Steve Diamond

Has anyone had a look at the new service that Chris Rempel is launching tonight at just after midnight PDT? Apparently it delivers thousands of URLs for well ranked blog pages that accept comments containing backlinks, and it delivers each list to just a few people.

Has anyone here been a beta tester or otherwise had pre-launch access? I'd appreciate some real-life commentary if possible.

In the meantime, I was looking for any affiliate offers with a decent bonus and didn't find many worth mentioning. In fact the only ones I could locate were these two:

• ActuallyRank Bonus
• ActuallyRank by Chris Rempel

Jamie Lewis

LOL!!!

I love this table especially..

Push-Button?
YES
USUALLY
YES
NO
NO
How Time Consuming?
Can Take Hours Each Day
Depends on Service. Some are 99% Passive.
99% Passive
Minutes per Day
Minutes per Day
Realistic ROI?
Very Small $$,
Very Small Results
Small - Med $$,
Small Results
Small $$,
Small Results
Big $$,
Big Results
Small - Med $$,
Big Results
Realistic Purpose
Boost Existing Backlinks

What a joke..

Steve Diamond

I guess I can conclude that you haven't used the service and don't know anything about its effectiveness.

Does anyone have a fact-based review?

Dexx

Chris has a proven record for delivering quality results (especially providing free training resources in the War Room)

His affiliate program is application-acceptance only, so you won't see the usually "spam fest" of Sniper sites being able to promote it.

In terms of the table quoted by Jamie, that's taken out of context, and was placed on the page in response to requests from pre-launch comments asking for a comparison chart.

~Dexx

PS - I plan to sign up for the service myself tomorrow - no I'm not an affiliate.

Steve Diamond

Thanks, Dexx. I agree about Chris's track record.

Maybe his beta testers just aren't ready to come out of the closet. I'm probably going to join and see for myself.

Dexx

Keep in mind there are only four beta testers and they were just selected last week -- depending on the keywords they went for etc. they might not have anything to report on as of yet.

In terms of usability of the software, Chris does walk you through the software in the video on the website, which helps quite a bit to see if it IS what you might be looking to use (vs an automated solution).

~Dexx

chris_surfrider

You'd be correct. I think Jamie still has hard feelings about some of the feedback we gave him on his 4-Figure PLR package a while back... what was it called, DigiBizPro?

Anyway, on to things that are actually important:

Well, we have about 200 members already as of 12:39 PST.

(I'll let some of them chime in)

Once we surpass 400 I need to carefully look at the numbers to make sure we don't go past our inventory limits. Depends on the blocks allotted to user-levels. Most are coming in at $69/mo. but there's quite a few accounts at 129 and 299, which eat up much more of the master DF list...

I think we can scale monthly inventory somewhat past we what we can currently do, but I'm not sure. I think the eventual member-cap will be in the range of 1000 or so, but that may be pushing it.

Also @ Dexx - got your email, dude, will get back to you asap

Cheers

-Chris

Focused Action

I am beginning to think we should have TWO different Product Review threads set up in the Warrior Forum.

1. Actual Users - clear, concise opinion (good or bad) based on actual use and results

2. Fantasy Reviews - totally made up reviews and opinions based on never using the products and filled with a bunch of followers posting "thanks dude, this is a scam"

Unfortunately, Forum 1 would be about 1/10th the size of Forum 2!!

gpower2

O.K. guys, here is something all of you could use.

Now, before I begin, I will say that I am both an affiliate and a paying member for ActuallyRank, HOWEVER, what I am going to do is a real case study of a site I created of my own specific process in which I have 10 pages (of 30+) that are already ranking on page #1 of Google.

I will build backlinks using ActuallyRank exclusively to the remaining pages and post my results here.

The website in question is: Feminine Tattoos

I will also be sharing this case study with my lists and forum members for complete transparency.

I am confident that based on the products Chris has put out in the past, that ActuallyRank will be no different, in that it will actually work as intended.

Stay tuned...

hitesh93

Just wanted to make note of 2 things:
- This is for those who know what they're doing. There is a bunch of stuff in the backoffice to help out, but this is not for newbies (which is a GOOD thing IMO).
- This is note a software but a DB of best locations to get links from. Unless you have a lot of time or have a dedicated VA to work with you, this is not a good option (it's not very automated).

I saw a few common urls between what I own guys dug up so I know the overall DB is good. I've joined at the $299/month level and will report any changes I see in my SERPs with this soon here. I'll be testing with both high competition and low-mid competition KWs.

