Super Fast Link Building Review
UPDATE 3/6/2011 – SFLB has closed their network to new membership and subsequently added a completely unrelated product to their website to further confuse current subscribers. SFLB provided us and many readers of our site a great service for the time they were servicing us. However, they closed their doors and changed their product without so much as making an announcement to anyone which has understandably left a bad taste in a lot of peoples mouths, including ours. Bryan has stated he is restructuring the service at new price points and the $147 price point will no longer be available. He has also stated it will be be a unique content based network. Other than that, we don’t know much else because they have gone ahead and made all of these moves without informing their paid members, which was in poor taste. We don’t know when they will open again, we don’t know the new price points, and we have removed our Mike and Troy’s stamp of approval because the service we reviewed is no longer the service being offered. If and when SFLB opens their doors again we may revisit it and redo our review.
UPDATE 3/7/2011 – Bryan emailed us and ask that we post this on our site for readers to know what’s going on.
- All members who have paid for packages, those packages are being completed successfully.
- We have paused all subscriptions until we make changes to how we post content to our network along with a few other things to avoid our network being discovered by the big G like the vast majority of the networks out there who have been de-indexed recently, yet they remain active and open for some reason.
- Link reports have been done away with due to the Big G hunting down networks all to de-index them.
We must protect the Integrity of our network and our members. Would you rather have link reports or rankings? I propose that 99% of you would have rankings over link reports.
- We are rolling over to our other link building packages that are more white hat and have nothing to do with our private blog network, yet still produce results. Again, we are in the process of tightening up our network and the way in which we post content to our network, amongst a few other changes that we would rather remain private on for the time being.
- When we open back up it’s going to be high quality content, more in line with 1 unique article per post to ensure certain levels of quality control along with good spelling and grammar. Sentences that actually make sense to the reader.
- Rest assured all of you who are members of Super Fast Link Building, we will be taking care of you… it’s just right now we have to protect our network and make sure we stay above board. You will see in the end we made the right decision and the others who remain open are simply going to get shut down or be of NO value to anyone. We choose the higher path.
- We welcome all emails and phone calls regarding the changes that we are taking to make our system better.
Overview
So we have been chomping at the bit to get our Super Fast Link Building review out the door and into your hands. However we wanted to make sure we ran it through some test’s first to verify the results of what we were seeing in the first few weeks of usage. And to be honest, we have been extremely impressed with the results and the management, so much so that we are giving it our Mike and Troy’s approved stamp of approval. It seems like everyone is coming out with a new private network link building service nowadays, and the reason for that is simple, they flat out work. We were a little hesitant at first because there are so many networks out there, but Super Fast Link Building is on par with the best networks we have reviewed to date – it works and it works well.
First and foremost, what is Super Fast Link Building? Well, we like to think of Super Fast Link Building as a Linxboss alternative, no, actually a Linxboss on steroids. We are still seeing good results with Linxboss and have a few 100 slots on Linxboss for ourselves and many clients. The complaint behind Linxboss has always been the same for the ones that didn’t receive results, that most of the websites are not that good, and that many of the posts do not get indexed. So while you are getting 200 links per month from Linxboss, you really are getting a small subset of those indexed – but they are enough to still make an impact for most people.
Sidebar: Indexing and Link Types
Honestly, this is not really a fair criticism. Those that make this complaint generally don’t understand that any linkbuilding campaign you launch is likely to get only about a 50% indexing rate – that is just the cold truth. Some networks do a much better job of getting their content indexed, such as Build My Rank, but this is largely due to the “type of network”. Let me explain.
Linxboss is similar to a Unique Article Wizard or My Article Network in the sense that most of it’s sites will be low authority and low PageRank article marketing type sites. Those types of networks are inherently going to have a lower index rate than a network like Build My Rank or Super Fast Linkbuilding which are generally higher authority and higher PageRank sites. If your site has authority and decent page rank, many times it will have a 90% index rate all by itself. However, article marketing style networks are probably around the 30% range.
Super Fast Link Building is really a hybrid of these two types of networks and so we would expect its indexing rate to fall in the middle. You’re not going to get near 100% indexing rates like you would with Build My Rank, but if you compare the costs between the two for 1000 links you will be absolutely blown away by how much more affordable Super Fast Linkbuilding is. Besides, with Build My Rank, you are also limited to 10 links per day per domain – about 300 in a month.
