Ahh man the link no longer works lol.
Hey Daniel,
Just wondering if you still recommend the LinxBoss service as of December 2010. If so, I’m pretty sure I’ll be investing. I read a comment of yours from a month or two back saying that it was getting hit or miss with LB. Just wondering what you think now. Thanks.
- Pat
I’m the same anon as above, not sure if my opinion counts, but I’m still with linxboss and I still think they’re great.
Haha, yes your opinion counts very much, Anon. Thanks for the reply. I’ve read several of your earlier comments on this page and it sounds like you’ve had some good results with the program. I’ve currently got a website ranked #13 for its main keyword and I need to push it up to the top. My competitor in position #1 has a good number more links than me, but I’d say at least 50% of his links come from just 2 websites. Shouldn’t be too hard to beat him.
My other website is a VERY large site that I’m hoping to send some authority to. Hopefully LB can help me with both of my sites.
Thanks again for the reply. I think I’ll take the plunge sometime in the next couple days assuming LB is still open.
- Pat
Hi Pat,
If you’re already at 13 before linxboss, I think over a few months you’ll definately see a top 10. For me, before linxboss I was always getting top 10, maybe 4, but it never lasted and never got number 1, after linxboss… it took time, but my rankings finaly breached top 3 and several of my sites now have number 1 and have stayed there for months, so I’m very pleased.
Not sure about your VERY large site, would be interesting to see the results there, I’m on the verge of adding a VERY large site of my own.
Also I’m not sure if it would appeal, but in about a week or 2 I plan to upgrade and get another 5 slots. I rent some of my slots to offset costs and charge $40 a month per slot. Got 3 people with me at the moment who have been with me for quite some time now. Perhaps you’d be interested in renting a slot or 2 from me and then if you like the results you could go get a full account yourself.
I can’t do it right now because, but when I get the extra 5 slots I’ll have room for you if you wanted.
Email me at sloth at slothftw dot com if you’re interested.
Is the basic LinxBoss account limited to 5 sites plus sub pages per each site OR 5 urls in total. I’ve watched their demo video. It seems they’re using the terms “site” “domain” and “url” very loosely in their backend interface. At one point the person doing the demo implies that your can have unlimited sub pages per website, but again, I found it very unclear.
You can promote 5 domains in a basic account. Each domain is entitled to a total of 200 links a month.
Those 200 links can be spread between an unlimited number of pages under each domain. Obviously you don’t really want to add that many pages per domain otherwise no single page wil get that many links.
Hi Dan,
I am considering using this for a new client’s SEO campaign.
Are these links permanent? Will they disappear once you cancel like 1 way links does? Thanks for all the work you put in with the reviews!
The links are permanent as are 1 waylinks links, maybe you’re thinking of 3waylinks, those links aren’t permanent
I’ve tried LinxBoss for the last 5 months. I’m not new to this industry, having built my first website back in 1994 and doing SEO/SEM since 2000. I decided to outsource some work because I was so busy.
After the first couple of months I was suspicious that they weren’t actually building many, if any links. In the end I tested them on a new site where I had them building deep links and I purposely only built index page links. Two months later – guess what. No backlink checker can find any deep links, but there are plenty of index page backlinks showing.
Of course, for some reason they’re “prohibited from providing information” on the links they’ve supposedly created. How convenient. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY.
Backlink checkers all rely on places like Yahoo to provide the data, yet many links will not show up in Yahoo.
Linxboss uses duplicate content and I wouldn’t be surprised if may of their pages don’t even get indexed, however I am positive they are being crawled which is all that matters, as long as Google crawls and finds your link, it counts, the page that the link is on does not have to be indexed.
I honestly don’t think linxboss is scamming us because I’ve had really good results with them.
Hi Dand & testimoniers, happy to see the pro & contra of Linxboss here. Honestly, I found many tools on the market and they make me confusing. Daniel said this tool is good then others said, it suck. Personally I use UAW for my daily submission. Take time! yes of using UAW.
