Free backlink software, good idea or no?

[netguy12]

I have been looking around online and saw some backlink software that was free, are these good or no? and if so what do you recommend to start with?

[gyamasaki]

Never tried it personally. If you try it be sure to let me know

I usually pay for good backlinks :/

[alex jones]

There are no free software but only a bait to sell some thing else. Its better to avoid them.

[netguy12]

Originally Posted by alex jones

There are no free software but only a bait to sell some thing else. Its better to avoid them.

You mean its a bait to pay for the software?

[bloghog]

Actually I have never heard of a free backlink software although I am using a software that is not free but if you found one for free then there's not a lot of risk involved.

make sure to let everyone know how it works if you give it a try

[londonwarrior]

I could be wrong, but if it's free I can't see how it would be any good. It takes a lot of work to build good link building software, so why would someone give it away for free?

[SEOLIX]

You have to name it! There could be a few good free/trial software. Name it and we'll tell you if it's good

[netguy12]

Originally Posted by londonwarrior

I could be wrong, but if it's free I can't see how it would be any good. It takes a lot of work to build good link building software, so why would someone give it away for free?

Oh I was just saying I found some online and curious if anyone has tried free one's, I guess not haha.

Ok so clearly there are good ones that people pay for, any recommendations? Im a total newb here, sorry man haha.

[Matthias Waldkircher]

Don't waste your time for free backlink software, 99% they won't bring you any results and in 1% only small ones so it's a complete waste of time.
And yes nobody gives good stuff away for free..

[DavidWincent]

It must be trial version of the software but I doubt if there are any free software's in the market. You please name the software. It is better to avoid such software's as they aim to sell something else.

[Matthias Waldkircher]

Yeah would be good if you'd mention the tool you're talking about. Is it really free or only some free crack for a paid one? Be aware of viruses that come with such tools and always scan it!

[Webkingseo]

I don't think that any free software will be helpful.

[cooler1]

I think those type of software programs only create low quality links on whois type sites, so it's only good for getting your site indexed, it won't have an effect on improving your rankings.

[Joel33020]

I can't see anything free to do with backlinking being any good.

[tryinghard]

I personally use scrapebox because its cheap and handy. most free softwares have limits.

[cooler1]

Originally Posted by Daniel Wilson

It is hard to tell of the results when you're doing so many different things on the SEO.

Anyway you're probably thinking of social monkee. There are a few threads about it so do your research but I don't believe there was any big effect.

Social monkee isn't software, it's an online service.

[whadu]

Try to find a good Pligg site with a high PR and capitalize.

[revenue4u]

Backlinks from free software are likely to be posted to link farm sites. Why risk the damage to your business site? The emphasis nowadays is on quality, not quantity. Try Google Plus pages (new), Facebook business pages or Squidoo Lens instead.

[cooler1]

Originally Posted by wegenbelasting

I totally agree with you, I tried magicsubmitter, seolinkrobot, article marketing robot, scrapebox autopostings and all of these offer 0 value, they harm more then they do good (as in how much it can harm obv) spending a lot of time on these "full automatic" softwares is also harmfull when the results are 0 cause it eats your valuable time, you only live once. The thing is with these links is that they never get indexed, and when you start to backlink your backlinks they might get indexed but after a while Google will de-index them again so its a temporarily solution (or in other words just a waste of time).

Only thing they are good for is getting your site indexed and positioning yourself in the rankings based on the content you are offering.

You can do a lot of things yourself for free that WILL work, think of:

- Youtube video with link back to your site
- Free press releases
- Relevant blogcomments on pages with a high Pagerank
- Making a facebook fanpage to link back
- Twitter
- Submit your articles to the TOP3 article directorys (again it makes no sense to submit your article to 1000's of directory's cause they simply won't get indexed often enough)

Paid services you should think of private blog networks, they are relatively expensive but they DO work.

Final note: 20 PR3+ backlinks are better then 5000+ crappy backlinks. I used one of my websites as a testing platform for automatic/cheap linkbuilding technique's and over the last 9 months that the website is live I probably build around 4000-5000 links to it, if not more. You know how many links are indexed today according to yahoo site explorer? Don't get scared, only 57 links, and most of these 57 are PRn/a so they still contribute close to nothing.

Thats a 1% index rate thanks to the great SEOLinkRobot / MagicSubmitter / ArticleMarketingRobot. I haven't tested SENuke but I wouldn't expect any difference from that one. Btw 50% of these links that are indexed I placed manually at blogs and web2.0's.

Those services you mentioned are paid software, not free.

I haven't heard of AMR doing more harm than good. Why would Google deindex article directory links?

I've found the index rate with AMR to be low also, but a lot of people have had success with it so they obviously have a strategy in place that people who aren't getting success with it are not doing.

[sprice]

Originally Posted by wegenbelasting

I totally agree with you, I tried magicsubmitter, seolinkrobot, article marketing robot, scrapebox autopostings and all of these offer 0 value, they harm more then they do good (as in how much it can harm obv) spending a lot of time on these "full automatic" softwares is also harmfull when the results are 0 cause it eats your valuable time, you only live once. The thing is with these links is that they never get indexed, and when you start to backlink your backlinks they might get indexed but after a while Google will de-index them again so its a temporarily solution (or in other words just a waste of time).

Only thing they are good for is getting your site indexed and positioning yourself in the rankings based on the content you are offering.

You can do a lot of things yourself for free that WILL work, think of:

- Youtube video with link back to your site
- Free press releases
- Relevant blogcomments on pages with a high Pagerank
- Making a facebook fanpage to link back
- Twitter
- Submit your articles to the TOP3 article directorys (again it makes no sense to submit your article to 1000's of directory's cause they simply won't get indexed often enough)

Paid services you should think of private blog networks, they are relatively expensive but they DO work.

Final note: 20 PR3+ backlinks are better then 5000+ crappy backlinks. I used one of my websites as a testing platform for automatic/cheap linkbuilding technique's and over the last 9 months that the website is live I probably build around 4000-5000 links to it, if not more. You know how many links are indexed today according to yahoo site explorer? Don't get scared, only 57 links, and most of these 57 are PRn/a so they still contribute close to nothing.

Thats a 1% index rate thanks to the great SEOLinkRobot / MagicSubmitter / ArticleMarketingRobot. I haven't tested SENuke but I wouldn't expect any difference from that one. Btw 50% of these links that are indexed I placed manually at blogs and web2.0's.

You're doing it all wrong. These paid software programs work, you just have to master them and know how to use them properly.