Beware of LinksManager hosted link directories

tcampione · #1 (**permalink**) 01-14-2005, 12:21 AM

I've received a number of requests recently for link exchanges from people who have link partner directories hosted on the LinksManger site.

I noticed that all of these sites had no Google cached versions. I just checked the LinksManager robots file and all of the link folders are disallowed.

http://www.linksmanager.com/robots.txt

I think they've got an agressive marketing campaign going on. But to stoop to this level is beyond belief.

Affiliate Boss · #2 (**permalink**) 01-14-2005, 01:37 AM

Thanks for the heads up :)

tcampione · #3 (**permalink**) 01-14-2005, 12:24 PM

As a follow up, one of the people who requested an exchange now states that the directories on the LinksManger site are only used for configuring the account.

Yet, the link invitation states clearly “your link has already been posted to ***.linksmanger.com/client-company/ please reciprocate….”.

So, it may be an issue of what is stated in the canned email rather than actual deception on the part of LinksManager.

Either way, caution appears to be in order.

jstarkweather · #4 (**permalink**) 01-14-2005, 06:51 PM

Ironic...I just posted in the "chelseasofnewyork.com" thread about LinkManager. But they are not being deceptive. Stupid maybe. Why they setup their directory structure this way is really dumb. The directories listed to disallow in the robots.txt file are the configuration directories as you stated in your followup. They allow the user to choose whether to use this on-site home or FTP to a local directory on their web-server. So the ones listed in the robots.txt file are those hosting the files themselves therefore the directories are secured from being indexed.

Jim

indiaseo · #5 (**permalink**) 01-15-2005, 08:06 AM

hi

You are right that linksmanager is not a good to take link. You can also be banned if one directory is banned running with such a software

mj2043 · #6 (**permalink**) 01-15-2005, 10:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by indiaseo

You can also be banned if one directory is banned running with such a software

I don't think anybody get banned for using linkmanager, but it is useless having links from a site with this robots.txt file. Anyway, banned it commonly misused term in SEO.