Alright so the SubmitEdge case study did not go so great.  I cannot say that I would recommend SubmitEdge for major link building stuff.  In short, I do recommend their service for submitting to directories but as of now I would not recommend their niche link building service and below is why.

Basically I spent $170 on 10 one way relevant links from PR2 or higher sites to one of my niche sites using SubmitEdge.  To start off they only allow two different anchor texts and only allow links to one page.  I didn’t mind this because, relatively speaking, the price is pretty low.  I submitted my two anchor texts and the link I wanted to point to and waited for my report from SubmitEdge detailing the sites mine was submitted to.  Ten days after submitting my order I get my detailed report of backlinks and the first thing I did was visit one of the sites.  This is a small screen shot of what I saw:

You can click the image to make it bigger. Basically the page is a small farm of links that would not pass any kind of human inspection by Google or other search engines. I visited the other sites and they were more of the same. Bad news for my site. I am by no means no expert as far as what happens with a human visual inspection but best case scenario, if one of these sites were to get reported and looked over by a Google employee they would penalize the link farm and disregard any links given out (I’m out $170.) Worst case scenario? All the sites being linked to would get deindexed (ouch.)

So this is a fairly new site I submitted and I plan on burying these shady links with UAW links and lots of other link building strategies so I’m not to worried about it.  Will I use SubmitEdge again for building these types of links?  No.  I will stick with their directory submission service but this niche link building thing is not their forte.

Next post I will discuss a better way to spend $170 or so on link building and get much more for your money.

Update on SubmitEdge Case Study is a post from Niche Link Juice. Check us out and submit your niche topics.

I am doing a bit of an experiment using SubmitEdges’ service and plan on documenting the results here at Niche Link Juice.

I have used SubmitEdge before as a supplement to my link building but only in a very minor way.  Specifically I used it to blast out directory submissions for some of my old school very thin BANS sites I used to throw up.  I say old school but it was just last year and really those sites used to do very awesome before Google shook things up a bit.  I would put up one of those sites, use SubmitEdge to get some good anchor text backlinks out there and let the ePN earnings roll in, it was magic stuff.  I know everyone frowns on directory submissions but they work and I still get traffic to the sites I built those links to.  Much cheaper to submit them manually but SubmitEdge just saves so much time.

I haven’t used SubmitEdge for awhile and I build and market niche sites way different than before.  But I am going to do a little test run with a site I built a few months back that I have not done any link building for yet.  It’s got plenty of content, is fully indexed and has enough age to it for some good link building and I am going to use SubmitEdge for some links.  I am not going to do any other link building to it other than SubmitEdges’ service.  I ordered a niche link building package of 10 links to PR2 or better sites at $170.  Pricey?  Yes!  But it would take me a week of searching around for these types of links and I want to see what SubmitEdge has to offer.

SubmitEdge is a very straighforward SEO service and I would love to add it to the niche site tools I already use but I wanted a way to test how well it works and the return a service of this type offers.  So I will track the results and post them later.  So far this niche site does damn near nothing for me and I expect that as I only have done on-site work for it.  It is a pretty competitive niche and I rank nowhere near the first 10 pages of Google’s SERPs for the term I am targeting.  I will follow up soon with how this experiment is going!

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