Build My Rank Review
- Batch Upload – Just added! This is absolutely our favorite new feature of Build My Rank and one that NO ONE ELSE is offering – the ability to upload all of your posts in a “batch” process via a simply CSV file. This means that you can purchase your content and have them provide you an export of it into a CSV file which you can upload in one click and post 100 posts or more with a single click of the mouse. No more manual, one-by-one uploads of each post!
- Links to Your Links – They actively go out and get backlinks for the posts that you make on their site. This is great to get your post Indexed quicker as well as bring additional authority to your post, and thus to your site as well.
- Support for Restricted User Access – This allows you to create additional users that can access your account with limited abilities – perfect for giving your VA access to make posts for you but not change any account configurations or settings.
While Build My Rank is the new kid on the block we have to say that we have been very impressed by their responsiveness to client suggestions (we’ve mad many) and improvements. It’s refreshing to see in an industry that so many just “take, take, take”…
Overview
Is Build My Rank the best Linkvana alternative? There are many blog networks out there today – it seems like more and more are coming online all of the time – that’s great for today’s Internet marketer. It seems that 2010 is the year of the blog networks, as several new ones have emerged on the scene. When is more options a bad thing? Build My Rank is very similar to Linkvana and other such blog networks. To compare Linkvana versus Build My Rank, it’s easier to start out with their similarities first. Similar to Linkvana, Build My Rank allows you to post small content blurbs called “posts” which each containing one link. Also following in Linkvana’s footsteps, Build My Rank does not have support for spun content and it distributes your content to its proprietary network of PR1 thru PR6 sites. It appears clear that Build My Rank has purposely positioned itself to be a strong Linkvana alternative. At this point it appears effective, but only time will tell if it can provide the same quality in the long run. Check out the above Build My Rank video and you’ll see it is very similar.
Spin Away
Unfortunately, Build My Rank does not allow you to directly input spun articles and have it generate versions on demand (along the lines of what MyArticleNetwork and SEOLinkVine do). Their reasoning is that they do not want any spammy content and no duplicate content. Oh what we would pay for one of these blog networks to actually allow you to post unlimited high quality spun content… Thus far only Backlink Solutions allows you to spin, but it’s capped at a fixed number of links per day and the interface is cumbersome to use.
The Structure
When looking at Build My Rank vs Linkvana you will see that they both have an elegant simplicity to them. Much of the interface is very similar and the functional differences are small and subtle. One nice feature that BuildMyRank has that Linkvana does not is the ability to define arbitrary groups or projects. In Linkvana a project is defined at the domain level. So, if, for example, you have a client that has 5 domains that you’re doing SEO for, in Linkvana you will have five separate projects. This doesn’t seem like a big deal, but for power users like us with dozens of clients and many, many more (yes, I’m being vague) of our own sites the interface can get very “cramped”. BuildMyRank allows you to create an arbitrary grouping that can house any number of domains and is in a collapsible/expandable list to hide the clutter. Small point, yes, but elegant.
On a direct feature by feature comparison of Linkvana to Build My Rank, you will see that Build My Rank requires 150 words per post, whereas Linkvana only requires 100 words. However, Build My Rank allows you to create longer posts and permits one link per 150 words. This is essentially matched in Linkvana via their “articles” as opposed to “posts”. The Linkvana network is comprised of PR2 thru PR5 sites (according to their sales page). In reality we’ve seen many of our links end up on PR1 sites and a few on PR0. Now, in all fairness, PR is changing all the time, so this is the exception and not the rule. With Build My Rank they claim PR1 through PR6 and so far from our limited testing that is what we are seeing (though we’ve not seen anything yet above PR4). Neither of the networks publish information regarding their size, so that is something we cannot compare.
Also, just like Linkvana, you can outsource the posts to them for the price of $2 per if you don’t want to write them. (NOTE: We recommend using our own ArticlesOnTap.com for better pricing on these posts.) They also give you 10 free posts for a trial account so that you can “test the waters”.
Other Features
The interface for adding posts to Build My Rank is almost a carbon copy of Linkvana, including the ability to post in HTML directly (with the embedded links already created as <a> tags). This is the recommended way to do it in our opinion because it is much faster to embed the destination URL’s direction into the content when spinning – oops, did I say that (shame on me) – and have them all output with the links already inserted and just ready to upload. Inserting the links within the interface can be “tedious” at best.
