Linkwheel Bandit

[llyndonium]

Thought I'd introduce a new software that's just been released. I have been a beta tester for a while now and I have to say, I'm impressed so far.

"Yeah, yeah", I hear you say, "another link building software....".

Well that's correct but there are a few things that make this a bit different. I am not very good at writing reviews but I will try to show what this can do and why it stands out from the rest.

Firstly the name Linkwheel Bandit is a little misleading. It does not create linkwheels in the structured circular way that was made popular last year. It actually uses the pyramid structure and randomly interconnects these in the chaotic way that Vita encourages.

Linkwheel Bandit creates multi-tiered linkwheels and links multiple hubs (mininets) together in an SEO friendly way. It creates the accounts for you, builds profiles on properties and posts articles.



The way it works is to build out the linkwheels in a steady, natural way. I know there are conflicting views on this, so you'll have to make your own decision. However, the pace that it posts can be controlled from days right down to minutes so you have the flexibility to set the frequency as you wish.

The built in scheduler constantly updates your linkwheel properties with new content and more importantly heals any missing accounts (banned or deleted accounts).

Let me say that again...

If, when the linkwheel is processed, the software tries to post an article but can't login to an account that has since been deleted or banned, it will 'self heal' and create a new Web 2.0 account on a random service, filling the gap in the wheel again. Now I don't know about you, but that is a huge benefit as far as I am concerned! For as long as that project is live, the software will check all the properties over and over and repair where necessary!

It is so easy to set up a campaign - literally within five minutes and you can begin posting content.

You have complete control over how many links you can place and you also control the structure, post frequency, link distribution eg whether or not to favour linking to the money site on the higher tiers.

Keywords are very well considered also. You have a set of master keywords, then you have your secondary keywords (maybe LSI keywords or whatever you want. You then specify how these are distributed in your project. For instance, you can have your first tier using master keywords and then the rest of the tiers using secondary keywords. Or you can set the wheel to use mostly main keywords but sprinkle secondary keywords around at a ratio that you control.

Articles are loaded in an article manager and are used randomly. It supports standard spin syntax. All you have to do is add a [link] token somewhere to indicate where you would like the link to be placed.

Users of Ultra Spinnable Articles or Ultra Spinnable Minis will see how easily they can be dropped into this software

The beauty of the way it posts is that it will post forever if you don't put a limit on it. So that means you load up your articles, press start and Linkwheel Bandit will post again and again to the same properties, building authority (another concept that Vita encourages!)

Hopefully by now you can see where this is perhaps a little different to other softwares? But there's more!

• Linkwheel Bandit does all the social bookmarking for you on posted articles as part of the run.
• It uses standard decaptcha services; Decaptcha and Deathbycaptcha are supported at the moment.
• There is no browser integration. Senuke uses Internet Explorer to run but Linkwheel Bandit is a self contained software. The long and short of this is that it is SUPERFAST!
• The software autosaves as it runs so you can close it or it may crash but it will restart and continue where it left off.

Now, there are a few things that you have to be aware of. As this is still a very new software, not all of the web 2.0 properties are fully loaded yet and some of the bookmarking accounts fail on my projects (ie they don't post). So far, these are the accounts that I have successful posts on:

Diigo
Gather
Livejournal
Bravenet
Typepad
Blogetery
Tumblr
Blinkweb
Wordpress
Xanga
Weebly
Blogtext
Quizilla
Terapad

Not a lot at the moment but remember, this software is very very new. The developer is adding properties and features all the time.

You also do not have control over the account creation. The software does all of this automatically, so it chooses the username, passwords etc for you. If you like full control over this then you may be disappointed. However, for sheer speed and hands-off project creation, this is so much more effective.

Results

I have been using this on and off for a month or so now. To be honest, it's only the past week or so that the bugs and errors have been a lot less and I have used it a little more regularly, so it's too early to give final results. However, on my medium competition keywords, I am ranking #1, #26, #5, #14, #13. The #1 keyword is the one I have promoted the longest and it had only been promoted with Linkwheel Bandit.

Price

Currently £57.50 per month but I expect that to rise as it becomes more popular.

Verdict

Very early days for this software. I hope that it is continually developed as there are features that make this very unique. It just needs a little more stability and more sites added. For the price, In my opinion, Linkwheel Bandit it is the most effective and quickest way to get your links out there. (I also have Senuke but although it undoubtedly the 'king' of linkbuilding software, I am too impatient and lazy to work through all the settings!)

I have tried to cover as much as I can but you can see some videos of Linkwheel Bandit in action here.

Please let me know if you you want me to explain anything a bit more. Sorry, but as I say, I am not usually a reviewer of software so I may not be as clear as I could be

This review contains affiliate links.

[Vita_Vee]

Looks very interesting and promising.

Can you please keep us updated when they add more sites? I would like to keep an eye on the progress of this tool.

