Authority Link Network is the new “kid” on the blog network block. It serves the same purpose as all of the other blog networks which is to submit articles with your links and get them submitted to the blogs on the network providing you with backlinks from various IP addresses.

Authority Link Network Overview

What Makes Authority Link Network Different?

There are five main differences between Authority Link Network (ALN) and all the other blog networks:

Free To Join*

As strange as this might sound to you, ALN is free to join. There is a catch however and in order to figure it out you will need to keep reading. Also, it seems that it will not stay free forever and it will move into a monthly based network but I don’t yet know when that will happen so take advantage of the fact that it is sill free.

UPDATE: ALN is still free to join and you can do so here but you can now upgrade your ALN subscription plan. There are 3 paid subscriptions you can choose from:

These new plans mean that you don’t have to add PR domains to the network in order to be able to use it. You can choose either of the 3 plans or you can stay on the free plan. With the free plan you are no limited to adding a max of 3 domains to the network so if you are planning on adding blogs, be sure to add the appropriate PR blog so you will get the daily submissions you are looking for.

As you can probably see, the main benefit of the paid plans is the ability to add more blogs to the network rather than being able to submit more daily articles. This makes sense as ALN is still looking to grow with high more high PR blogs.

Add PR Blogs

You are required to add your own PR blogs to the network in order to be able to submit articles and get backlinks. The blogs you add to ALN must be with a minimum of PR1.

UPDATE: As I mentioned above, free users can now add a max of 3 blogs to the system and if you would like to add more domains you will need to upgrade to one of the paid subscriptions plans. The basic plan will allow you to add 30 more blogs to the system and I think it would be more than enough for most users.

Article Submission Limits

ALN has built in article submission limits which are based on the number of sites you added to the network and their PageRank.

• Add a PR 1 or PR 2 sites: Your submission limit will be increased by 1 articles per day.
• Add a PR 3 sites: Your submission limit will be increased by 2 articles per day.
• Add a PR 4 sites: Your submission limit will be increased by 4 articles per day.
• Add a PR >5 sites: Your submission limit will be increased by 10 articles per day.

UPDATE: ALN has moved to a point based system and here are the new submission rules:

• Add a PR 1 sites: Your submission limit will be increased by 0.5 points.
• Add a PR 2 sites: Your submission limit will be increased by 1 points.
• Add a PR 3 sites: Your submission limit will be increased by 1.5 points.
• Add a PR 4 sites: Your submission limit will be increased by 3 points.
• Add a PR >5 sites: Your submission limit will be increased by 6 points.

One point means you can submit one article. Pretty easy and simple to understand. With the new limit of adding 3 blogs to the system as a free user I wouldn’t recommend you waste 2 of those domains on PR1 sites. Try adding PR2 and above if you can.

15 Submission Limit

Each article you submit to the network will contain 3 anchor text links and will only be submitted 15 times. Unlike most of the blog networks ALN sets an upper limit to your article publishes and it is currently set to 15.

No Control On Content Published On Your Sites

With ALN you have no control on the content that is being published on the sites you add to the network. There is no category selection process in which you specify what topics you want to be published on your own sites. What this basically means is that you should only submit sites that you really don’t care about to this network and NEVER add your own money sites.

The Concept Behind Authority Link Network

As you can probably understand form the above mentioned differences, ALN is all about providing high quality links and they do that by not having any PR0 blogs in the network and with the article submission limits they provide incentive to add high PR blogs/sites to the network.

This does seem to be a very good concept and it does set ALN apart from all the other blog networks, but the most important questions is:

Does It Work?

In order to check this I decided to run some tests and promote some of my blog posts using only ALN submissions. I added three PR3 sites to the network so I can submit a maximum of 6 articles a day and this is exactly what I did for 6 days.

Each article had 3 links inside pointing to 3 different blog posts on my blog. In total I submitted 6 articles a day for 6 days. Here are the results so far for each of the 3 keywords (2 not so competitive and one very competitive):

Andre Chaperon

The number of links according to Market Samurai’s Rank Tracker module went from 7 to 195.