Also, the scheduling of the posts is again very similar to Linkvana. You can choose from the following options: Randon, 1-3, 4-6 or 7-10 per day. Linkvana has a few more options, but that’s being nitpicky – the above are plenty. This is highly recommended – just upload everything at once and then queue it up to release or trickle out for the month. It is much more convenient that trying to “remember” every day.
The Results
It’s hard to say at this point as the product is so very new. We haven’t given it a thorough run through yet so there is no way we can truly evaluate its performance. I *speculate* that it will be on par with Linkvana, but that is pure speculation. It all depends upon the quality and authority of the blogs in their network. We have started a preliminary test with Build My Rank and will report back on the findings in a few weeks. What is certain is that it is just 40% of the cost of Linkvana, if you purchase a membership during the trial, for what appears to be a very similar product. In reality, only time will tell if the quality is on par or not.
UPDATE (6/25/2010) – BuildMyRank continues to impress us more and more as the days go by. We have found our posts on many PR3, PR4 and even PR5 sites and have been very surprised to say the least. We don’t see as many High PR sites from our Linkvana distributions.
Pricing
As stated above, Build My Rank is cheaper than it’s closest competitor Linkvana – at $129 a month it is well worth it because BMR provides you with an extremely high quality network and therefore high quality backlinks (**TIP** SIGN UP FOR A FREE TRIAL BECAUSE DURING YOUR 14 DAY TRIAL YOU CAN PURCHASE THE MEMBERSHIP FOR $59 A MONTH. WE ARE NOT SURE HOW LONG THEY WILL BE OFFERING THIS LOWER PRICE SO GRAB YOUR FREE TRIAL SOON.) And it still allows unlimited domains and links. Time will tell if they continue to honor that or if they grow too quickly and either have to raise the price or limit the number of links (either one of those scenarios is probably likely given how much cheaper they are than their competition).
Build My Rank Bonus Offer
Build My Rank appears to be a very strong Linkvana alternative at this point, and we are thrilled to be using it. However it wont do you much good without some content to post to Build My Rank. If you purchase Build My Rank via our link we will send you ten (10) FREE 150 word Build My Rank posts each month you stay subscribed to BMR. The articles are provided by ArticlesOnTap.com, so you can be assured they are top quality, 100% unique articles ready to post. You will also receive a 10% off coupon code for any future orders of articles from ArticlesOnTap.com. You wont find a Build My Rank coupon here, but the ArticlesOnTap coupon will come in very handy for content. To redeem these bonuses simply click one of the orange buttons to visit Build My Rank, make your purchase and forward your confirmation email from BMR on to support@articlesontap.com with the subject of give me my bonus. Once we confirm your purchase was made through our link, you will receive your bonuses. Bonus applies to purchasing a paid membership only NOT simply joining as a free trial member.
On May 9, 2010 Cal wrote:
Wow…. Thanks for turning me on to this guys, this is freakin sweet so far.
On May 17, 2010 Joe wrote:
Signed up for the 10 free links, very impressed with the service so far. I will be joining as paid member shortly, queue up the bonus posts guys.
On May 23, 2010 Viza wrote:
I signed up for the 10 free posts and used them right away, the interface is very easy to navigate. I found some of my posts on the web and I found them on PR2, PR3 and even PR4 sites – so I liked that. Right now I am using Linxboss for my sites because it is hands off and automated but shortly I will be joining as a paid member and using BMR to diversify my links. This place is less then 40% the price of Linkvana for the same service, that’s a huge selling point for me.
On May 27, 2010 Kate wrote:
Hello, I’ve browsed most of your posts on this blog. I think I am going to take the plunge on this one. It’s priced right.
On May 28, 2010 BuildMyRank wrote:
Just stopping by guys with a few updates. Over the last few weeks we’ve added individual RSS feed mashups for each post added to one of our sites. Previously posts were indexed within a few days, now in many cases we’re seeing posts indexed in a few hours.
Right now we’re working on options to automatically build backlinks to your submitted content. This will help add extra link juice to your content.
Please feel free to share any feedback.
On May 28, 2010 admin wrote:
John thanks for the updates, keep them coming.
Thanks
Mike
On June 2, 2010 Ivan wrote:
Joined the network by Mike’s recommendation, and so far happy with it. Didn’t test it like Linxboss though, since it seemed pretty safe (Linxboss is pure automation and I’m very suspicious of anything that automatic).
