LinxBoss – A Different Link Network
LinxBoss is yet another link network. There’s tons of linking programs out there, and they are all very similar, but some are more complex than others. Pay attention to what I’m about to say – ANY and ALL link networks will *NOT* get you results by themselves. They will rarely get you relative niche-related sites linking to you. You might get a page relative to your niche because the system let you write the post, but the rest of the sites’ content will most likely be on several other topics (if not hundreds of other topics). Plus there is most likely some sort of footprint, whether it be the framework of the sites they have in their network, the IP’s (though most good networks will have a variety of IP ranges – definitely double check this!), or a template they commonly use, or just the way they link to you (always in a sidebar, or at the bottom, or whatever). I’m sure there are good networks that limit the footprint, but again – you should never SOLELY rely on the link networks to get the rankings you want/need. You’re going to have to do some other linking efforts.
What link networks are good for is SUPPLEMENTING your efforts. A good link network will get you consistent linking. This is very important. Typically, a self-promoted site will have this type of link velocity: it get lots of backlinks one week (or one day), then none or very few the next, and then a bunch more one week, month, or day, then none or very few. This goes on and on. It’s just they way we work. So there are spikes in the promotion of the site. This is a fairly obvious footprint to Google saying that you are trying to manipulate their search results. Natural link growth is slow and steady (and yeah, there are some spikes for things like viral content, etc, but for the most part – it’s slow and steady). This is why link networks are (for the most part) good for supplementing your own efforts. When you stop linking to your site for any given amount of time, your link network keeps on going. It should consistently get you links every day or every week.
This is where LinxBoss comes in. This is a linking network – and it’s a little different from some of it’s competitors. First of all – it’s not a blog network where you submit articles or content with your links embedded in the content or a resource box. You just submit urls and keywords which the system uses for anchor text. It then places the links on a categorized site (you choose the categories – it’s got plenty of choices) – and they have a HUGE network of sites (over 1700 sites and it’s growing every day).
So this makes the system extremely easy and painless. There’s no content to worry about. Of course, it’s a trade-off. You don’t get the relative content surrounding your links. BUT that’s okay because you aren’t going to be ONLY using this system for your link building efforts, right? You’ll be submitting articles and blog posts anyways. Like I stated before – this is to SUPPLEMENT your efforts, not replace them.
You start out by setting up a site. You get 5 sites for the main subscription price (which you can upgrade if you need more sites to promote). You can add as many pages as you want, and you can assign 4 keywords per page. You get 1000 links every month. What that means is you get 200 links per site, per month. This is important because it splits that 200 between the # of pages you setup, AND the keywords you assign. I’ll talk about “best practices” and what to avoid, later. Once you setup the site (all you do is give it a name and domain url and choose whether you want to use Google USA or Google UK, etc – for ranking reports), you then just have to setup the linking page (page urls, keywords, and categories).
The linking setup is really simple. Just add the url, a primary keyword to use, and a secondary keyword to use (you can have up to 3 secondaries, for a total of 4 keywords per page), and choose the category that you want the link to be associated with. You can setup as many pages per site as you want. That’s it! Oh and you can setup “other” keywords that you want it to track your rankings for, but not necessarily use as links. Again – I’ll talk about what you should and shouldn’t do, later.
The next step is where LinxBoss truly separates itself from the rest of the herd. It’s called L4L or “Links For Links”. The system actually goes out and finds the backlinks that your site already has (it shows you the list) and starts to build MORE backlinks to your backlinks. It “promotes the promoters”. It builds off of what you have already done for your site. This doesn’t cost anything extra either, and it doesn’t subtract from your 1000 links. It’s completely automatic – all you do is tell it the long tail keywords to use as anchor text (add at least 10 long tail keywords). This is a VERY beneficial feature to utilize. When setting up your pages and keywords, REMEMBER to click L4L to setup the “Links for Links”.
Another upcoming feature of L4L is “offsets” and “authority pages”. I’m not positive what these will look like because they’re not released yet (as of the date of this post) but they should be released this week. It’s supposed to look at the backlinks of your competitors and the ranking sites and will locate other links that you, too, can get for your site. It won’t get the links FOR you, but it will tell you the sites to try to get the links from – and then you do it yourself, and then you enter the URLS where your backlinks are so that it will start pushing backlinks to those urls as well. Again, this is included in your subscription. It doesn’t cost anything extra. The L4L system definitely makes this link network unique. I don’t know of any other that does this type of thing.
Best Practices
In your linking (pages/keywords) setup, you don’t want to add too many pages or too many keywords because the # of links will be spread too thin to see any results. This is a BIG mistake for people trying out the network. They think (and I did at first, too) that it’s better to have links going to numerous pages and using numerous keywords so that you limit the footprint. DON’T DO IT! Setup just a couple pages and a couple keywords per page to start. That’s it! Of course, you can change it at anytime – and you should once you get the rankings you want for those pages. But you don’t want to spread yourself too thin. Think about it – let’s say you setup 10 pages on a site, and add 4 keywords for every page. The primary keyword gets 50% of the links, and the secondaries (you can have 3 secondaries) split up the remaining 50% of the links. So if you get 200 links per month – each page is only getting 20 links per month. (That’s not enough for ANY campaign) Each page’s primary keyword is only getting 10 links and the other keywords are splitting up the remaining 10 links per month. That will NOT help much!! Sure the domain as a whole still gets 200 links per month but you won’t see the specific rankings for your specific keywords – you’ll be getting “authority” because of the # of links, but that’s it. You need to limit the keywords and the pages you add to the system.
Linxboss comes with a “traction” report. It’s basically a ranking report. It lists all the keywords that you added to the system, and checks Google and Yahoo and then reports what your ranking positions are for those keywords. It even keeps a history so you can your rankings improve or decline. So far, I’ve seen it to be very accurate, although it doesn’t update very often (I think it’s every 4 days or something like that).
The training is very good – helpful videos are included that go through every step. Like I said, this system is extremely easy to setup (I had all 5 sites setup within 15 minutes) and is run completely on auto-pilot. The only reason to log in again is to make changes (don’t make too many changes at first) or to check the progress of your ranking positions. It will tell you exactly how much it’s helping so if you try it out for a few months, and followed the best practices (they have several videos on this) – and you don’t see any results (I can’t believe you wouldn’t though) – then cancel your subscription! The links are permanent. You won’t lose them.
I’ve been using the system for only a month and I already see results. I haven’t been using it for very long, so I can’t conclusively tell you whether it’s worth the $127. I’ve setup 5 sites – some aged, some pretty new, some already have thousands of backlinks, some with under a hundred or two – so I’ll post my findings when I have enough data to provide. I really think I’ll see some good results (I already am seeing significant improvement in the short amount of time I’ve been using it) but again – I don’t want to give a false impression… I don’t have conclusive data yet.
NOTE: LinxBoss is *CLOSED*. A network this good has to set a max number of clients otherwise the network will get too diluted (too many out-bound links, a finite # of sites, etc). That being said – there are openings when a member closes their account. Click the link above and you will get put on a “waiting list”. Don’t worry! I get my account after just a week of waiting.
I highly advise you to get on the waiting list. I don’t know how long they will even allow waiting list signups… They’re offering a LOT for the price, especially since they added the “Links For Links” system. I can’t imagine they will have this publically available for much longer. Get in while you can.
2 Responses to “LinxBoss – A Different Link Network”
Steve on February 11, 2011
So how were your results so far w/ LinxBoss?
Larceny on March 3, 2011
They’re pretty good. Everything always improving. I definitely recommend it still.