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Link Farm Evolution Review
Posted 11-25-2009 at 08:08 PM by Daniel McGonagle
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...
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).
You can go here to see the original Link Farm Evolution Review
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...
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).
You can go here to see the original Link Farm Evolution Review
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