It has been a long time since I reviewed an upcoming Clickbank product launch but I really can’t help myself from getting into this shark infested waters once again with the upcoming product from the Callen brothers called, SEO Link Monster.
I guess I never really shared why I stopped promoting Clickbank product launches and maybe I should write a post about that but I can say that the main reason was the quality of the products. It seems that most products are just crap and what I liked to call newbie traps. They only intended to sell false promises that will get tons of newbies to purchase only to learn that they wasted their money and time.
The refund rates have been through the roof and I just started to feel bad when I was promoting a product that I knew wouldn’t add any value to anyone except the product vendor.
So I stopped.
Read First!
This SEO Link Monster Review turned out be a quite long so I figured I should make it easier to read and navigate.
This review covers everthing from why I decided to review a Clickbank product launch, to the actual product, SEO Link Monster, and what is it all about. A 4 weeks SEO Link Monster case study that provides the best possible answer as to what SEO Link Monster is, how it works and what you can expect from it.
And of course, my SEO Link Monster Review Conclusion in which I tell you my bottom line.
Why Am I Making a Comeback?
First
The first reason would be that The Callen bothers (Brad and Matt) have created many products in the past, some good and some are OK but whenever they come up with a product or service, it always servers a purpose and none of their products (that I can remember) have been what I like to call newbie traps.
Basically, they are not your typical “gurus” that are only looking for your money and the do actually try to provide value with their products and service. I expect (and hope) that SEO Link Monster will be no different.
Second
Second reason is that it seems to be a product about SEO which is something I do all the time and try to be on top of things as much as I can so when someone that has a proven record or creating good products and services comes out with something about SEO I would like to check it out and see if I can use it for my own business.
Third
Third reason would be that from all the product launches in the IM space only a few turn out to be really big launches and I think that SEO Link Monster is going to be one of the biggest launches of 2012 so if I am going to try to promote a product launch I would be better focusing on a launch that has great chances of becoming a big one and potentially earn me some money.
Yes folks, I am also in this for the money (shocker, I know;)).
On a Side Note
For those of you that are new here and don’t know me and my reviews yet, I can completely understand if you think I’m just like all the other affiliates that are looking to praise a product just to make some commissions.
The truth is that I’m not about that and I think actions speak louder than words so just check out my Google Sniper 2.0 Review and see for yourself. I was and still ranking very high for that launch and I am getting a lot of traffic to that post everyday (it is amazing how many people still search for this product) and I ended up not recommending it.
Without recommending the product I actually made low 4 figures in commissions (some people just can’t be convinced) so I could have made high 4 figures or low 5 figures in commissions from that review but the product sucked and I didn’t think anyone should waste his time buying it.
SEO Link Monster Overview
| Name: | SEO Link Monster |
| Creator: | Matt Callen Brad Callen Dori Friend |
| Focus: | SEO |
| Price: | $47 first month $147/m after that |
| Launch Date: | February 7th, 2012 |
| Official Site: | www.seolinkmonster.com |
So What Is SEO Link Monster All About?
To be honest with you, I don’t really know yet. There is still 2 months till the official SEO Link Monster launch and not too much information has been revealed. Here is what me and every other affiliate knows (and I am quoting here so ignore the hype):
- Insane Automated Google ranking system
- Massive Link Building Network UNLIKE ANY OTHER!
- Personalized SEO Training
- Professional, SEO Certified Support Staff
Like I said and as you all should know, I am not in the business of recommending something I didn’t checkout and tested for myself so as I always do, I asked to get early access so I will be able to test SEO Link Monster and provide you with some cold hard data. I have a lot of sites I can test using SEO Link Monster and I hope that once the members area will be up and ready I will get early access and will be able to test it out for 4-6 weeks which should be more than enough time for me to see some results (good or bad) that I hope will help you make a better decision about whether or not you should join SEO Link Monster.
SEO Link Monster Review
I got early access as I hoped I would get and I would like to thank Matt and Brad Callen for that, so thanks guys. I can now tell you that SEO Link Monster is quite simply a blog network. You submit spun articles and they will be distributed among the blogs on the network. There are quite a few blog networks out there and you know that I love blog networks and I recommend a few of them on a regular basis here on my blog.
SEO Link Vine vs. SEO Link Monster
When I realized that SEO Link Monster is actually a blog network I was kind of surprised since the Callen brothers already own a blog networks called SEO Link Vine. SEO Link Vine started as a really great blog network but it kind of lost its power as time went by and it is and it is not a blog network I (or many others) currently recommend.
I asked Matt about this issue as I wanted to know what the differences between the 2 networks are and if current members of SEOLinkVine would also benefit from joining the new SEOLinkMonster network. Here is his answer:
SEOLinkVine is 100% DIFFERENT than SEOLinkMonster. VINE is a network of sites owned by our users, not by us. So we can’t “guarantee” a number of posts made per day/month, etc. Plus we can’t guarantee the quality of all of the sites. Thus, the reason the system is the lower $67/month. MONSTER, is much different and its better. We own all of the sites. 100% of them. So yeah, users of VINE **should** also join Monster. We’re going to recommend it… highly recommend it.
If I had to “rate” the level of networks that we have… I’d say that it would go something like this…
SEOLinkVine > SEOLinkMonster > VIP SEOLinkVine ELITE
That really made everything clear. SEOLinkVine is a blog network based on the blogs users add to the network which is something most of the current blog networks are doing in order to grow their networks but this is not something you will be able to do with SEOLinkMonster. You don’t need to any blogs to the network. All of the blogs are owned by the Callen brothers which gives them much more control on the quality of the blogs and submission rates. I also asked Matt about submission rates and access to the URLs where your articles will be published. Here is his answer:
Users are GUARANTEED at least 14 posts per day, and they can grab their post urls and build links to them too if they want. So yeah, we provide the reported urls where their links are posted…
I got to say that this really sounds good and would make checking the quality of the blogs very easy as I have access to the URLs so I won’t need to use my Pingback Power WordPress Plugin to harvest the pingback URLs in order to find where my article where posted on.
