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Here are some secret tips to using the Link Aloha service that are not mentioned on the website:

Update: April 7, 2011: We received a comment, ostensibly from Koen Berkenbosch at Link Aloha, requesting that this post be removed because “it is not true.”  The comment received was:

“Its not true and I have to explain alot of my new customers why, because alot of them read it.

Please remove the comment from your blog.”

It was unclear just what exactly is now claimed to not be true, so we revisited Link Aloha to see if any of these items need updating due to changes in the service or perhaps overlooked an issue.

After this further review of Link Aloha, the post remains, in our opinion, true.  For Koen Berkenbosch’s benefit we have also saved for our records documentary evidence from campaigns proving each statement listed here is true.

For our testing we accessed various campaigns of a current Link Aloha user, selected “Campaigns Info”, and then clicked on “Full Campaign Statistics” to obtain a downloaded spreadsheet of all link information submitted by the Link Aloha service.

Although the full statistics were requested on April 7th, only data for April 4-7 was provided by Link Aloha.  The service does not explain why data was missing for April 1-3.  Presumably, the service did not submit any links for those days.  There also does not appear to be any way to recover submission data for prior months.  However, based on the data available there was more than sufficient data for our re-review.

1. Pause a campaign by setting the number of links to be created each day to zero.

Update April 7, 2011:  A review of campaigns where the links set to be created each day was set to zero shows that no profile links for that campaign were actually submitted.  In effect, this allows a user to pause a campaign without needing to kill it.  “Kill Campaign” or “Delete” are the only options currently in the Link Aloha user interface.  Our preference is to simply set the links to be created to zero.

2. When you create a list of link text to be used, using the “|” command, this does NOT spin the text used for each link. Instead, the link text options are only used if you have that number of links to be created each day.

For example: if you use the link text LinkAloha|LinkAloha Review|LinkAloha Tips

and have the number of links to be created each day set to one: then every day one link is created using the keyword text LinkAloha. You will never get any backlinks with the text LinkAloha Review or LinkAloha Tips.

To trigger backlinks with LinkAloha Tips as the text you need to have three backlinks created each day.

Update April 7, 2011:  We reviewed a campaign with two keywords with a pipe between them as recommended by Link Aloha.  The format is:  keywordone|keywordtwo

The campaign is set to add one link per day.

The Link Aloha spreadsheet shows one link being submitted on April 4, 5, 6 and 7.  All four of those links used keywordone.  There were no postings of keywordtwo.

In other words, the anchor text does not spin or rotate.

We then reviewed a second campaign, also with two keywords separated by the pipe: keywordone|keywordtwo, that was set to post two links per day.

The Link Aloha spreadsheet showed two links being submitted on April 4, 5, 6 and 7.  On each day both keywordone and keywordtwo were submitted.

This verifies that to have multiple keywords submitted in a campaign you need to set your campaign to post multiple posts.  Note that on each day it was exactly keywordone and keywordtwo that were posted.  There was no situation where keywordone or keywordtwo was posted twice in one day even though two links were set to post.  Again, indicating the pipe does not result in spinning or a random keyword being selected.

3. Adding multiple URLs for a campaign acts the same as the multiple text links discussed above.

They do NOT rotate. So if a campaign has 5 urls but only 1 backlink is set each day, instead of 1 of the 5 urls being rotated for a backlink each day, only the first url is set each day. You will never get backlinks to the other 4 urls.

To get a backlink to each url in a campaign you have to set the number of backlinks each day to the number of urls.

Update April 7, 2011:  We reviewed a single campaign that included over a dozen urls, with the number of links to be submitted each day equal to the number of urls.

The Link Aloha data spreadsheet showed each url being submitted once on April 4, 5, 6 and 7th.  Despite over 50 link submissions over those days there was no repeat on any day, again evidencing no rotation.

However, at this point the review is not yet complete.  We have asked that the campaign be adjusted to increase the number of urls but the number of links to be submitted reduced so that there is a complete re-review of the initial testing.  This will be updated when that further testing has been completed.

But so far, the re-review is resulting in exactly the same results as before and a new result is not anticipated.