These indexing issues are exactly why we strongly recommend you compliment all of your linkbuilding efforts with Backlink Booster in order to get the most bang for your buck. If you’re not familiar with Backlinks Booster, definitely go check out the review. It works in the background and 100% on autopilot to build links to your links to both (a) get them indexed and (b) keep them indexed. So any linkbuilding network or tool that you use that gives you a list of URLS, you can just dump those into Backlink Booster and let it help you get many more indexed links than you would have gotten without it. This just makes everything you do have a higher ROI.
But Super Fast Link Building is different, their posts get indexed, and daily. We have Google Alerts set to receive alerts when specific keywords are found on Google, and we get a daily stream of Google Alerts all from posts we are receiving from Super Fast Link Building. So what that means, is our posts are getting indexed, fast and daily – which is awesome and a testament to the strength of their network.
But the best part of this is not just the indexing, when we go and check, the majority of these sites are PR2, PR3 with mixes of a few PR0, PR1 and PR4 and even a few PR5′s sites as well. All of this on a daily basis, and while they claim to have PR6 and PR7 sites, we haven’t seen one yet, but I have no doubt they exist as well. But like most networks, the higher PR sites are few and far between. That is not only to be expected, but a good thing because you want to have a lot of variation and just getting links from high PR only sites would be an obvious “tell” to Google. So you are posting to good sites with Page Rank and age that are being spidered and indexed on a daily basis – this is a good thing for those that don’t know.
How Super Fast Link Building Works
Super Fast Link Building works on the premise that you join via one of their packages and you supply them your keywords and URLs and they will write a highly spun and unique piece of content for you. This highly spun and unique piece of content will be drip fed out to their network of sites over a period of 30 days, so it is a constant stream of incoming links as long as you stay subscribed.
The amount of posts you get per day depends upon how you use your package, which I will explain better a little later in this review. The beauty behind this is, while their price of entry may same a bit higher than a network such as Build My Rank or comparable to a Linkvana subscription, keep in mind that you do not have any more added content costs (or the work to create that content yourself). With services such as BMR and Linkvana, you have to constantly keep purchasing or writing content to feed the networks, and while this works really well, and we use them in a very big way ourselves, it can get expensive. We literally spend $1000′s on BMR and Linkvana content on a monthly basis for our personal sites, and we own a content business, so it is only that much more expensive for others that have to buy the content.
What makes Super Fast Link Building impressive and actually very cheap, is that you sign up, you provide your keywords and URLs, and they will handle the rest for you. No more work on your part, that’s it. No more content to buy, and no more content to post. Now please, don’t take this as us saying NOT to use those other networks, because we use them heavily. But for those that are either looking for an additional solution for backlinks or that simply can’t afford multiple services at the time, Super Fast is the answer and is actually a perfect compliment to go along with our very own AutomatedLinksOnTap.com service.
Additionally, this isn’t some small mom and pop, Johnny come lately network that just popped up on the scene. The owner Bryan, has been using this network for his private clients and himself for quite some time, and their network is on target to reach 10,000 sites in size. So don’t think they don’t know what they are doing. They do. Trust us, we have our own private internal high pagerank network of sites, though we focus on just PR3 and higher sites, and we know what it takes to run a network. Managing a network of nearly 10,000 sites is very impressive (not to mention very costly).
So, back to how it works. Upon signing up for Super Fast Link Building, you will be asked to wait for an email with your membership information. They manually create a membership for you and then send you your information to get you started. This can be frustrating for some because after you sign up you are excited to get started, but good things come to those that wait.
Also this will give you some time to watch their short instructional videos on how to get things setup. You will receive a login to their basecamp account and you will post and get responses from basecamp so everything is tracked and kept in a central location.
Once they set you up, they will ask you to provide them your information, such as keywords, urls, videos, images and whatever else you have. These are not all mandatory, but preferred to make your posts index well and look more natural. The entire setup should take less than a week to get your content written and for you to begin receiving links. And once they begin, you should be happy with your results.
We have personally recommended this service to some of our clients that we thought could use the network or were looking for something new at the moment. And thus far, everyone that has signed up has been extremely impressed and happy with their results.
Super Fast Link Building Price?
Super Fast Link Building offers 4 price points. For $147 you receive 500 posts on their network with 2 links in each post for a total of 1000 links. For $297 you receive 1000 posts, or 2000 links, For $497 you receive 2000 posts or 4000 links, and for $997 you get 5000 posts per month or 10,000 links per month. That seems pretty cut and dry, but you can break that up in any way you want.