SEOLinkMonster Video Review
(Watch SEOLinkMonster Video Overview on YouTube)
SEOLinkMonster Members Area
Downloads
This is the section that will contain the upsells you will be able to purchase. It seems there will be 3 upsells:
- An SEO Course.
- An Article Pack.
- Software Programs.
I don’t really have much to say about these upsells right as I didn’t check them out for myself. Whenever I will get more details you can be sure I will share it with you here.
Rank
In this section you can download a free software called Rankerizer that will help you track you rankings. You should know that this software is free to download at http://www.rankerizer.com/ and it is not only for SEO Link Monster members. With that said, it is a pretty cool ranking tool and among the free tools you can find it is probably the best.
Spinner
This is an article spinner. Quite basic and since I have The Best Spinner I don’t have any use for it but for those that don’t have an article spinning software it could be quite handy. What I find kind of strange is that the exact same interface you get here you also get when you are submitting an article so I don’t really see the point in this spinner option but it doesn’t hurt and some of you might find it useful. The fact that I don’t see any benefit to this feature doesn’t really mean there isn’t any. It just my own opinion.
Automation
This is the heart of SEO Link Monster. Here you will be adding your articles for submission to the network and you will also be able to track the distribution reports. The article submission process is quite simple and it actually is the easiest among all the other blog networks I tried. You just add the title and article and hit save.
Here are a few things you should know:
- Copy and pasting with Chrome is not recommended. I recommend you use Firefox if you are going to copy the article from somewhere else and paste it into SEO Link Monster.
- Doesn’t support nested spinning. Only 1-level or flat spin supported currently. According to Matt this is in order to make it simpler for the users since most don’t really know how to handle nested and deep level spinning and the get the spinning syntax all wrong. That does make a lot of sense when you think about it and in any case, it seems that support for nested spinning will be added if demand will rise.
- No preview before submission. I think this would be a good addition, just to make sure the article is going to be published OK with no errors.
Is SEO Link Monster Any Good?
Well, this is the main question I guess and in order to find out we basically need to know a two things:
- What is the quality of the blogs in the network?
- What is the submission rate?
I think that by answering these two questions I will be able to compare SEO Link Monster to the other blog networks and provide you with an answer. I don’t want to base my decision on SERP results since I think that too many variable go into that and by picking a post on my blog and promoting it only with links from SEO Link Monster won’t really prove if the network is good or not.
How Will I Get The Answers
I submitted 40 articles to the network. 20 articles on January 7th and 20 on January 8th. Each article has 3 links pointing to pages on my blog. Since SEO Link Monster will provide me with the exact URLs of where my article have been published on it wouldn’t be a problem to check these blogs and determine the quality of them and of the links I will get.
I will be checking mainly 2 things. The blogs PR and the indexation rate since a link that is not indexed doesn’t really count.
About the submission rate we will just have to wait and see how many submissions I will get for every article after a few weeks.
Case Study Update – 14/01/2012
It has been a week since I submitted the article to SEOLinkMonster and I figured it would be a good time to grab a report and see where we stand. Grabbing the report is real easy thanks to the download report button and importing it into Excel is just the save as importing a CSV file. Here are the results I got:
Blogs Quality
I got 87 URLs on the report in total on 58 unique domains. PR distribution of the domains is as such:
- PR3 – 5 (5.75%)
- PR2 – 18 (20.69%)
- PR1 - 15 (17.24%)
- PR0 – 32 (36.78%)
- PR n/a -17 (19.54%)
Index Rate
Besides the PR of the blogs I also want to check indexing rates as I think it is a very important factor to consider when it comes to blog networks since if your links are not being indexed they are not really helping you in the rankings. After one week, 41 out of the 87 ULRs are indexed (47.12%) which is pretty great considering I didn’t do anything in order to help these links get indexed.
Submission Rate
As I mentioned before, I submitted 40 articles in total and I got 87 submission so the simple math shows that each article got 2.175 submissions. The problem is that I can’t see which articles were submitted how many times since that information is not being shown. In any case, 2.175 submissions in 7 days is very very low in my opinion.
Case Study Update – 22/01/2012
2 weeks into the case study and the report now shows 184 URLs so in the last week I got 97 submissions.
Blogs Quality
- PR3 – 13 (7.06%)
- PR2 – 44 (23.91%)
- PR1 - 44 (23.91%)
- PR0 – 74 (40.21%)
- PR n/a – 9 (4.89%)
Index Rate
As you can see in the screenshot to the right, 117 out of the total 184 are indexed (63.58%) which is pretty great in my opinion as I didn’t do anything myself to help these URLs get indexed.
Submission Rate
40 articles, 184 submissions, 14 days. The simple math shows that the average submissions per article is 4.6 and 13 daily submissions. Not something to brag about and I really hope that will improve. These are really low submission rates.
Case Study Update – 30/01/2012
We are now 3 weeks into the case study and here are the results so far:
Blogs Quality
In the blogs quality department I decided to add a new factor to check and that is domain age. Domain age has a pretty big role in SEO and it should also be considered and since I want to provide the full picture about SEO Link Monster I think it should be represented here.
PageRank Diversity
- PR3 – 26 (9.5%)
- PR2 – 63 (22.99%)
- PR1 - 73 (26.64%)
- PR0 – 112 (40.87%)
- PR n/a – 0 (0.00%)
Domain Age
Out of the 274 submissions, there are 91 unique domains. I was able to get the domain age of 81 of them:
| Year | # Domains | Percentage (%) |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 2 | 2.47 |
| 2001 | 1 | 1.23 |
| 2002 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 2003 | 1 | 1.23 |
| 2004 | 2 | 2.47 |
| 2005 | 5 | 6.17 |
| 2006 | 7 | 8.64 |
| 2007 | 8 | 9.88 |
| 2008 | 12 | 14.81 |
| 2009 | 24 | 29.63 |
| 2010 | 19 | 23.46 |
The numbers are pretty clear. All that is left now is to figure out what is considered to be an aged domain but in any case, most of the domains (67.9%) are 3 years old or less and 32.1% are older than 3 years. If you know what should be considered as aged domain, please let me know by commenting 
.