Has anyone actually COUNTED how many links they’re getting per month? LinxBoss might say “you get 200 links/month per domain”, but if you actually go and check the links for that domain, the results are TOTALLY different.
I’m guessing since their content is spinned/duplicate rubbish, the posts are hardly getting indexed. So right now, after almost 2 months of being a member, I count about 10 links in total.
I have no idea how can people say “IT WORKS”, or how on Earth this is on Dan’s #1 list of recommended services.
Yahoo, is the best place to check link counts, however even when you use their service you will indeed see very few links.
I laugh when I see that my sites which all rank number 1 (because of Linxboss) only appear to have about 90 links according to Yahoo. It must frustrate the sh*t out of my competitors to see I’m outranking them with what seems like no links.
I do imagine that the duplicate content has something to do with Yahoo not showing them as links, but that doesn’t mean they are not passing juice. As long as you pick semi hard keywords, do good onsite optimisation and use linxboss for about 4 months you’ll easily make top 10.
Because of linxboss I am now earning a lot more from my sites.
“Anon” or LinxBoss? I got suckered into this program. I recognized almost immediately that the links were not being built. I was stupid enough to fall for this type of reply. After 5 months this program had absolutely zero positive effect on any of my sites.
I repeat, don’t waste your money.
Just anon, I don’t like to giveaway a name on the web. I know I sound positive, its just I’ve had good results and I’m defending them because of that.
Can you tell how old were the sites that you used LinxBoss on? I’m guessing they were all established, 1-2 years old websites?
It seems that everyone who says they had success with LinxBoss, they used it on more or less OLD websites, not 2-3 months old.
The first site I used had been around for about 2 years, it got number 1. The second had been around 2 to 3 years that also got number one. I used 2 brand new domains also, they also both got number one however they were also exact match keyword domains.
I’m also based in the UK and rank on Google.co.uk which in some people’s opinions is easier than google.com, I wouldn’t know as I’ve never really tried going for google.com
I had one guy who rented a slot from me with a new domain, he was trying to rank for ‘feng shui’ on google.com which I thought was a little competitive. He first appeared in position 80 June 2010 and broke into 2nd page by October (5 months) and finally broke into first page early February 2011, but only position 9 (thats 8 months and a half since start). As far as I’m aware he used linxboss almost exclusively. Bare in mind this keyword is much more competitive than I would normally target myself. I suggested after he was on second page that he needed a good boost and could do with some Xrumer profile links or a good article submission (done right). He never took my advice, I think he really would have benefited from that one extra push. This keyword has 301,000 exact searches every month in America according to Google’s traffic estimator.
We’ve tried the service for a full two months, can’t see a single backlink increase on any of the sites. They give you no reporting – at all. Even if the sites go up in page rank, can you really attribute that to their services? What about the other aggressive SEO activities that are separate from Linxboss? If you are paying for backlinks, shouldn’t you actually see some back link increases? Don’t know, considering our membership. Anyone have a different experience?
Yea – I have to agree with this.
I used to be a HUGE advocate of this service – it was one of my secret weapons. I was getting ranked for some pretty huge keyphrases with it…..but recently it’s a different story.
After the google update recently a lot of the sites I was using it on dropped quite a bit, and I can’t seem to get them back up unless I use another link building method on them.
I’m guessing it’s due to the duplicate content stuff that affected nearly every site that relied heavily on dupe content. That’s my guess. I no longer use them for my clients or myself, sad to say. Hopefully they clean stuff up instead of the scraping stuff they do now.
Got a letter from LinxBoss about a new overhaul of their service.
“We have hired a team of full time, US based, article writers to grow our content. This will create two very significant upgrades to the system. Every piece of content will be unique and a better match to your site.”
It sounds good, but I’m a little worried about how this will be implemented. I hope they don’t turn into another Linkvana.
Well they haven’t hinted at us having to pay more for the unique content, just that its an upgrade so I’m assuming we’ll getting this as part of our current subscription. I hope so anyway.
