This is an update for my original SubmitEdge Case Study post from earlier this month.

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.