For instance, If you have 5 sites to promote and purchase the $297 plan, you can send 200 posts per domain, which is 400 links per domain. Now there is a small catch to this, which is not well explained on their website. When you want to break up the links into additional projects, there is an additional $30 charge per project (domain). That is because each project (or domain) requires a unique piece of content to be written for it, and that makes sense because it is hard to spin an article with keywords on dog grooming and rocket ships and blue widgets as an example.
So if you want to do multiple domains, with different keywords, just be aware of the additional charge per project. But if you are looking to buy the $147 package for say two domains, for two completely different sets of keywords, that means you will pay the $147 plus an additional $30 for the second project content. Does that make sense? And if you want all 1000 links pointed at one domain with a smaller subset of keywords then it’s just the base price for you. While this piece of information can become slightly confusing, it is still relatively cheap compared to the amount of content you would need to post to a network such as Build My Rank or Linkvana, and compared to Linxboss, well Linxboss caps you at 200 posts per domain. You can actually get 500, 1000, 2000 posts to just one domain per month if you so chose, plus this network is much stronger than the Linxboss network. The old adage of you get what you pay for applies here.
Super Fast Link Building Results.
We have been extremely impressed by the results we have received from Super Fast Link Building, as well as we have receive kudos from many people that we have personally refereed to them as well. So we can strongly say that we recommend Super Fast Link Building.
Here are some examples of results we have seen for a few of our keywords we have been using Super Fast Link Building for. And these keywords where only receiving links from SFLB – nothing else.
These are pretty impressive results for just a few weeks time. We fully expect them to continue. The fact that their network size is so large is a real selling point. Many of the linkbuilding networks out there are much, much smaller – some with just a few hundred sites. With a small network you will spin through the entire inventory of sites in just a couple or three months (for related reading see our post: Article Submission – The Three Month Phenomenon). A large network size means that you’ll be receiving fresh links for many months to come and will likely never outgrow their network since they are constantly expanding it as well.
Furthermore, we had one of our clients start up with Super Fast Link Building about 3 weeks ago. They were chasing a number one spot for a few months, three weeks after signing up for Super Fast they are strong and steady at #1 for their primary keyword and their traffic has doubled since. And we have heard similar stories repeated from other people we have referred to this service.
Super Fast Link Building Support
The owner Bryan has been very responsive to us and we have actually become quiet friendly with him over the course of this period. Also our clients have told us that Bryan has been personally assisting them as well and getting them all setup and going and generally being extremely helpful. So the personal assistance and support are definitely there.
What We Don’t Like About Super Fast Link Building
No network is perfect – they are all a compromise solution. As a private pilot I’m always reminded of compromise because every plane design has to make enormous compromises. More people = more weight – that means a bigger motor and less economy. Faster = lightweight – that means less passengers but still no economy. High economy = low weight and small motor – but that just means no passengers and slow flight. The fact is, all of the goals are in direct contradiction with each other. Linkbuilding networks are the same. (Disclaimer: Troy added this paragraph. I am not a pilot, I prefer to keep my feet on the ground!)
To be price effective and 100% hands off, Super Fast Link Building uses spun content. We like that because it provides a hands off solution. We know, however, that it will also result in lower indexing rates than a network that is 100% unique content. However, with 100% unique content, comes the cost of that content and the extra maintenance that it creates. We have seen good results and that is ultimately our barometer for a successful product. If it’s producing solid results for a good price, then honestly, we couldn’t careless what the indexing rate is. Super Fast Linkbuilding doesn’t report its indexing rate, but since it is spun content we suspect it’s likely around 70% or so. Because it has a lot of mid and high PageRank sites that is likely to offset this problem quite a bit because their authority will help out a lot in the indexing.
The only other thing that we are not super fond of is the complexity in their pricing model. Now, as a network owner ourselves, we understand the model and the reasoning for it. But we have had a couple of people that were a bit confused by it and express that confusion to us. Our advice is to just take a little extra time and make sure you completely understand it. The bottom line here is that the value is excellent, and that’s what counts most, but you just need to see how it fits to your unique situation depending upon whether you’re doing linkbuilding for one site or a handful of sites.
