Social Monkee

I was interested in them as well, given that they're freee and don't look to require a significant time investment. From what I can gather though, SocialMonkee works primarily with backlinks from forum profiles. While they probably won't hurt, in light of Google's latest announcement it's probably going to not give any where near the gains in the future that we've come to expect from such links.

Ohhh I see! so better not to sign-up..

Thanks!

I have had the same problem. I sent a couple of emails to support. Also, I just left a message on their blog and noticed that the moderator deleted it.

Sounds great and would love to be able to try it out...

Macky

Yes, i have the trouble like you. Why can i not register?

Hi Janice,

We allow 1 account per IP Address, did you signup with an account in the last couple of days? If so that would explain the error.

The links come from social bookmarking sites that we own and control, not forums. We purchased 100 domains and installed 100 social bookmarking sites on 1 unique ips, all c-class unique, most of them at the moment are even A and B class unique on servers around the world!

We also make all links submitted 'do-follow' backlinks - It is also very fast and Free

BTW - This is BRAND NEW, I just sent 1 email about it last week, so we are still improving it as much as we can, so if you have ANY feedback or suggestions at all, please write them here and I will see what I can do

Thanks

Great to know, thanks Colin.

I see an upgrade happening.............

cheers,

Uh... Google PR was updated in January. I had many of my sites change rank and many here reported the same as well.

Sounds great but the key here does your site get index or not depends also on heaps of other factor right? Even when submitted.

Hi Ray, if you installed it, you will see a little Monkee face in the bottom right, click on his head and it will ask you to login and you will be all a go... Please let me know if you still have problems...

Hi John, in point 1, you are correct. If we allowed the same sites multiple times the SERPS will block our sites as spam.... So it is 1 at a time

Your 2nd point, we might make reports open to free members in future (But not RSS though) - having said that, I feel the search engines will eventually find and index as we list new listings on the homepages of sites. Might take a few weeks though, but still a free membership provides lots of value.

Your 3rd point, someone PM'd me about that comment. It is not true at all, or else why not get link farms and spam sites to link to your competitors to get them off the serps?

They might penalize links YOU link to from your money/main site, but will NOT penalize your site for getting inbound links from other sources

Hi Bruce, We can make an account for you, please open a ticket with your email at: Colin Klinkert Help Desk: Reply2Colin.com

Thanks

Here we go:

SocialMonkee - Your Instant Backlink Builder! (non-affiliate link)

non affiliate link? lol that's something else.

Hi Almanack,

Yes, all 100 sites are on unique C-Class IP addresses and domains. There are no Twitter accounts, Digg accounts... All sites are the property of Colin.

If you join SocialMonkee make sure you download and read the user guide (PDF). There's a link to it on the dashboard inside the members area.

Hi

I've been using it for a couple of days I love the concept and it is super easy to use.

It's certainly worth getting an upgrade I'm at 7 referrals just a few to go, so I've be promoting it by blog post, twitter, etc

Looking forward to seeing some results

Thanks
Lynne

Awesome Lynee, looking forward to seeing what you think once you reach premium. Thanks for the kind words

We launched in beta 15 days ago, so its still very new, I can tell you links I have submitted have got backlinks from many of the sites. My programmer did some testing with his domain too and Yahoo shows the backlinks to his sites

JeromyS - IF someone else bookmarks it will add another count, like with Digg. It can't hinder your ranking, it can only help

Jerry,

Yes there is great benefit in getting your articles to rank well, as people click the sig link and this results in more traffic. You can bookmark your article sites, Youtube videos etc. Would love to have you as a premium member.

Hi Jerry,

Thanks for bringing our attention to this thread.

Yes, ViralBookmarking is still alive! We are currently working on improving the program: more features, more benefits... We will keep you updated! Stay tuned!

Hi, We will need your email that you joined with, so please open a ticket at: Colin Klinkert Help Desk: Reply2Colin.com with as much info as possible and we will get the account working for you, thanks!