Index Rate
As you can see in the screenshot on the right that I took from Scrapebox after it finished check the 274 URLs, 219 of them are indexed.
That is a VERY impressive 80% indexing rate that SEO Link Monster brings to the table. I didn’t do anything to help these URLs get indexed. There is no blog network (aside from BMR) that has such high indexing rates.
Submission Rate
I was kind of surprised about the low submission rates especially after what Brad told me in an email but I realized that I simply didn’t understood him correctly. It seems that SEO Link Monster has a daily limit of 15 submissions. That means that no matter how many articles you add to the network, it will only do a max of 15 submissions every day. I thought it will be a max of 15 for every article but that is were I got it wrong. As far as I understand this limit has been included to the network in order to prevent it from being overused and losing its power overtime as happened with SEO Link Vine.
I am not really sure what to think about this daily limit but my first thoughts were that it kind of hurts users and limits what they can get from the network. I would think that the high price point ($147/m) will do a pretty good job of preventing the network from being overused as SEOLinkVine was since it cost a third of the price when it was launched.
Anyway, here are the submission numbers after 3 weeks. 40 articles, 274 submissions, 22 days. The average daily submission rate is 12.45 and each article is being submitted 6.85 times on average. Since I now know about the 15 daily submission limit these numbers makes sense as they are within that daily limit.
Case Study Conclusion – 06/02/2012
I started this case study 4 weeks ago, on January 7th and this is the conclusion of the case study in which I focused mainly on analyzing the blogs quality in the SEO Link Monster network.
PR Diversity
- PR3 – 30 (8.24%)
- PR2 – 62 (17.03%)
- PR1 - 109 (29.95%)
- PR0 – 163 (44.78%)
- PR n/a – 0 (0.00%)
As you can see, over the past month the articles have been submitted to 364 different domains and the PR diversity is as shown above and in the pie chart to the right.
In order to determine if the PageRank diversity is good we will need to compare it to other networks. The problem is that I haven’t done a similar test (but I plan to) for other blog networks and the only blog network that provides this information is Build My Rank and even though it is a blog network, I tend to differentiate it from the likes of SEO Link Monster, ArticleRanks, ALN, UAW and such because BuildMyRank only accepts unique content and that in itself makes it very different than the rest as they allow the use of spun content.
However, thanks to Shane and his blog network roundup I do have some information that I can use in order to provide a pretty fair assessment as to how SEO Link Monster compares to other similar networks. What you see in the following graph I borrowed from Shane is the different blog network (axis X) and the number of domains the article was published on according to PR (axis y). Just to make it clear, ArticleRanks has 21 PR1 domains, 19 PR2, 10 PR3 and 3 PR4 and i’m sure you can figure out all the rest.
From the above graph I took the PR information on ArticleRanks (AR), ALN, MAN, UAW and Traffic Kaboom (TK) and added the results I got for SEO Link Monster (SEOLM) and BuildMyRank (BMR). I had a lot more information about SEO Link Monster and BMR since I got more published on these 2 networks from what Shane got on his case study so I decided to show the information in percentages and here are the results:
Here is the important information (in my opinion) that I was able to learn from this graph:
- SEO Link Monster has the highest percentage of PR1 domain submissions.
- SEO Link Monster has the lowest percentage of PR2 domain submissions.
- SEO Link Monster is 4th in PR3 percentage.
- SEO Link Monster highest PR is PR3.
Domain Age
The 364 submission have been submitted to 93 unique domains and I was able to find the age information of 85 of them.
Submission Rate
As I found out last week, the daily submission is limited to a maximum of 14 submissions. I got 364 submissions over a period of 30 days which means that I got 12.13 submission a day. Not 14 but pretty damn close.
Index Rate
This is where SEO Link Monster pretty much blows the other similar blog networks out of the water. 322 URLs are indexed out of the 364 which means 88.46% index rate without me doing anything to get these URLs indexed. This is really a high index rate which the other blog networks don’t share.
I don’t have exact numbers yet for the other blog networks but since I have done some testing for the pingbacks I get to my blog, I found that less than 20% of the pingbacks are indexed. Most, if not all of the pingbacks I get are from submissions I make to the various blog networks I used so far.
An 88.46% index rate is really something that SEO Link Monster should be proud of. It goes to show that the blogs in the network are being crawled by Google on a daily basis and I also think it says a lot about the quality of the blogs in the network. PR and age is not everything. But when you combine PR, domain age and index rate you get a pretty good picture about the quality of the network.
Bottom Line
SEO Link Monster is a quality blog network and I think it could be a great addition to my own link building efforts. The PageRanks diversity didn’t knock me off my feet and neither did the domain age information I found, but the index rate which stands at almost 90% tells me a lot more about the network than the PR and domain age. Getting links indexed is not an easy task when it comes to blog networks so I really think that a 90% index rate shows a lot about the quality of the network.
The only downside I see, and it is a major downside, is the price. SEO Link Monster is going to cost $47 for the first month and than it will jump to $147/m. To be honest, I personally think the price is too high. SEO Link Monster doesn’t bring something so big to the table that deserves the high price tag. On the other hand, since it is highly priced, it will mean that it will have fewer users than the other blog networks and that will probably help it keep the quality and the high index rates for a longer period of time.
