When it comes to building links automatically or semi-automatically Jonathan Leger is the guy to look at.
When I first heard of him he just had developed a product called 3WayLinks.net.
With 3WayLinks.net. you get a minimum of 250 backlinks to your domain’s homepage with three keyphrases split 60%, 30% and 10% per website entered, for up to 50 websites. These links come from sites with all types of themes and relevancies, with a wide range of page ranks (PR, my highest incoming link is from a PR5 site, but I guess there might be pages with even higher PR in the system). Backlinks are all targeted at the website in general, not to inner pages. If your site is PR 4+, it doesn’t count in the quota, so you can actually have more than 50 domains.
It is quite easy to use if you are running wordpress, because you can then use the 3waylinks wordpress plugin I wrote.
With MyWaylinks.net you get to choose which sites send you backlinks. At least, you get to ask for, and generally get backlinks from sites of your choosing, with PR’s of at least 1. That means that your links are of high relevancy and higher PR (in general, compared to 3waylinks or 1waylinks).
You can direct these links to any website you choose, including subdomains and inner pages. Your links are not limited to the sites you submit and register with MyWaylinks.net. (Great for getting new sites indexed fast!)
You also control the sites to which you give backlinks. They apply, you review, then approve or reject.
3WayLinks.net is a more highly automated process; you set it and forget it, until you add another website. It is also more broad and less specific in its linking. You get a lot of links but of generally low to medium quality.
MyWaylinks.net requires more setup time in that you will need to search the database of participants to find sites that you would like to receive backlinks from. Once the links are set up there is no more to be done. At that point it is set and forget also. The same for backlinks you give to other sites. In fact, you do not have to give backlinks to anyone if you don’t want to. There is a marketplace among members where quota needed to “pay” for backlinks to your site can be bought and sold on a member-to-member auction bid basis.
Currently you get 25 quota points upon signup. Getting backlinks costs 1 quota point per PR point (PR 1 links cost you 1 quota point, Pr4 links cost you 4 quota points, etc.) You receive 3 quota points per PR point of your site. If someone asks for a link from your PR3 website and you accept, you get 3×3=9 quota points.
So far, this has proven to be very worthwhile. One good thing is that links get crawled quickly (since all sites registered are PR1 or higher) and you see results in 2-5 days. Another is that those links from relevant sites REALLY move you up the ranking scale fast in Google… It’s nice to see those large jumps!
O.k. now we have covered the oldest child of the Leger Backlink Family(3WayLinks.net) and the youngest (MyWaylinks.net) – but there are two more:
There is DirLinks.net, which is actually some sort of completely different looking twin of 3WayLinks.net, that means it is part of the package.
It creates a directory with links to up to 1000 of the participating sites, again in a 3waylinks style. It gives you more links than 3waylinks and allows for links to inner pages – so it is the perfect addition to 3waylinks although it lives a little bit under the shadow of 3WL.
And last but not least, there is 1WayLinks.net:
A system that allows to post up to 250 blog articles with 3 in content links each, has the capability of spinning text and links and that makes it the most versatile tool Jon has ever created. For every new helper blog you add to the system you get an additional 50 post each month. That makes it an endless supply of high quality links. You can point your links to any site you like (given it adheres to the somewhat strict content rules of all Leger systems)
1WayLinks.net has become one of my main work horses because of it’s reliability and and endless supply of quality links!
In summary:
3WL – 240 or so basic links per website entered, up to 50 websites.
MWL- high quality links on a link exchange basis
1WL – Lots and lots of low quality links. Great for Google, Yahoo not so much.
DirLinks - Lots of links of med. to low quality. Works well as “Steroids” for 3WL; kicks backlink counts way up beyond 3WL’s 250 or so count.
So if you you are looking to expand your linking efforts, have a look at one of these – or do it like I do and use all of them in the field where each of them has it’s specific strengths.
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According to me one way linking is more valuable and also natural in term of Google…….because no. of links on the website is not sounds natural…..so getting minimum backlinks will be somewhere beneficial….
Hi Michael,
I’ve been a member of 1waylinks.net and 3waylinks.net too but I’ve switched to myarticlenetwork.com. I like that better because you can submit as many articles as you wish and they are getting submitted to relevant websites.
And with myarticlenetwork.com you can receive articles for your website. You can choose the category of articles you would like to receive and you also can choose that they have to be at minimum 30% unique to get published on your website. That’s a great service to keep your niche blogs updated.
That’s something you don’t get with 1waylinks.net. I think it’s worth to check it out.
Have a great day,
Daniel
MyWayLinks looks like a great service, thanks for sharing it.
i like the fact that mywaylinks will let you choose sites of at least pr 1 so they have higher relevancy and higher pr.
Michael,
Used your plugin for 3WayLinks and it’s slick. I’m trying to setup DirLinks (since it’s free for 3WL members) on a WP blog and am not sure how to handle the scripts provided. There isn’t a forum or any real help on that site – do you have a suggestion?
TIA – CJ
Hi CJ
There is a sub forum for dirlinks on the 3waylinks forum, and I often give help and advice on that forum, feel free to post your questions there…
Mike
It seems good and easy. But, won’t Google penalize in automated link exchanges? After all, they can know where the links are coming from in an advanced way.
I have been a fan of Johnathan’s work for a quite a while, and use his 1waylinks service. i have even noticed the blog I use for 1 way links, increase in PR and make income via adsense (abeit small)
the posts he does on his blog are always good content…IN regard to what Google does and doesn’t penalize…The only real answer is to run a test………….
Paul
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That’s a very helpful blog for linking-newbies like me in particular. Thanks’ a lot Michael. Much appreciated.
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I am a big fan of jon leger and his products, incuding his 1waylinks product.
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These products look like they are very helpful. I will look into it, thanks for bringing these to my attention.
Yet another brilliant Blog Michael! more excellent tools and toys, thanks very much
i think the concept of MyWayLinks looks very appealing, seems like good feedback on this and i may give it a try, is there a cost involved or a subscription?
Hi Mandy
Mywaylinks comes with a $7 trial and is then a subscription of $47 per month. You keep all your links if you cancel your vacation but keep your links site up.
Mike
And the race is on. Who can get the most PR 7 backlinks in the least amount of time and still have a site indexed by Google when the smoke clears? A little melodramatic? Maybe, but it does make a point. The fight over backlinks is one of the biggest SEO fights in the game. Everybody seems to think it’s the holy grail of search engine optimization. But is it? And are all backlinks the same? Most think they’re not. And while that’s technically true, they aren’t the be all and end all that some would think. This article explains.
Okay, let’s be honest. A PR 7 backlink is going to be worth a heck of a lot more to your web site’s climb up the SERPs than a PR 0 backlink. But how much different are they really? Well, for starters, in case you’ve been out to tea somewhere, Google has recently downplayed the importance of PR and even took it out of one of its tools. They’re not saying it doesn’t count anymore. They’re just saying that it’s not the big thing that people think it is. And personally, I couldn’t be happier. But that’s another story.
Truth is, I’ve got some sites that have PR 5 and 6 backlinks that are nowhere to be found near page 1 of Google’s search engine while I have sites with PR 1 and 2 backlinks that are on page 1. Why? What’s the reason? Well, the simple explanation is that there is a lot more to ranking with Google, or any search engine for that matter, than just backlinks. If that were the case, people would just beg, borrow and steal to get them. But even more important is the content on the site itself and even more important than that is the relevancy of the keywords to what people are searching for. Add to that mix the amount of time that the site has been online and……….(?)
I am a follower of Jonathan Leger in building links. 3WayLinks.net is a good information. Thank you for sharing the stuff.