That’s correct, there’s no added charge, just a different way of populating the network with content, and DON’T QUOTE ME ON THIS, but the link drop tags might be replaced with contextual links
Quick question. On the five URLs you choose at the beginning, can you select one site more than once or do they all have to be separate?
Just seems a bit restrictive that you’re only going to be able to pump links to 3 or 4 internal pages on a site. I’d much prefer to be able to pump links to 10-20 internal pages on one of my best money sites.
Cheers,
Ed
You can have up to 5 domains to begin with. Each gets 200 links per month.
Within each of those 5 domains you can point the links to as many pages as you want, unlimited if you like, the 200 links per month get spread out between them.
If anyone has any more info on the effectiveness of the product since the Panda update, I’d be very interested to hear. Daniel, maybe you could ring Tom and ask him why we should be investing in a duplicate content platform when Google has just hit dupe sites with a sledgehammer?
Hi Daniel,
I like your site and your reviews.
I’d like to understand why you feel that it’s okay to link to your Whitehat Money sites with Linx Boss, while saying that you really shouldn’t do so with LFE type blogs. That seems like a contradiction to me? They seem like the same kind of sites. The only difference would be that the domains are owned by Link Boss and not set-up in “parasite” fashion.
Would you be willing to explain your rational for thinking this?
I’m not picking on you, I’m just wondering what your thought process is here.
Thanks,
Ryan
Ryan, thanks for the question, and I don’t feel picked on
LFE links get deleted at a high rate, causing negative link velocity if those links were credited, seen by the SEs, then removed/deleted.
LFE links work great with Bing right now by the way, however…when the links disappear so don’t the rankings, so your site that wa getting LFE links now has a very unstable ranking history and inbound link velocity history. Slow and steady wins the race with link building
Thank you, that makes sense.
You could probably be successful with LFE, if you immediately put up another blog and get it indexed when one gets taken down.
Ryan, I’ve been there done that… and it’s not wort hit to me to build non-stop temporary low quality links til end of days… and what if 1k LFE links isn’t good enough to rank a site, what then? Work at keeping 2000 LFE links indexed? Seems like a lot of energy and effort and a bit of a trap to put oneself in when there’s better ways to get permanent low quality links (automatically)
Hi Daniel
Do you still recommend LInxboss? I’m struggling to decide. I need to build links to new sites. What is your best recommendation for doing that?
Thanks
Ian
I’m gradually leaning towards “waste of money” with this service, especially in light of the new Google update. And this is “panic” talk because some of my sites got hit, it’s just a “rethinking” of what tools I should use. ROI-wise, Linxboss isn’t pulling it’s weight from what I can see.
I might give it another month or two, or perhaps just wait and see what Dan has to say about it — cause it’s not as impressive as it once was.
I have to say, some of my sites got hit and I wasn’t best pleased, one of them hasn’t recovered at all.
However, having said that I decided to put linxboss onto a MUCH bigger keyword then I normally would, about 30,000 exact searches a month and in a niche with a sale value anywhere between £200 to £18,000.
We’re not top page yet, but we’ve seen gradual improvement over the months from page 13 to page 3, the movement is slow and steady and I have high hopes for further improvement. I will update later on. I think I will probably need to utilize some other techniques to make the top 5.
This is for a google.co.uk ranking. The website is at least 10 years old and had a PR of 3 to begin with but only around 400 links according to Yahoo. Undoubtedly linxboss has made a big difference as no other SEO has been done.
LB is definitely for the “cash rich – time poor” brigade.
The improvements I had with my time with it were steady enough – they have been maintained, but they were also extremely slow in coming thorugh.
To link up my network through LB alone would cost me many thousands a month and the risk would be that I was only getting links from one method.
In other words, I would never use it as a “stand alone” solution anyway. I would never use any one product as a stand alone solution any more.
So given that it is very slow, quite costly and should not be used in isolation – it has a very small marketplace in which to work.
