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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There are some really cool link building services out there now and NextGenLinks looks like one of the more effective ones.

UPDATE: Not recommended after 2 different tries with them, so skip the rest of this review, and head over to my link building blog to see what the top 4 link building services are.

There’s Neurolinker which looks like it’s better than 3waylinks.net (I used to use 3waylinks.net but was never a fan of losing all my links should I ever quit their service.)

I’m not sure when BackLink Solutions is coming out…and LinkVana is still doing a good job, too.

But this is a NextGenLinks Review…

NextGen Links is basically a one-way link building service that gets links to ALL your sites’ pages.

Most webmasters only think of getting links to their domain name and tend to forget to get links to their inner pages as well to build up the authority of their other pages on site.  This is a crucial mistake made by many webmasters since it’s good SEO practice to not be too top-heavy with your linking.

Does NextGenLinks Work & how does Next Gen Links work?

I don’t know how well or IF it works well since I joined about 20 minutes ago (at the time of this post) and am writing this pre-review while waiting for their system to crawl all my pages on one of my largest sites.

That’s part of what NextGen Links does.

You add a domain name to their system,

You add some code to your site (copy and paste easy to do here, especially for WordPress blogs)

Once you’ve added the code they give you to your site, their system crawls your site and takes inventory of all your sites’ url and what those pages or posts are about.

Man, that was a mouthful, eh?

Let me break it down some more

• Join
• Add domain name url to their system
• Copy the code they give you and paste it onto some area of your site where the code will display on every page that loads, like a header, fotter, sidebar etc…
• After you put this code on your site, their systme crawls your site, registers the urls and titles of your pages/posts, and saves them to a CSV file.
• You then import the CSV file into their system again and wait for the backlinks…

This is all there is to it and their system is very easily navigated and intuitive and real easy to use.

Where does NextGenLinks get their links from to give back to your sites?

I don’t know that yet, but I will post the answer here

My goals for NextGenLinks?

I want some of my sites to benefit from a different style of links being built to them.  I’ve used Linkvana in the past, then used 1WayLinks.  I like LinkVana and think it’s great, and definietly very powerful, but LV is for people with at least 5-7 sites that would need links to them.

Since it’s pretty tough for a one-man show like myself to track and test a whole bunch of link building services all at once with accuracy, I recommend you check out this review of BackLink Solutions while we’re waiting for Next Gen Links to update their spidering system

UPDATE: Not recommended after 3 different tries with them, so go here to see the top 4 ways to get backlinks.

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