Free backlink software, good idea or no?

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.

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.