Authority Link Network – Free but is it Worth Free?
If I told you I had this really great car which was extremely dependable and got great petrol mileage, and, I was going to give it to you free of charge would you take me up on my offer? Or would you suspect that I was trying to give away my car with some significant strings attached? If I were the recipients I would suspect the latter. Such is the case with Authority Link Network, one of the latest in a long line of blog submission networks helping to create a severe log jam of SEO content.
Authority Link Network is a service ostensibly offered free of charge to anyone interested in using it. Despite being free they claim their service “really works” by producing high search engine results and keeping your sites there. But since every article submission service claims to do the same thing, and there are only 20 slots in the top 20, how can they all produce? What’s more, how can a service so good deliver for free?
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Network Size
Authority Link Network claim to have almost 16k sites in their system. The dashboard also verifies this – But after digging a little deeper we have come to the conclusion that this number is not the “active” sites in the system and it also may include some or all of the following sites, low PR, Dead Sites, Pending sites – So the active count I would presume would be much lower.
Nothing Is Ever Free
Every blog network or article submission service needs a hook to gain and keep customers. In the case of Authority Link Network their hook is the fact that their service is free – but not free at the same time. In other words, you can sign up for free but you cannot submit any articles until you also submit one blog site of your own to which articles can be posted. But not just any site will do. You must submit a site that currently has page rank. The idea behind this is that every participant helps every other one out by providing a group of blogs that are already known to generate viewers and already trusted and indexed by Google.
You’re probably suspecting there has to be a catch… and there is. The catch lies in the fact that you are given points for every PR domain you submit. You can then submit one article for every point you have to your credit. That sounds fair, doesn’t it? But wait, there’s still more.
Your first three domains are only worth a half point apiece. That means if you stay with the “free” service you can submit only one article per day. Actually, you technically could submit 1.5 articles, but what is half an article? If you want to submit more you must sign up for the paid service which starts at $14.95 per month. Beginning with your fourth domain you’ll have three points to your credit, five domains equals’ six points. As you can see, free has literally no value to it. If you want to get anything worthwhile on this service will have to pay for it like anything else.
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Beware of Quality
There are lots of article writers and domain owners who love spun content because they can quickly get articles and backlinks out on the web without putting any effort into it. This is lazy marketing which diminishes the quality and makes it more difficult for hard-working writers and site owners. What’s even worse is auto-spun content; something that Authority Link Network freely allows. One reviewer of Authority Link Network even bragged about how auto-spun content let’s him make money by working only an hour per day. You may be thinking that’s a boon for you, but not so fast. Think about what that means when everyone on the network is forced to share their sites with one another.
If you have 1,000 members on your network and 500 of them are using auto-spun content you already have half your members not putting in the effort to produce quality work. After just six months of swapping this content you diminish quality to the point where the whole network collapses under its own worthless weight. Authority Link Network might be a great way to earn some quick money now, but it will not survive the test of time.
For ALN to improve on this aspect they will need to place some type of quality control into the system – Because at this time a lot of the sites in their network are getting deindexed – The only thing that is keeping the network afloat is users adding new sites daily. But is this really the way of the future?
You Have No Control
As far as who gets your articles, you have no say. You submit them with the promise that they will be distributed to 15 sites inside the network sometime over the course of the next three days. And while you certainly can insert up to three backlinks per article there is no guarantee they will get any traffic if your articles and up on websites that are completely unrelated to yours or what you do. In essence, it is a backlink crapshoot in which you are forced to hope for the best.
In their defence, the creators of Authority Link Network don’t promise you’ll become a millionaire using their service. In fact, they recommended that you use as many other tools as possible in order to maximize your results across the board. But let’s be honest, if a company or service is admitting their service isn’t worth anything, why is it worth promoting?
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A Case Study
One of our sites was not ranked in the top 100 for keyword that received an exact match search of 1000. . We signed up for Authority Link Network and immediately started paying the $14.95 monthly fee so that we could submit some of our own domains.
I ordered 6 articles to be created and submitted them all on the same day. I then logged out and did not log back in until a week later. I looked at the rankings and the site was sitting at position 38. So I then ordered another 6 pieces of content
We’ve only been with Authority Link Network for a short while so I can’t give you any projections over the long haul. But just from my initial few weeks with them it appears as though their service does, at least in the short term, what it claims. But just how long will this last?
I did get a few trackbacks on some of the domains so I followed them to see my links. I straight away loaded up the homepage of the site and it was basically full of garbage spun articles all posted into uncategorized.