4. Link Aloha has been known to reorder your keywords for a url using the “|” command. They may be reordered alphabetically. So you need to be careful if you have more keywords than backlinks being set, because the first keyword you put in the list may not be the keyword Link Aloha is using in each daily run because Link Aloha has reordered your list.

Update April 7, 2011: We created a new url to be submitted with and in the “Add Keywords” box placed the following information: keywordone|keywordtwo|keywordthree

We then saved.  Then we immediately went back to edit and review the keyword list.  What we found was this:  keywordtwo|keywordthree|keywordone.

Again, as previously stated, Link Aloha may reorder your keywords without telling you.

This is especially important because as previously noted Link Aloha does not rotate or spin your keywords.  If there was rotation or spinning it would not matter what order they were placed in.  But because they do not, if you are only posting one link per day you will only get the first keyword posted day after day.  This may not be the first keyword you entered.

5. April 7, 2011 new issue found:

During our re-review we noticed the almost unusable condition of the Link Aloha csv spreadsheet that can be downloaded.

This is because all the data is placed in one column.

To make it usable, using our older version of Microsoft Excel we saved the file into a .txt format.  Then we opened a new blank spreadsheet and used Get External Data to import the text data.  We then told Excel that the pipe “|” was a column delimeter.

Voila.  A perfectly functional spreadsheet that properly shows each column of data in a separate column, not in one column.  This makes it so much easier to see what Link Aloha is actually submitting and doing with your campaigns.

Finally, keep in mind that all of the above can be tested and verified in your Link Aloha account.

Here is a list of websites where you can submit an article with spin syntax, and the site will then distribute different spun versions of your article to other sites (typically WordPress blogs):

Syndicate Kahuna – $67 per month

Notes: Put links within the article using the special token. There are no author resource boxes.

SEO Linkvine – $67 per month

Niche Press Platinum – $67 per month

Article Ranks – $39 per month or there is a pay as go option where each article costs $2 and a minimum deposit of $20 is required.

Notes: Put links within the article. There are no author resource boxes. The divider between spinning options is ‘~’ instead of ‘|’ as used with most spinning programs, so a search and replace needs to be done when copying from another program.

Important: Based on my experience some of the sites in this network have good rankings. The quality appears to be better than some other services.

Submit Eaze – $78.95 one time fee.

This software will automatically create accounts for you at article sites. You can then add your spin ready article to the software and it will spin the article title, article body, and author resource box – and automatically submit your unique articles to the article sites. You can also manually add as many article sites as you want to submit uniquely spun articles yourself. Must have software for the price. (Also includes ability to quickly submit your site to over a thousand directory sites.)

TrafficKaboom – $497 yearly or $147 every 3 months.

I believe this is by the owners of Syndicate Kahuna (Traffic Kahuna) and I think some of the ‘testimonials’ are by that “TK” system. It is not clear how different Kaboom is.

I decided not to try this service because of the high $147 entry point just to try it, a stupid name, and a bogus scarcity of being limited to 500 members. Looks more like a pitch for quick cash rather than an ongoing service.

Not Recommended:

Articles Crush – $47 per month.

Note: Links within the article are not allowed. Must put links in an author resource box.

Horrible experience. They put the wrong author on the article plus there were other problems. The owner was an incredible jerk and quite inhospitable to a number of customers. Stay away from this if they’re still in business.

SEO Link Machine – $37 per month.

Did not try this service although very tempted at the price. Offers article spinning and a drip feed.

The problems: This is a private blog network of new, no value, PR0, .info blogs, owned by one person. The comments for the service indicated he was really struggling trying to answer if the blogs were on unique C classes – not sure if he actually ever answered that. Plus someone posted a link to a couple blogs and the content on them was absolutely horrible.

No quality control and I did not want to be associated with that even to try it out. With one owner the entire network could be gone tomorrow. But maybe in the future this will look better.

To create dynamic domains, also called wildcard domains, with a Hostgator web hosting account, do the following:

1. Within your cpanel click to add a new subdomain.

2. Call the subdomain * (yes, just an asterisk).

3. For the document root use the root domain (public_html). If the dynamic subdomains are for an add-on domain, then the document root will be public_html/youraddondomain.com.

That’s it.

Now, you can refer to a subdomain and it is automatically created on the fly. Such as using the WordPress WP subdomains plugin to create subdomains out of pages.