The bottom line is that SEO Link Monster is a high quality blog network that you should consider using, if you can afford it. I don’t see any reason not to give it a chance since you will only pay $47 for the first month and since it is a Clickbank product which means you are covered for 60 days. As you can see, I managed to gather enough information in 30 days about the network and it did help me rank this review on the first page of Google (my rankings changed daily over the past few days so I don’t know what is the exact ranking but i’m sure you will find me on the top part of the first page if you search for the main product keywords).
SEO Link Monster Update – 01/03/12
There have been some changes since the launch of SEO Link Monster and I posted an update in order to share those changes and what they mean with you so be sure to check it out – SEO Link Monster Update.
I put a lot of work into this SEO Link Monster Review so it would be greatly appreciated if you could share it with the world by liking it, tweeting about it and linking to it.
To your success (and mine 
),
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Hey Dave! I look forward to the review. And I hear you man there are way too many junk products being released on CB. I was going to really jump into CB review sites but noticed the same thing and I really didn’t like the feeling it gave me promoting junk products.
I like feeling proud of the things I promote and spend time reviewing. Any how man seems like SEO monster is going to be a great product.
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Hi Joshua, I hear you about feeling like you are actually helping out and not trying to simply make a buck.
SEOLinkMonster is very interesting and I really want to see what the results of the case study will show. Will just have to wait and see
P.S. sorry for the late reply…
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Hey Dave,
My room mate told me about your blog. Love your writing style bro!
So much BS out there it’s refreshing
Will reserve my judgement on seo link monster and see if it really is worth the investment but will get it through your link if i decide to get it
Btw: How do you make those “fade in effects” with your images? Looks wicked
Cheers,
…
Armin
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Thanks Armin.
The fade in effects are part of the skin i’m using
Hi Dave,
learned a lot from your blog. I’ll also be promoting SEO Link Monster but it seems the competition on Google is getting tougher.
It is going to be a pretty big launch so I expect the competition to be pretty strong. I just hope the product will be good. Best of luck
Hey Dave,
Nice to know you’re on top of this product. I hope that the Callen brothers did their homework and that the sites are of high quality on this network.
We hope the same thing
Only time will tell and i’m glad I have the option to do this case study before the product goes live.
Very nice review Dave. Me too I’m going to promote Seo Link Monster. I’ve created a website review and I’ll soon start building links. Your review Dave, gave me a good insight on the product as I didn’t get an early access to the product. Realy nice review, keep up !
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Hi Dave,
Looks like a nice progressive seo link monster review
Two short questions:
#1 Are you using spinnables for the articles? Thinking of getting the new batch vita released.
#2 How many links are you putting in the articles and most importantly where?
Thx
Hey Dave,
Also found your MTSUP Video.
#3 How do you copy over the carriage returns (=new lines) on the Unspin-iT tool > Result> Copy to clipboard?
Copying to the clipboard doesn’t seem to be working for me :-/
Thx for your time again,
JD
Hi,
#3 Not sure I understood your question. I just click the copy to clipboard and it works for me.
Hi JD,
#1 Yes. I used the Ultra Spinnable Articles for the submissions.
#2 Each article has 3 links inside and I am adding them with the MTUSP’s at the beginning, middle and end of each article.
Hey Dave,
Found your blog as saw that SEO Link Monster was going to be big and as I’ve just started an affiliate review site I wanted to see how people constructed their review, their writing styles and so forth and I love what you’ve got going here
Also was looking for some bonus ideas but didn’t find any..
Anyways, kudos to you for a wicked site I’ve decided to aspire to try to match your success here
Hi Dan, your comment is amazing as I was doing the exact same thing you just said you did about a year or so ago and it turned out pretty great for me so I wish just the same, if not more for you
Best of luck.
I have a question a little OT but not so muthc.
How you manage, wath kind of service you use, to manage multiple website and have it all on different IP class?
Thank you for your kind rep!
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Hey Dave,
I wanted to jump in here to clear a few things up just so that everyone is on the same page…
@ the posting rate…
We’ve been using this for the past year, and it’s also the same system that has been working so well for our Elite users over at seolv Elite.
SEOLinkMonster will give users a guaranteed 14 posts (publishes) per day. This is no matter if you have 1 article or 20 articles in the system. It’s set to 14 posts per day. You’re able to add up to 3 links PER ARTICLE. So essentially, if you added just one article to the system, with 3 different links in it, you can generate 294 one way links to your sites… in just 1 week. Now, if you add 2 articles to the system… you’re still going to get 14 publishes in total, but it will be randomly distributed between the 2 articles. The system is set up this way for a reason… it works.
I’ll be upfront though… if you only add one article to the system and let it sit there for a while, there’s a chance that you can over-optimize the site that you’re linking to… simply because the links that it’s building for you are high quality links and they get indexed very quickly. So for new sites that you’re trying to rank for, you will want to take it slow… put the article(s) in the system for a little while, then slowly remove them OR instead of using all 3 links in each article, you can back off a bit.
We have a “Best Practices” Instructions Page in the members area that explains everything and actually walks you through exactly what WE do to get our sites ranked high by using SEOLinkMonster. It’s the exact same steps we use for our sites…
And YES, the strategies do change depending on the site that we’re trying to rank. We have different strategies that we follow if the site is new as compared to an old authority site. Or if our site is an exact match domain, we use a different strategy. The good part about this though, is that SEOLinkMonster works for all types of sites… you may just need to adjust your method slightly. And we tell you what we’re doing, so you can in a sense “inherit” our knowledge of how to use the system rather than starting from scratch. I’m not sure if Dave has followed our best practices or not. My guess is that he hasn’t since it sounds like he’s added a ton of articles to the system at once and expected to receive 14 posts per article.
Sorry for pointing that out, Dave. haha
@Dave… if for some odd reason you’re running into any tech issues or anything at all, shoot me an email. You’ve got my address. I’d rather get the tech issue sorted out directly with you since it’s most likely a user-specific issue, as opposed to reading it on your blog… if ya know what I mean.