Super Fast Link Building Bonus
We have been so very happy with the results we have been receiving with Super Fast Link Building, and while we typically do offer free content and articles as bonuses for other items we review, there is no need for that with Super Fast Link Building do to their automation. So what we will give you as a bonus for using our affiliate link is something you are definitely looking for if you are buying Super Fast Link Building – backlinks. If you purchase Super Fast Link Building through our link we will provide you with 10 of our High Powered Backlinks from a private network. We will create 5 blog posts and post them to our private PR3 or higher blogs, and each post will have 2 backlinks to your given site of choice. You will also receive a 10% off coupon code for any future orders of articles from ArticlesOnTap.com in case you have a need for any further content or SEO. To redeem your bonus simply follow these Super Fast Link Building Bonus instructions. Once we confirm your purchase was made through our link, you will receive your bonuses.
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On January 25, 2012 Steve Giles wrote:
I signed up for Super Fast Link Building on 1/9/12 after Mike recommended it for my needs, setup my project on 1/10/12 and the project went active on 1/12/12. That’s how fast SFLB works. Also their support was great during the project setup.
I have many Google Alerts setup for my eCommerce site so I can see some results…understand this is by no means all the results just the ones I can see from Google Alerts. I’m also guessing that it’s proof of fast indexing. I’ll get a report on all the links at the end of 30 days but here is less than two weeks results.
Remember that each post carries two links..here are the results I can see through Google Alerts for 13 days:
PR 0: 6 posts
PR 1: 8 posts
PR 2: 16 posts
PR 3: 12 posts
PR 4: 2 posts
PR 5: 2 posts
In addition one of my keywords, that was stuck at #3 in Google for many months, went to #1 on 1/15 fell back to #3 from 1/18-19 and went back to #1 on 1/20 and stayed there.
This cycling of Google rank was expected but all I can say is that I am very pleased.
On January 25, 2012 John wrote:
Hey Mike and Troy,
I guess I wasn’t the only one Mike referred them too, and I felt like I was special Mike. Same scenario as Steve above, Mike referred me to Super Fast, Bryan was extremely helpful and instrumental in getting me setup and going within a few days. And I have seen my rankings improve for me keywords over the last few weeks since beginning my campaign with Super Fast Link Building. Kudos to Bryan for putting together a great service, and kudos for Mike and Troy for a great recommend and review. Keep up the great work, and I will keep buying up what you recommend. Oh, And I have noticed the sites my posts are on as well. They have my videos, some images and the sites are all carrying varying Pagerank from 1-4 as well. I don’t see this many alerts etc from Linxboss that’s for sure. This is just what the doctor ordered.
On January 25, 2012 Bryan Dulaney wrote:
Thanks Mike & Troy!
Especially for your comment, “extremely impressed with the results and the management” about Super Fast Link Building!
We FOCUS heavily on Customer Service & providing an AWESOME User Experience with every new member. Our goal is that you absolutely LOVE the experience and ease with using us and RESULTS speak for themselves.
Keep sending the referrals Mike! We’re happy to be working with your members and are Happy you found us!
Best, Bryan Dulaney
Owner, Super Fast Link Building
On January 25, 2012 Steve Giles wrote:
Mike and Troy,
In addition I am seeing my Yahoo and Bing rank climb significantly.
Here are my ratings.
On January 25, 2012 admin wrote:
Steve,
Thanks for stopping by and letting us all know about your great results with Super Fast Link Building. Social proof is always helpful in making others decide on whether a service is good for them or not, as we always say, the proof is in the pudding.
- Mike
On January 25, 2012 admin wrote:
Hey Bryan,
I appreciate you stopping by and showing everyone that you are involved and care about your members. All good stuff man. Keep on doing what you have been doing man.
- Mike
On January 25, 2012 admin wrote:
John, as I tell all 3 of my kids, you are all special in your own way.
Thanks for stopping by and sharing your experience.
- Mike
On January 26, 2012 Ivan wrote:
So far so good. for now I’m using this network to diversify my link building and add different variations of anchor text to my URL’s. Their very flexible and your able to give them as many anchor text variations as you’d like. Initial set up takes no more then 10 minutes of work and after that everything is done for you.
On January 27, 2012 admin wrote:
Thanks for the feedback Ivan, keep us posted.
On January 28, 2012 Paul wrote:
Great review as usual, guys. Quick question – do you have any opinion of the HighPRSociety network?
