TheLinkDream Blog

As with any major Google update, the Penguin that was released on the 24th April threw the whole SEO in havoc and panic.

For the ones that are unaware the “Penguin” update is a new algorithm that is a “over-optimization” penalty update. This update measures specific off-page and on-page factors of your site and acts like an off/on filter.

The currently assumed metrics that it takes into consideration:

on-page : bolded keywords, too high kw density, too many h1 headings, too many words in italics, titles with stuffed keywords separated only by commas

off-page: lack of IP diversity, sitewide links, high percentage of a single anchor in the total pool of links, too many links pointing to single page of your whole site

In order for us to be post Penguin compatible, we have enabled the package to support up to 50 anchors per submission.  The recommended formula is to use 10-15 % generic type of keywords such as “click here” “visit the site” “more info” “the site” etc. 10-15% branded keywords “domain” “domain.com” etc. and the remaining 70-80% with competitive and long tail keywords.

It is also recommended to allocate some keywords to point to internal pages (and not all to the homepage of your site).

There is evidence that the anchor diversity is among the most critical factors that are taken into consideration with the Penguin update. Keeping a good balance of at least 50 anchors per blast will keep you on the safe side. This would mean that you will not exceed 5% of the total pool of your anchors with any individual one.

Take advantage of thelinkdream and its diverse link power to overcome a Penguin penalty!

I decided to make a post that is more focused on the quality of links..and in particular the quality of third party permanent links which are the type of links which are being provided as a service here on TheLinkDream.

The reason why I want to write about this issue is because I am not fond on the idea that SEO packages and link building packages should be sold “as is” and that once the seller sells them the buyer is on his own to decide whether they are good or not.

This is the case because buyers are limited in terms of capability to technically analyze a link report and actually know critically important factors that affect the overall quality of the link package…which invariably affects the SERPS at a latter stage.

This is why I want to bow to the guys that launched the site LinkScore.net.

They have a very optimized platform where you can load your reports and only through the push of a button get critical information such as : Number of Class-C IPs, number of unique domain names, Avtive links, deleted links, Indexed links in Google (which is super important), domain Pagerank, link page-pagerank and more.

I highly recommend Linkscore to anyone who is building or buying links.

A lot of folks from different forums and also clients have been asking me the question: What happens if I stop paying my monthly subscription?

Answer is simple: When you purchase thelinkdream you must understand that you are paying for a permanent link building service.

All of the link properties that are created for you are distributed across websites and services which are permanent and will not be removed.

Even if you ask us to do it it is very hard to be done because we will need to login into each of the accounts which was exclusively created for you and delete each post on a one-by-one basis.

So with this being said you can rest assured that this service intends to provide you with a robust and stable solution which aims in boosting your SEO positioning.

Unlike some other fully automated  crap services like Linkvana where they do not even tell you on which sites your link is being placed (duh..how do I know if my link is not placed on a site which has porn/gambling etc?), and above all we do NOT make  you feel like a link junkie where you need to pay in order to maintain the links.

Our package is like a building unit. Like a brick. You decide how much bricks you need in order to build your desired structure because once you buy a brick its yours for life.

One of the strongest features and link building technology featured in TheLinkDream project is the proprietary network of sites which we are constantly developing.

The inital network consisted of 100 websites which are all .COM and which are all hosted across different Class-C IPs. As of 27th Sep 2011, this network has been expanded now to feature a mindblowing 200 websites, again hosted across a super expensive multiple class-c hosting.

What you should understand is that with each package that you buy, among the hundreds of different types of submissions, you are getting a guaranteed single post published on each one of the 200 websites that are within our network. This way you will be getting a guaranteed 400 links (since there are 2 links per post), scattered across 200 .com websites, with different anchors and uniquely spun content, across 200 class-C ips.

The best thing about is that this will not cause any increase in the current price. We are still keeping the promotional price at least until the end of Nov 2011.

