Links Management started its history in 2009. The SEO link building company existed on the market much earlier. The company stated on their website not they were not satisfied with the activities and tried to find a solution that would better suit the needs of our clients. Therefore, in 2009, they claimed to have conducted a thorough marketing survey among 6,252 US and UK SEO companies trying to find a service that offered high quality backlinks. To this day we have not been able to find any evidence of this surveys existence.
Upon requesting the claimed survey data from LinksManagement on several occasions by digital marketing and industry professionals the company did not comply with producing the publicly announced data.
The company further claims on it’s website they spent 3 months and around $50,000 for this research, resulting with them realizing that there were almost no SEO services that offered really quality backlinks that could improve Google rankings for a long period of time.
This report will conclude that Links Management is one of the 90% of all digital marketing companies that provide little to no value or return on investment (ROI)
LinksManagement said, “We have found only a few companies that provided high-quality links, but the budget of their clients should have been more than $50,000/ month to use their services”
We have concluded that LinksManagement is not one of these few companies that constantly provides quality backlinks across is service range.
Guest posts from blogs with high Domain Authority and relative niche content is a very effective digital marking method. They provide great SEO value because of their higher Domain Authority
You should submit your guest post to as many sites as you can. This will help you gain more exposure. One thing you should never do is actually buy a guest post containing your website URL and anchor text. This is actually a major breach of Google policy and guidelines. Getting caught buying guest posts or links for your website can result in your own website being slapped with a manual penalty from major search engines such as Google.
The penalty often results in your website rankings being dropped back many pages in search results and on occasion can cause the complete deindexation of your website. Your entire business can drop out from underneath your feet overnight if getting caught buying guest posts with your website backlink in it from services like LinksManagment.com
Often when website owners outreach to a website with the offer of providing them great content in exchange for a link which is a completely acceptable link acquisition method the website owner will respond with a request for money.
Now ask yourself this question. Why would anyone want to pay a website owner to give them their own hard work, time and research just so they can display it on their own website for their visitors to enjoy while talking the credit for your work? This would be rather like asking a car salesman to pay you for handing over the keys to his own car. That’s just insane.
I highly recommended when outreaching your content to a website owner who requests money for giving them your own work you never pay them a single cent. If the website owner is not ethical or appreciates the fact you are already providing them with something of great value in return for a backlink and then asks you for money on top you should walk away and find a legitimate website that provides real services instead of a blog that solely operates to sell backlinks.
As a suggestion I ask you to put this in your mind. Any website owner that asks you for money to give them your own hard work does not deserve your amazing artcile anyway. These websites are often referred to as PBN blogs or paid link sites. You should avoid these websites all costs if you care about the long term jeopardy of your own company website.
Coming back to Links Management promoting guest post and link scams with full knowledge. I will now share the data, facts and evidence this company is one the largest public eye digital marketing scams I have come across for some time.
The company clearly promotes and profits from guest post websites, blogs and links that boast and advertise certain domain authority scores that are totally incorrect, manipulated and falsified.
The manipulated and fake domain authority metrics involves creating what is often referred to as fake redirection links AKA “Redirect Notices”. The scam and the method is further explained in details here. While a MOZ domain authority score can give you a ruff idea of a websites overall influence in the search engines it is no way a direct correlation or representation of how a search engine such as Google rates a websites power or SERP value. Additionally the MOZ DA score can be easy manipulated to show a fake misrepresented metrics score by using the fake redirect links method mentioned above. This further raises other important and controversial questions as to why MOZ does not apply a simple filter that identified the very easy to spot and categorise fake redirection links and remove them from their domain authority calculations.
Here are some examples of these fake redirect links that stand out clearly to professionals and people such as myself who can identify these kind of fake redirect links from a mile way. These types of links (if you would even call them a link) have absolutely no SEO value at all. They are not counted or seen by search engines as a URL that passes link juice or domain authority from one website to another. All these URLs actually do is create a false signal in 3rd party metrics tools such as MOZ to count, indicate and contribute to a false positive.
www.curseforge.com/linkout?remoteUrl=http://successrealization.com/
toolbarqueries.google.fr/url?sa=i&url=https://techmagzine.com/
Notice how the URL has the destination sites on the end. The above mentioned is just one way of identifying these fake redirect links. There is a few more obvious signs but for the sake if keeping this artcile a little shorter I won’t go into this deeper. I am sure you can clearly see and understand what’s been demonstrated above. To help a little more please find below what a real/normal link looks like.
stackoverflow.com/questions/16260971/can-not-click-link-inside-the-jquery-content-slider
As you can see there is is no url=http://website.com/ on the end of the URL.
Now that you understand more about what a fake link and a fake MOZ DA score is it’s time to dip right into the digital marketing and guest post scams that LinksManagement promote with full knowledge. Thus making this company one of the 90% of all digital marketing and link building scams around the globe.
I often receive emails from this company with offers to buy high quality guest posts that allow for your websites URL to be inserted into the content. The most recent email headlined that they have new websites that I don’t want to miss! I’ve never actually used this service, I never will and neither should you.