The sites range in pagerank and i’ve seen PR2 – PR 4 from the few times I did random searches on Google.
The system is very strict in terms of content they accept, and will try to filter out anything it deems as dupe or spun content.
A good alternative to Linkvana.
On June 2, 2010 Tim wrote:
Bye Bye Linkvana, I was using Backlink Solutions and Linkvana, I am now going to use Backlink Solutions and Build My Rank for just about the price of Linkvana alone.
On June 12, 2010 best registry cleaner wrote:
great experience, dude! thanks for this great post wow…
On June 14, 2010 Myas wrote:
There is nothing that touches these for high pagerank backlinks.
On June 24, 2010 BuildMyRank wrote:
Hey all, we’re now fully active on the backlink building to your posts. With each post you submit now, we’ll randomly select 25-75 sites to post links back to your posts. These sites including social bookmark sites like Delicious, Twitter, etc, along with various other web 2.0 type properties.
We’ve also added support for external writers. You can create separate logins for your own writers which gives them selected access to projects to post on your behalf.
More to come.. J
On June 24, 2010 Troy wrote:
Great! Thanks for keeping us up-to-date and for the information…
The support for backlinking is a great addition and we’re very glad to see that. I’m especially happy to see that you’ve decided to open up the API a little bit and give people the ability to have their VA’s enter posts for them. That’s a great feature and a good “competitive advantage” for you guys as well.
Keep up the good work and thanks for the update!
-Troy
On June 28, 2010 BuildMyRank wrote:
We’re now setting up tracking for whether posts are indexed, and those that aren’t will have additional backlinks built, rss feeds created, etc until they get indexed.
And we’re adding more and more PR4+ domains to boot too.
On July 1, 2010 Josh wrote:
I was thinking about becoming a member but the sudden DOUBLE in price has made me change my mind =\
On July 1, 2010 admin wrote:
Hi Josh,
I suspected the price was going to go up, in my opinion it was under priced as it was. However, read the pricing section of the review above. If you sign up for the free 14 day trial, and then subscribe to BMR during that 14 day trial period you can still get in for $59 a month.
Hope that helps,
Mike
On July 2, 2010 Sumedh wrote:
Why don’t they allow spinning? I understand not submitting 200 spun copies, but why not have 3 or 4? I think that’s reasonable amount of spinning…
On July 3, 2010 BuildMyRank wrote:
Sumedh, a couple of points:
1) it’s harder to get poorly spun content indexed
2) most users idea of spun content is to run it through something like The Best Spinner, and import it to your system without ever looking at the content, so the result is absolute garbage. With Google so keen on users reporting web spam, that doesn’t interest us. Our goal is to be a long-term link building solution.
3) spun content is also leaving more of a footprint for search engines to follow
On July 5, 2010 Billy Bristol wrote:
Thanks for the great information on this site. BMR is so easy to use. This will be my go-to link builder from now on. Great product!
On July 6, 2010 Charl wrote:
I tried it out. While it seems cheaper on the outside at $60 when you add up the costs of content its more expensive. They require 50% more content than others for unique articles, and they wont allow you to use spun. I went with Backlink Solutions where I can spin my posts and get more bang for my buck. Do the math, Backlink Solutions is the cheapest of them all.
On July 6, 2010 Zachary wrote:
I tried the free 10-backlink promotion. I did so with a lot of excitement and high expectations, mind you.
It’s been about two weeks if I remember correctly. The proof that I obtained new backlinks is nowhere to be found. By searching for the title of the content in quotes, you can find it anywhere on the web. I used Google, Yahoo, and Bing to attempt to find something..ANYTHING.
The results: the content was simply not indexed. I found the titles in unrelated pages of other articles or category pages. There was not even ONE instance in which ANY search engine thought the content that was published was significant enough to even include in SERPs.
So I wish I could comment on the service. But all I can say is that I’ve not been able to find the article, and I took this as a good sign to not actually *pay money* for this service.
On July 7, 2010 admin wrote:
That is shocking Zach, without knowing the particulars I cant actually comment on what happened to you. What I can say is we have found our posts to not only get indexed, but get indexed extremely fast, and we use BMR a lot. I have asked the BMR admin to look into this and hopefully respond here on our site.
Thanks for the feedback!
Mike
On July 7, 2010 BuildMyRank wrote:
Hi Zachary, I took a look at your account. Let’s set the particulars first:
You added 2 posts on June 27th. One for each project.