Autoresponder Madness

The number of links according to Market Samurai’s Rank Tracker module went from 87 to 280.

Market Samurai

The number of links according to Market Samurai’s Rank Tracker module went from 1142 to 1295.

Other Results

By checking the pingbacks I got to my blog I managed to see some of the blogs that are part of this network. First thing that you should know is that your articles may also be submitted to the blogs you added to the network which in my opinion should not happen or at least ALN should include an option to prevent that.

From this quick check, I also learned that they are indeed PR0 sites on this network as I found my articles and links on PR0 domains. I am not talking about the specific page my article was published but about the home page of that domain. This is quite understandable as blogs can lose their PR but the good thing is that every once in a while a check will be made and all PR0 sites will be removed from the network.

Keep in mind that the articles I submitted were Ultra Spinnable Articles so it really only took me a few minutes to submit the 6 articles every day. I used a different article for each day but all the 6 daily submissions were a different flat spin of the same article.

UPDATE: New Submission Rules

Authority Link Network was really great when it got started but as it got bigger, spam has become a real issue. Since there was no real oversight on the content that is being submitted by the users it quickly became very spammy and that seemed like a big problem.

The good news is that I wasn’t the only one to notice that and Maulana has added new submissions rules that should address this issue and make the content being submitted to the network better. Here are the 3 main rules that were added:

1. Automatically reject article body & title with incorrect spin syntax
2. Automatically reject article with less than 100 spyntax brackets
3. Automatically reject article without paragraph

The one I want to focus on is number 2 as the other two are quite easy to understand. What rule number 2 means is that every article you sumbit to the network has to have a minimum of 100 of the following characters – { | }. As you can probably understand, these are the spin syntax characters and this rule is meant to make sure the articles being submitted are simply more spun so that every version being created will be more unique.

The problem is that if you are using the Ultra Spinnable Articles and submitting flat spins, that won’t work anymore as the flat spins have less than 100 of the needed characters. The fix for this issue is quite simple. Take the flat spin and plug it into The Best Spinner and run Everyone’s Favorites on it. Here is a screenshot showing how I set it up. You can even make the max synonyms lower (2 or 3).

Doing this will add more spin to your article and it will now pass the 100 character rule. It only takes 10 seconds to do this so that really isn’t a big deal and the more important thing to remember, is that this new rules are a great addition as they will lower the spam being submitted to the network which will only make it better for its users.

Updated Conclusion

Authority Link Network is a great blog network in my opinion and I have been using it daily since it was released. The fact that you can still use for free to some extent is great as I was sure it will move into a monthly payment plan long time ago. Being able to use if for free but also being able to upgrade in order to get more submissions and increasing the blog limits is great as it covers just about anyone that would want to use it.

The new submission rules are also a great addition as they will reduce the spam that is was being submitted to the network and that will keep it a quality network for the months to come. It is quite easy to lose track on the content being submitted when a blog network grows and these new rules should make it easier.

Here is something I wrote in the first conclusion:

Since it is free and if you have the PR domains to spare than you might want to give it a try and share your results with us. I am sure that Authority Link Network will keep improving and adding more and more blogs to the network and I do find the concept behind it quite interesting.

As I suspected, ALN did grow and it now has almost 13,000 blogs in the network (January 5th, 2012) and the concept of being able to use if for free is still there.

If you don’t have any high PR domains than you can simply go to Digital Point Forums and buy a PR3 domain for $30-$50. One PR3 domain will cost you less than what all the other blog networks charge monthly and a PR3 domain together with a PR1 domain added to the network will give you 2 article submissions a day that will be published a total of 30 times, each with 2 anchor text links meaning you will get 60 backlinks every day.

As I mentioned earlier, I am using Authority Link Network on a daily basis for months now and I think it is a great blog network. I would recommend you give it a try and see how it works for you.

To your success (and mine )