@ the HIGH Indexing Rate…
This is so true! The reason that we have such a high “natural” indexing rate is simply because the sites are being crawled by Google. Again, they’re the types of sites that Google loves….
@ the PR of some sites in the network
On a side note: All domains that are purchased have AT LEAST a PR1 at the minimum. Most are higher though, but may temporarily bump down to a PR1 simply due to a temporary “loss” that happens during the exchange of the site to us when the parked page appears. But then a “visible” PR reappears as soon as Google does a PR update. This is common across the board whenever you purchase an aged website.
The sites have age, PR, incoming links, history, etc… or a combination of each. We don’t just buy a site because it has a high or low PR. That’s just one indication to the quality of a site… and in fact, it’s not even a good indicator. A lot of people think that it is… and yes, it’s important… but there are a lot of other qualities that a site possesses when it is “deemed” worth of being in our network. Dori is the brains behind hand picking the sites, and she’s been doing this for about 10 years now… so she knows a thing or two about it.
Just know that PR is not the only indicator, as I’m sure you’re already aware Dave.
Hopefully that clears some things up. We’re stoked about the launch of this product, and we all stand behind it 100%. It’s one of those products (services) that we’re extremely happy to put our names on because it’s going to help a lot of people.
chat soon!
Matt
Hi Matt,
You just beat me to it man
I was about to email you and get some things cleared up but looks like you covered pretty much everything here. You are correct when saying I didn’t check your best practices (my bad) and the reason I added the articles is because I failed to understand the daily submission limit (my bad again). If I would have figured that out from the get go it would have saved me some time but again, my bad.
I haven’t been running into any tech issues and i’m not sure if I was implying that I did in the review itself. You can be sure that if I did I would have emailed you already. I didn’t have any intention of implying that something is wrong (tech wise) with your service without making sure to let you know about it.
I agree that PR isn’t everything and while in the first 2 weeks I focused on that I also added the domain age factor the third week so that people will get a better picture of the domains quality.
Thanks for making an appearance here and clearing stuff up for everyone.
Hi Dave, can you tell me which plugin are you using to display ratings in your reviews? For example, in this review, you have given 3 star rating to SEO Link Monster.
Hi Param, the plugin is called Author hReview and you can download it for free on WordPress.org.
I noticed a link to the Class C hosting company you use in this thread. I checked out their site and then started looking into Class C hosting in general.
I have been marketing online for 15 years, why didn’t I ever realize what this all meant? I gave myself a good slap in the back of the head.
If you have tried out other hosts and found them unsuitable I would like to know about them. This is a great topic for a blog post. Plus, I certainly would not mind using your affiliate link to any of these services.
Hi Martin, the company I listed is the only one I used for SEO hosting and did so thanks to a recommendation I got from a friend.
I am very happy with their service and unfortunately they don’t have an affiliate program yet but unlike others, I don’t mind recommending service even if I don’t make money from doing so
thank you Dave this is the best review I have seen ever. You are the best. I have bookmarked your site and looking forward to buy SEO link Monster from your link. I just want something from you and I hope you do not mind. I want you to give me your personal E-mail so I can chat with you please.
Thanks
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Anes amrani
Hi Anes, thank you for you kind words. If you want to contact me, simply use the contact page on the blog. That goes to my personal email and I always reply within 24 hours.
Thanks.
Hey Dave,
Have been testing seo link monster as well and kudos to Matt and the rest of the team for creating something so AWESOME!
Something i’ve been doing that has been helping me obliterate the competition is by using seolm to improve the rankings of my “supporting pages”.
These are pages that are internally linked to the main page but are floating around page 3.
In a nutshell:
- I’m using a maximum of two links per article that i’m selecting at random per each seed article (=Random is good for progressive growth)
- Each seed article points to a supporting page (=The page that’s not on page1)
- The backlink juice from the supporting page helps the main page (Assuming the pages are internally linked)
Sweet equation for a double ranking
Cheers,
Adam
Hi Adam, I think that the one missing thing is the results you got
Hey Dave,
I remember Brad mentioning on a webinar i watched once that it’s “unwise” yapping about specific rankings (=stress on specific) in public so i’ll follow his wise words
However the page was on page3 before i started the test which is what i found so remarkable.
Could have also been a gift from the G gods but i will try to repeat the success again with a less authoritive page.
How many links are you using per article and have you tested seolm on interlinked pages?
Would be interesting to see if we get the same results but then again i’m guessing most of your pages are already on page one
Cheers and God Bless,
Adam
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Hey Dave,
Forgot to ask you a question.
Wanted to do some retesting on my side with some analytics to eliminate the probability of a fluke on my last test.
Pretty difficult making an assessment without revealing the pages and compromising the network :-/
Do you think ahrefs and the Ref IPs in the backlinks section would make a good enough metric for future tests?
Have no idea how to use the tool you’re using.
Thanks m8,
Adam
p.s. Enough spam from me and thanks in advance
Dave — thank you for doing this excellent review of SEO Link Monster. You obviously put a lot of work into this project. Thanks for sharing your results.
I do have one quick question for you. I was listening to a “2012 Preview” webinar several weeks ago from Dan Theis and Leslie Rohde and if I heard them right they said that Google is going to start cracking down on blog networks. Dan and Leslie are well connected and they are pretty smart guys. If what I believe they said is in fact true, do you have any concerns about powering your web pages with networks like SEO Link Monster?
Hi Jon, I have been hearing that Google is going to crack down on blog networks for over a year now. I don’t know who Dan and Leslie are and I am pretty sure they are not Google employees so they don’t really know when and if Google will make such a move.
With that said, It does make sense that Google might target blog networks and that is the reason I am using a number of blog networks along with other link building methods. If you stop doing something because you think Google might do something about it in the future than you are missing out. If I thought the same way a year ago, I wouldn’t be where I am today. Blog networks have helped me a lot.
