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Colin Klinkert

 
 
February 2, 2011     |    Link Building     |     84 Comments

SocialMonkee – Your Instant Backlink Builder

Less than a week ago I launched SocialMonkee, an instant link building solution allowing you to easily build 25 uniques backlinks to your pages every day, with the push of a button! SocialMonkee is free to join, and very easy to use, which partly explains why it’s growing very fast! Let me tell you how it all started…

I came up with the idea about two months ago… I wanted a way to get do-follow inbound links to my new pages and sites fast, so that they get indexed in the search engines quickly, but building such a system turned out to be more time-consuming and expensive than I originally thought. I stuck with the idea I had in mind and came up with this solution, which currently has 100 sites in the backend, all on different C-Class IP addresses, and a lot on different A-Class and B-Class IP addresses. Now let’s talk numbers…

To set this up would cost…

105 domains = $1,199 per year
Hosting with 100 C-Class IPs = $5,400 per year
System development = $3,000 one-time
Sites development = $10,000 one-time
Firefox Plugin development = $700 one-time
Maintenance fees = N/A
Copywriting expenses = N/A
Marketing expenses = N/A
TOTAL = $20,299

Still, you can join free… That’s why I need your support to spread the word about SocialMonkee, and get your friends to join, but that’s not the topic of this post! Let’s talk about the system itself: SocialMonkee will help you dramatically increase the number of backlinks to your pages, for better search engine indexing, rankings and traffic! This will give your pages extra online exposure.

If you realise the potential SocialMonkee has, you will quickly want to upgrade your account from Free to Premium. As a Free member, you can submit 1 URL to 25 sites, once every day, free. That’s a total of 175 backlinks every week, 750 every month. As a Premium Member, you can submit 1 URL to 100 sites, three times a day! That’s a total of 2,100 backlinks every week, 9,000 every month to your sites and pages! So if you have a lot of pages (on a blog or site) then Premium is a great option.

Premium members also get link reports and also RSS feeds of each project. This is vital to allow your links to get indexed. There is also an advanced video showing Premium members how to take their RSS feed and ping it to get your links indexed in the search engines.

The best part is… If you want to upgrade, you have two options. The first option consists of paying the ONE-TIME fee of $47. Pretty cheap, isn’t it? This is a one-time payment, meaning as you use the service, it works out cheaper and cheaper. Well, there’s an even cheaper option… The second option consists of referring 12 persons to SocialMonkee to get a FREE Premium Upgrade! Your account will automatically be upgraded to Premium when you reach 12 referrals.

Firefox Plugin

An important aspect of SocialMonkee is that you can submit a URL to the system from Firefox. With this plugin, all you need to do is to click a few times and your URL is submitted to 25 or 100 sites, depending on your membership level. Submitting a URL via the members area takes less than 2 minutes, but with this plugin it takes less than 1 minute!

If you kept reading until here and haven’t joined SocialMonkee yet, I’m wondering what you’re waiting for! Join SocialMonkee now, and build up to 300 backlinks to your pages TODAY! If you have any questions, suggestions or feedback, feel free to post a comment below, or on our brand new Facebook page! Please ‘Like’ it to help spread the word and support the maintenance of SocialMonkee! Thanks in advance!

CLICK HERE TO JOIN SOCIALMONKEE
Your Instant Backlink Builder



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mmmm...seem how if this service lately was killed?

Hi Indignado, I can assure you it was not ;) SocialMonkee is running a little slow these days. There was a problem with the databases but we quickly fixed it. However there is a queue of submissions to be processed now. Everything should be back to normal in the next few days. All URLs that have been submitted will be processed. It's just a matter of time. :) Thanks for your patience!

thanks a lot, but for premium member i think we need waiting a discount :)

Why waiting for a discount when you can get a Premium account free? ;) To upgrade to Premium you have two options: you can either pay the one-time fee of $47 (yes, one-time), or you can refer 12 active members (and your account will be automatically upgraded to Premium when you reach 12 referrals). I hope this helps!

Thanks Colin, I have open a ticket at http://www.reply2colin.com and hope that you can help me with Social Monkee sign in issue.

I couldn't ever sign up for Social Monkee I tried few times even with different email accounts and never got the email confirmation.

Hi, If you open a ticket for socialmonkee at: http://www.reply2colin.com - we will get your account activated and sent to you.
we just need to know the email you used to join

yeah..thanks collin for your socialmonkee...

Thanks Colin for all of your Viral Marketing methods.
PatriciAnne

hi colin, i've been using socialmonkee, but when i view my sites in yahoo's site explorer, i cant see any backlinks... ?

hi colinklinkert!!! nice work :) i use this plugin .. and now i will spread the word Socialmonkee And Colinklinkert :)

thanks again.

I have upgraded my social monkee account, and watched the video submitting the rss feeds.
My question is you say to submit a project feed only once. If I have a blog and submit different posts urls to social monkee, ( 1 blog, multiple posts) that is ok right, even though its 1 blog anytime I write a new post I can submit to S.M. and also ping the new rss feed, right?