First of all 2 posts is hardly indicative of a system’s success. Our indexing rate is about 85% out of the gate. And I looked at both of your posts and 1 is indexed, the other isn’t. So that’s 50% out of a sample size of 2. But the strange thing with the unindexed post is that there are other posts indexed before and after (incl posts made on July 4th) your post on this same site. Was this content all original?
And unlike any other system out there that I’m familiar with, we are actually taking measures to get unindexed content indexed. We start tracking indexing after 3 days, and any unindexed posts receive extra backlinks. While we will never get 100% of posts indexed, because some of the factors are out of our control of course, we’ll damn sure die trying.
On July 7, 2010 BuildMyRank wrote:
And Zachary just for the record regarding your comment:
“I found the titles in unrelated pages of other articles or category pages. There was not even ONE instance in which ANY search engine thought the content that was published was significant enough to even include in SERPs.”
These are sites that are backlinking to your posts which only proves that our system is working. Every post has its own RSS feed sent to aggregators and we actively build links to your post thru social bookmarking, blog commenting, etc.
On July 7, 2010 Steve wrote:
Can you confirm the price – is it still $59 when signing up via the above links?
On July 7, 2010 admin wrote:
Hi Steve,
Click the above links and sign up for a free trial. If you subscribe during your trial period the price is still $59. If you do not sign up during your trial and want to sign up later, say after a month the price is $129. So it’s a substantial savings by joining during the trial period, and of course you do get to try it for free during the trial to decide on whether or not you want to become a paying member.
Hope that helps,
Mike
On July 7, 2010 Steve wrote:
Thanks Mike – very impressed with the prompt reply.
Just a couple of questions:
1. I am very much interested however I am about to go overseas until the start of August – will I be able to sign up for $59 at the start of August? (probably the 5th August)
2. I have read that there are around 400 sites in the network. Have you a more up to date figure?
Many thanks,
Steve
On July 7, 2010 Steve wrote:
Another quick question:
What would be your top three in order of quality of these link building programs, MAN,linkvana,buildmyrank etc?
Cheers,
Steve
On July 7, 2010 Troy wrote:
Hi Steve,
There is no published timeframe on this trial offer at the discounted $59 price. They may remove that at any time, so I’m sorry but not an easy answer there. Regarding their network size, that is also not a published or documented item. These private networks like to keep all of those details to themselves. Now, perhaps John (from BMR) may elaborate with some more specific info, but generally they do not reveal network sizes. Keep in mind, they will fluctuate as well. I know from personal conversations with John that he is “expanding” the network almost daily right now – so I know it’s “getting bigger”…
Hope that helps,
-Troy
On July 7, 2010 Troy wrote:
You may wanna check out the Article Submission FAQ for some good info on your question. The reason I say that is that you’re comparing “apples” and “oranges” here. Linkvana and Build My Rank are directly comparable products, but My Article Network is a different type of product altogether. Look at the info on private versus public blog networks…
We use both Linkvana and Build My Rank – they each have their benefits and drawbacks. Look at this post as well: Comparing Build My Rank versus Linkvana.
You may also want to see our Best List
Hope that helps…
-Troy
On July 7, 2010 Steve wrote:
Thanks Troy,
It is all very interesting and such a hard choice to make!
Will probably go for buildmyrank when I return from my trip – it looks like John is the type of guy who is happy to answer questions and he is possibly offering the best value.
I am hoping the price stays the same as I could not really afford the higher monthly fee.
Thank you for all of your help.
Steve
On July 7, 2010 Zachary wrote:
Thanks for the reply admin & BMR. The content was not only original, but it was 400 words of content if I remember correctly Feel free to review my account, it’s “zac439″
When I say that the titles wound up on unrelated websites, I mean this was not intentional and not a good thing. Some are foreign websites I can’t read. The rest were links to an article that was cached (and not mine), but had my article’s title in the “New Posts” module for the page. No sign of my actual article ever being indexed.