I sent you a PM with some more details. If you still experience issues, make sure you let us know!

We will soon add more sites to the system, each of them on unique C-Class IP addresses. Stay tuned!

Thanks for the PM, glad to have you as a member of ViralBookmarking. We are working hard on both sites

Thanks for the feedback, it is stuff we are working on. Let me reply though:

1) The hosting is on iweb, it is a $400 a month power server with 8 cores, 12 gig ram and 20TB a month badnwith. In other words it is a TOP of the line dedicated server, and this is the ONLY site currently running on it! Database issues you experience happen in peek usa times as there can only be so many connections to a database as one time, so with over 13,000 members in 30 days of launch on a plugin that is database intensive it is not always possible to prevent the odd time outs in busy periods.

2) some of the sites have PR, but what does that help at all anyway? Imagine a PR 6 bookmarking site, it makes a new page anyway when you sbumit, so your page is STILL pr0 right? A backlink is a backlink, as long as you get them indexed.

& As a premium member you get the reports AND RSS feeds so you can get them indexed. I know bookmarking services that charge $10 to get you 100 social bookmarks, each time. On SocialMonkee you can submit 3 a day to 100! So that is a $30 value, every single day for a 1 time payment of only $47, so in 4 submissions it is covered. (Or you can even get it by referring members free)

3) regarding treating it like a real business A) - We have worked very hard on this and continue to do so! Much more than we SHOULD be. You think a 'real' business as you coin, can survive on and run on the odd $47 one time payment?

Sorry if the above reply seemed a bit harsh or aggressive, but I strongly feel you fail to see the value that you get for a $47 purchase (Or promo email to your list) and how much it would cost to set something like this up.

If you want a refund, please open a ticket and I will gladly return your $47 and downgrade your account. Thank you for giving it a try though

Hi, thanks for the comment and questions. Yes, each unique url can only be submitted once, but don't only think about submitting the pages on your site. You can use this to backlink boost your other backlinks. In other words, if you have an ezinearticle or another blog post or any other page or site that has a link back to your site, you can run that one through the system to get it some authority and make that backlink more valueble

And for the 3 times a day, they can all be at once if you like. A planned feature in the works is 'drip feeding' which will allow you to 'schedule' that the posts go out and get made over a few days.

Hi Alonzo,

So you now have access to your account, right?

If you feel that we don't receive your tickets and/or you don't receive our replies, feel free to send me a PM! We reply to ALL tickets but sometimes they get stuck, or our replies go straight into your spam box.

Thanks for the great feedback, each new page made would be a PR 0 anyway in all sites on the internet, plus not sure how much the search engines put on PR anymore.... BUT - yes it is in the plan to add more sites and with PR. We also promote our domains and over time will continue to drive links to them, meaning age and authority.

Great to hear you are getting them indexed so fast, a little bit of backlink building to your backlinks would ensure even better results.

Thanks for your feedback! As previously mentioned, we promote our own sites so your links will gain even more value over time. For the latest news, announcements and tips make sure you visit our blog: SocialMonkee Blog - News, Announcements, Tips & More!

Nope. 3 Strikes

G'day ,

Well having decided to sign up I have to say my first experience has not exactly been a confidence builder in the SM program.

Filled out my Name: Email address: Password - clicked the Submit Form button and then received "Creating accounts..........." Please wait........ can take up to 60 seconds" after waiting about 6 minutes I received the following :
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Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@socialmonkee.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/2.0.63 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.63 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at SocialMonkee - Your Instant Backlink Builder! Port 80
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Then whilst writing this post I received the following email :

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Hello Norman,

Welcome to SocialMonkee.

Please click the link below to complete the sign up process:

http://www.socialmonkee.com/activati...VYLYg&id=20160

To get started, Please watch the Video on the dashboard, this is very important to ensure you get the most out of your membership

Thank you for joining, we hope you will love it,

Colin Klinkert
& The SocialMonkee Team

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What am I supposed to make of this?

