Links Manager

I've seen a few casino portal sites starting to use linksmanager.com to outsource the link managing. I am still doing my links by hand but I am always interested in saving time. Does anyone have any experience with this or other such services - good or bad?

Also, I find that the only real use for linking is the mutual benefit as it affects search engine ranking. If you use these services which sometimes then host your links page on their servers under their domain name (linksmanager.com offers an option), will the effectiveness of the linking diminish? ... e.g., if your links page is hosted under someone else's domain, will it affect search engine ranking for either your site or the person you are trying to help by giving them a link?

nah

I found a place called casino link back that just started in may and is free and they have 20 sites on the links page, but I have done everything they said to do and I have'nt heard from them yet. What you have to do is copy the code that they tell you to copy and paste in your site, then you give them your site details and submit them and wait for them to email you an html zip file which has the updated links page which includes your site. You download this zip file and then upload it to your site and the code you pasted into your main page of your site earlier points to the link page that you just uploaded. Then every week on Monday they send you a new html zip file that has been updated and you download it and then upload it to your site to overwrite the old file, and you submit it to the search engines.
But like I said It's been about a week and I still have'nt heard from them. They do require you to have your own domain and not a free site like geocities,angelfire,ect. I have my own domain so I don't know why they would reject me, if they were going to reject me for some reason it seems like they could at least email me and tell me I had been rejected and why. Here is the link if anyone would like to check it out.

http://www.casinolinkback.com/casinolinkback.html

Does anyone know of a service similar to Casino Link Back that allows you to get recipprocal links for Free?

Sure Links2You but you really need to know that Google treats these places as link farms and you will probably be penelized sent to the abyss in their SE.

So figure out if the Google traffic is worth more or less then the link farm traffic and go accordingly.

We stopped taking link exchanges with Zeuss and LE link pages so 'just in case' we don't get painted with the same brush. ( 'cept you Easy, I just added yours today and will upload probably tommorrow.)

Thanks Nas ;)

The Links Manager looks to be very safe. That is if you upload the pages to your own server and integrate it. Some of the best ranked sites on Google use it (AnteUp, gamblinglinks.com)

The other programs and linking pages may be risky with Google.

Thanks for the feedback guys. I'll probably do a little more research but I am leaning toward giving it a try in the coming weeks.

LineResearch,

I built a DB script that takes care of my reciprocal links at my sites and haven't used the LinksManager service. I can see the benefits to the webmaster. When I first started out doing this it got on my nerves that when I linked to people using LM, their servers seem to check my site excessively for links (15-20+ different visits from the same server IP within a few mins of each other 2-3 times a day mounts up!). The links are always still there on my site but they still check once for every LM link listed on my links pages seperately. I can be kinda depressing to see that many of the hits to your site come from the LM server! :D

As such I'm not a big fan of the LM service and would rather swap links with people with their own links pages than LM given the choice. But if the site is good and worth linking to I usually will link to an LM site.

I guess that this problem wouldn't really affect you as a webmaster suing their service but it might subconsciously annoy some of the people wanting to swap links with you?

Just my feelings on the matter though!

chalkoutline

Excellent consideration chalkoutline. I hadn't even thought about the effect from the LM service checking the reciprocal links to make sure that they are reciprocating. I guess we'll all start to experience this as more of our reciprocal links use a service like this on the other end. Like you say, not sure it would stop me from linking to a quality site, but I can understand the frustration.