Please find listed below an example of a Links Management email marketing campaign.
As you can see above this offers a link from a DA73 site for just $15. A MOZ Domain authority score of 73 is extremely high. This would indicate a super powerful link from a high authority website. A website with a metrics score this high would have 10s of thousands of backlinks and well over 10,000 unique domains linking to it in the real world.
According to AHREFS (An alternative 3rd party metrics tool some what similar to the MOZ DA Metrics tool) the cheapest cost to buy an actual real link that would be equal to about DA28 back in 2018 was $50. So for anyone to get their hands on a true DA73 link for just $15 would be an absolute bargain!
Now lets analyse this DA73 website that Links Management are promoting here as something you “Don’t want to miss!”
I’m going to take all the work and technical jargon out of this and make it as simple as I can. Iv’e done my own very educated analysis in this advertised DA73 site. That being https://www.successrealization.com.
For someone like myself I spot the fraud in less than 4 seconds and with a few clicks of a button. And the results are in!
This site advertised as DA72 is actually DA 6. That’s right. This site basically has zero domain authority.
Here is what the MOZ metrics say.
You would look at this and trust the score is right. Its a high authority website with a stack of ranking power if you get a link from it right? WRONG!
This is a classic example of a fake MOZ DA metrics site. The score is manipulated and completely false. Remember this is a third party metrics tool. It has absolutely no correlation into how search engines interpret the overall authority of this site. So how was this score achieved then? With fake redirect links that create false positive results in the MOZ DA metrics calculation system. This table is also indicating that the site has over 3000 total backlinks pointing to it.
This website was able to manipulate and fool the MOZ DA metrics tool to show this high DA73 score. However they were not able to pull off the same trick and fool other metrics tools such as Ahrefs 3rd party metrics tool. Its now time to show what’s real.
This site has a Ahrefs DR score of just 11
Now its absolutely mathematically impossible for a website to have a DA score of 72 when the DR score is just 11 and the website has just 39 different referring domains pointing to. Here is an official certified screen shot of the fake redirect links used to create the fake MOZ DA score of 73. I was able to pull this data and evidence of this scam from Ahrefs totally free backlink checking tool.
Now I have shown you the DR score of this site is just 11. The scammers who actually own, sell and promote this site will argue that the DA and DR scores are completely different tools and metrics. And yes they are in fact right about that however, the B.S that comes out of it is if you remove and filter out all the fake redirect links from the MOZ DA score and manually recalculate the average DA to DR ratio you end up with a DA score of just 6!
Links Management claim to have been in this industry since 2009. As a service that sells links and guest post services they are more than aware of how to create and or spot fake metrics sites as do most other actual real digital marketing professionals. I don’t claim to be a any kind of digital marketing expert or guru. But I know my way around the industry very well and would consider myself as a data analysis geek. I’m certainly no writer as many would agree this post could have been written much better. I’m no writer and I have not applied a tool like Grammarly. It’s important that I represent myself here it my most natural and real form.
The company is more than aware of these fake metrics sites, in fact I have an email in my inbox that proves it upon questioning them for the first time before I went all crazy on their backsides. Furthermore they are actually very well versed is creating fake redirect links themselves.
This service will not provide what they claim, they false advertise fake metrics with full knowledge. The service will not increase your rankings. I can say this publicly without a worry in the world as I have inspected the product range and guest post link websites they promote and over 84% of all the sites I checked out had totally fake DA metrics.
I also want to show you how much of a scam this company really is by posting some of their direct advertising here.
Please view the following advertising on their website
As you can clearly see is this on this page they have a so called DA73 backlink from a site with the domain name ureadthis.com for $211.92. They might want to argue that you are also paying for the artcile. But the article is bogus also. It will be spun or scrapped from another website or they may use an online AI app like Article Forge that creates a unique artcile in just 30 seconds. They won’t actually physically write anything.
Now lets take a look and do some analyses of what’s really going on with this so called DA73 site and what you are getting for $211.92
Checking the Ahrefs data this site has a DR score of just 33!
It is also showing here that is has 4,215 referring domains.
Now lets take a look at what those referring domains actually consist of.
Over 98% of all the referring domains are all fake redirect links to create a false positive fake MOZ DA73 score. After doing a rough calculated filter of all the fake redirect links this website has a MOZ DA score of 17! That’s right folks. This link advertised and sold for over $200 due to it being flashed as a DA73 link is actually a DA17 link. (It could actually be less I’m giving a % of give and take here) This website does not have one single real in content editorial authority backlink pointing to it. And most of the other backlinks pointing to this website is just trashy and spammy blog comments with most of them using the “Nofollow” rel attribute which means they don’t pass link juice or domain authority anyway.
I don’t know about how you feel about this or what you would call it. But the common average people I know call this a scam.
Ill let you in on something here. The website you are reading this post on right now actually has over 10 times more power than the fake rubbish links mentioned being sold above. And this is a free website to post on!
There are also over 35 other websites that I personally know of that allow free instant approval guest posting with a dofollow link and great domain authority + search engine indexed content totally free and with more ranking power than these fake metrics websites sold by digital marketing scammers.