I decide to give Linkvana a spin until this is sorted out or someone can show me concrete proof the service has worked for them. (And actual proof, not just testimony)
On July 7, 2010 admin wrote:
Hi Zach,
I don’t have access to your account since it’s not my service, but John at BMR does, since it his service. He stated above that one out of two posts were indexed. I can only go by what you say and he says. The titles on unrelated sites are part of the bookmarking and rss mashups etc they do to get links to your links. I am not sure exactly what proof you are looking for, the proof is in the pudding, you are allowed to post 10 posts to BMR for FREE – you posted two. Their is no better proof than using a system yourself. You only used 2 out of your 10 posts – it doesn’t cost you a thing, why not use the remaining 8 and see what they do for you, basing your decision on two posts isn’t really a good measure of how it will perform for you.
Thanks for the feedback,
Mike
On July 8, 2010 BuildMyRank wrote:
Hi Zach, I sent you an email yesterday. Please reply to me (or contact me thru the site) if you need help finding the indexed post.
J
On July 17, 2010 Peter wrote:
Been using BMR for about 2 weeks now and I’m pretty impressed. Posts seem to go out usually in like an hour or two which is good and all of the blogs seem of decent quality. The only thing I care to mention is that so far the majority of the links I’ve posted have been on PR 2 sites. Not complaining, but I read somewhere that the network of sites was on the higher end of the PR rather than the lower. I’ve got about 50 active posts right now and I’d say half of those are on PR 2’s, 15 of them are PR 1’s, 9 of them are on PR 3’s, and just 1 pr 4. I’m hoping to hit some more PR 4’s and a couple of PR 5’s soon. I’ve been posting like crazy trying to hit some of the higher PR sites but nothing yet.
Besides that though, the majority of my posts get indexed quickly. I’ve seen an improvement in SERPS for two of my primary keywords. They were both already on the first page and they’ve moved from #9 to #7 in the 2 weeks I’ve been using BMR. I haven’t stopped using other types of links, but I’m sure BMR has contributed to that upward movement.
Anyone considering this network, I recommend it on price alone. If you do the math, you can get 300 links to your site per month for like $60 bucks. Can’t beat that. Plus they are in content links on semi thematically relevant sites. I would NEVER pay Linkvana prices so I can’t comment on a comparison of LinkVana and BMR, but I’m going to stick with BMR.
On July 19, 2010 BuildMyRank wrote:
Hi Peter, we’re really building the PR4-PR6 top end right now, so you should start to see more posts showing up on these. But naturally we’ll never have as many PR5s and 6s as we will 2s and 3s, but rest assured they are out there.
On July 20, 2010 Dustin wrote:
Went to sign up today, but it looks like the price increased to $129 a month. Looks like I was just a couple days to late.
On July 20, 2010 admin wrote:
Whats up Dustin,
You can get in for the $59 price, just sign up for a trial account and as long as you join within the trial period it is still $59 – at least as of today it still is that way.
Thanks
Mike
On July 20, 2010 Troy wrote:
One additional point I wanted to make about Build My Rank is that they recently made another user requested improvement and show you the status of your links – whether they have been indexed and on what PR of a site they reside. Now, of course, they don’t show you the site (though they do facilitate you in finding it) as this is a private network. However, you can see that your post landed on a PR3 or a PR2 or a PR4 – or whatever – and you can verify that your post was indeed indexed.
Guys, NO ONE ELSE in the industry does this. This is a great show of faith and disclosure by Build My Rank to show you “what’s behind the curtain” when many of the competitors extend great effort to keep up the “smoke and mirrors”…
I was actually surprised when I saw this new feature…
-Troy
On July 20, 2010 Carol wrote:
At first, I was really skeptical that they’d deliver what they promised they would. I’ve used several services and have been disappointed by practically most if not all of them.
I tried their free 10 links, not really expecting much, but hey they came back with really good quality sites! I signed up immediately and have been getting pretty much of the same quality sites every single month.
On July 20, 2010 BuildMyRank wrote:
Loving the feedback guys (and gals)! And just for the record I just happened to check Zach’s account and saw where both his posts were indexed if anyone was still wondering. Our indexing is running close to 95% right now which is crazy. And we won’t stop till the other 5% is indexed as well. Yes, I know I’m insane.
On July 27, 2010 Troy wrote:
Hey Monty, thanks for stopping by…
Actually it makes sense and is common. None of these linkbuilding services use their service on their own domain. If they did, you could use a quality SEO analysis tool like SEO Spyglass to simply reverse engineer their link profile and “discover” their network. Since they go out of their way to keep their network private, this makes a lot of sense…
-Troy
On July 27, 2010 JumpStartGuy wrote:
Got a question about your bonus: “If you purchase Build My Rank via our link we will send you ten (10) FREE 150 word Build My Rank posts each month you stay subscribed to BMR.” Do we get to specify the subject/keyword for these posts? Can we change the keyword each month? Anything else you can say about the bonus? Thanks.