Is there a free...? I want to test this

My friends are warning me to stay away that this is a link farm. I am not so sure at this point.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_farm
Is this really going to help or hurt?
Linda

Yes, everything is all fixed up now, thank you... Sandi

I paid for a premium membership through Paypal this morning (EST) and was not upgraded automatically. I submitted a ticket on your help desk and have yet to hear back so I thought I would try here to find out how long it takes to get upgrade once you have my money? I am anxious to get started with the premium membership.

Hi Sandi,

I see your account is now premium. Sorry for the delay in getting back to you, it should be automatic and instant. only sometimes there is a problem reporting the payment from PayPal.

Thank you very much for your support!

I am very grateful to SocialMonkee with the program get 25 free backlinks every day. I have submitted my URL. Thank you. That I will submit URL again tomorrow . But I have one question to remove any doubt. Is I allowed to submit one URL or keyword a few days to quickly obtain a high ranking? Or every day have to submit different URLs to avoid charges of spam?

Hello Colin,

I just registered today. I am having a bit of trouble with the information I am supposed to submit. Maybe it is me, but I am not sure what I am supposed to add in the Tag 1, Tag 2, etc., fields. What other information should I add?

I submitted a ticket, but no response.
Thanks.

Antoinette,

when did you submit a ticket? We do sleep and it is a weekend here :)

Tag1,2,3 is the keywords you want associated with that bookmarking. It will add those to the page, so what keywords relate to your url, just add those in there, thanks

Hi Colin,

Looks to be a cool tool and I have signed up. Worked well over the last week but then today I am unable to access it. Is there an issue?

Thanks,

Jim H.

Anyone else having problems actually getting this working the past few days ?? I get database not found error messages, internal 500 error pages, timeout messages, etc, and its been like this for the past 2 days now. It started off as a nice little program, but recently, its simply useless as it just doesn't seem to work anymore. ( I am also a premium user - but not a happy one I am afraid. )

Alex,

Growing pains I'm afraid... But we are sorting out those issues and you shouldn't really see those errors that often. If it does happen please try again in a few minutes. Thanks

Hello Colin
Thanks for Social Monkee!! i hope in few day or month a affiliate program, i have a question when i have 12 referred members im premium member? ok and after other referred? let me know

Yes, after 12 you are premium. After that there is no more direct benefit for you to refer more members.

We are considering either bringing in commissions, or maybe a referral competition with prizes. What do you think is better? :)

Hi Colin,

After I subscribed, I tried to check out the names of the 25 sites you give us backlinks from, but I couldn't find them.

The thing is that I use OnlyWire (free version) and obviously I don't want to submit duplicate bookmarks to any site.

So is it possible for you to give us such list?

Thanks.

Paul

Hi Paul,

It posts to domains that I control, so it won't be any conflict :) - Also we are considering making reports open to free users so that you can see where they were sent. Thanks for the support, if you get 12 referrals, you will get to post to 100 sites and get reports and RSS feeds of the urls :)

Hi Colin, Just about to do my first posting..Following instructions in video which are easy to understand. But i have 2 problems.
1.. Where it says share this on face book it does not ask for my details so how do i know it sent from me.
2.. This is where dumb blonde fits in...lol...You say our url gets sent to 25 sites, but where actually do they go. I mean are they just an advertisement on their site, or how does that part work.. Sorry to ask....
Ok off to send my url.
Look forward to see some results.

Karen Naicker

Hi Karen, Welcome :)

To answer your questions:

1) you connect to your facebook account through their API, so when you share on facebook, we use your affiliate link in the text description we have prewritten, same on Twitter :)

2) The go to bookmarking sites that I setup and promote. They make a new page for your listing and are not advertisements, visitors can see them and vote on them. They are the content put on that new page made linking back to your site.

Hi Colin,

I absolutely love the service, thank you very much!

I'm a free member and was wondering if you would consider
additional payment options like PayPal, or AlertPay for the
upgrade?

Best Regards,

Karen.

Hi Karen,

Yes currently payment is accepted through PayPal. So if you go to the 'upgrade' page and then buy from there it will take you to PayPal.

Another way to get premium is to get 12 referrals to signup :) Thanks for your kind words and support!

What a fantastic product I am just loving ot

Ross,

Thanks for the kind words, I hope it really helps!

Hi Colin,

Unfortunately this has been a pretty poor experience so far.

I enrolled, paid for the upgrade from inside my member area, but received no upgrade access nor an email acknowledging the upgrade payment. Everything shows I still have access to only 25 per day, no access to reports, no upgraded video trainings.

I don't really understand if the upgrade is paid for from within my own password coded member area why it doesn't credit the payment and automatically upgrade my access right then and there.

Sent in a ticket about 26 hours ago marked "critical" since I paid for the upgrade, finally got a reply over 6 hours later (happened overnight here in the states), but your support person just said I'm already upgraded and went on to her next ticket.

