The Beginning
Almost like every webmaster I tried various techniques to get more links. In order to increase rankings, in order to get some referral traffic. Perhaps the most boring technique to get links is emailing other webmasters and begging for a link exchange. After sending numerous emails and after reaching 1% success rate I gave up this technique and started searching for something better, more efficient technique. Somehow I found automaticbacklinks.com.
Things Got Started
In fact the idea of automatic backlinks isn't that bad and at automaticbacklinks.com you can control any link. Those placed on your website as well as those pointing to your website. This is great, it looks like you can't lose. I earned some credit by allowing automaticbacklinks.com to place links on some of my websites and I used this credit to gain links too. I easily earned over 100 credit points and used it... And I waited, waited and waited for rankings to change. And they really changed!
Positive Results
For almost every phrase that I have been aiming at, my websites got ranked better. No dispute, automaticbacklinks.com really works. It took a couple of weeks until results became visible and everything was looking well.
Why I Changed My Mind
I didn't place automaticbacklinks.com code on my biggest website as I'm not willing to "test" things there. It was a good decision because on some of my websites that I used for linking purposes traffic declined for no apparent reason. Let's show the snapshots firstly.
Traffic Decline
Why Can Using AutomaticBacklinks.Com Hurt Your Website's Rankings?
As traffic decreased from Google text search, I believe that these links were considered paid or simply "not natural". No matter what happened, I don't want my sites' traffic to decrease. No matter that certain websites were ranked better, no matter that some results were really visible. I believe that the links that were placed on these websites really caused the problems because I was simply linking to bad neighbours. One of automaticbacklinks.com's advantages is that you can control all links. On the other hand it's hard to monitor all outgoing links. If you're linking to 10 websites, then it's easy. However, if you're linking to 100 websites or even more, it's practically impossible to watch all neighbours. Moreover, these links can be modified overnight. You go to bed, wake up next morning and find bad neighbours on your websites. What's more, you never know who is a bad neighbour. It doesn't have to be a low-PR or zero-PR website, it can be simply anchor text that indicates that you're selling links although you're not selling them indeed!
Conclusion
I was using
automaticbacklinks.com on this website too, but on 11 June 2010 I closed my
automaticbacklinks.com account. Rather less links than less visits.
11 June 2010