On July 27, 2010 admin wrote:
Hi JumpStart,
About the bonus, you get 10 Free custom created 150 word posts each month you remain a paying member of BMR. They are 100% unique and created just for you for whatever keywords you specify. You can select 10 completely different keywords each month if that is what you wish since they are each custom created – although not recommended. You simply have to email us each month with your keywords. If you give us keywords and url’s we will insert them into the posts and return a CSV file with all 10 posts so you can easily upload all 10 posts to your account in one shot and be done. You will also receive a 10% discount code for ArticlesOnTap.com so you can buy more BMR posts if needed, or anything for that matter, the discount code is for the whole site. I hope that answers your question. Let me know if you have any more.
Thanks,
Mike
On July 27, 2010 admin wrote:
Just an FYI so people don’t think we moderate negative comments. The way our ranking system works is by user feedback. However Monty left very negative star ratings for BMR based on the fact that BMR’s homepage didn’t have PR. That has nothing to do with Ease of Use, Network Size, Price etc and considering Monty doesn’t appear to even a user of the BMR the negative ratings were really unfounded and held no merit. So I have deleted his comment and ranking to preserve the ranking system. I am including his original comment below. Troy answered his question, but also keep in mind BMR is a new service and new site PR changes will come, but I am not sure why that would be relevant to anyone at all. You are buying a service not their homepage, and they offer a no cost trial period. If one truly wants to know what the service can do, sign up and try it prior to passing judgment without usage. We don’t create reviews based on reading sales pages and homepages like some others do, we encourage you to do the same.
On July 27, 2010 Monty wrote:
Why is that the buildMyRank site has a pageRank of ZERO ???
That is not very encouraging, I have to say, I mean for a tool that pretend to help you build a huge amount of backlinks ???
How could they NOT have a PR > 0 ??
Just weird I have to say…
On July 28, 2010 Monty wrote:
Hi Troy and admin,
I chose those ratings without really knowing what to chose only because I thought I was forced to chose something… but today I realized that you don’t really have to.
That said, I am surprised that the admin of this site has access to the list of the BMR’s members….(Geez, so much for your promise of not using my email address…) How does he know I am not a member of BMR?
Troy, I have to say that a PR of zero does not really look good, no matter what the reason is, PLUS even if you were to know what their network is, what can you really do if they have full control on which link receive a nofollow attribute? I mean I am not sure why would they not want to rank #1 in Google for a keyword like “build backlinks”??
Sorry but your SEO spyglass comment is real hard to buy.
Plus if you start building links with them you can SEO spyglass your own site to find our where the BMR links are coming from….
Like I said, PR of zero is pretty weird I have to say again!
On July 28, 2010 Troy wrote:
HI Monty,
First of all, thank you for your feedback – we do appreciate it and your coming to our site.
Just to be *very clear* the admin of this site (me and Mike) DOES NOT have access to the to the list of BMR’s members. That is private data to which we are not privy. Mike made a typo when he said you weren’t a user, and meant to say that you didn’t *appear* to be a user (I have now corrected that above).
PR0 Monty is NOT suspicious at all… Not sure how much you follow Google and the PR updates, etc… but there haven’t even been any PR updates in several months now. Typically they do them every 3 months or so, but it is LONG overdue at this point. So there are many sites out there right now that should probably have a higher PR but don’t. However, all of my comments were 100% spot on correct. The difference with BMR and the other competitor’s Monty is that it’s new. When Linxboss first came out a few months back it was the EXACT SAME THING and we had people ask us the same question as you did. Linkvana was the same when it came out a few years back. They all initially popped onto the scene without much PR or rankings.
