F.A.Q.

What is LinkNetwork
LinkNetwork is a directory service where you can buy, sell, trade links with some of the global domain names with valuable direct navigation traffic. Get our Badge and see in real time new link opportunities, submit your domains, blogs and build your own LinkNetwork.
Asked: 11th May, 09 | Answered: 18th May, 09

How come I don't see any of my sites on my SELL Dashboard?
You won't see your link yet unless you are approved by the owner of the site or the Publisher.

Wait for your link to show approved so you can get stats in those sites you linked with.
Asked: 17th May, 09 | Answered: 18th May, 09

What is the difference between LinkNetwork and Link farms out there on the web?
Some points in history to describe what a link farm is.

"Link farms were developed by search engine optimizers in 1999 to take advantage of the Inktomi search engine's dependence upon link popularity. Although link popularity is used by some search engines to help establish a ranking order for search results, the Inktomi engine at the time maintained two indexes. Search results were produced from the primary index which was limited to approximately 100 million listings. Pages with few inbound links continually fell out of the Inktomi index on a monthly basis.

Inktomi was targeted for manipulation through link farms because it was then used by several independent but popular search engines, such as HotBot. Yahoo!, then the most popular search service, also used Inktomi results to supplement its directory search feature. The link farms helped stabilize listings primarily for online business Web sites that had few natural links from larger, more stable sites in the Inktomi index.

Link farm exchanges were at first handled on an informal basis, but several service companies were founded to provide automated registration, categorization, and link page updates to member Web sites.

When the Google search engine became popular, search engine optimizers learned that Google's ranking algorithm depended in part on a link weighting scheme called PageRank. Rather than simply count all inbound links equally, the PageRank algorithm determines that some links may be more valuable than others, and therefore assigns them more weight than others. Link farming was adapted to help increase the PageRank of member pages.

However, even the link farms became susceptible to manipulation by unscrupulous webmasters who joined the services, received inbound linkage, and then found ways to hide their outbound links or to avoid posting any links on their sites at all. Link farm managers had to implement quality controls and monitor member compliance with their rules to ensure fairness.

Alternative link farm products emerged, particularly link-finding software that identified potential reciprocal link partners, sent them template-based emails offering to exchange links, and create directory-like link pages for Web sites hoping to build their link popularity and PageRank.

Search engines countered the link farm movement by identifying specific attributes associated with link farm pages and filtering those pages from indexing and search results. In some cases, entire domains were removed from the search engine indexes in order to prevent them from influencing search results."

THE DIFFERENCE being we do not want our site to be delisted thus we should abide with major SEO rules to not abuse link exchanging.

If you do an instant link exchange with 2000 domains, using the same keywords then that might be considered link spamming and this may delist you from the major search engines like Google.

But if you do it in the proper, step by step, cautious way you will see that the gradual increase in inbound links will make you a favorite with search engines and social directories.
Asked: 18th May, 09 | Answered: 18th May, 09

I see I have some earnings on Dashboard but never received any. When do I receive my earnings?
You will receive your earnings after we have validated it with your LinkPartner/s and with our current merchant account which is Paypal. This will be after 15 to 20 days earnings have been reflected in your Money Center in the dashboard.

You will need to have a paypal account or create one in order to receive your earnings.
Asked: 18th May, 09 | Answered: 18th May, 09

how do you put a value on the link price? What are some new features you plan on bringing out in the next version?
In the next version you will be able to get free access to tools that you will need to promote your directory, or website for free.

These tools are only a bookmarklet away. So you open one bookmarklet and then choose the tools you need to use such as add a new link, add a new partner, twit to multiple accounts, add to your delicious or other top social bookmarking sites.
Asked: 20th May, 09 | Answered: 24th May, 09