Thanks a lot for the very good review.

[sirpass]

Are linkwheels still effective? I thought they're not as good as say last year even.

[llyndonium]

Hi sirpass,

I did say in my original post

"It does not create linkwheels in the structured circular way that was made popular last year. It actually uses the pyramid structure and randomly interconnects these in the chaotic way that Vita encourages."

So not a linkwheel in the sense that we all really know it.

Cheers!

[Infinity]

Very cool tool. Thanks for sharing!

How do you get to be a beta tester for so much cool stuff llyndonium?

[llyndonium]

Hi Infinity

I am a member of a forum that the owner was on and he introduced his software there. You may remember that Kristina from Link Dozer did a similar thing on this forum. This time, the software looks like it will have longevity though

New sites are being added this week, so I will report back when the new update has been done. I can say at the moment though that setting it up is a lot quicker than using Senuke, so for getting things done fast, it's great! Once it has more targets, it will be great!

[livonian]

Looking forward to your update, llyndonium, speed is exactly what i need

[llyndonium]

Hi all

Since my last post, Linkwheel Bandit has had a few updates including a few more web 2.0 sites (more to follow), update notifier, improvements to the healing code and other general bug fixes.

If you have USAs or minis, this is such a fast way of getting projects moving. I find I shy away from Senuke as I know how long it takes to set it up. LWB can be set up in minutes. Just plug your articles in, make a few settings and you're away. One member created wheel and got over 4,000 links overnight as he accidentally had it on a short posting delay. This shows that it can be used as a powerful linking tool if you need a lot of links FAST!

Plans are also in progress for profile posting and even the ability to add your own blog network. I'm sure this will be a good all round tool in time.

Not sure what the pricing structure will be as things progress but it's currently $47.50 but there is also a free trial

Please let me know if you need to know any more about this software. In the meantime, I'll keep this thread updated.

[Jack]

I have started testing this tool.

First impressions:

1) Still no comparison to the features of senuke x.

2) Holy sh** the freaking speed!

About the only thing LWB is good for right now is posting web 2 properties by the tons!

I am hopeful more feature will come. But right now the huge drawbacks is that it only has two social bookmarking properties and no rss aggregators. (also no pinger or indexer)

Also, the ability to post networks in the F0TP style is not exactly easy. I'm still trying to figure out reposting to existing networks over an extended period and am not sure if it's possible.

Another drawback is that you have to upload finished articles to the software. It does not take spin ready articles like the USA's. However if you have every single USA (like I do) and the bulk spinning capabilities of The Best Spinner, that is not a problem. You can just bulk spin a bunch of articles and upload.

But the huge thing this has over senuke right now is the speed in which it can post to web 2 properties. You can submit 10-20 web 2 properties in only about 2 minutes.

I'm not a techie so I don't know how the technology works but it uses Java some how. You do not use a browser (senuke x use Internet Explorer) and somehow this makes it faster.

I would recommend using proxies when using this software. The fact that you can blast web 2 accounts so fast will result in your ip address getting banned rather quickly (if you turn it up full blast like me )

[llyndonium]

Hi Jack

I have asked the owner if he would like to register here so he can give some input. In the meantime, here is a little input from me...

(06-26-2011 07:46 AM)Jack Wrote:  Also, the ability to post networks in the F0TP style is not exactly easy. I'm still trying to figure out reposting to existing networks over an extended period and am not sure if it's possible.

The basis of the structure is that it builds the mininets first and then reposts to the mininets forever, unless you limit the number of articles in the software settings. So it does actually repost by default, whereas Senuke needs a bit more setting up to do so.

(06-26-2011 07:46 AM)Jack Wrote:  Another drawback is that you have to upload finished articles to the software. It does not take spin ready articles like the USA's. However if you have every single USA (like I do) and the bulk spinning capabilities of The Best Spinner, that is not a problem. You can just bulk spin a bunch of articles and upload.

It does take spin ready articles but I haven't used a USA article yet. I'll have to test that and if I have a problem, I will submit a support ticket. Try a really basic spin article and see what it does.

(06-26-2011 07:46 AM)Jack Wrote:  I would recommend using proxies when using this software. The fact that you can blast web 2 accounts so fast will result in your ip address getting banned rather quickly (if you turn it up full blast like me )

I use Proxy Bonanza proxies and have 68 shared proxies (shared with other PB users) and it works really well

[Jack]

(06-26-2011 11:10 AM)llyndonium Wrote:  

(06-26-2011 07:46 AM)Jack Wrote:  Also, the ability to post networks in the F0TP style is not exactly easy. I'm still trying to figure out reposting to existing networks over an extended period and am not sure if it's possible.

The basis of the structure is that it builds the mininets first and then reposts to the mininets forever, unless you limit the number of articles in the software settings. So it does actually repost by default, whereas Senuke needs a bit more setting up to do so.

