In the first post called Link Building Services – Introduction we explored free and paid link building services and how you can use them to your great advantage. In my last post we looked at Link Buliding Services – Pros and Cons to give you an idea of the advatages and disadvantages when choosing between a free or paid link building services.

Today we look at some of my experiences with using both types and hopefully give you some insight so you won’t waste as much time as I have. This is my opinion which I have formed from my own experiences. Your experience in dealing with link building services may be different.

Free Link Building Services – My Experience.

You can try free services but from my point of view there’s not much control. I have tried both and the quality of the articles posted to my blogs from free services were of a poor quality. They were hard to read and there were so many grammatical and spelling errors I spent hours trying to fix them.

Most of the articles looked like they were written by someone with limited understanding of the English language. The free service sent articles at random – sometimes four a day – sometimes nothing for weeks. I had no control over what was published to my blog and I had to check the blog often to see what was happening. It would have been faster and easier to write my own content.

The articles I submitted for syndication on the free sites were all rejected. The process was tedious and frustrating. I spent days trying to write and re-write a couple of different articles but each time I submitted my articles for syndication, they were rejected.

When I saw the quality of articles sent to my blog – I was shocked that my work had been rejected and theirs had been approved – maybe they had upgraded to paid members?

Paid Link Building Services – My Experience.

With paid link building services you have complete control. You can limit the level of article syndication right down to one syndicated article published per day. You can pause article syndication or delete your article at any time. All of my articles were accepted immediately and began to be published on other people blogs within an hour.

Although, I mainly use paid link building services to syndicate content, I am also currently testing the same paid service for adding content to a couple of my blogs that are currently on the back burner. The quality of the articles I’ve seen so far are superior to free sites services – they are easy to read – make sense – require minimal editing and really add value to my blogs.

This is a great option if you have an established blog and just want to add some content weekly or monthly just to “stay fresh” and recently updated. You get to read the article before it’s published to your blog and have the option to accept or reject each article giving you complete control.

The paid link building service that I use also includes an option to submit your articles to article directories. There is currently 10 article directories listed and it is just a matter of filling out your log-in information and ticking a box to send your spun articles to the article directories. It’s all done automatically for you saving even more time.

Another bonus with the paid service I use is that it also has the option to download a daily ranking tool for all of the keyword anchor text you are targeting with ranking analysis gathered directly from Google and Bing.

The monthly cost for membership is really affordable considering what you get, and they also have an affiliate program that pays affiliates 40% of all membership fees – which is automatically billed to members every month.  This means a residual, recurring income for each member who signs up from your affiliate link. So, in effect you would only need to have three sign ups for it to pay for itself and you would have a bit left over. You can cancel your membership at anytime if you are not satisfied with the service – no questions asked!

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The paid service I use is an article marketing strategy which is quite involved. There a a number of steps that need to be followed to a tee, it can take a day or two to master. You would need to be well versed in using wordpress blogging platform to use it successfully. If you can manage wordpress with ease, then it’s easy to learn and master. If you don’t know how to use wordpress, take a couple of hours to familiarize yourself with it at wordpress.com. Sign up for a free wordpress blog and have a play around with it. There are plenty of tutorials to help you on the site.

Remember, do your research, make sure you have control and enjoy watching your site rise through the rankings with the help of Link Building Services.

In the last post Link Building Services – Introduction we had a look at what link building services are and how you can use them to benefit you off page SEO efforts. So, today let’s take a look at the pros and cons of both free and paid link building services.

Free Link Building Services.

Pros

Submit articles for free syndication – YES

Article spinning service available – YES

List your own blogs for free content – YES/ Not available on all free sites

Edit content on your blog after publishing – YES

Free to use – YES

Cons

Articles submitted for syndication easily approved – NO

Unlimited article submissions – NO

Control over article syndication – NO or LIMITED

Edit articles after publishing – NO

Edit article spinning – NO or LIMITED

Control over blog content approval – NO

Paid Link Building Services.

Pros

Submit articles for free syndication – YES

Articles submitted for syndication easily approved – YES

Unlimited article submissions – YES

Article spinning service available – YES

Edit article spinning – YES

Edit articles after publishing – YES

Control over article syndication – YES

List your own blogs for free content – YES

Control over blog content approval – YES

Edit content on your blog after publishing – YES

Cons

Free to use – NO

So, you can see that there is a lot more you can do and you have much more control with a paid membership to link building services. In the next post called Link Building Services – My Experience we will take a look at my personal experiences with both free and paid link building services.

There are basically two types of link building services, free and paid. This is probably the best kept SEO secret that super affiliates use everyday to rank their sites in the top three in the major search engines. The secrets out!!

The way it works is that you write content, an article, submit it for approval, and when approved your article is then syndicated to be published on blogs within your chosen niche or category. The power of having targeted links from your chosen niche linking back to your blog is phenomenal.

Now, let me just clarify, I’m not talking about black hat tactics, link farms or anything non-legit. This is a tried and true method of off page SEO that works wonders when implemented the right way.

Link Building Services – Free and Paid Options.

So, you can write an article and submit it for syndication but is there anything else to these link building services? Well, yes, some of these link building sites also allow you to list your own blog and with a few tweaks of your settings within your wordpress blog you can have content posted to your site for free. The content will have one or two backlinks to the author’s site and this is how they are rewarded for supplying your content for free.

Free sites usually have limited use for free members and all have options for you to upgrade to being a paid member. When signing up for a free membership expect to get lots of emails promoting benefits of becoming a paid member.

The Benefits Of Link Building Services.

The benefits of both types are that you can have your content syndicated (with a couple of links back to your blog) around the web giving you high quality, niche specific backlinks. This can be described as backlink gold!

You can achieve this type of result on your own if you are prepared to contact blog owners in your niche and ask them if you can do some guest writing for their blog. This option can take some time – emails back an forth – an ultimately the blog owner could reject your blog post or article and it may never be seen.

Another added benifit is that you can also choose to have free content added to your blog that is on topic and relevant to your niche. I would not reccommend this if you are just starting out – but it is a possible option for those who just want to add a bit of fresh content to an established blog. Of course, if you would rather write your own content for your blog there is no expectation for you to list your blog – it’s up to you.

The Challenges Of Link Building Services.

With article writing, the problem is that unless you provide a high quality spun article (re-written in several different versions) you risk flagging the major search engines for duplicate content. Sure, you might initially get 20-40 backlinks to your page, but when the search engine bots take a closer look and see duplicate content all of your links could be removed and you may also be penalized  – no-one wants that.

Another issue is control. By using linking services, you, as a webmaster, must be in control. For example, say you have had a blog and it has been building backlinks slowly, say at 5 a day, for the past six months. If you aggressively start submitting your spun articles for syndication (to be published on other blogs) at a rate of 50 a day, the major search engines will be flagged about your blogs new activity on the web and most of your articles backlinks will be ignored. Again, penalties might also occur.

If you follow the rules and are very careful about how you submit your content for publishing, applying time frames, then link building services can add an amazing level of high value backlinks. If done correctly you could see your site rise up through the ranks and be on page one in very little time. Let’s face it, if you are not on page one you are basically invisible to 99% of prospective buyers. Not many people ever visit page two.

In the next post called Link Building Services – Pros and Cons we will look at the pros and cons of free and paid Link Building Services.