Ok guys, I decided to write this post as a result of the experience which I have been having with some of the SEO hostings which I work with…in hope you can avoid paying excessive amount of money for a product which you can otherwise get at a very cheap rate.

First off I am going to begin by quickly explaining what the heck a SEO hosting is, what it should be and what it should NOT be.

SEO hosting is a new emerging industry which along with all SEO related sub products is growing pretty fast right now. A SEO hosting is basically a normal hosting which is flexible to include multiple class- C ips. In other words what you get from a conventional shared hosting  e.g.  hostgator.com, plus 3..5..or even 200 Class-C IPs is a SEO hosting.

SEO hosts are good for people which are developing their own proprietorial network of websites for SEO purposes. Such a network is usually a blog network running under the WordPress platform, customized, loaded with content and in the end hosted on a SEO hosting package which supports a number of different Class-C IPs.

The price of a SEO hosting usually depends on the number of IPs which are included in your package. The important factor here is the price per single Class-C ip. The good/normal price is usually around $2 per IP making a normal plan with 10 IPs cost around 20 bucks per month.

I myself am using a network of 100 IPs for thelinkdream.com’s package which is costing me a hefty $250 per month.

What you should know is that most of the companies that sell SEO hosting on different prices are basically selling the same product, with the same IPs (due to the fact that IPs are limited and the ability to get ones easily and cheap are particularly the ones which they are upselling to you). The reason why I am saying this is because I recently bought one package from a new company and as soon as I received the confirmation email for the opening of my account I noticed that a lot of the IPs which were assigned to my account were ones which I already had with another company which I already had an account with. I ofcourse sent an email immediately asking those IPs to be replaced and the issue was cleared. The unique IPs which I got were in the same town and in the same class-B block, which means that this is cluster is one that is particularly been sold through SEO hosting companies.

The companies which I can advise you to avoid are SEOwebhosting.net as they are spending too much money on advertising and hence have extremely high prices. They are trying to sell IPs as much as $5 per piece while everyone else is selling the exact same IPs for as low as $2 – $2.5  per piece.

With Google making a big algorithm update at least once a year, the Search Engine Marketing world finds itself constantly walking on thin ice in a race against the “system” which eventually marks the latest conventional link building techniques as “manipulative” and wipes them out of the game in a lame update named after a bear or other extraordinary mammal.

The weird thing is that Google’s Quality Search Team Leader, Matt Cutts continuously speaks about using organic techniques, posting quality content and blah blah all the vague and useless information which is usually found to be amusing and informative by newbie marketers, the rest of the people that are in the industry are always asking themself the question “Ok…what is the new linking method, that takes less resources and is non-conventional…and thus not yet filtered out by Google’s recent algo update?”

The people that usually find an answer to this question are the people that are actually the few ones which can be called professionals and which are capable of getting results superior than the thousands of other “seo proz/moz” and whatever other lame abbreviations you can find out in “SEO” query results of people and companies in the industry.

So enough flaming, you get the picture, for the real SEO marketer Google is the bad guy, and the rest of the websites/people you see in the rankings are simply people you race with.  So if you race with 1000 other people, everything would be fine if the race is fair and you all start from the same point. I mean if you really are better than the others then you would deservedly get your prize by finishing among the first, no? Yes, but unfortunately the race we are in is not fair by any mean. Google’s ideology for “quality” to a large extent empowers big, powerful, aged websites to show in the rankings.

And who said, new and small can’t be good? Why on earth having more resources means you are of higher quality? Anyways, these are questions which probably Google will deny, but if you run a query for anything which is significant you will see 9 out of 10 websites which are with PR5+ and aged 7+ years or so.

In fact the more you get better at this race, the more you understand that you are racing with giants. So how do we beat them when we have thousand times less the budget, the time, energy and history/authority? Well simple..outsmart them. Find a new way of linking. Be creative and think out of the box. Stop watching those google webmasters videos and stop reading posts in SEO forums. Think in large scale. Think of a service you can launch through which you can make people want your link on their sites?

