Has anyone tried Gotlinks?

[jlerner]

What's the skinny on gotlinks.com? (http://www.gotlinks.com/) Is it really a decent way to build up some inbound links, or will it just get your site banned from Goog?

[fryman]

Never heard opf them, but I sure wouldn't use a place that has "Increase Your Google PageRank!" on their homepage

[City2]

Ya I dont like that as well. But you can always judge by first glancing... maybe somebody tried them and has something positive to say.

[basicus]

I have gotlinks running on two sites. I actually get some clicks from them. If it has helped in the PR I really can't say.. Not been there long enough still.. I am kind of suspicious about them too, so I only run them on two sites that is not that important to me.

[murugan]

Its one sort of link farm, risk of getting banned by google is high.

[MoreSolutions]

I've been running it for a while and I get a lot of incoming links and a couple clicks. I had no idea that it would be a high-risk for banning. I'm somewhat new to SEO, so could someone tell me what's wrong with it?

[jlerner]

Its one sort of link farm, risk of getting banned by google is high.

How is it different than running ads from COOP or Link Vault? Is it the number of ads, or the fact they are not relevant?

[frankm]

I'm running gotlinks.com on 1 site. it's giving my 5-10 clicks per day, and 50-100 backlinks in google.

@jlerner: links ARE relevant; so that should not be a problem.

bad thing about gotlinks.com : the files are: index.html?dir=1234 which will not be indexed for low PR sites; on the other hand: only high PR sites give you the backlinks :)

overall: i' happy with it, not planning to remove it from my site.

[TonyK]

*I don't know about sites like this I place one of my sites two years a go in one of those and I paid for it from $3 on Google to #335 two years later my site is only #37 so do your home work first.

Tony

http://www.casinoscafe.co.uk

[conciseusa]

I signed up and then chickened out. Looks like I should do a wait and see on gotlinks.

[bloodwrath]

i am using them
looks fine to me
not sure if i got any back links or click yet
just put them up 1 month ago

[minarets]

Gotlinks seems a little shady for the following reasons:

When you first sign up, and before you've accepted any link exchange through their control panel, you already have dozens of links in your link page on your website. When I asked them about this, I got no response. When I followed up a month later, I got an answer that those are sponsored/paid listings which appear at the top of each category and which you can't remove. Each of them is tagged with a little text tag that says 'sponsored listing'. Ok, fair enough, after all it's a free service. What I find interesting is that, at the time, there was no advertising on their site for paid listings, so where were those paid customers coming from?

Another strange thing is that among those dozens of listings that get automatically added, there are dozens which aren't tagged as 'sponsored listings'... so you'd figure you could go into your control panel and remove them, right? Good luck. Those dozens of links (most of which are PR0 and somewhat shady site themselves) don't appear in their directory at all, so you can't take them out of your link exchange.

Another thing is their homepage mentions their "strict code of ethics" when it comes to sites which don't have an accessible link exchange page. I've found that, out of those links that are being added that I can't remove, probably 80% of them have no "link exchange" link on their homepages, so you're forced to link to them (because you can't take them out of your control panel) but they're not linking back to you.

Anyone else who's using gotlinks, or testing it on a test site, check this out for yourself. Check all the links in one of your categories and I feel confident saying you'll find a bunch that don't appear in your control panel, but "somehow" they got added to your directory. Also, take a quick visit to all the sites in one of your categories and check if they have an accessible link exchange page. I guarantee a bunch of them don't. Don't take my word for it, check it yourself. If you have 5 such links in one category, multiply that by the number of categories you're allowing and you'll see how many sites you're giving free links to...

[YoungSmeagol]

It's $99 for a year for a paid subscription. It isn't worth the money because it will only help your traffic on MSN and MSN doesn't give out that much traffic.

[jhonson]

it is very useful for increase the pagerank ,no problem with google at any time,

it is very nice u can carry yaaannnn.

all the best

[frankm]

I tested it on one of my 'just hanging around' domains.
it went from PR0 to PR0, so you decide.

It gave me 5 backlinks (After 6 months) in google, 9 on msn. all with very weird urls: www.domain.com/blabla/blabla/links?cat=1234&subcat=123123

So for a free service: great thing, 5 free backlinks!
but it ruins your site (if you need to have "resources" page, it might as well be a handy one and gotlinks isn't)

Personally: i don't use it anymore and will not in the near future. And it is all automated, I hate that...

But if you decide to use it, please post in a couple of months your results (good/bad/whatever)

[eXe]

When I followed up a month later, I got an answer that those are sponsored/paid listings which appear at the top of each category and which you can't remove. Each of them is tagged with a little text tag that says 'sponsored listing'. Ok, fair enough, after all it's a free service. What I find interesting is that, at the time, there was no advertising on their site for paid listings, so where were those paid customers coming from?


Here (http://www.linkadage.com/Auction/APViewItem.asp?ID=50311). And eBay :)

[forumrating]

heard about it
but never tried, jus bit curious to try it

[bloodwrath]

ya im not using any more of these linking schemes..
ill build good content that is valuable to my visitors and submit to directories

[vistadivine.com@gmail.com]

Well I will just advice you stay away from these type of sites.

[Savweb]

Well I will just advice you stay away from these type of sites.

Take a look at LinksJunk.com features and functionality, may be you'll change your mind? :)

[Overseas]

G*tlinks, be carefull ... i joined a few years ago when they first started - after a couple of pr updates the sites all dropped like a kipper - also had a few mirror sites, and one fake site! - they never contacted me to tell me about the drop in pr - so i was paying top dollar per month for lots of pr2 sites (orig pr5 and 6) - i was spending around $1,000 per month - i know it's not the world - but would expect a better and more transparant service!


I would personally get a professional link builder on your case, it will cost you less and links will be from reputable sites.

[muiomuio]

Does linkjunk really work?

[Savweb]

Does linkjunk really work?

LinksJunk is the best automatic link exchange service around. You'll not find something more professional.

[selen]

I'm going to try it

[cafinater]

I used gotlinks.com for a couple of years. Most people these days believe that Google, if not the other search engines, really dilute or remove any link love from those types of set ups. I didn't notice any drop when I canceled them. I would look at textlink blog links. much more natural.

[selen]

I normally use telalinks

[Savweb]

I used gotlinks.com for a couple of years. Most people these days believe that Google, if not the other search engines, really dilute or remove any link love from those types of set ups. I didn't notice any drop when I canceled them. I would look at textlink blog links. much more natural.

Wrong, even gotlinks works if you use it properly. Gotlinks can actually hurt your rankings because it is an unprofessional service. But LinksJunk is built on quality and for quality.

[Gatorade]

The last time I checked gotlinks out they placed their yahoo pub ads on all the peoples sites who used there service, even the paid I think.

[4cornersusa.com]

Good input on this one. Heard a lot of bad about link farms lately.

Would like to know about linkjunk.com ? Anyone not advertising for them have any input? (good/bad/indeferent)