Everything in my member area says I have access to 25 per day. The "reports" page tells me I don't have access and that I should upgrade, there's an upgrade prompt in the top menu on every page...there are upgrade prompts all over the place and there are no additional video trainings, so I'm fairly certain I'm not upgraded.

She may have looked at payments or databases or something else, but apparently did not actually verify what is happening from the member side of things. Not good on her part.

So then I had to re-open the ticket I believe almost 9 hours ago now and still no reply as of yet.

Over 24 hours since I paid, one incorrect reply to my ticket, still have no upgrade access.

Seems like the free members who had issues in the thread above got solved in good order, but shouldn't a paying customer get some extra level of care? This should have been solved promptly the first time when I reported it yesterday, but the ticket reply was very slow and then wrong to boot. Second request now is also very slow in response.

Sorry to sound blunt about it, but I am a bit cheesed off at the lack of urgency in response in what is now 2 trips to the help desk that shouldn't have been needed in the first place.

Hi Ted,
Firstly, a very big 'sorry' from me. You are right the system does auto upgrade accounts and I have no idea why it didn't for you. Maybe a server lag at that point in time.

Then with the 1st ticket, Sheila does not have access to admin on SocialMonkee and should not be replying to tickets like your one.

I see on the 2nd ticket Julien sorted it for you and upgraded your account. Very sorry for the struggles and the fact that it took over 24 hours to sort the issue.

I hope you are liking the upgraded version of SM

I came across a link to this tool on a Swedish SEO forum. If it works, this is exactly what I have been looking for. Great job!!

Hi :)

Thank you! We have been told it has some problems with Swedish Characters. Our programmer is looking into that for us so I hope we can get it working in your language as well :) Please let me know your feedback :)

Colin,

I had to come back and respond to my own post above to let everyone know that the problem was not soical monkee but it was ME! I was half asleep and did not put in my email correctly. Your guys responded very quickly and reset my account so I joined with no problem. If this is the kind of service you folks offer on all of your products, you can count me as a perpetual customer!

Thanks

Ron McKinney

Hi Ron,

Thank you for the kind words. We hope that we are able to always deliver more than promised. I hope you enjoy SocialMonkee.

This is a good application but I still do not find a valid reason to upgrade to premium version. I would like to have ability to submit atleast 5-10 links per day. This will help us to automate submission for large blogs.

Anyway all the best for your project. This tool really looks promising.

call me stupid but my url is easy however what is the description, and tag supose to contain im guessing the description is about my site but what about the tags, and the titles x 3....why is there 3 and only one url

Hi Paul, No qs. is a stupid one :)

They are what is posted on pages we make as content. It is good to make them different as our system takes 1 from each field (Title, Description, Tags) randomly, so each page can be as unique as possible :)

Here is the user guide: http://www.socialmonkee.com/SocialMonkee_User_Guid...

Hi Colin, this is a fantastic system. The 100 websites you've built are all beautifully done, and high quality. I'm very impressed by the reporting, and the appearance of all the backlinks. My only real concern, is whether or not the 100 sites will be recognized by the search engines as part of an organized backlinking system, and what potential that has to hurt the participating members. Your thoughts?

Hi Gene,

I hope they won't be and we will continue to add more sites on new ips etc. as long as members support SM (SocialMonkee) so that it covers expenses. - We also hope that we are not and never get big enough to hit their radars. There are services doing much worse :P

BUT - please note, your site will never be penalized for using the system, only our sites can be. Inbound links can't affect a site negatively or else people will drive bad links to their competitors to hurt them, so it will never happen :)

Colin,

There are a bunch of things you do right here, and a few you could probably do a little better. From a technical standpoint your posts are not "perfect", but the links are there and probably gets indexed now and then making this service very valuable!

But for us people outside of the US you have to solve the UTF8-issues. For keywords containing åäöü and so on, the resulting pages gets ugly - but worse, doesn't get indexed for the targeted words.

Posted a ticket with more information and possible help. Hope you find it worth looking into..

/Mike

Mike, thanks for the feedback... I asked Julien to pass on my skype info in the ticket you made on the helpdesk. Maybe we can chat soon

i watched the how to istll video but i cannot install.

how do i get the firefox.... my options are opera and explorer thanks.

Hi,

Please then don't worry about the plugin. Use the submitter in the site. If you login to socialmonkee.com and click on 'Download Plugin/Submit Websites' you will see a place to submit from there. Just do that each time :) thanks

Great idea!

Yet I tried to sign up and never got a email confirmation. It won't let me sign in and it won't let me sign up again. Also there is no email support on the site so I searched around for you. Eager to sign up!

Thanks

Ron McKinney

Ron,

Sorry to hear that, Please visit: http://reply2colin.com/ and open a ticket. If you give the email and mention it is for SocialMonkee, they will activate your account and send you the info

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