A very good example for this was a brakthrough which happened around 2005-2006 with the CMS themes links. Designers started creating quality themes pro-bono, and in return placed footer links. Well guess what footer links in CMS are no longer good but anyways, thats a good example.

SEO is a game where the person who finds the most effective method for link placement (in terms of resources spent) gains a competitive advantage over the others. This in addition to all the standard ABC stuff (unique content, on-page etc) makes the SEO mix a winner in a certain moment of time. The moment you stop working on new link building methods is the moment you become one of the thousands and from there on is a race of resources inputted, rather than a race of ingenuity and creativity.

This is why it is critical for you to understand that there is no imperative, and no invariably “effective” mean for link distribution. And gosh there is for sure no “automated” tool that will make you go on top.

The link distribution which you are using now, will certainly be outdated and ineffective after 12 months.  For all those reasons we are happy to say that TheLinkDream package is a solution which is constantly evolving. The fact that there are actual people behind the service with human hand-work in place, is what gives us the ability to shape the product in order for it to be one step ahead of the mass and thus give you and your business the fair start which you deserve.

Thelinkdream package is a standalone SEO core service which was created with one sole purpose – to give webmasters a professional, quality, effective and budgeted link building solution that will solve their link building problems, without forcing them to sign long term contracts and or pay additional money for fancy services which usually SEO consultants always sell along with their link building core service.

In reality this type of link service is something which you would normally be able to get only from a high end SEO company if you are to sign a long term contract for your site, which on the other hand will cost you anywhere between $2000 and $20,000+. …depending on the level of competitiveness of the niche in which your site is positioned and the respective amount of links which the SEO consultants will try to sell you on a monthly basis.

After reading through the details of our package, and seeing feedback from other clients on popular forums such as Digitalpoint and Warriorforums, many of our clients find themselves in a position where they feel like being ready to  place an order but at the same time they lack the information or guidance from the consultancy service which normally accompanies such a powerful link solution.

Thus common questions like this may arise :

“Ok how much is enough?”

“Will one package suffice…and will there be any significant result?

“I believe in the service but will a single package of $249 be enough for my site?”

This is why I decided to explain a little bit more of how the package works, what you should expect and how you can make the proper decision which would bring results while not bringing any surprises to your budget.

First of all “TheLinkdream” package is a combination of 4 different types of cutting edge link placement methodologies, which collectively result in approximately 850 links (and by approximately, we actually use a formula to calculate the “at least” figure in reality you can get anythinge between 850 and 2000 links).. from different Class-C and BLock-C IPs and different types of websites. The ideology that stands behind this package is that by utilizing a broader spectrum of diversified websites for your links, you create a link portfolio which does not have a pattern that can easily be identified from Google as manipulative and eventually filtered out from their link database.

With this being said, thelinkdream package is a package which is effective and which can be seen as a “unit” based service. Where a single unit is a single package.

If we are to give an advice based on the results we see from our clients and the projects for which we distributed linkdream packages, it will look somehting as:

• Micro Sites (Sites in low competitive niches, with few hundred thousand results per keyword and competitors with PR0-PR3) : 1 – 3 packages per month are completely sufficient to get your to #10 results for the keywords which you are using. With a fresh case which we just had, an micro e-commerce site, selling gifts went for 3 packages per month and found great improvement in his SERPS after the first month.
• Medium Sites (Sites with mediocre competition, with 1-5 Mil results per keyword and competitors with PR2-PR4) : 3-5 packages per month
• Large Sites (Sites in highly competitive niches. 5+ Mil Results per keyword and competitors with PR3-PR6) : 5 + packages per month

So if you are asking yourself, how much is enough? Take our recommendation and go for the minimum amount of packages we advise you to choose for the corresponding category. This will ensure you will get a good return on your investment and that you will be capable of mining enough data and results for your own analysis in order to make a more sound decision whether to continue use the service as a subscription or not.

As a side note you should know that initial results are usually observed anywhere between 5-15 days upon completion of the package (this is when we deliver you  your report file).