In my previous 1waylinks review and on other blogs I run, I was touting the 1waylinks link-building service as a pretty good solution to getting one-way links.
You can just continue on down this page to read why I’m not happy with the 1waylinks service anymore.
Let me say this, though: it DID work for a bit when articles I posted to the network were showing up as active links (evidenced by pingbacks and seeing the backlinks in my WordPress Admin Panel Google Blog Search widget).
It worked for maybe the first 20-35 days, so once I saw it work, I thought it was OK to tell others to use it since I saw results.
…but for the last 45 days, I haven’t seen any good results (via pingbacks, active credited links, incoming links section of WP admin panel etc…) so I decided I needed to write more articles.
Go to the bottom of this to see why pingbacks and credited incoming links showing up does matter…
Well, I realized after a month or so of using it that I wanted more active backlinks so I wrote more articles, and doubled the number of articles I wrote,
…but it didn’t seem to matter much, and actually lessened the number of active backlinks received per article submitted.
With 1WL you basically submit an article you write to a bunch of blogs that will automatically repost them for you.
This works…
IF… all the articles you wrote were hosted and posted by sites whose posts got indexed…
IF…. all the articles you wrote were deemed unique enough to warrant getting indexed.
With 1WayLinks you have to submit a “dummy” blog that will act as a hosting platform for other’s articles. Those dummy sites are usually putting your articles in a category called uncategorized and not many of these dummy site articles are getting indexed.
Oh yeah, I said that already…but bears repeating…
Anyhoo, I started thinking about my time spent here.
Submitting 10 articles to get hosted-and-posted on 25 sites each resulted in about 50 active backlinks per month out of the totalpotential 750 links advertised.
The reality is that you can generate a potential 750 links, but what you get credited for is a totally different story.
Also, since your submitted articles can have up to 3 backlinks/articles this means the sites hosting your articles are linking out WAY more than they’re getting linked-TO…
That’s upside-down link-juice there, which makes it even harder for the articles on those sites to get indexed, thereby not delivering active, “seen”, credited backlinks.
When I used LinkVana, each and every backlink showed up in my Google Blog Search Widget (every single one!).
Go to the bottom of this to see why pingbacks and credited incoming links showing up does matter…
Why did LinkVana work better than 1WayLinks?
Don’t worry, this post isn’t about trying to sell you on LinkVana, but more to point out why I abandoned ship with 1WayLinks.
Because LinkVana’s network of blogs has a bunch of high PR sites with good linkjuice acting as your backlink generators. And each link got credited and counted for something.
Because LinkVana only allows one backlink per post, thereby lessening the linkjuice inequality of their blogs.
Because LinkVana’s network of blogs are putting your backlink blurbs in relevant categories
That’s why LinkVana is $147.00/month though, it works well and the links are powerful.
I think Jonathan Leger is a great guy and very knowedgeable about SEO, but his 3WayLinks service has now been overshadowed by NeuroLinker, which does a LOT more for a LOT less.
Plus my similar service is Free for a limited time – http://automatedlinkbuilding.com
Also, the Answer Analyst tool isn’t that great and wasn’t helpful to me in writing articles for niches I knew nothing about. It only pulls off ask.com and Yahoo Answers.
Also, the Instant Article Wizard didn’t really do much for me, either, and is more useful for gaining knowledge on stuff you don’t know much about by searching…the Internet, lol.
I could care less about the small amount of money these products cost, but the time spent trying to use 1WayLinks, Unique Article Wizard, and Answer Analyst just wasted a lot of my time.
We’re here only once on this planet (or so many believe) so I really don’t want to waste any time with things that don’t work.
I suspect you may feel the same way.
I tried another service called BackLink Solutions as a beta tester. My review on that service is still pending because I’ve learned that it sometimes takes a month just to learn how to best use these services, and 2 months to get it just right.
And possibly 3 months to tap out the usefulness of these types of services.
With BLS, all you have to do with them is write a short 60-100-word blurb with ONE backlink in it, specify your URLs, then automatically create as many blurbs as you want.
Point being… I got 3 pingbacks from a test run I did recently with BackLink Solutions and it took me about 3 minutes to get those created, and I only had to write a blurb once that took me 45 seconds to write.
Compare that to having to write a 250-word article for 1WayLinks, and you can see how much more effective and time -saving “BLS” was for me.
Don’t worry (again), I’m not trying to sell you on BLS either (maybe later 
).
I have a review site for link building services that you can go see where I review other link building services like LinkVana, 1WayLinks, NeuroLinker, Next GenLinks, and more…
One thing that I haven’t been able to figure out is how all of these services can continue to be effective is you use them for a while.
After all, there really IS a limit to the number of GOOD links you can receive, and at some point you’ll be getting linked back to repeatedly by the same sites, especially if they claim to get you backlinks from relevant, related sites and categories.
The flaw to almost all of these blog network backlinks services is two-fold.
1- You’re only getting one type of backlink ( a link from a blog)
2a- You’re not getting backlinks from related sites with related pages and categories, usually.
2b- If you are indeed getting backlinks from related sites and your posts are put into the proper categories, this is still an issue is that at some point because you’ll be getting multiple backlinks from the same IP addresses and this lessens the effectiveness of those links over time.
That’s also why using EzineArticles article submissions isn’t really the best backlink building strategy either since you’ll be getting backlinks from same domain name…
So much more to share here, I think I’m coming to a conclusion many long-time SEO gurus already know about, we’ll see.