Most of these programs rely on affiliate sales and promotions for their success – not organic search rankings – and so they rarely care much about the SEO of their site. Also, as you pointed out, many do not really want to rank highly for those terms… We have seen this occur several times with new products, so no, it’s nothing weird man…
And yes, you can easily find out the links if you buy – that’s a risk all of these network owners run. The thing is, they randomly distribute your posts so you don’t have direct access to the network so it would take a very long time to find them all… My SpyGlass comment was accurate because if they were building for their own site they would create a one-stop laundry list of their network. In this very competitive online world, it is a tactic used a lot, trust me… in fact we recommend SEO Spyglass for competitive link analysis so you can appropriately plan your SEO campaign based on the needs of your niche…
BTW Monty, if you really want to form a solid opinion of BMR, give it a try! The fact that it’s site is a PR0 is really completely irrelevant to the service it provides. We’ve been using it since it first came out and frankly it is one of the cleanest and most powerful of these networks out there right now. That is what we care about – not it’s homepage PR which has zero impact on the links it creates…
-Troy
On August 5, 2010 Posterboy wrote:
Been reading Monty’s comments here. I have the same thinking of being suspicious of PR0 Web sites, but only for SEO companies. BMR is not an SEO company per se isn’t it?
In any case, I found it funny that Monty confirmed that he was not a user.
Let me offer you guys an unbiased opinion. I signed up for their 10 Free Links offer, and was satisfied with the results I got, so I paid the $59/month membership.
What I like is that your posts don’t get buried so soon. It seems like BMR posts to the same blog site only twice in a day, so you get good placement for your money. I wonder if that would change as soon as more people sign up for the service.
Will I leave linkvana for BMR? Probably not yet. I had my test run of their service for June 2010 to July 2010, and back then the sites were more geared towards PR1-PR4.
If they improve on the quality of their sites, maybe it would be a replacement for Linkvana…
On August 5, 2010 QueenJaneApproximately wrote:
Admin/Troy -
Can you add some clarity to the ‘25-75 Social2.0 backlinking’ to provide link juice to BMR posts? For a non-seo guru, me, in the cheap seat: what does 25-75 links to one 150-word post do? How much more powerful is this link in relatoin to a plain link on Linkvana?
How long do the 150-word posts sit on the front page of the respective websites before scrolling off? An approximate timeframe would be great.
You have a great review service.
On August 7, 2010 admin wrote:
Hi Queen Jane,
By backlinking to your posts you get two things. #1 They index faster and #2 They get more link juice. A post with backlinks is always better than a post with no links. Just like you are building backlinks to your money site to move it up the ranks and give it more authority, the same is true for your backlinks.
As for how long the posts stay on front page, that depends on which site you land on and how many posts are being sent. I am not sure on the current status, I know when the network was new we saw some posts on front page for weeks – hopefully John from BMR can chime in here and answer that.
Thanks for the compliment,
Hope that helps,
Mike
On August 9, 2010 BuildMyRank.com wrote:
Hi PosterBoy, we’ve been concentrating on the PR4-PR6 side of the network recently and will continue to do so. We’re certainly investing some sizable dollars.
QueenJane, our blogs receive an average of 1-2 posts per day. So posts normally stay on page 1 for 7-10 days. And as our membership grows we just keep plowing the profits back into more domains, so it’ll stay that way. Plus we don’t allow any crap content either, so it’s not like we’re being overrun with spammy posts like so many of the other networks. Some might see that as a disadvantage, but we’ve already got a loyal following of users that appreciate the fact we’re committed to the long-term.
On August 11, 2010 D.W wrote:
I am a customer of BMR, just signed up recently. I am quite happy with BMR, but the acid test is the results. And so far, it’s quite ok, not spectacular. I don’t find my keywords moving up rapidly through Google, but then again, I’ve only been using them for about 3 weeks (I used their free trial).
I hope to see many more high PR sites in the network, and I also hope that the admins will maintain or improve the quality of the sites and maybe introduce thematic sites into the system. Right now I believe all are general sites. I’ve looked at many of them, and their link count doesn’t seem high, and I am not sure if their PR will stay, but of course I hope they will. And do please keep on expanding the network
Other than that, it’s easy to use, and affordable. But strict management is the key to keep the network’s integrity. I’ve seen many networks crash and burn after they failed to do that.
My $0.3
On August 13, 2010 marksman wrote:
I pretty much agree with what you guys have written here, but I have something to add that I didn’t really see here. I was impressed with BMR writers. I ordered 40 posts in early July, and I think they were able to write these in 2 or 3 days. Well written and not too spammy.
On August 20, 2010 D.W wrote:
OK. Just got to say that I notice that all the links built in BMR is never shown in any backlink checker tool at all……
I wonder why…..Can anyone shed some light?
On August 23, 2010 admin wrote:
Well, I suppose that depends on the tool. But we see them all the time. Try using SEO Spyglass.