Jamie Lewis

"PLR Package?" Try full service package. And hard feelings regarding feedback? You obviously werent a member and you dont know anything about what it is I do so it was hardly feedback. And you also made it known "I would never hear from you again either". Well I just did.

Look at your $300 a month recycled LinkJuicer ripoff. As if I am going to respect this. Why dont you tell your subs how they will end up blacklisted. Later Surfer. See you at ASE.

maveric

I'm curious as to how this compares to something like Blog Comment Demon. Better/worse or just different?

chris_surfrider

Jamie,

1. Get a Life.

2. Learn SEO. If you actually look at what we offer, you will see that it's completely different, in every way.

Also - regarding your threat re: "See you at ASE".

Dude - seriously, I don't care what you think of me. But THINK before you type. You are destroying your reputation when you do stuff like that.

-Chris

Jamie Lewis

Are you just sitting there reading this over & over? Youve edited the above post three times now.

First it was "If you read out each syllable" and now "Dude, seriously"

I was serious, but your right. You dont have anything on Linkjuicer.

Ill see you at ASE and give you a big silly hug, a beer and end the beef. Its not a threat, Im too skinny to fight but its an invite to the club if you can get the chair out of your *** enough to come out of your cubicle and be friends. I guess we dont know sh*t about each others products is what it comes down to. LOL

P.S: Are you really selling sources for $300 a month and thats it? Or did I miss something..

TBInternetMarketing

I've just signed up and at first glance it looks pretty good. It will take a little getting used to like all systems, but so far I like what I see.

Chris Thompson

Ok hopefully the off topic stuff will end. Not the place for it.

I joined Chris Rempel's ActuallyRank today also. If it delivers anything close to the promise it will be well worth the price and I'm going to teach one of my guys in the Philippines how to leave respectful and useful blog post comments on my behalf for my money sites.

I've paid $150/month to have profile links outsourced in the past. The way I see it my $69 combined with about another $50/month for a pro-rated portion of my employee's time means I'm paying LESS than the former but probably getting more value.

I haven't even had a chance to login yet. I'll happily report back after a month of using this service. It's a no brainer to try it out. Worst case scenario I'm out $69, but I highly doubt that happens. Chris is pretty straight-up about stuff in my experience.

misterkailo

I have never found any effectiveness from profile links. $150 per month on outsourcing profile links is quite expensive. I rather spam high PR blogs with high PR pages within to get some link juice.

chris_surfrider

Hi Chris

Thanks for posting - we are actually doing a major link-prospect refresh due to an algorithm issue last night (of course...)

Anyway, in about 48-72 hrs your sources will be much better, with less root subdomains/false positives.

I emailed all members about this

Thanks

-Chris

perswealth

Hey Chris,

You mention on your site that there is a 0% chance of these links you offer to be devalued or deindexed.

Is that correct, or am i reading that wrong? Wouldn't this be something out of your control?

Daniel Brock

Chris!

Glad to see ya churning out some more offers! I thought you got bored of IM for a bit there.

I gotta give credit where credit is due.

Chris was the guy that got me started in Affiliate marketing. I can say without a doubt Chris's training is what influenced me to my first $12,000/m in the biz. Since then (2009), I have bought most of his other products and they've all been excellent.

An awesome product creator loaded with insane amounts of knowledge - the real deal, and a half!

chris_surfrider

You're right, it would be more accurate to change it to Low - but only in terms of getting deindexed. They wouldn't be devalued as a result of penalty, though - unlike blogfarms, etc. which can and do.

Doing that ASAP

-Chris

Steve Faber

I joined Actually Rank yesterday at the lowest level, based on the other things I've bought and seen from Chris in the past, which have been very good. I've already used it a bit, and I'll put together a review based on what I find.

Based on past experience, I doubt I'm going to see any overnight ranking improvements. These kinds of things usually take some time, although after they get rolling it's usually worth it.

One of the pages I'm using this for is already on page 1 of Google, but at pos #3 for one of the main keywords I'm targeting, and pos#2 for the other. I'm hoping to get both of them into #1, and move another primary keyword from page1 pos7 (out of 7.4 million exact matches) up to the top as well.

That will be a tough test, because getting from the bottom to the top of page one is no easy task most of the time, especially with so many competitors, many of whom are either gov entities or large businesses.

I also have some blog posts in the weight loss niche and that I'm hoping to use AR to boost up. These are also highly competitive phrases, so we'll see what it's made of.

Stay tuned.

rbowen

I'm curious why people stopped posting to this thread all of a sudden ... none since 3/20 ... 9 days ago?