I reiterate "not exactly a confidence builder"

Cheers ,

Norman Holden

PS: I have experienced further problems with my registration but under the circumstances I decided to raise a support ticket - which I hope will be responded to in a reasonable time frame.

Thanks for the awesome post, I agree 100%. We also are continuing to add more sites as we get time (Takes a bit to get unqiue c class ips, find good, aged domains, and setup and promote them)

We want to add another 10 sites in the coming weeks and then continue to grow from there.

I hope that nobody takes this comment as meaning that it doesn't work. I'm just saying that after several weeks I haven't noticed my backlinks showing up yet.

Well, at the moment it gets more backlinks, so I would say yes. They are different though, ViralBookmarking links might have more authority. But at the end of the day, the goal is to get your backlinks indexed, whatever the source.

Hi Norman, we started a service without a commission affiliate program, and with no launch, just a few list builder emails to shared lists, not to our personal sites and we didn't get any Jv partners to promote.

We launched on a fully dedicated 8 core, top of the line server, costing a big chunk each month because we knew the value was there in SocialMonkee, we knew that people would love it.

BUT - we didn't know it would be this crazy. Over 25,000 people have signed up and it is an Alexa 3k website now in only 2 months. The database in 1 table alone for reports has over 280,000 entries and the whole database which is 100% plain text entries is over 500MB in size.

We have now taken the site offline for 6-12 hours to recode the database and the script to deal with the load and massive growth. I can understand you are annoyed, but please relax, you have paid for a LIFETIME account and we will be back tomorrow running well again. Please give us a chance and don't get fed up, things happen that are out of our control. Thanks for the support.

Welcome and thanks for the support - Well, once you get the RSS you want to ping it on the ping sites we give you. Do it 1 time only to each ping site. Next, if you want, you can drive links to those pages, (the 100 urls you get) or you can drive a few links to your RSS feed, so the search engines find it and find the links. This will lead to indexing

Hope this suggestion Helps

Pinging is a good start and often enough, but to make sure you could always submit it to directories etc.

We have JUST NOW added a brand new spinner, which allows you to spin words too. This means you can make your backlinks 100% unique, allowing much better indexing potential with the search engines

Colin -

Thanks for answering all of my questions so quickly.

A few follow-up questions:

1) So there's not only no reason to worry about a pattern of getting exactly 25 BLs/per day, there's no real need for a "drip" feature either, right?

2) I looked at your Viral BookMarking WSO and it looks good .. and like it's "ready to go". But were you implying, in your reply (above), that it's not quite ready for Prime Time and that we should wait (how long, roughly)?

3) I sent you a PM, which you more or less answered (above) ... but would you mind taking a look at my PM and letting me know if, given my (sub-) niche you think that there'd be some (more or less) relevant blog categories/BLs for it?

Thanks again,
Richard

I tried to sign up, never got the confirmation and now I can't sign up again. Go figure.

Tim

PM sent.

Tim

Colin -

Thanks for your replies!

Just to clarify an earlier question I asked about whether this type of thing would be good for brand new blogs (with no BLs & possibly not even indexed yet by Google): I read somewhere ... possibly in a WSO (maybe by Daniel Tan (sp?)) .. that it's best not to try to "force" the indexing of your site, but rather to let Google "discover" it "naturally".

I'm not exactly sure what that means, or whether I'm paraphrasing what he said all that well .. but it was something to that effect.

Do you agree with what (I think) he said, and would "pinging" SMs BLs .. and/or using something like Backlink Booster (which you thought should work OK with SM) .. be "forcing" things (like the indexing of my site) .. or am I totally off-base with my concern ... or confusion :confused:?

Thanks again,
Richard

Colin -

Can you help me out - still not able to access the site. PM sent yesterday. Thanks.

Tim

Hi,

Colin didn't receive your PM. Can you please send it to me instead? Thanks!

Hi,

Please check your PM box!

Otherwise for support it's always easier to submit a ticket to Colin's help desk:

Colin Klinkert - Powered by Kayako eSupport Help Desk Software

Thanks for your patience!