The most important thing is to never rely on just one service or one type of link building. Diversify you link building efforts.
I really appreciate your article. I listened to their webinar last night hosted by Dori Friend and was impressed but also skeptical. The information you provided will certainly help me decide whether I will proceed or not. Thanks
Hey Dave,
I really appreciate the in-depth and honest review you bring to the table. Not many marketers out there are like you. Most just put up a review just to earn a commission but you tell it as it is. Very good job and good luck. By the way, you may have been doing a lot of other task to rank this review but there was a pr update and this review page is pr 4 and I think SEOLM has a lot to do with it. A page I used it on went to pr 3 from 5 article submission and nothing else. So overall it isn’t so bad!
All the best
……
Casey Gentles
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Hi Casey, thanks for the great feedback and I had no idea this page in now PR4. Pretty cool
As I mentioned in the review, SEO Link Monster seems to be a quality network but I think it is a bit overpriced. For those that can afford it, it is recommended.
Hi Dave,
It is fine, but you did not mention the rankings improvement. I only care the better rankings. I use nowadays only 2 networks BMR and HighPR Society with unique articles only. They are working fine and provide indexed posts and ranking improvements fast and. I tried other things like BLG Baclkinks Genie (it was a piece of shit) one of my site dropped from first page to 18th.
Hi John, as you can probably see what I focused here was about the quality of the blogs in the network. I can’t really provide you with any ranking details except for using the network to promote this review.
very good review I have to say. I think I’ll stick with TK. Thanks for taking the time!
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I’m not going to shove a link in here… This really was a good review, I write them myself and you put me to shame…..
Brian
Great Review Thanks!!!!
I currently use SENukeX and some of the “Digi” products from Andy Fletcher, primarily Digi Traffic Accelerator that gives you Social BookMarks.
Do you think that SEO Link Monster is better than SENukeX? SeNukeX has Social Network and Article Directory modules, but SEO Link Monster posts to blogs instead.
Just want to know if I should switch from SENukeX to SEO Link Monster.
-Glenn
Hi Glenn, just because SENuke X and SEO Link Monster are priced the same doesn’t mean they are the same. I don’t think you can compare the two since they go about link building differently.
If you should switch or not is up to you but I can tell you that I stopped using SENuke X a couple of months ago just to see how I will do without it and I am doing pretty good. SENuke X isn’t for everyone and you really need to know how to use it in order to make full use of what it can do. The learning curve is quite steep with SENuke X.
Hi Dave, that’s also my question. I was about to give SENuke X a try until I heard about SEO LM launch. Thank you very much for the comprehensive review. It helps me make a wise decision.
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Excellent review. After getting an email pushing this program and watching the video on their salespage I honestly couldn’t figure out what the heck this thing does (they win an award for the least informative video on a sales page)
So, up to 14 links a day x 30 days =420 links/month, divide by 150$ and you get around 2.5 links per dollar spent. I suppose considering what else you could get for a buck it’s actually pretty good.
A question btw, if you only have 1 article, will it be submitted to 14 sites every day forever (as long as you are a member)
Anyway, seems like a pretty nice tool, best thing is of course the automation of it, even if you don’t write any new articles you are stil getting links. BMR seems better (more potential links, if you are linking to more than 1 site) but obviously you need to actually write content for bmr, no content no links.
And considering you’ll be hard pressed to find a bmr quality article for less than a 1$, you are basically looking at the price of link as being 1$+, compared to link monster which offers it at 3 links /1$. Not to mention it demands a lot less work.
Only question is if link monster’s links will be as good as bmr links (or rather 1/3 as good since you get 3+ for the price of 1bmr link)
It is actually 14 submissions every day and each submission can have up to 3 links. If you have one article it will be submitted 14 times everyday until it will go into all the blogs in the network (I think).
I also think that BMR links would be more valuable but they are different type of links and comparing these 2 networks is wrong in my opinion.
If you had to choose one tool Dave, would you use BMR or SEO Link Monster?
Ready to pull the trigger, just trying to figure out which one is better.
Thanks
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I guess that would depend on the number of domains you need to promote but I would probably go with BMR (5 domains for $59/m) and use the $90 I have left to outsource around 100 posts to publish.
Excelent review.. Just what I wanted to know and more. I wanted a thorough analysis and comparison. Looks like this system is good.
Will try it this week.
Do you think there will be a duplicate penalty and do you think these links will stay?
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Not sure what you mean about the duplicate penalty and as long as the network is live I would assume the links will stay live.
Awesome Review, it helped me get a clear pictures of the blog networks, their article syndication stats and their overall benefit in terms of price and links. It really makes one make a better selection of which networks to go for.
Thanks Dave for this review, I have few question please answer them
1) SLM accept spun content or unique content like BMR?
2) Whats the limit of article distribution?
3) How many domains you can add in SLM?
4) Whats the min word count for article?
Thanks in advance.
Hi Jimmy,
1) Yes, SLM accepts spun content.
2) You will get 14 daily submissions.
3) There is no need to add domains to SLM.
4) The article must be 2 sentences minimum and 500 words maximum.
Hi Dave,
found your site through the SEO Link Monster review page on the Warrior Forum. You did great job with this review and now I am on the fence… I was going to try the High PR Society, since they have High PR blogs where you can post articles, get blog comments and have blogroll links on actual home page…that means the link juice will be great.
Now with the SEOLM, do they allow blog commenting or actual High PR page links? Also would be great if you could tell us about some rank improvements? Did you notice the sites you used the SEOLM for to go up in Google?
Thanks for your input.
Brett
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Hi Brett, SEOLM won’t provide you with any PR links like you will get from home page backlinks? It is just a blog network like the others which has a really high index rates so most of your links will count unlike other blog networks. I didn’t do any ranking tests yet but I will do that and share my results once I have some.
Thanks.