EDIT: Weird! I just looked at the date of the post immediately above my post and it's '3/20/11' as is the date of my post! But today is 3/29/11 .. and the date of the post before last (2 posts above mine) is 3/29/11! Huh?!


Anyway, a couple of questions:

1) is this a WSO and if so, can someone give me the link?

2) I don't know if I got this right, but I got the impression from reading 1 or 2 posts that ActuallyRank might be great for helping your site rank for the home page/domain name, but not so effective for interior pages/URLs .. is that right?

And I guess there'd be no more recent reviews .. based on actual results .. since Chris points out that results wouldn't be seen for anywhere from 1 to several months, depending on the KW(s) & niche you're promoting.

Thanks,
Richard

BillyBee

It is not a WSO.

I would like to add that I purchased it and it looks GREAT from the inside. Of course, I won't be able to post results for a while yet.

TBInternetMarketing

Hi Richard, it's basically a massive list of high PR backlinks where you can comment on blogs and get a link back to your site. It's not a case of spam or anything dodgy like that. Chris gives you some quality training on how to do everything the correct way. The concept is the same for your homepage or inner pages.

Hortensia

There are many services like this.

The bottom line is: will the comments and posts left on the network, be monitored for quality?

If too many people post crap, well.. we all know what will happen.

Steve Diamond

It sounds as if you may be thinking of private blog networks, which tend to have limited value because of semi-duplicated (spun) content and because of poor-quality comments, as you say.

ActuallyRank isn't a private network. It isn't any kind of network. It simply finds unexploited blogs all over the interwebz and parcels out those URLs to its members. Chris says he will enforce a very strict policy against generic comments and against automated comments.

(By the way, I've joined ActuallyRank since starting this thread, and I'm happy with what I'm seeing so far. Much too early to see actual SEO results, but the potential is certainly there.)

Steve

Hortensia

I am happy to hear that Steve.
Also I hope that Chris will do what he says will.
But I will wait and see how things develop over time, because I wasn't particularly impressed with Chris' attitude in dealing with customer support before.

Riposte

Is anyone finding any appreciable amount of dofollow blogs that actually allow reader comments?

I haven't even found one yet, after going through about 100 of them. I've been commenting on the high PR nofollow ones, but I don't even think those comments will go up because they seem to be abandoned wordpress blogs.

Steve Diamond

I've found some high-PR nofollow sites where my comments have gotten approved. Probably those links are no more valuable than low-PR nofollow links, though. I don't know whether anyone has tested that hypothesis.

I agree that high-PR dofollow sites seem to be in short supply on ActuallyRank. It's early days, though, and Chris does recommend concentrating on the lower PR sites.

HiAbby

Seems interesting. I think I'll give it a try

bretski

I've always look at it like "a link is a link" and while do-follow might be a diamond I wouldn't turn my nose up at a nice ruby of a no-follow site that gets good traffic. I have some nice PR3 and PR4 blogs and if someone were to post a comment that wasn't "this post saved me much time " I'd approve it "do-follow" in a heartbeat!

Chris's stuff is always on the up and up and he is one of the few marketers that is pretty much WYSIWYG

John34

I want to join the membership, does anyone knows when they will open again?

gpower2

I posted here a few days ago (see above) in relation to using this system as a case study on a live site (Feminine Tattoos)

With the re-opening of the program for the addition of new members right around the corner, the management at ActuallyRank have been very busy updated the already unbelievable content.

Back to my case study...

Before making a video for my membership, showing exactly what I am doing, I decided to test ActuallyRank on an internal page of my niche site, for a good keyword (my page was low on page 2 of Google when I started to backlink on 3/29/2011.)

Further, to see the power of these backlinks, I created only one backlink on one PR4 source and waited to see what happened.

Low and behold, today, (Thursday April 7th), my page is ranked #2 on page #1 of Google! (no quotes.) #1 if you search in quotes.

BTW, this is a competitive keyword that yields 582,000 results in quotes.
and 13,700,000 results without quotes.

So... 9 days later and huge movement in the S.E.R.P.S.

Actually it was only 6 days later. I didn't want to report any movement due to backlinking, so I waited 3 days to post this to let you guys know that the ranking is sticking like glue so far!

So far, this system is looking VERY powerful, just as Chris promised!

medway

My initial impressions of this were pretty poor. The quality was so bad I didn't even bother sending to my VA to work on as it would have been a waste of his time and my money.

The first update didn't really help much either.

But the second update has taken this service to what it should have been initially.

I hand commented on about 100 urls last nite and overall was pretty pleased with the sucess rate.

