A month ago I did a follow up review for Angelas Backlinks which I had been running for a couple of weeks. Since that post I have received another packet from Angela, and also unsubscribed.
I received Mays packet and worked through the whole packet in one shot. A couple of days later I went through and checked what links were still there and which had been deleted. 3 or 4 of them had been removed and the rest were still in place. I also noticed that my IP, domain and email had all been blacklisted on a VBulletin spam site. This prevents me from signing up to any new VBulletin sites which use the same plugin. With about 25 new links built the site moved up in the rankings from 5th & 6th to 3rd & 4th and then finally up to 2nd & 3rd.
So for each site I have built the links for I have had a decent jump in SERP, so why have I unsubscribed? The simple answer is the amount of people using these packets is too high. As soon as the packets are released the sites get a massive hit of traffic and start putting measures in place to stop the unwanted traffic, including marking users as spammers. What I will say though is that the TYPE of links do work and Angela’s backlink packets also do work! So rather than buying the link packets and hitting the same sites as everybody else resulting in sites being blacklisted, links being lost etc I have decided to find my own links.
The links are the same type of links as Angelas except I can sneak a handful of profiles in over a couple of weeks, rather than the site being hit with thousands of new users within days. Sure it takes longer as I have to find the sites in the first place, but once you have a decent list you can use the same sites over and over again without being noticed. Not only that but you can find niche specific pages!
As an example, I was looking for some video games links, I managed to find 36 at PR4-PR7 in about 45 minutes. If you count all the sites I found, PR1-PR7 (didnt record the PR0 sites), I found a total of 59 sites! 59 sites, all with dofollow links, in the niche I want to target that arent going to get spammed and my links removed!
Tips for helping your profiles go undetected…
1) Do not use a product/website name as your username. For example if the site you are promoting is “BlueWidgets.com” do not sign up with the username “BlueWidgets”. This makes it obvious that you are there for one reason only! Use a ‘normal’ forum name such as “John1456″.
2) Do not use an email address linked to your website. Again if you are going to be promoting BlueWidgets, dont use the email address admin@BlueWidgets.com. If the website has accounts manually approved the chances are you arent going to get through!
3) Some people think that by posting in the forum it will help your profile get indexed quicker. This is true, but if you just spam the forum your account will get deleted and you will lose the links anyway. Only post in the forums if you have a valid post to make.
Hey Shane,
I’ve enjoyed reading about your Angela’s packets experiences and especially interested to hear that you’ve now ‘gone it alone’. I think you’ve probably gone about it the right way and I think, after I’ve at least tried to make use of all of May’s packets, I’ll go the same way.
I have actually subscribed to Paul’s backlink backet too which I’m hoping might have less users using it but even still, now that the path has been shown to me…I can’t help but feel like I should be doing what you’re doing.
It’s all a matter of time though and right now, I’m not sure I’d have the time to find my own links. If it’s not too much of a trade secret, an article on how to find the links would be very useful…or maybe just a PM if you don’t want to share secrets
Shane,
Having also used Angela’s backlinks there is a trick That being the older packets are better then the newer ones. As soon as new ones come out that place gets hit quiet hard. Though i personally do not use these packets anymore. When i did my link builder woudl be able to churn out about 700 links a week with this.
Though in all honesty 60% stuck. This is after i included aspect like profile pictures and everything. So be careful and do not rely extensively on one method for link building. Also remember that if inorder to create more link juice you can use one of the following methods..
1) Create a profile that you know will stick…, then point all other profiles to that. This will usually increase the PR of that page.
2) Better still create an account with squidoo, etc and thenpoint all links to that. This also results in a high pr squidoo page and that inturn provides a very valuable link/s to your site
All the best
Mansoor