Great review, too bad I read it AFTER joining SEOLM otherwise I would sure have joined through your link.
Anyway the indexing rates ARE indeed very impressive (36 links indexed so far out of 42 articles submitted and this is after less than 24h of submitting the first article).
However I am thinking maybe the Callen brothers have integrated an indexer into the system to get posts indexed.
I will wait a few more days and use SEO spyglass to find out if my post urls have backlinks pointing to them.
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Dave:
It’s posible to add articles in spanish? or any other language.
Thanks in advance,
Joaquin Poggi
Hi Joaquin,
I actually don’t know. I will try to figure it out and let you know if and when I do.
Dave – After the launch of SEO Link Monster, I googled for the review and found this site. Fantastic review! Thanks for writing so clear and honest and providing such good information. If you were to pick ONE blog network to purchase today, which one would it be? (I’m guessing ArticleRanks?) Thanks!
That would depend on your budget and how many sites you need to promote at the same time.
Excellent review Dave!
Whenever I search for an IM product review, I always keep an eye out for one of your pages. I never click on the keyword domains, and some of the other branded sites I don’t trust.
But you are doing it right! I suspect your readership grows day by day. This type of work will benefit you greatly in the long haul; as well as providing us with useful information.
When I watched the demo vid from SEOLM, I had the same reaction as a previous commenter. The video is a marketing masterpiece, but tells you almost nothing about the product. It’s a shame when you have to leave the products site to actually find out information about it.
I recently signed up for Traffic Kaboom after reading your review for that. While I haven’t seen any dramatic results yet, it’s clear they care about the quality of their network. I actually get links from sites in my niche.
I’m sure SEOLM is good quality, but it seems overpriced. And I find it a bit odd that you can post 2 sentence articles….and there’s no preview feature???
You would think that with a product like this; they would do more to keep their network high quality. Many TK sites look like legitimate blogs.
Keep up the good work!
Michael
Thanks for the great feedback Michael. I understand what you say but as long as the index rate will remain so high, that is enough proof that the quality of the network is still high. I don’t really know why they will accept 2 sentence articles but i’m sure that if users will start abusing that they will changes the limits.
If 2 sentence articles are allowed; then how is that abusing it?
People will do it because it is easy. I also suspect that many articles will be posted with {incorrect|wrong}} spyntax because of the lack of a preview in the editor.
And I didn’t come here to knock anybodies product. The Callen brothers are very successful in IM and I commend them for it. But before I buy something, I want to know a little about it.
Sure, you can get a refund. But what’s your time worth???
Hey Dave..
Thanks for the review… much appreciated as always..
BTW… for your entire promotion for link building on this review.. what did you use exactly? SEOLM?? Or a combination of other tools? How many USA’s did you use? What spinning level did you use on theleadingarticles to get your spun content?
Thanks Brother
Sean
Hi Sean, I used mostly SEO Link Monster and a few posts on BMR.
Thanks for such an in depth review. Heavy reading but quite worthwhile. I must say that I’m keen to try this blog network out but the price just seems crazy to me. I suppose if your site really converts well and you use SEO Link monster maybe it would be worthwhile but since I haven’t quite got that right, I have now way of knowing if the extra traffic it would bring me would be big enough or valuable enough to justify the enormous outlay. I think I’ll probably wind up using it eventually but for now I just don’t have that kind of budget for an uncertain result.
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Great review, very informative…
Hi, Dave. What does the BMR mean?
BMR means BuildMyRank.
Good review, still unsure about that blog network tho
Great… Sounds good Dave…
Cheers Dave
Sean
Great honest review Dave.
Wanted to ask if you have any experience with Backlinks Genie or if you would be up for doing a review.
Hi Dave,
SEO LM also offers Monster Niche Finder and Link Booster. Any comment on these two products?
Thanks a lot!
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Hi Mary, nope. Can’t really comment on these products since I haven’t used them.
Run from this shi** program… Your links do not go on “authority network”… they go on pr n/a… So basically they charge you to upload your content and build there network to hopefully some day have pr… but at that point they will remove it from the network and add more n/a`s for everyone to build up… These are called sh** links… You can pay 69.00 for 3k article links with my link club and most of the articles go on websites that at least have homepage rank… This one is the worst… RUN
I wasn’t sure if I want to approve your comment but I decided that I would. I guess you didn’t use this network yourself so coming here and claiming it is sh** is not really fair.
You also mention all the links go to blogs with PR N/A but you can clearly see that it isn’t the case. You do get links from PR0 to PR3. It seems that you, like many others, put too much weight on PR without giving any thought to other important factors such as index rate. I wonder what would be your index rate of the 3K links you build for people at your link club. I am more than willing to bet that it won’t be close to 88.5% (or 50%, or even 20%) and I wonder what you call 3K article links, quality links?
If you don’t want to use SEO Link Monster than don’t. If you want to claim it is sh** than at least use it, test it, share you results and back your claims with some proof. Just be fair about it.
Hi Dave
This is the first time i ran into your site. Just like lots of other people i watched that sales page video for SEOLM and was like WTF? no info on the product and found you through google. I just got done reading the whole review and all the comments. One of the BEST and most HONEST reviews i have read of all time.
I also looked at some other reviews you have on your site and they are good too. I booked marked your site for future reference.
I just have one question really on SEOLM and that is do you know if they are going to have the product available for a certain amount of time, then close the doors on it or are they going to keep it open to the public for awhile?
p.s
ill be buying through your affiliate link and anyone else that is going to that read this review give him credit were he deserves it and do the same!
Hi Thomas, I don’t think SEOLM will be closing. I didn’t hear anything about that.
Thanks for the great feedback
Hi Dave,
I have just purchased the SEOLM package and then came across your article (very informative by the way). Since reading your article it has given me a little bit more confidence in the package.
I have one question though. In the instructions it says it is not advisable to do your 3 links in 1 article to the same keyword to the same URL. Are you able though to do the 3 links to the same URL using different keywords?