LinxBoss is a scam guys. I ran an experiment with a new domain, test domain with test anchor text and not one, NOT ONE, link showed up in either opensiteexplorer, Majestic SEO, or Yahoo. This guy collects your subscription money for a fancy SERP checker.
Either you only tested it for a couple weeks or they’ve jumped ship. When I had them on my sites I got plenty of links and great results.
FYI – this is not a service you try on new domains. Only worked well for me on older more established domains going after higher comp phrases.
The “secret” to using LB is to spread it out thin, use the 200 links/domain to get links to multiple long tail urls, raise those up in the SERPs after a month or so, then switch over to other inner urls on site, plus use another service that generates different types of links from different sources to get links to those same urls
Daniel,
I received an email from JP Schoeffel, a well know IMer. He’s promoting his “FreeTGen” which provides 15K backlinks per month. It looks promising. Could you please review the FreeTGen and compare it to Linxboss. I hesitate to join because it’s a bit expensive or maybe it not worth at all as compared to other backlink solutions.
I just checked one of my sites using majestic seo (bought the lowest priced subscription) and I got back 260 Linx boss links. Yahoo Site Explorer only reported 40 links, and Google only had about 80 of those links indexed.
I was a late adopter, but Majestic SEO is amazing.
Just make sure you verify the domains that you own so that they don’t count against your quota.
I do hope you will be re-testing some of these link building services post-Panda. I signed up for Linxboss on the strength of your recommendation but after a month, I’m dumping it.
Several comments mention the absymal quality of the links – pasted on to the end of a very short, unintelligible spun post on a splog. You mentioned Linxboss was improving their content but I haven’t seen any sign of that. I can’t believe such links would have any kind of longevity so I don’t feel confident investing further money in them.
I was attracted by the idea of getting backlinks on my backlinks – but L4L never worked, in spite of numerous emails to Linxboss (each time they apologised and promised to look into it – nothing happened).
I did see some improvement in traffic on my sites but it wasn’t “good” traffic – instead I got a surge of spam comments and my EPC (my sites are eBay-based) dropped through the floor. Seems like the links on these splogs are attracting the wrong kind of attention!
I agree with the last comment. You don’t want your link on a bad neighbourhood. You have no control, so you cannot delete those links if they hurt your rankings. This means you can say “bye bye” to your site and domain!
So you’re saying that anyone can employ negative SEO towards a competitor’s site(s)?
Correct me if I’m wrong, I don’t want to misinterpret your comment.
Thanks,
Dan
I dont believe in bad neighbourhood and stuff that much. But it is possible to destroy a competitor IMO. Send 100k xrumer forum post blast every day for 2 weeks. What do you think will happen?
Whether the guy will come back strong after the slap will be interesting.
Good point now we’re talking about bad velocity, but it’s still not going to keep the competition down for long.
If 100k links a day for 2 weeks straight kills their site, then their site wasn’t really much competition anyways, not unless your site was as weak as theirs, meaning new, small BLs portfolio etc…
lol its not going to do anything to the competition, if they have been through manual review before and or are high ranked it really doesnt matter worst that will happen is manual review of the site… or as some people call it the “google sand box”
http://linkvanareviews.com/backlink-excellence-review-results got site blasted to nowhere land for a few weeks, and the linking took place over course of several weeks, maybe even months…
http://linkvanareviews.com/monster-backlinks-test – blasted the fairly new url and the hordes of links did nothing, didn’t sandbox the site
Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn’t
Yes, Dan. During my tests with xrumer I noticed that it can screw up some newer sites for sure, older sites sometimes(and could comeback) and authority sites never.
Hey, good post. I am considering LinxBoss for my blog since Build My Rank just went down the tubes. I have read both bad AND good reviews of LinxBoss, so I am torn to decide to use it or not. I have heard that LinxBoss throws out a bunch of links at a time and that the content is spun. Can you comment?
I used to write good comments about LB all the time. But I think its definitely lost its power these days, I’ve just unsubscribed.
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