On January 31, 2012 Dustin wrote:
This seems very similar to Backlinks Ninja, however backlinks ninja lets you have 5 sites that you can add with 200 links per site. So I would switch however, it doesn’t seem beneficial for me to do so. What does everyone else think? Anyone out there using Backlinks ninja? Please respond
On February 1, 2012 Adam wrote:
Thus far I have been extremely pleased with super fast link building – other than the fact their name is way to big to type – lol. Bryan was very instrumental in getting everything setup and we have been seeing Google Alerts spring up every day from quality Page Ranked sites. You mentioned above that this was a Linxboss alternative, was actually a Linxboss replacement for me.
On February 1, 2012 admin wrote:
@ Dustin,
Backlinks Ninja and Linxboss are basically the same service, just different websites – so when we mention Linxboss in the review and other mention it in their comments, the same can be said for backlinks ninja. It is similar in the fact that is automated for you, the user. But besides that, SuperFast has a much better quality network at their disposal. Should you replace it? That’s a tough call, we always add more not replace. But if I had to make a choice between the two – yeah Superfast would be my choice for sure.
Thanks for stopping by
- Mike
On February 1, 2012 admin wrote:
@ Adam – thanks for sharing your feedback on Superfast – and yes – it is a long name, thats why I just call it SuperFast. I may change that to just SFLB. Yes, lets do that SFLB.
Thanks
- Mike
On February 1, 2012 Mohammed wrote:
My rankings have continued to climb up since I have started using SFLB at Mike’s personal recommendation over a month ago. This has been a godsend for me, because my site was stuck at #10 almost about to leave page 1 for my main keyword – now I am flying high – teetering between 4 and 5. And its a competitive keyword. SFLB has my highest recommend.
On February 2, 2012 admin wrote:
@ Paul – I apologize, your comment was sitting in spam folder – actually no we have not used the service at all yet. But will add it to the list for sure.
- Mike
On February 3, 2012 Mark wrote:
Joined SFLB at Mike’s advice to compliment my AutoMatedLinksOnTap.com service – and so far so good. SFLB, ALOT and Synnd have transformed my business from pretender to contender and I barely lift a finger other than initial setup for all three. You guys Rock!
On February 3, 2012 admin wrote:
Mark – 3 positive comments in one day! You must be having a good day! Thanks for the feedback – again!
- Mike
On February 16, 2012 Cake wrote:
People are talking about setting up google alerts to see the links coming from this, how do you go about setting something like that up? Thanks!
On February 16, 2012 admin wrote:
Hi Cake,
Try reading this post we we wrote a while ago about Google Alerts, you may find it very helpful:
http://articlesubmissionreview.com/blog/top-10-uses-for-google-alerts
As for creating a Google Alert, well, Google the term Google Alert. The first link will take you to Google Alerts the rest if pretty self explanatory from there.
Thanks for stopping by!
- Mike
On February 24, 2012 Peter wrote:
I signed up on January 31. Provided all required information 3 hours later. Check with Bryan to make sure the setup was correct. Today, February 24 and my project is still empty with no articles and no updates. Interesting if I have to wait one full month before I get anything going.
On February 27, 2012 admin wrote:
Hi Peter, if you signed up on Jan 31 for a MONTHLY campaign, and provided all of your information and checked with Bryan to make sure he had it all – what more were looking after just 3 weeks? Here is the process
1. Members/Clients send in their project details.
2. It gets sent to their writers and spun
3. When they get the content back they schedule it to post across the network over 30 days.
5. Once completed they send the members/clients a link report.
Now the process as a whole can be 1 week for content and 4 weeks to distribute, so it can be 5 weeks from your initial purchase before you receive your link report. It is very typically of how most monthly services operate. They are doing their job on the background and will provide you the content upon completion.
Many of our clients, ourselves included create Google Alerts so we can see when things are being distributed, that way you can see things happening yourself.
Give it some time, I think you will be happy in the end.
Thanks for the comment!
-Mike
On February 28, 2012 Peter wrote:
Hi Mike;
Thanks for the explanation. I have no problem with the time it takes to get things done. It can be two months and am fine with that. What is missing is they did not have the explanation out front so that new customers will know what to expect.
I am fine with your recommendations as usual and will see how this service pan out. Thanks again…
On March 2, 2012 Hendra wrote:
Hi Mike,
I just check out the superfastlinkbuilding site, and it seems they’re close for new member right now.
Any chance your subscriber will get special treatment?
PS:
What’s happening with all these blog networks closing down for new members? First BMR, now superfastlinkbuilding?