I do apologise for not providing the list of these sites. I would ask you to please understand that it did take years of hunting and personal research to find these websites. They weren’t just handed to me. If you would like a copy of my list feel free to contact me and we can discuss options.
If you have made the choice to buy backlinks which I don’t recommend (but understand the reality of acquiring completely natural links from people linking to your website looks and feels almost impossible) I hope this artcile will help you navigate the minefield of rubbish and scams out there. If you are not sure on a certain link or guest post your going to buy shoot me a message and ill let you if its legit and what is really worth! The above mentioned $200 + link is actually really worth about $5!
I would still like to know from MOZ. Why they refuse to filter out the fake redirect links from their calculations. This would stop this racket and show a websites real worth to people who don’t know how to confirm the truth. Moz. Please apply a filter to these redirect links. It’s so easy to do!
All you need to do is remove the URLs with the www.curseforge.com/linkout?remoteUrl=http://successrealization.com/ on the end from your algorithmic calculations and your done! I understand that it’s highly complicated to do this from a 2nd tier link perspective but you can certainty apply it to the 1st tier. I know this because I’ve done it. So why don’t you guys do it which would result in millions of dollars being saved and shutting down so many guest post and link building scams. That fact that it’s actually possible to implement leads me to the question of why you don’t? You could almost say that the MOZ domain authority checking tool is actually a contributing to these scams.
Why won’t MOZ do this and share the more accurate data with the public to stop all of these links, digital marketing and guest post scammers! It will turn the industry honest! I’ve seen blog owners sharing and boasting sites with a DA54 score on paid guest post blogs for over $150 when the site has a true DA score of 2. This results in poor unsuspecting hard up for cash website owners just trying to get their websites to rank from getting totally tooled. Yes tooled!
I would say that the smart programmer (I wish I was a programmer) who builds a tool that pulls both the MOZ and Ahrefs data, combines and matches that data together while filtering out the URLS with the URL=https://website.com on the end the string resulting in a clean well averaged domain authority estimate will become a millionaire overnight!
Imagine if Google decided to come out with its own tool that generates exactly how they view the overall authority of a websites domain directly from there own algorithm. Lets say they call it the GA (Google Authority Score) Google doesn’t count or see these rubbish fake links in their ranking considerations. However the 3rd party metrics calculation tools are all vulnerable to completely misrepresented data. All Google would have to do is launch the GA tool displaying exactly how they view the authority of a domain with a (Score) and it would be bye bye to Ahrefs and Moz authority scores. The only use you would get out of them is to see where your competitors are getting links from ect ect. Google would make Hundreds of millions of dollars selling access to an honest display of a websites authority in their eyes. After all. It only matters what Google thinks anyway.
As for Links Management. I highly recommend you stay far far way from these fraudsters. With what is being sold there and for the money they charge you would be lucky to rank a gold fishes toe nail website.
I call for a consumer affairs investigation on this mob. The issue with doing this is the fact the digital marketing industry is almost completely un regulated. This very same problem applies to the fraudulently advertised link building and digital marketing services promoted and profited by freelance platforms such as Fiverr.com. Personally referred to by myself as scam city.
A breif example. I personally identified and reported with full technical evidence and documentation of several digital marketing, link building, promises of first page rankings using nothing but a few crappy web 2.0 links flooded with nofollow blog comment spam and fake MOZ DA guest post scams operated on Fiverr. They were positively identified and proven without technical evidence of a doubt showing that the services were outright scams. Fiverr received the emails as my email tracking app informs me when the email has been opened and read. I also emailed there support and several other inbound communication channels presenting the facts and findings. To date, the same known, identified and proven scams continue to operate. Fiverr continues to promote and profit from known SEO, guest posting and link building scams. Fiverr and sellers on the freelance platform continue to get fatter and fatter while the consumer drowns deeper and deeper with no results or ROI for the services they invest in. This is happening and Fiverr continues to profit from it due to poor and almost non existent regulations that the scammers bank on.
Lets take one last look at LinksManagement Scams
The blow is a graphic that comes from their Monthly email marketing. You will notice the website https://kbfitnessblog.com being clearly advertised, promoted and sold for $150 being a DA66 website. The DA could not be any further from the truth here.
The DA score is manipulated is completely fake. The sale, promotion and advertising in this instance is an outright scam.
This website only has a total of 4 real backlinks pointing it.
Its real “Natural Organic” DA is actually ZERO
Its real “Natural Organic” DR (Ahrefs Metrics) is ZERO
If you were to pay the $150 asking price. You would have ended up with a true DA 0 DR 0 backlink. This is undisputable evidence LinkManagement are scammers. They are fully aware of fake metrics websites. And yes they don’t own this blog. But theypromote and profit from it with full knowledge the website is fake. The company BANKS on uneducated website owners not being aware of the fake metrics.
If your going to choose to go down the black hat road and buy links. Avoid “Links Management” skip right past them. Find a reputable dealer and make sure you fully understand what your buying, what its really worth and manually check the backlink profile with several different tools. And stay well clear of Fiverr also!
Take care and I wish you all good luck with your online projects!