What's the skinny on gotlinks.com? Is it really a decent way to build up some inbound links, or will it just get your site banned from Goog?
Never heard opf them, but I sure wouldn't use a place that has "Increase Your Google PageRank!" on their homepage
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.
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.
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?
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?
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.
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
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...
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.
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
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)
ya im not using any more of these linking schemes.. ill build good content that is valuable to my visitors and submit to directories
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.