On March 2, 2012 Pat wrote:
Hey guys,
Just had a quick question. I’m thinking about signing up to SFLB to compliment my ALOT subscription. I’m planning on getting the silver package. Should I plan on pointing all 1000 links at the one page I’m promoting with ALOT, or should I spread them out a bit? My site is aged, and ALOT has been running on this one page for about a month now. Basically would like to get some input on how other people have used the SFLB service. Thanks very much.
By the way, I’ve seen great results with ALOT over the past 3.5 weeks! Moved from #45 to #14 so far for my main keyword. Hoping one more month plus the addition of SFLB will put it up at the top.
On March 4, 2012 RichardISr wrote:
Well, I just went to sign up and they’re closed to new members. What’s that saying? He who hesitates is lost.
On March 5, 2012 admin wrote:
@Hendra – Due to recent changes many networks are closing their doors to new membership to make sure they can keep their networks protected for current members. They will open their doors again shortly.
@Pat – I would continue doing what you are doing for a couple more months before expanding to hard and too fast. But once you do diversify, I would definitely diversify the urls and keywords as much as possible at all times. If you dont mind please leave a rating on our ALOT review here:
http://articlesubmissionreview.com/link-building-tools/automatedlinksontap-review
@ Richard – They will open again shortly is what we have been told.
Thanks
- Mike
On March 5, 2012 Tom Armenante wrote:
Hi Troy or Mike,
Do you know when SFLB will be available again as I have just got my first freelance SEO client and I was going to use BMR however they have closed as well and I know they wont be opening again for a while.
Any information would be great
Tom
On March 5, 2012 Lindy wrote:
Went to sign up but backed out fast as it looks like they’re too much money for me. They raised their prices drastically. What you describe here as far as package prices and what you get don’t match what it says on their site at all.
On March 5, 2012 admin wrote:
@ Tom – They stated they would open up again in a few weeks but are changing things up due to the latest G Algo changes.
@ Lindy – Yeah I just noticed those too – it looks like they have completely changed the entire model and pricing mid launch – I am as much in the dark as the rest of you. Not sure what that means for people already subscribed, or for future users since nobody is talking over there. I would love to know whats cooking myself since we had some many people sign up for this service.
- Mike
On March 6, 2012 Paul wrote:
I have had my monthly subscription cancelled today. No warning, no email, no message in the base camp members area about it. Looking at the new pricing structure it is difficult to work out if you still get the 1000 links, with 300 extra links thrown in, or if it is only 300 links in total.
Bryan has a new post on the blog about the google panda update recently, but says they were unaffected, but I wonder ?
- paul
On March 6, 2012 admin wrote:
Paul,
We are as confused as you. Bryan closed the doors and isn’t saying much at this point besides hes redoing things. He stated the stuff on the site now are just temporary until he gets the new plans up. Personally I think that just further added to the confusion as to what’s going on and would have been best left alone with a closed to new members button – but to each his own. He also said he placing subscriptions on hold until he gets it all straightened up so as not to charge people while hes restructuring. Personally, we have no idea what is going on. We checked our url reports and didn’t find any unindexed sites – so I am not sure what brought about the sudden closure and restructure. Maybe all the Google changes in the last month made him nervous and decide to close now to restructure while he can – wish I had better answers.
- Mike
On March 6, 2012 Anne wrote:
Hi Troy,
Wait and see…
I also got a Paypal notice that SFLB had stopped my monthly payments today. No warning from them, no email, nothing. No answer to my own messages.
I am however very happy with the service (which means: my rankings are up). Anyway I hope it will re-open but not with the prices and link volume that are listed on the site right now
On March 6, 2012 admin wrote:
Hi Anne,
Yeah, they have cancelled all the PayPal payments. We have been receiving emails and helpdesk tickets from others in the same boat. It would have been nice of them to have informed people of the situation.
- Mike
On March 6, 2012 cat wrote:
Same as everyone else cancellation without a single warning, which is fine was probably gonna cancel it anyway.
On March 6, 2012 Paul wrote:
Really bizarre. I had checked them out a few weeks ago and was about to purchase on the strength of your review, but held off. Now they’re building networks? Wow.
BTW guys, they still have part of your review up as a testimonial – you may want to ask them to remove it.
Cheers!
Paul
On March 7, 2012 Paul wrote:
I received an update from Bryan today. He apologized for the confusion and stated the changes that need to be made after the major update(panda 3.3)will be sorted this week.