What Chris is doing to avoid saturation seems to be working. This list was a lot less spammed than most of the other lists I get. At most I saw maybe 10 comments from other AR members.

I even had quite a few comments on pr3 pages where there were no comments at all yet. Almost didn't even try commenting on these as it's usually a sign the moderator isn't letting any through but turns out I was able to anyways.

I cancelled my sub around the first update but will be resubbing to this as think it's going to be pretty good now.

So I went from not recommending this due to it not being quality to now almost not wanting to recommend it to keep it a secret ;-)

medway

Nice gain. I'm experimenting with not using anchor text, just a name, only to push trust and page rank to my main pages including category pages.

I've found some anchors seem to get banned by Akismet and also will help with getting comments through moderation.

Jamie Lewis

So let me get this straight. You posted on just one of the blogs in the database and you are now #1. lol Did you actually pay $300 and planning on continuing paying this every month for one backlink per project?

These are the factors that most likely attributed to your success:

1. Your domain is the exact keyword
2. Your site is good
3. Your niche is extremely uncompetitive.

I've seen the updates.. as I knew already, its a database experiment/invention nothing more.

All you have to do is a google search like this: tattoos [leave a reply] or tattoos [leave a comment] and just make sure you use SEO Quake with firefox. Post on the relevant High PR blogs. You can rank higher for the tattoo niche for VERY competitive keywords.

Heck, you might even get direct sales from relevant links as well so kill two birds with one stone.

Have you ever tried LinkJuicer? You do need to create spyntax which takes a couple hours, but if you can grab a competitive keyword domain like tattoodesigns.biz and did a linkjuicer campaign you can hit #1 very easily from it for very competitive keywords. Ive done multiple case studies in WealthInAbox using Link Juicer. Niches like fertility, get your ex back, attraction, weight loss and physical products as well. It works INSANE!

I have friends in the tattoo niche (Tattoo artists) and have done marketing in this niche. The buyers are [tattoo flash] [tattoo designs] [tattoo ideas] more than "bird tattoos," "so&so tattoos" etc 50% of those searches are for whatever reason (Who knows)

The Tattoo niche is cool, but like alot of the other entertainment niches, definitely alot of "subniches" so to win at Tattoos, one needs to target multiple keywords opposed to a larger niche where just one keyword is all you need.

Its alot like Dogtraining, where you would target the breeds of dogs, or in hip hop beats, you target the genres of beats like Dre Beats, Dirty south beats, etc.

My two cents.

Warrior Dude

So is anyone who is using this having any success?

It seems that the service is no longer offering pr as an indicator of link value.

Maybe I am wrong, but it looks like Chris couldn't deliver on his promise of high pr links so he made up his own scoring system to determine the value of a link.

So my question is who using this service is happy and who is not. He is suppose to have the quality of the links updated by now.

So how is it going for everyone who is using this service? Are you getting high pr dofollow links like the salespage promised? Are you seeing your sites moving up the ranking in the SERPS?

bretski

Look about 4 inches above your post.... and yeah, I think that maybe you're wrong. If the stuff didn't work people would be screaming blue bloody murder. Think... if it worked for you would you be shouting it from the rooftops?

Warrior Dude

The service definitely wasn't working when it first came out and was released. Chris admitted it himself. I didn't see anyone screaming bloody murder about it.

So, I am not sure how accurate your statement is.

I think people just liked his earlier ebooks and that is why they went easy on him to give him the chance to improve the service.

That is why I am asking who is using it right now and getting high pr dofollow comments approved and is seeing there sites improve in the SERPS?

Thanks

mariusr

Any updates by users? Positive movements in SERPs? Thanks

gpower2

Update coming soon...

TimNesbitt

I have to agree with Jamie on this ( I am not saying this is not a good service or anything like that because I haven't even tried it) but it is fairly easy to get High PR blogs you can comment on within your niche etc. I actually have a .Edu report I have put together that I have been giving as a bonus for IM products that shows you how to get .Edu backlinks to your site, that is similar to what Jamie is saying to do.

BillyBee

Can anyone report back on whether this service is working for them?

gpower2

Wanted to chime in here again before I give the results from my live case study mentioned above.

This service works REALLY well. In the 3 years I have been marketing online, doing all types of backlinks and using many different services, ActuallyRank is one of (if not THE) best!

Amitywill

So I was going to join actuallyrank but then I realised that this
is way overpriced!

$69-$299 per month for a list of blogs to manually leave comments on.

Then on top of that you're going to either need to spend a bunch of time
and/or money on outsourcing.

Why not just cut out the middleman and do this.

