Link Authority Versus Build My Rank - Any Thoughts?

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High Quality One Way Backlinks Service - LinkAuthority.com

- Kenneth

I think we have a lot more control then other networks as we

1) We only accept sites that provide editor access therefore we have a little more flexibility
2) Our moderation for sites is quite tough and we reject a whole bunch daily not only when they do not meet our requirements but also if we think they are the type of user who would just delete things.
3) If we see any users deleting posts we will just delete every single one of their published posts - Its very easy for us to do with editor rights

Yes you will always get the odd character deciding to remove posts or not paying for hosting or not renewing their domains - But this is a natural part of link building whether you are using a network or not.

We do also mention in our FAQ if a post has been deleted you can just wait for Google to deindex that post and then resubmit it to us again.

On top of this currently only 40% of the network is user contributions the rest is ours - We are aiming for a 50/50 hybrid network

Authority' for a website is gained by a webpage through quality incoming links. This is for instance expressed in the PageRank given by Google.

None of them exist.. The whole network was put into moderation when we implemented site moderation

So each one was moderated

No problem :-)

They're doing the home page links again. That whole fiasco lasted 2 hours.

Ok I'll play. I give Link Authority 3 to 6 months before it's wiped out (this is just for laughs, I don't actually wish bad luck to anyone)

I couldn't agree more.

The article moderation is so extreme that Link Authority is not a scalable solution.

I did a little experiment and submitted some high level articles (college worthy material) and they were rejected.

You also have to consider the cost of using the network. 50 submissions/day will run you $400 per month.

At that level of expense you could simply build your own network.

To make matters worse, they'll simply delete your article if they feel you haven't revised it enough upon re-submission. I've had this happen to me multiple times.

Just not worth it.

So true, I've literally copy pasted snippets from some of my old university essays only to have them rejected because they "did not make sense."

Perhaps they need some college educated moderators on the team.

If you think you can build a strong network for $400 per month then be my guest.. Also please share so we all know

It doesn't matter if content is "intellectually" college degree - We care about the use of the English language

You could write about quantum mechanics, but if it was written using poor grammar it would be rejected

For both of you we do not randomly delete articles, we have a 2 reject rule - If you are still submitting it to us with errors after 2 rejections then it will get deleted. We are not going to spend all day moderating the same content

2 rejections is way more then enough - Even if we made a mistake on the first rejection then I highly doubt we would do it again a second or third time around.

I highly doubt we treat users like sheep, yes we have rules which must be obey. If we do not enforce them who will?

Please PM an example of same site twice.. As this was fixed like 5 weeks ago and dupe posts were deleted

I can't really answer that as no one is 100% sure what is causing the deindexing, we think we know what has caused it on other networks and implemented procedures to reduce it

But I can't tell you what will happen in future otherwise I would be a billionaire :-)

Musa it is clear your moderators don't understand complex or colloquial usage of the english language. I've had to 'dumb down' certain phrases so my posts actually get through.

IMHO you're moderators are being way to over the top.

Deleting my post that i've taken 10 minutes to write because your moderators can't understand the phrasing isn't an acceptable option.

It would seem your moderators don't actually use english as their first language. Would this assumption be correct?

The WSO was closed as we requested it to be closed as it was turning into a support thread and our support team work via tickets

Also please do not post lies about we post so many articles per day on a site when we barely post 1.

You are clearly here to try and bad mouth us in any way you can and are looking for even the smallest thing, so you can scale it up and use it against us.

We already told you, your site was broken and you needed to fix it - See ticket below please

I also find it odd that you offer SEO services to clients but do not have a clue about the smallest of fixes on your own site.

This is the last reply I am doing in this thread - Below is evidence that we specifically told you and advised you to fix your site. You decided not too and are now blaming us as a network again.

In the end this applies to everyone in here complaining (2 or 3 users), this is our network, we have spent our money and time not only coding the site but also acquiring sites for the network and we will make the rules, if you are not happy with the rules then we do not force you to use us. If you want to throw money in the bin be my guest, but we will not be doing that.

The rules are there for a reason and its for the safety of the network, yes some rules maybe a little strict at the moment - But we are not going to take any risks when it comes down to it especially now with all the happenings.

Regarding the comment above about us not caring about our customers, we very much care about our customers, but the network safety will always come before pleasing customers. All ALN did was please its customers and not try to protect its network, now look whats happened!

Don't be sour when we reject your articles (its not personal) - Take the criticism and give us what we want, you have come to use us so you can't just make up rules on what suits you best.

I will not be responding here any more (As I 100% know some of you awkward guys are going to just try and find something else, we are never going to please you), if you need any support please do not hesitate to us via the ticket system

Eh? Is it true your posts will get deleted if you leave? I didn't know that. Is this true even if you don't add sites and just buy quota?

VERY good to know. Thanks for clarifying

That's the same thing BMR thought.

LOL @ ya Tonic1987

Reading through this thread has not exactly filled me confidence with this network. I welcome a strict approach to content, but its all got a bit silly, really.
Over zealous mods drunk on power or what?
If I sign up, and risk a PR2 in the network, I'll follow your advice Tonic

Please PM me the sites you have seen with Lorem ipsum - we manually moderate each sites and no site should be in the network with default data as that is one of our main rejection reasons

There is no PR manipulation all the PR is valid so please don't chuck accusations like that around as we auto check for fake PR

Regarding the content we would only add you to the trust list if we deem the content acceptable - which we obviously did not hence the rewrites we did for you. Also I don't know when you ordered but the content was done by a third party provider since then we now use our own team.

To try to deflate our network like this is a childish, since we are the only network that survived deindexing, penguin and panda so we must be doing something right.

Blog networks are not the highest quality links out there, if you want that then you need to do guest blogging and spend real time finding real links on real sites - but well kept networks still work well and have their place and increase rankings superbly when used correctly

Give it time. Any new backlinks are going to push you 'close to page one' after a month. What happens in the next month or so is what matters.