PowerLinks

Newbie question.
Come across this site while trying to get some more links to my site.
http://www.powerlinks.com/
They advertise a Auto Link system that looks on the face of it, quite good.
Has anyone used them before? Are they any good?
And, most important, do these links really increase PR, or are they likely
to get me banned!
What's best, get them to host an "Extra" links page, so that the links are
not reciprocal?

Thanks in Advance.

PS. Main reason for asking is this link building thing is taking "heaps" of
time
Still willing to do it, but is there an easier way then visiting each site
and doing things one at a time...

OK. I take it from the silence that this place is either very good or very
bad.
As its definatly SEO related, and I cant see why if it was bad, someone
would not just tell me, I'm left to think that it's probably one of the
seacrets that most SEO techs dont want people to know about.
Or is it that with a subject just stating a site name, most people have
assumed it spam?
Damn. Just left guessing here.
Does anyone have anything to say about this site and their service, Good or
Bad
I'm seriously looking at using them, and I saw wondering if thats a good
idea or not...

Thanks... Philip Middleton
MSM Supplies Australia
www.msmaustralia.com.au


"Philip" <philip@_remove this_msmaustralia.com.au> wrote

Newbie question.
Come across this site while trying to get some more links to my site.
http://www.powerlinks.com/
They advertise a Auto Link system that looks on the face of it, quite
good.
Has anyone used them before? Are they any good?
And, most important, do these links really increase PR, or are they likely
to get me banned!
What's best, get them to host an "Extra" links page, so that the links are
not reciprocal?

Thanks in Advance.

PS. Main reason for asking is this link building thing is taking "heaps"
of
time
Still willing to do it, but is there an easier way then visiting each site
and doing things one at a time...

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 21:32:55 +0800, "Philip" <philip@_remove
this_msmaustralia.com.au> wrote:

OK. I take it from the silence that this place is either very good or very
bad.

Or no one here has ever heard of them.

As its definatly SEO related, and I cant see why if it was bad, someone
would not just tell me, I'm left to think that it's probably one of the
seacrets that most SEO techs dont want people to know about.

LOL

Or is it that with a subject just stating a site name, most people have
assumed it spam?
Damn. Just left guessing here.
Does anyone have anything to say about this site and their service, Good or
Bad

Not really, never heard of them and didn't look at the site.

I'm seriously looking at using them, and I saw wondering if thats a good
idea or not...

Probably not, I'd guess they expect a link to their home page or
something that basically advertises to Google you are buying links.

Ok, looked at the site now-

"Use your own links page, or let us host one for you. Once you become
a member, we will initially provide you with a few simple lines of
code to place on your links page. Our automated system will then
continually update the links on your websites link page dynamically.
You will never have to worry about checking for broken links or
improper category placement. "

This makes it very, very, very easy for Google and other engines in
one small algo change to discount or even ban ever page involved in
what is basically a link farm.

Think this bit confirms it's a link farm-

"Total control over exclusion filters. You can choose to either
exchange links with all of our members immediately after subscribing,
or pick and choose which websites you want to exchange with.
PowerLinks.com allows you to exclude individual sites or even entire
categories. You can also choose to screen all new member's websites
before approving exchanges with them if you so desire."


If you setup links with all members you are part of a link farm.

You'd have to be nuts to signup for something like this since search
engines hate link farms. Check that site in a years time and I'd bet
they'll be PR0 or even deleted. Based on the backlinks of the home
page it might even be a new scheme.

this looks like the list of sites participating in the scheme -
http://www.powerlinks.com/links.asp

This might be the sort of place they put your links-
http://pub32.bravenet.com/freelink/s...46997011&cpv=1

This one is for this site http://www.retiredladies.com/ PR0

Their post at
http://www.powerlinks.com/forum/foru...ID=12&get=last is a
little worrying.

Up since April, lots of link schemes, PR0.

Get access to their forums for free here
http://www.powerlinks.com/forum/default.asp

I'd also say based on the PR of http://www.powerlinks.com (just 5) the
link exchange isn't exactly doing that well for it's participants! PR5
is pathetic for a site like this, it should be PR7 or PR8 if it's a
"good" link farm due to all the great quality links :-)

If you still plan to use this site at least checkout the PR and SERPs
for sites on this set of pages http://www.powerlinks.com/links.asp if
they aren't doing well expect the same.

Thanks... Philip Middleton
MSM Supplies Australia
www.msmaustralia.com.au

David
--
http://www.search-engine-optimization-services.co.uk/

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Newbie question.
Come across this site while trying to get some more links to my site.
http://www.powerlinks.com/
They advertise a Auto Link system that looks on the face of it, quite
good.
Has anyone used them before? Are they any good?
And, most important, do these links really increase PR, or are they likely
to get me banned!
What's best, get them to host an "Extra" links page, so that the links are
not reciprocal?

Thanks in Advance.

PS. Main reason for asking is this link building thing is taking "heaps"
of
time
Still willing to do it, but is there an easier way then visiting each site
and doing things one at a time...

The power linking scheme that looks hopeful right now is BriteCorp:

http://www.britecorp.co.uk/search-en...link-building/

Brian at BriteCorp seems like a pretty sharp SEO.

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Will
Webmaster: http://www.internet-search-engines-faq.com