I will report back in a couple of weeks to tell you if there is any change to my rankings while using this product.
Thanks and regards. Chris
Hi Chris, I agree that you shouldn’t link to the same URL with the same anchor text for all 3 links you add to the article. You sure can use different anchor text for each links and I would even recommend to only add links to the same domain. That is how I do it.
Good to read your review post since you tested it. Callen brothers are well respected and have good products. I am just thinking whether it is worth investing $147 per month.
Thanks for the in-depth review.
Thanks for the in depth review Dave. Its getting harder and harder to find honest impartial reviews online and yours was the most detailed and honest review on an IM product I think I have ever seen. I’ll be going through the rest of your posts and reviews asap.
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Thanks. That is exactly what I am trying to do
Interesting case study, I think I’ll have to do one too I think. I’ve been planning on setting up a new blog, this would be a good time to do it. I had always used Google Monitor for tracking my post’s SEO progress the thing I like about SEO Link Monster is it’s tracking capabilites. Nice review!
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Hey Dror,
I have to say I fell onto your blog accidentally searching for insight on SEOLinkMonster. I joined SELM and wasn’t blown away as of yet by the difference from other networks and was looking to see if I was missing something.
My initial expectation was to find another “blah, blah, blah, here’s my affiliate link” kind of review but I was pleasantly surprised!
Thank you for standing head and shoulders above all the other marketers out there with this thorough and objective review!!
You now have a new follower and I will be back often to cross-reference your content
Thanks a bunch!
In Success,
Howie Perks
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Thanks Howie,
Got to tell you that gaining followers was more important to me than making sales with SLM so your comment really made my day
So far I have had about 62ish submissions and I checked every single URL and it says they are all PR n/a. Now i just checked with the firefox seo plugin so i don’t know if thats 100% reliable, but it has seemed to be pretty reliable in the past….all in all, i guess i just dont know what to think at this point. i did notice that several domains were aged anywhere from 3-10 years so basically I cant come to any real conclusions at this point. I surely wouldn’t say i am satisfied thus far though.
The greatest and very useful review.
I agree SLM price is outrages.
Thanks
Dave, An absolutely huge review – thanks! I’ve been researching for several days both products; Link Vine and Link Monster, not knowing which is better and which to purchase. I contacted their support staff and they were helpful, but your review provided detailed answers I was looking for. I agree, I think the pricing is high but for the niche I plan on producing (which is still somewhat untapped) I think the backlinks it will provide could push me to the top. Probably worth a shot for a month or two and if the results are good, then keep going.
Thanks again Dave.
Dror — I noticed that your site is no longer on page one for the search term “SEO Link Monster” and it is now on page eight. I believe you stated that SEO Link Monster was one of the primary tools you used to get your site ranked on page one for the aforementioned search term. Do you have any idea why Google has dropped your site to page eight? If SEO Link Monster played a role in your rise to page one, could it have also played a role in your drop to page eight?
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Hi Jon, since my SEO Link Monster Review is not the only page that lost its rankings and I didn’t use SLM on other pages that also lost rankings I don’t think it has anything to do with it.
I do have an idea why I lost the rankings but I will only share that if I will be able to prove that i’m correct. In any case, it didn’t have anything to do with SLM (in my opinion).
I wonder that some of these comments regarding loss of PR and other dissatisfied results with N/A PR links may have something to do with Google tracing out which blogs are within this system.
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Hey Dror,
I just read a review by Chris over at Link Building Lab that seems to point to the hypothesis that Link Monster blogs are being deindexed by Google (http://linkbuildinglab.com/seo-link-monster-case-study). Chris reported that nearly all of his links had been deindexed (a week earlier his index rate was almost 80%). Is there any way you could run your links again to see what the index rate is and update us on what you find? Very interested to see if your links are still indexed after reading Jon Poland’s comment above.
Best,
Pat
Hi Pat, Chris talked to me about that issue and I did tell him that all of my URLs are also no longer indexed. I was sure he included that in his update.
In any case, I am checking into this and I will be posting an update soon, after I will get all the information I need.
Thanks for the quick reply. Interesting that both of you experienced the same thing. Hopefully Dori, Brad and Matt can find a way to address this.
Chris didn’t directly mention that you had the same deindexing experience, but I’m sure he’ll add it eventually. Right now it says you had about an 88% index rate.
Hi Dave Its Thomas again
I was thinking about trying out SEOLM but then noticed you only gave it 2 stars?
now i am not sure if that is a good idea….
I understand i am supposed to get different types of links for off page seo.
…and i was going through your reviews and other reviews. I am trying to decided which services i should get started with. I want to make sure i pick the best ones and i dont pick the same services that provide the same kinds of links
What products would you recommend the most to use for seo???
Its very hard to decide which ones to pick with soooo many out there.
So far i plan on trying BUILD MY RANK, thats good right?
Thanks in advance Dave
Hi Thomas, there have been some changes with SEO Link Monster and I shared them in my SEO Link Monster Update post so you can check that out. I think BMR are closed for new members so you won’t be able to join until they reopen the doors. To be honest, I don’t know which service to recommend right now as after the latest Google update i’m need to figure out what is still working. I hope that within a couple of weeks the dust will settle from that big update and things will be clearer.
google update? whats the update all about? and is there anywhere to go to learn more about it?
Hi Thomas, I wrote a post about it – Rankings Drop, Googe Panda 3.3 And Lessons Learned – so you can check that out.
Dude. Your rating for this is 1 star out of 5, you begin your review with almost killing the product but then you end up with nearly advising it, I just dont get it…
Hi JJ,
This review was a live on going review which included a case study. I started the product with a 3 star rating but after some changes and a more in depth look at the service I dropped it to one and explained all the new thing that I found out in a new post that I link to at the end of the review. http://dbpmarketing.com/seo-link-monster-update/