Step 1 Buy scrapebox

Step 2 Enter your keywords in to scrapebox.

Step 3 Set it to find wordpress blogs or whatever platform you want.

And voila you have your own huge list sites to get your backlinks from.

And you can even check the page rank of all the urls and amount of out
bound links as well as a bunch of other stuff.

And scrapebox is a one time payment people. Plus you don't have to
share your list with anyone else.

My second problem with services such as actually rank is that in
actuality you're not going to get that many backlinks because lets
face it, no matter how good the comment you leave on a website
if it's got a link attached to it then it's unlikely to get published.

So yes you may get a list of 10,000 urls per month for $299 but that
doesn't mean you're going to get 10,000 backlinks or even close to that.

Scrapebox (an amazing tool) = $97 one time payment
Actuallyrank = Up to $3,600 per year for a list of urls to manually leave comments on.

I expect the actually rank people probably use scrapebox to get the
urls anyway lol.

Anyway that's my opinion.

Will

ChrisG

I am not familiar with scrapebox, how does it help solve this problem?

Amitywill

Well it doesn't solve the problem of websites not accepting your comments
but at least you're not paying per link.

gpower2

For the people who must find fault with things they don't entirely understand, allow me to share an excerpt from a post from Chris's blog:

Regarding ActuallyRank...

"In short, you can use it to easily build hundreds (or thousands) of powerful one-way backlinks – where the actual page itself has major linkjuice and PR’s ranging from PR0 – PR5+ – in just minutes per day. Or even just a few times a month.

Building even 5- 10 backlinks like this can produce RANK-CHANGING results that will directly boost your traffic.

And we send you thousands of powerful dofollow comment sources every month, so you’ll never run out of literally endless, powerful backlink prospects.

But here’s where it all falls to pieces….

“Egad!! You mean I actually have to do something? I can’t just lay on a hammock somewhere while subordinates shove grapes in my mouth whilst your service simultaneously produces magical Googly rankings for me?”

Yes, you actually have to spend a whole 40 seconds – or possibly even a full 2 minutes – posting your backlink on established, authority pages with major link juice.

There isn’t a service that exists – aside from TextLinkAds or LinkAdage (where you can buy backlinks, for about the price of a used car) where you can build BACKLINKS THAT ACTUALLY MATTER, as easily, and for such a tiny investment.

Folks – this is how you rank for keywords that matter. Keywords that can send you thousands of visitors a day – resulting in double or triple digit transactions a DAY from a single site.

You think you can do that with “automated” links from a private blog network?

Or from using software that creates profiles on Web 2.0 properties?

Or from submitting articles to bloated directories?

Or from building spamlinks using ScrapeBox?

(I think the answer is painfully obvious… if you exclusively build links the “easy” way like that, all you have to do is log into your Google Analytics account and look at your stats, and I think the answer will come to you).

Now – obviously – ActuallyRank isn’t for everyone.

It’s for serious marketers who could give a crap about “automation” because what they need is RESULTS.

In fact, I’ve had almost 20 people email me now begging to let them in early – and almost all of them are SEO companies. (Hmmm… I wonder why that is? Oh – it’s because they need to generate results for their clients.)

And as excited as I am to open the doors on the 29th and see what happens – and something tells me we may need to cap it off pretty quickly…

…I’m also a little bit disheartened.

I’ve received so many emails (and comments) lately that truly paint a sad picture of just how clueless the majority of people are in this industry.

People asking if it’s 100% automatic. People asking if they can blast the URLs with ScrapeBox. People asking if all the sources are AutoApprove.

They don’t see that the very thing they think they want (“NO EFFORT”) is precisely the cause of their poor results – and – amazingly, it’s the reason why they have to work so hard just to barely eek out a few hundred bucks a month – if even that…"
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I might add that as a successful marketer, I concur with Chris's frustration at times with too many people in this industry who would rather spend their time spreading negative karma instead of working hard and doing things right in regards to building an online business that will stand the test of time.

P.S. - The basic plan for $69.99 per month is all you need to make a HUGE difference in your business. It's a ridiculous amount of money to invest in your business... c'mon are you kidding me?! Having owned brick and mortar businesses as well, I find those opposed to the idea of this miniscule investment in their business, for something that works so well, laughable.

P.P.S. - For all of the Debbie downers, by all means, continue to pass judgement and don't join. It makes our work even easier.

Kael41

Bottom line is, go with a reputable link service that can give you access to sources that are less-ravaged by other seo'ers, or, go the automation route and use automation tools to source your own backlink farms. That's the smartest in my opinion.