I'm having the exact same problem. I sent you a pm today as well.

Has someone missed me out??

Replied with your login info

Hi Jerry,

it won't allow you to, even if you delete your reports. The reason for this is so that it doesn't look spammy. You should never run out of sites to submit thought because you can submit all your backlinks too, to ensure they get indexed, and get/pass on extra authority to your main site

Thanks

No, not on urls, you can submit a long one if you like

Colin, thanks for your quick reply to my question. But sorry for sounding a bit daft, but am I to open up each of the 100 sites (1 at a time) then copy and paste their url into a RSS feed site?

Just not completely understanding how to submit those RSS urls.

cheers,

EDIT: I found the solution to my problem (#1, below) in your FAQ .. of all places!

Simple: View->ToolBars->Add-on Toolbars (although I didn't have to ReStart) .. and Bingo! The Monkee's head appeared on my toolbar.

1) I just downloaded and installed the S/M plug-in and restarted Fire Fox (actually, my PC).

When my PC restarted and my F/F browser reopened, the Social Monkee icon was not on the task bar, below, nor anywhere else. I tried reinstalling the S/M F/F plug-in twice, but no luck either time. (I used File->Open and selected the plug-in from the folder where I'd downloaded it, clicked on Install, and then clicked on Restart .. and my PC restarted .. but no Monkee head anywhere.)

I guess I can always use the form on your site, but I would like to have the option of the S/M icon ... so what do you suggest I do to get it to show up?


EDIT: Still would like an answer to this one:

2) I noticed that special offer, about submitting a "project" (my site's URL?) to 100 social bookmarking sites for $2.99. OK, but *which* social bookmarking sites?

Since this special offer involves 100 sites and the free version of S/M (which I have) involves only 25 sites, I assume they're different sites and/or result in different BLs .. but then again, the upgraded version of S/M involves 100 sites.

I'm (obviously) confused.

Thanks,
Richard

EDIT: Sent you a PM.

Colin,

I'm not sure which new feature I like better or which is more impressive, your EZ to do {Spin 1 | Spin2 | Spin 3} or the RSS Feed?

Which one does your users seem to like the most?

I ask this mostly so when I do my next review on SM, I am quoting the author's take on this vs. using my personal experience. Regardless, since becoming a Premium user of Monkee, I've allowed my clients to piggyback on my SM dashboard, albeit I have to all the heavy lifting.

The FFox add-on is splendid and used to be a huge FFox advocate, but since Chrome is so much faster, I am counting the days/hours/minutes until you roll-out a Chrome Extension <hint hint>

Then again, if I had my druthers, I'd opt to see SM buy some better quality domains v. those with an Alexa north of 2 million which seems to be the norm.

Strong work Aussie!

Hi Frank, it is quite a simple system. After you upgrade, you fill out the form with your submission info, preview it to ensure it is correct and then submit it to 100 sites

You then get the reports and RSS feeds. If you have any specific questions please let me know

Hi, I replied to the PM you sent me with the same question

Well, the important one is to put it there for Blog RSS Feed. You can use your own url/blog for the Blog url field, as that is fine as well. Thanks

Another firefox 4 problem... wtf is going on down the post office.

Hi - If you are in FireFox 4, please click on 'view' in the top toolbar, then click on 'toolbars' and make sure 'addon bar' is selected. This will give you the bottom bar.

Then if you reinstall it, you will see the monkee head down there

For upgraded members, because there are a lot more links, they can choose how many days to drip the links out over. Anywhere from 2 - 14 days Free members links go out over 2 days....

You can then see your (partial or full) report, under the 'reports' section

Sorry for slow reply, have been traveling

We have had lots of testimonials on our facebook page and on the blog etc. I personally have ranked content with just social monkee! The trick to it though is to use it for your backlinks too. So your other web20 content etc. (other article sites, and other backlinks) to run them through the system

Here is a post but we need to update it as we have many more testimonials since then SocialMonkee Testimonials