Yes, after looking it over more (and talking to Lyndon). Creating networks ala senuke is possible. The diagram pictured above is very misleading. Yes, you can structure them like that but you can also make them where all the properties link to virtually all the other properties.

This is what is possible:

tier 1 can link to money site and other tier 1 site
tier 2 can link to money site, any tier 1 sites and any other tier 2 sites
tier 3 can link to money site, any tier 1 and 2 sites, and any other tier 3 sites.

All interlinking is done randomly.

It is still a pyramid because you can't link tier 1 sites to tier 2 or 3 sites or tier 2 sites to tier 3 sites. But with the randomness possible with the numbers of sites this should be ok. If you want you could just not create tier 2 or 3 sites and you will have a true randomly interlinked network that is continually reposted to as often as you like.

(06-26-2011 11:10 AM)llyndonium Wrote:  

(06-26-2011 07:46 AM)Jack Wrote:  Another drawback is that you have to upload finished articles to the software. It does not take spin ready articles like the USA's. However if you have every single USA (like I do) and the bulk spinning capabilities of The Best Spinner, that is not a problem. You can just bulk spin a bunch of articles and upload.

It does take spin ready articles but I haven't used a USA article yet. I'll have to test that and if I have a problem, I will submit a support ticket. Try a really basic spin article and see what it does.

This will take some more looking into because it took some spin ready articles but would not take the USA's.


Another cool thing is that you merely place tokens in your articles where you want the links. All of your urls and anchor text are stored elsewhere in the software. When the article gets posted it draws links in a random way with a frequency level among them that you control.

[andriduff]

Hi Llyndon,


My question after seeing this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cku1bxV1y2s . What is the maximum number of url allowed in target url section? . I use Mo service, and need an affordable way to boost those web 2.0 backlinks. So my money site (in linkwheel bandit) would be my actual 1st tire links.

Besides, i plan to outsource 20 unique articles a day, and need some fast way to backlinking it. I wish a wordpress plugin that:

1. Pull out new post links each day to be processed in this tool,
2. Catch any trackbacks generated and boost it via this tool

All done automatically

It is possible to put 50 or so links at once? It would be awesome if i can put a hundred or so target url in queue section so it can be processed slowly

Just my 2 cents

Andri

[Jack]

Hi Andriduff,

There is no maximum number of urls you can insert. Your number of links in any given article will be determined by how many tokens you put in your article. (default token is [link])

Yeah, you could throw all of those links in there but the more you put in there, the more spread out they will be. The software randomly chooses one of those link to replace the tokens.

[andriduff]

Jack, thanks a lot for your help!

Andri

[vij]

I am all set to buy. I have a Q.

How do you build the linkwheel? Are there any presets or do you have to build out the linkwheel and related accounts and connections manually.


Thanks

[Jack]

Vij,

I've recorded a short video that will show you your optional settings.

http://screencast.com/t/YPCGOj1gD

[vij]

(06-29-2011 05:06 AM)Jack Wrote:  Vij,

I've recorded a short video that will show you your optional settings.

http://screencast.com/t/YPCGOj1gD

Very helpful Jack. Thank you!
So when you set to 'post daily', its like a scheduler and the software will have to start itself on the user computer daily. Is that right?

With so many accounts, I presume this thing cannot be run without proxies at all.

[Jack]

(06-29-2011 05:34 AM)vij Wrote:  Very helpful Jack. Thank you!
So when you set to 'post daily', its like a scheduler and the software will have to start itself on the user computer daily. Is that right?

Yes, well, I don't think the software starts itself. I think you just have to leave it running on your computer. That's what I've been doing. But it only takes a few minutes to make its posts for the day.

(06-29-2011 05:34 AM)vij Wrote:  With so many accounts, I presume this thing cannot be run without proxies at all.

I would recommend using proxies if you will be posting a ton of web properties.

[vij]

(06-29-2011 05:57 AM)Jack Wrote:  

(06-29-2011 05:34 AM)vij Wrote:  Very helpful Jack. Thank you!
So when you set to 'post daily', its like a scheduler and the software will have to start itself on the user computer daily. Is that right?

Yes, well, I don't think the software starts itself. I think you just have to leave it running on your computer. That's what I've been doing. But it only takes a few minutes to make it's posts for the day.

(06-29-2011 05:34 AM)vij Wrote:  With so many accounts, I presume this thing cannot be run without proxies at all.

I would recommend using proxies if you will be posting a ton of web properties.

I mean, I never leave my computers on 24hrs. I give it a break of atleast 2 hours per day. So I guess all we have to do is get it started once the comp is switched back on or set it to auto-start on startup.

btw, are you subscribing, especially with SeNukeX on your list.

[Jack]

Yeah, I've subscribed to it. What I can do if I want is dump all the urls into the social bookmarking module of senuke. It has some 50 or so social bookmarking accounts now.