LinkReferral review

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linkreferral review LinkReferral has been running for a while but it was only last week that I got round to trying it out for myself. It has a system where members visit and review each others’ blogs and sites as a form of traffic exchange.

Reviews of member sites are made by clicking on a list of predetermined criteria which include content originality, site navigation, how quickly the site loads and relevance to its category. There is a comment box where you can add further comments about the site you visited. You can review up to 5 sites at a time and post once in the forum to earn credits for which I can’t seem to find what they convert into.

Besides promising 20-60 hits a day in referral traffic, LinkReferral also promises to improve search engine rankings and SEO optimization. So far, I have had about 10-15 visits over several days. The 20-60 hits a day only applies to the top 5 sites listed in your category. I can only assume you need to review hundreds of sites to reach the top 5. Alternatively, you can pay a fee of $30 a month to get listed without having to do the reviews. Even if I’m willing to pay, I question the quality of traffic I will be getting.

LinkReferral Has No Quality Control

Any blog or site can become a member, including blatant sales pages. In fact a large majority are sales pages or affiliate links and scraper blogs. Reviews are supposedly checked and letter graded which affects your blog ranking but I’m not sure if this means blog visibility.

Most of the reviews consist of a word or two, such as “interesting”, “nice website” or even the blatant “generate a long term income..4 life..join now.” And if members get a review they don’t like, they can make it “private” thereby virtually eliminating all unfavourable reviews. Basically, it’s a link referral wild, wild, west.

Good For Pay-Per-Click Programmes

The sites that benefit most from LinkReferral would be PPCs and affiliate links. It’s a case of “you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours”. Everyone with a PPC programme can work together to click on each others’ links. Quality is not an issue here.

LinkReferral may have started out being an effective traffic exchange programme but over the years, it has become a dumping ground for spam and sales pages. With them overwhelming original content sites, it is hard to see its promised benefits since the traffic it brings is most likely one-time bounce traffic.

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Comments

6 Responses to “LinkReferral review”

CyBer$|x on November 7th, 2007 3:02 pm

you got good traffic from LinkReferral?
emigre on November 11th, 2007 2:43 pm

Cyber$:
Nope…very poor traffic.

emigre
Henry K. on April 26th, 2008 12:04 pm

Hello, I seem to at least get some traffic from it, and whenever I go on, I find very interesting sites. I would say that over 85% of the sites on linkreferral are at least a little interesting.

http://indivdualityquest.blogspot.com/
Alfonso on July 10th, 2008 6:08 am

Since i use linkreferral my downline is exploding, honestly is one the best free advertising tools on the net.
Ann R on July 11th, 2008 12:09 am

is a good site to network with and ge tsome traffic but it isn’t targeted. ONe makes nothing off referrals from linkreferral link on our sites either but is what it is.
anis fahrunisa on August 12th, 2008 10:30 am

I’ve been a member of Linkreferral for about 2 months. My traffic obviously increases but it’s disgusting receiving other’s review that only say; “Good site!”, “Nice content!”, or “Keep it up!”.