Reading between the lines from his response and his blog post on the panda update, it seems his network is safe, however he believes that spinning content in any form going forward will get de-indexed.
So I guess all posts will need to be original. If that is the case going forward then there’s no way we could have 1000 links for the price we had before, because of all the content work.
So we will get far less links for a much higher price. Unless SFLB offer permanent home page links, or some other incentive then this will not be so hot a deal.
He obviously is entitled to protect his network anyway he sees fit, but it would have been nice to give all members a heads up warning beforehand.
Just my thoughts on it.
- paul
On March 7, 2012 Jolen wrote:
I saw no rankings at all. Poor service for high competitive terms.
Did not help me at all.
Why should u write “linxboss on steroids”? I see that u were making joke since linxboss got hitted by panda 3.3 very hard and almost all the links i got from their websites got de-indexed along with the websites.
Stay away for your own good. Experience talking.
On March 8, 2012 Paul wrote:
Maybe a network posting all spun content could get de-indexed…But, you could never say “all” spun content would lead to that. There are many different levels to spinning and none of my blogs were affected. They are still churning out top of page 1 results on autopilot.
Anyways, they didn’t cancel my membership and I’ve had no emails or messages saying anything was changing..I’ll definitely be sending them one after reading these comments though.
On March 8, 2012 admin wrote:
@ Jolen – everything doesn’t work for everyone – we had lots of people who saw great results with SFLB, including us.
@ Paul – We agree with you whole heartedly. Well spun content is still working well. All the networks that were deindexed, were running very sloppy networks to begin with and it had NOTHING to do with spun content. Lots of misinformation going around at this time as well as a lot of paranoia due to the misinformation being given. If they had sites deindexed, it wasn’t because they were using spun content. It was because they had 10 sites on one IP address with no privacy and only 1 or two categories, and were using the same images across all the blogs with the same names. Footprints – bigfoot sized footprints.
- Mike
On March 9, 2012 Lamont wrote:
Just happy I didn’t sign up, I was almost on the edge but wasn’t sure of adding another 1000 links to my profile just yet.
On March 11, 2012 Andrew wrote:
Hi Mike. I signed up end of last month (Feb) on the strength of your review. Keywords are dancing a little so maybe the service is working? I have targeted 4 pages of my site with this service, so will know by about 4- 6 weeks time if the links (if any) were worthwhile or not. One positive out of this is the bonus you give which is 10 high PR links. Still not got them, hope will get them this week.
On March 12, 2012 MartinSEM wrote:
Funny…. “Big G is hunting down networks all to de-index them.
We must protect the Integrity of our network and our members.” So in other words, try and make your shady business even shadier. Makes good business sense… News flash, Google will find you, remove all value from your links and HOPEFULLY remove crappy link building sites like this from their index. Don’t get caught up in the hype young marketers/seos it’s not worth your time or your investment.
On March 15, 2012 Diptimayee wrote:
Since last few days am thinking about using the service of SFLB, today even I found that their price is increased to $347 from $147.
While going through your reviews, am still confusing about spun articles used by the blog network of SFLB. Since Google PANDA update, Google is not giving much importance to spun & duplicate contents, for this reason sites like hubpages were penalized last year. So am confused about the getting link juice through spun articles. Even if the success of SFLB is good for now but I think Google will catch the blog network soon.
On March 20, 2012 cat wrote:
They deleted all my links I paid for. Check your reports everyone, they deleted everything I paid them for. Calling my credit card company now to dispute. SCAM.
On March 22, 2012 Andrew wrote:
I would not call it a scam, but if you know you are not doing the job you are paid for due to external reasons, it is honorable to give a refund. Mike, can you help in getting a refund for the customers that signed up through your link?
On March 22, 2012 admin wrote:
Hi Andrew,
Unfortunately we don’t control it. What started as a great relationship quickly went sour as the excuses kept piling up and everything turned to nothing. We have no control over it. I would start by contacting them.
- Mike
On March 22, 2012 Rupert wrote:
As someone who bought into their service in late February after reading the review on here, I’m quite the sad panda.
On March 26, 2012 Lee wrote:
Cat and Andrew…I’m calling my credit card company also to dispute and try to get my money back that way. I contacted them for a refund and they gave me the run around. They said that the work has been done for my account and thus I cannot get a refund, but when I asked them to prove they did any work (give me a snippet of an article they wrote or something showing some work of any kind) to prove they did anything for the near $400 I paid (I signed up for one of their bigger packages before the price change), they refused and I keep getting the run around. I’m not a happy camper.
