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Automatic Backlinks Too Good to be True

Fishy SEO Service

Now we all want to get to the top of the search engines, as it has been drilled into our brains, we must to have a successful web site.  However, I have found one service that just seems to make it a little too easy.  Automatic Backlinks promises to be an easy and automatic way to exchange links between sites.

The best way I have found to summarize this would be you have a large number of web sites, and they are all exchanging links to each other – but not exactly ever between each other.  One web site might link to another, but that doesn’t mean the “another” would link right back.  They would be linking to a different one. 

I don’t like it, and can’t recommend it.  It seems like a big link exchange web site, and that type of service has been frowned upon via the search engine overlords before.  You get more “link credit” to place more links on other people’s web sties depending on your Google PageRank.  That alone should be enough for Google to hate it right there. 

So stay clear of this one for right now, would be my best advice. 

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  • seoAddict
    So I actually took a bit of time and signed up for this to evaluate it (as any aspiring SEO pro should do). Here's what I found:

    1) The service does what it says it will do, and does it well.
    2) The linking (as far as I can tell) is multi-way, so that should keep Google happy.
    3) Customization is decent enough, you can filter topics and languages and also reject links you don't want.
    4)It's pretty nippy. I built up around 95 backlinks to one site (all PR2+ btw) in about 2 weeks.
    5) You can be picky and go for only high PR backlinks, but apparently those take longer as I've only received 2 PR5 links so far, but that's understandable I guess.

    There are a couple of downers too:

    1) You're limited to earning 100 backlinks without paying, after that it asks you for a $10/month subscription. To me it was a fair deal - but they don't give you much warning beforehand so don't be surprised!

    2) Still buggy! I had some trouble getting one of my Joomla sites to work and had to email support. To their credit, they responded pretty much instantly and fixed the issue literally within minutes.

    Conclusion:

    They seem to be the new kids on the block, and their take on link exchange is refreshing and certainly doesn't have the "coded in some guy's basement" feel that the other programs have. I'm certainly gonna keep using them, I just wonder whether they'll be able to restore other cynical SEOers faith in automated link building!
  • Angel-S
    How would they find out? You can't see the code or anything like that as far as I can tell.
  • @John: This kind of services work for a while until someone at google learns about them and starts penalizing all the sites that have a trace back to the service. I would use it only on disposable domains.
  • John
    The reason Google does not like this type of service is because they work. I will give it a try!
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