Firstly I did write this review over two years ago so the service might well have changed it that time. My review was based on what I experienced during the 6 weeks that I trialled Linkmate.

I take you’re points on board, however, If you are trialling a link building service and you don’t see your link count increasing wouldn’t you question whether they are building links?

How can you be sure that the increase in your rankings is down to Linkumate if you can’t see anymore links being added? Have you tried to stop using the service and see if your rankings drop off?

I’ve nothing against Linkumate at all, but when I build links for my clients, how can I prove the increase in rankings is down to me if they can’t see there link count going up…? Taking into consideration that I’ve already done the on-page optimisation.

You see my point?

Thanks for your comments anyway. If its working for you then that’s great, as I said I’ve nothing against the service. The review was written based on my experience and my experience only.

Since reading your comments I’ve done some research on Linkumate and people seem to be getting results….from Yahoo and Bing. So if Yahoo and Bing is your thing then this would probably be a good service for you.

Cheers,
Ian

QUESTION: How fast and how many links will I find when I check for my sites links in the search engines?

ANSWER: First let me clarify something. If you are basing the success of ANY link campaign on how many links you find in the search engines, you are totally missing the point of a link campaign. There is only one metric that matters in any link campaign, and that is, are your rankings improving? If they are, then your link campaign is working for you, if not, then does it really matter how many links a search engine says you have? Now to answer the question. You are not likely to find many of the Linkumate links in any of the search engines. Why Not? Well the fact is, as stated above, these links are dynamic. They are present in one location one time, and then not there. They can appear anywhere in the network at any time. The fact that they move around so much is both the reason they work as search engines see them as new links, and also the reason why you won’t find many listed in the search engines. And even if you did find them listed in any of the search engines, if you go to that page, your link won’t be there anyway. Again, measure your link campaigns success by actual results, not the number of links a search engine tells shows for your site.

Therefore, either the links weren’t being created or they weren’t being cached by the search engines. Not sure which it was really, all i do know is that I didn’t see any results.

This was just my experience though, I might of just been unlucky – cheers.