On March 27, 2012 admin wrote:
Unfortunately there are a lot of unhappy campers here including us. The way things went down from them was so extremely unprofessional and unexpected. There are ways of going about things in a professional manner. For those that were members of BMR you are witnessing how someone with professional courtesy takes care of business. John at BMR closed the doors as soon as he saw an issue, he immediately communicated with everyone what the issue was and he is issuing refunds to everyone. He also gave everyone the option of deleting their links themselves – he didn’t just delete everyone’s links and then lie about it, keep their money and switch the service to something completely unrelated without saying a word to anyone.
On March 28, 2012 Peter wrote:
This service is crap. I wasted time and money with them. One whole month of no communication and then suddenly shutdown with some run-around bulls**t and higher price model.
This guy Bryan Dulaney is not to be trusted. In retrospect, I really like how BMR handles their issue. I have been with BMR for more than a year. My website ranking is down a lot, but their professionalism in taking care of their customer ease a bit of my own pains.
On April 4, 2012 Andrew wrote:
BMR did it the right way. These guys at SFLBS are very dishonest. Same problem I here about the SEO link monster service. I hope the respected service providers like Mike and Troy and others in the SEO business call these guys out for giving all SEO providers a bad name. BMR still has my respect. If they do open again I will gladly join but with a different mindset knowing the possible pitfalls.
On April 8, 2012 Andrew wrote:
Bryan flat out refused to give a refund. He says that my links are scheduled out. Last month when I inquired from him, he said the links will be completed on 15th Mar. Now he is saying they are “scheduled out”. What a load of BS! Now he is promoting his new services these days. Wonder how many suckers will get caught to that. Mike, please don’t promote these kind of crooks on your site. Gives you a bad name too.( I never knew anything about SFLBS. Joined it after reading your review.) Other services also went through same thing SFLBS went through with the Google Vs the Blog network fiasco. Most services handled it professionally. SFLBS turned out to be a total scam.
On April 8, 2012 Jake wrote:
same story here, horrible. I received 0 links and the communication was condescending. If I remember right articlesubmissionreview.com put these guys as a top provider, huge dropped ball guys.
On April 8, 2012 admin wrote:
@ Andrew and @ Jake – we were taken just like the rest of you. We used their network for a month before even mentioning it to anyone else. Then we placed a few clients in before even reviewing it for our site. The fact is the network was providing great results at the time for us and the people we recommended. Things happened. G laid down the hammer, and instead of acting in a professional way they completely shocked us and started giving out lame excuse after lame excuse and lie after lie. I wish we had never reviewed it nor even met Bryan, but we did. We cant take that back.
To make matters worse, they deleted everyone’s links that they did provide initially and then stopped providing links that people had paid for and for some reason they never felt the need to refund anyone at all for not providing the service people paid for. It was a complete 180 from what they lead us to believe. I was astounded by the outright lies and BS being fed to us and our readers by them.
We did not rank them as a top provider, our rankings are provided by our readers. People were signing up and leaving positive reviews and comments on our site which propelled them to the top pretty quickly. We did promote it through our site as being a great service and they made us look like fools in short time. I apologize to anyone that signed up for SFLB and was scammed out of there money. They took our money and provided nothing in return but excuses and BS as well. We have a responsibility to be better than that though, because people trust our reviews, we feel horrible about what happened. Anyone that paid using a credit card can file a charge back and get their money back since the service was never provided as sold.
On April 12, 2012 Michael wrote:
I have been caught up in the initial subscription as well. Alot of empty promises but dlivered nothing. To make matters worse I got involved in the next product and it has been a total scam. Absolutely unnecessary. A silver tongued scammer who is currently on a cruise I believe. The internet needs to be well informed about Mr Dulaney and proceed with extreme caution.
On April 12, 2012 admin wrote:
Michael, I would do as many here have stated they are doing – file a complaint with your credit card company if they have delivered nothing.
On April 12, 2012 Michael wrote:
Well I am about $1 200 out of pocket so that is a great idea. Thanks. Will be going to the bank in the morning. So do you have a good recommndation for a service that will fit in well with Google changes? Obviously blog networks are very risky. Any tips…preferably with a trial!
On April 12, 2012 admin wrote:
You could check out our SEO Packages here:
http://articlesontap.com/seo-packages