UPDATE: Some people say that NOT seeing pingbacks and incoming links showing up in Admin Panel is not really that important.
Really?
Most of the initial comments on this posts were from my other blogs (quality indexed sites with a bit of linkjuice) which referred to this post here, and they all showed up as backlinks, incoming links and as Ping Backs, and this morning a BLS snippet showed up as a backlink, too. What matter is how many links you are CREDITED with, not how many potential ones are generated
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Well done Dan. Very interesting and relevant comments that should be noted by all who read this.
Fred, thanks for stopping by. I emailed you back from my gmail and hotmail accounts about all your WebProsperity site questions, and you have my Skype, too.
So contact me when so we can square things away for you
Thanks again,
Dan
Hey Dan,
Great review. I was on the fence if I should try out 1waylink.net or not because it’s cheaper than Linkvana and I’m already using 3waylinks.net by Jon.
It’s doing alright, but the way to implement into their network can be extremely frustrating sometimes, and the thought of losing all your links when you cancel the subscription scares me.
As for Linkvana, I heard plenty of great reviews about it, I want to try out their service but the price is really making me hesitate. I can afford it but the monthly $147 will put a big strain on my monthly budget…
Currently I’m looking for another good linking service (besides Linkvana). I’m thinking about checking out Neurolinker. I’ve google Neurolinker and took a quick glance at the salespage. It looks more promising than 3waylinks.net and much cheaper aswell.
How does Neurolinker work exactly? From what the salepage stated, it works almost something similar to a service called Article Marketing Automation.
Elbert, NeuroLinker and 3-Way Links give you temporary “warm fuzzy” but you’re trapped into the membership and gain nothing if you cancel.
BackLinkSolutions, at the $27.00/month level does a fantastic job for me or new sites and old, and links are permanent.
Let me know if you join thru my affiliate link here ( http://www.backlinksolutions.com/amember/go.php?r=365 ) and I’ll show you my method of getting the links quickly and for a whole month in just 5 minutes
Thanks, I’ll keep your affiliate link with me.
Yeah, I can see how “borrowing links” from these services is usually not recommended and as 3waylinks.net only links to only my homepages…
I checked out Backlink Solutions, and it does sound much better than 3waylinks.net, NeuroLinker or 1waylink.net.
I watch their video, looks promising. Which is great. Too bad their $97 membership is sold out already.
I’ve read your review about BackLink Solutions, I’m wondering how are things going? Even thought it’s only been about 2 weeks from your last review.
I’m looking forward to your next review for BackLink Solutions. Hopefully their $27 membership won’t be sold out by then.
Hi, all I can say right now is that BLS is working well for me so far, due to its ease of use using a trick we developed and for their backlinks of course. But I won’t write a review until 90 plus days have passed, because of what happened in this post we’re chatting back and forth on.
I don’t want there to be any more reversals
Thanks,
Dan
Great! I’ll come back and check your blogs once in a while.
Especially your Linkvanareviews blog.
Dan, I’m not sure what kind of tests you were performing, but I can assure you that your results are not the norm.
Did you read Neil’s recently posted success story at the forum, which outlines how he’s gotten 18+ #1 rankings in 5 months with 1WayLinks.net — and has held them all?
He makes it very clear that keyword selection is of prime importance in the success of any site being ranked using 1WL. Perhaps your keyword selection was poor?
Jon, I know how to test these things and know what my KWs are, long-tail…money words…generic words for Adsense sites etc…
I did more with less effort, less writing, and less time using BackLink Solutions…
Head on over to http://linkvanareviews.com... there’s some articles over there on how people can determine if a link building service is working, how to test it, the kind of service you need right now etc…
Not you personally…. but one size doesn’t fit all and again, Back Link solutions is far more effective for my new sites, old sites, medium-aged sites, and without a lot of writing.
Getting #1 rankings isn’t hard, especially
if it’s a long-tail keywords and you have a good domain name,
or if it’s on MSN and you’re doing the Ranking Loophole trick for that…
or if its a micro-niche,
or if you’re going after a product name,
or if you’re going after a product name (+ review)
You know how it is, I’m sure…and like you said it all depends on the keywords
Thanks for stopping by, you have a great blog and newsletter,
Dan
P.S. And I stand by everything I said here, no offense to you
Hi Dan, isn’t your Automated Link Building the same as Jon’s 3 Way Links? Forgive me if it’s not.
Yes, it is, and I ‘m charging about half of what I think getting impermanent 3 way links are worth right now with ALB, $3.00/month.
While ALB cannot rival Neurolinker right now, the goal is to keep adding new features to ALB to get it to be worth 3, 7, 17, maybe even $27.00/month.
ALB won’t be the same as Neurolinker though, and we’ll be looking to add new features that aren’t wholly reliant on the power of a network for its links but to tap into 3d party resources to keep things effective and scalable.
With Neurolinker, you get 3-way and X-way links and there’s limited value to its article syndication ( only X amount of niche related sites that’ll link back to you, and after a while thelaw of diminshing returns come sinto play when getting repeated backlinks from the same site)
and social bookmarking strategies (SB links seem to get more and more devalued by the quarter).
Neurolinker is a great value and so is ALB.
My goal is to NOT create complEmentary and separate services that each cost an additional 47 or 37/month to use, but to make ALB give all sorts of useful links.
Right now getting 3 way links is just the start, and more scalable and long-lasting features will follow in January and the ensuing months.