I am planning on writing a review on various link brokers and I would like some user input. From what I have seen text-link-ads.com is the best for a buyer but adbrite is better for an affiliate/publisher. Are there any small time brokers offering a monster service without existing clients to push their system?
I've used linkworth in the past. They told me the were working on a contextual ad system. Have you heard anything about that?
I have tried linkmarket.net. It was good for the most part. But if you didnt have a paid account you would get spammed with requests from site owners that had sites that were not relevant to yours. ie Rolex watches wanted to trade links on a Paid Posting site. I just finally disabled my account with them and just try and find them on my own.
I was using Linkworth and all of a sudden I got messages from their bot telling me it couldn't find the links on my site. I emailed support and they replied back saying "I did a manual crawl and our spider is finding your links. Sometimes we drop communication and our spider will miss the links. Please let us know if you have any other questions or if you receive a "Final Notice". I didn't receive a final notice so I forgot about it. Few days later, I logged in to find that the 3 links that was on my site has been "spider cancelled" and the money was cancelled too. I have displayed these links and got no renumeration for it:/ They asked me to put the links back and they will checked them manually. I waited for 2 days, nothing happened, so I deleted my site from my account. Today I logged in and the Support ticket has been closed with no answer from support. I wouldn't use them, very unprofessional outfit.
TextLinkBrokers.com are ok, they're inventory could be better though. I really like Text-Link-Ads.com . The guys there are very accomidating and will offer great deals if you buy in bulk and for extended periods of time. They have a pretty good list of sites too.
I think that a smart SEO indian , that knowns about digitalpoint and namepros, could buy a lot of more links for a cheaper prices...
i have paid link market accounts with most of my sites, its really good, you can choose which link requests to aaccpet and upload, you can also search their director and send out requests. the upload of a link is easy as they give u all the code
I actually use SmokeDog as my link builder. They are a small group of SEO's that have come together to offer some really great services. They come from a keyword based approach where you get to choose how many keywords to go after and how much it will cost. I have been using them for the past 3 months and everything has been great so far.