Linklicious vs Backlink booster

Hi Everybody,

I want to be upfront and let everybody know that I own Backlink Booster (aka BacklinkBooster.com or "Tom's Backlink Booster"), so please keep that in mind when reading my analysis below.

I get asked the BB vs LL question a lot and I will be as impartial, factual, and non-promotional as possible to point out the differences in the two products as objectively as I can.

HKSEO Extropy is correct...LL will process more links per month than BB. LL will process up to 300,000 links per month (possibly even more) while BB will process up to 108,000 links per month. Having said that, there are significant differences between what LL and BB do when they each process a link.

When LL processes your link, it writes your link to its RSS feed and then pings that feed to get that feed crawled by the search engines. LL then tracks when that feed has been crawled by search engines. This doesn't necessarily mean the page your backlink is on was actually crawled or indexed; it means the RSS feed that has the link to your backlink was crawled.

LL provides value because you can't get your links indexed if the search engines don't know about them. And LL uses its RSS feed to let the search engines know about your links in an effort to encourage the search engines to crawl the page that has the link to your site. And LL's high monthly processing volume can help you get the word out to the search engines about A LOT of your backlinks that you want the engines to crawl. This can be very worthwhile to helping get your links crawled.

Since getting your link crawled is the first step in getting credit for it, BB takes a different approach to processing your links. BB does 5 things whenever it processes one of your links with the goal of getting your link crawled AND indexed.

BB first checks your link to make sure it is valid, and then automatically pulls relevant titles and descriptions from your link that are used to boost your link. BB next boosts your links by posting your link on 30+ social networking sites. BB then publishes your link on 100's of RSS directories. Finally BB places your link on 31 in-content sites. Lastly, BB pings the search engines to let them know your link exists so the search engines crawl them. By pinging the search engines after doing the previous 3 steps, it increases the chances the search engines will crawl the link and give you credit for it because your link now has a lot more credibility to it as a result of the hundreds of other pages now "voting" for it.

BB processes fewer links each month than LL because doing all of the above takes more time to complete. However, this process increases the likelihood that your links will be indexed by the search engines, which has a major impact on increasing your site's ranking in SERPs, instead of just being crawled and ignored.

I'm not saying one product is better than the other...they just function very differently. You could boil it down to quantity vs quality: LL processes a high volume of links each month with the focus of letting the search engines know that your links exist to help them get crawled, while BB focuses on boosting the credibility of each of your links to help them get indexed when they do get crawled.

Having said that, our BB customers often ask us if they should use LL in conjunction with BB and we tell them absolutely...it can't hurt The two tools work very well together to combine quantity and quality, and anything you can do to get your links indexed is usually worthwhile.

I hope I was able to present a relatively impartial analysis of these two products. I realize I have a slanted opinion, so please keep that in mind. In any event, hopefully this at least provided something you can use when comparing the two products for yourself and your situation.

Best of Luck!

Tom

Thanks for the explanation, I am testing my account through sick submitter so I think I just need the serp improvement; it's all about the testing

Sorry for hijacking the thread, but @Backlinkbooster:

I see that backlinkbooster is currently giving 401 errors.

Wanna give us some feedback about what's happening? It's all well and good upgrading the service, but when that translates to a number of days lost in accessabilty, One would expect some form of damage control at least.

Google is a fickle monster, and the sudden slowdown in new backlinks is hurting my serps.

Regards

Dave Arnoldi

That's a good question, and I'd be happy to address it.

There are two important points to consider (which I'm sure you are familiar with, but I'll state them for arguments sake):

1. Google's rankings are primarily based on links to your site (regardless of how much they try to discount that fact), so you need to build both high quantity and/or high quality links to your site to rank higher in SERPs.

2. Just building links to your site doesn't guarantee that they will get crawled and/or indexed. That's where boosting comes in...it helps increase the number of your links that get indexed, and by default also increases the quality of each link to your site.

Having said that, it's important to remember that when you boost your links you are not doing anything against Google's TOS. Plus, you are boosting the pages that link to your site, so your efforts have a degree of separation from your money sites. Finally, Google has publicly stated on numerous occasions that they will not punish your site for links TO your site because you cannot control who links to your site. (Links FROM your site are a completely different story.)

As a result, boosting your links is a very safe strategy to use, whether you are boosting high-quality links or boosting "spam-junk profile links." If Google crawls your lower-quality links and still doesn't see value in those pages, then Google won't hold those links against your site. Rather, Google's form of "punishment" for those links (as Google states in GWT) is they simply will not index them and not give you credit for them. (BTW...this is where reboosting these types of links comes in handy.)

So while boosting your links is a good idea, the root of your question is: "Is it ok to boost all of your links as quickly as possible?" Some people want to boost all of their links as fast as possible, but our recommendation is to even out your boosting over the course of a month as much as possible. If you have 3,000 links to boost each month, then boost about 100 links per day instead of 3,000 all at once. (Backlink Booster lets you set your boosting rate as low as 25 and as high as 3,600 links per day. I'm not sure what LL lets you set your processing level to.)

The result of evening out your boosting is you have a consistent flow of new backlinks for Google to check every day, instead of a huge spike and then nothing for a while. While boosting all of your backlinks at once won't hurt your site, in our tests it revealed that it can hurt the indexation rate of your backlinks. Steady, even boosting resulted in a higher indexation rate overall than blasting away upfront and then doing nothing for a while.

I hope this helps, and I apologize for the long-winded (and sometimes remedial) answer. If you have any additional questions or comments, I'd be glad to address them (in a more concise manner).

Best Regards,

Tom