1. Advertising
    y u no do it?

    Advertising (learn more)

    Advertise virtually anything here, with CPM banner ads, CPM email ads and CPC contextual links. You can target relevant areas of the site and show ads based on geographical location of the user if you wish.

    Starts at just $1 per CPM or $0.10 per CPC.

Anyone Get Killed by Penguin thanks to Social Monkee

Discussion in 'Social Networks' started by trosquin, May 14, 2012.

  1. #1
    I have a bunch of sites. I tried social monkey and submitted a few posts. We 2 of my sites took a big hit from the Google Penguin Update.

    I build my all my sites the same way and get links through white hat methods. So when they tanked I looked for answers.

    On my Google Webmaster Tools dash I see links coming from these sites:

    en.itsex.cn
    se.hellogeneration.com
    tr.gruil.com
    www allnetseek.com


    I never physically visited these site nor would I build links at those places. Thats what leads me to think Social Monkeee is the culprit.

    Any one else notice a drop from social monkee?
     
    trosquin, May 14, 2012 IP
  2. himanuzo

    himanuzo Well-Known Member

    Messages:
    2,462
    Likes Received:
    23
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    158
    #2
    Social Monkee service is cheap, but most social bookmark sites of Social Monkee list is PR0.
     
    himanuzo, May 15, 2012 IP
  3. Carter78

    Carter78 Peon

    Messages:
    24
    Likes Received:
    0
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #3
    Social Monkee is an ineffective way to build links for your sites, I'm not surprised Google caught you on this.
     
    Carter78, May 15, 2012 IP
  4. lencarifin

    lencarifin Well-Known Member

    Messages:
    132
    Likes Received:
    0
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    101
    #4
    thank god i'm not using social monkee anymore
     
    lencarifin, May 15, 2012 IP
  5. paladin884

    paladin884 Active Member

    Messages:
    249
    Likes Received:
    1
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    53
    #5
    For me is exactly on other way. After the penguin update my website suffer a lot. Outranking 8 pages in 3 weeks.
    I started useing social monkee with pro member and after first week these social bookmark backlinks was like an handbrake for my website. Was ranking from page 11 to page 7 and now i am ranking easly easly, but don't outranking anymore.

    ps: i didn't use social monkee before google's update
     
    paladin884, May 15, 2012 IP
  6. Wulkanen

    Wulkanen Well-Known Member

    Messages:
    2,429
    Likes Received:
    47
    Best Answers:
    3
    Trophy Points:
    175
    #6
    Dude, those are not socialmonkee websites...
     
    Wulkanen, May 15, 2012 IP
  7. trosquin

    trosquin Active Member

    Messages:
    681
    Likes Received:
    9
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    60
    #7
    How do you know? I never visited these sites? And Social Monkee is the only way I could have gotten these links! And these are the same sites on 2 of my Link Profiles (the 2 that I submitted to Social Monkee)
     
    trosquin, May 15, 2012 IP
  8. Wulkanen

    Wulkanen Well-Known Member

    Messages:
    2,429
    Likes Received:
    47
    Best Answers:
    3
    Trophy Points:
    175
    #8
    But only one of them had the socialmonkee structure.
    I'm a premium socialmonkee user since if started and all socialmonkee websites have the same layout, just
    some different colors and banners.

    For example, www.allnetseek.com is a website directory.
     
    Wulkanen, May 15, 2012 IP
  9. trosquin

    trosquin Active Member

    Messages:
    681
    Likes Received:
    9
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    60
    #9
    But I guess they could just be scrapping the web
     
    trosquin, May 15, 2012 IP
  10. weblinkpromo

    weblinkpromo Member

    Messages:
    1
    Likes Received:
    0
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    41
    #10
    I think socialmonkee network was discounted or banned by google. For past, it was good tool if you know how to use it. Fast and good results in rating for some cases.
     
    weblinkpromo, May 15, 2012 IP
  11. saketseo

    saketseo Peon

    Messages:
    51
    Likes Received:
    0
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #11
    Social Monkee is an ineffective way to build links for your sites, I'm not surprised Google caught you on this.
     
    saketseo, May 15, 2012 IP
  12. saketseo

    saketseo Peon

    Messages:
    51
    Likes Received:
    0
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #12
    My thoughts are that it is not that you have links from these specific sites, but that you just hit a threshhold in the Google Algorithm e.g. for anchor text over optimization or something similar.

    I think that it is best to make your link profile more natural (good quality links, very varied anchor text, mix of nofollow and do follow links etc) rather than try to remove specific links.

    Cheers,
     
    saketseo, May 15, 2012 IP
  13. Wulkanen

    Wulkanen Well-Known Member

    Messages:
    2,429
    Likes Received:
    47
    Best Answers:
    3
    Trophy Points:
    175
    #13
    Nah, you got that wrong.
    It's still up and running and it's still being indexed very quickly in google.
    However, use it wisely or it won't have much effect on your rankings.
     
    Wulkanen, May 15, 2012 IP
  14. MrKeh

    MrKeh Peon

    Messages:
    136
    Likes Received:
    1
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #14
    If you only used social monkee for buildling links then Im not surprised you got hit. If your doing backlinking you need diversity..not just backlinks from one source.
     
    MrKeh, May 15, 2012 IP
  15. casand

    casand Peon

    Messages:
    268
    Likes Received:
    0
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #15
    peonquine update is due to ,the duplicate of content
     
    casand, May 17, 2012 IP
  16. Wulkanen

    Wulkanen Well-Known Member

    Messages:
    2,429
    Likes Received:
    47
    Best Answers:
    3
    Trophy Points:
    175
    #16
    Socialmonkee provides links from hundreds of different sources and IP addresses, it's not all from one website.
     
    Wulkanen, May 18, 2012 IP
  17. joelchrist

    joelchrist Banned

    Messages:
    1,646
    Likes Received:
    4
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    78
    #17
    Social monkee is not that much effective in providing quality links, all the sites with only pr0..
     
    joelchrist, May 18, 2012 IP
  18. Wulkanen

    Wulkanen Well-Known Member

    Messages:
    2,429
    Likes Received:
    47
    Best Answers:
    3
    Trophy Points:
    175
    #18
    High PR doesn't mean good quality.
    Good quality is fom pages with similar content to yours, pages that are active and well ranking in search engines as well.
    Sure, PR is good to determine the quality of a page, but all pages start at PR0, so don't focus too much on it.
    I'm not saying socialmonkee pages are that good, I'm just saying that PR is not what you should look at first. ;)
     
    Wulkanen, May 18, 2012 IP
  19. aldrik

    aldrik Active Member

    Messages:
    161
    Likes Received:
    4
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    58
    #19
    fortunately I don't use it ;)
     
    aldrik, Jun 2, 2012 IP
  20. shuvo

    shuvo Active Member

    Messages:
    751
    Likes Received:
    2
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    53
    #20
    Never used tools to build backlinks and that what we all learned after the penguin update.

    However If a low quality site mention your site,then you certainly cant control it and thats a negative side of the latest update.
     
    shuvo, Jun 3, 2012 IP