Service Description
LinkReferral is a traffic exchange program which you can join for free. The site ranks websites in a directory with over 250,000 members. Members can earn credit by participating in the forum, visiting sites, and also reviewing other sites. Participating also increases your site’s ranking in the LinkReferral Directory, bringing you more traffic and visibility.
Detailed Overview
Traffic exchange programs are popular for their ability to bring in traffic for a low cost or for free. They usually involve you surfing through the sites for other members in order to get them to visit yours. LinkReferral is different in that it relies on many ways to earn you credit.
First of all, sites are categorized in their directory and members can visit sites to earn credits. But the site really relies on reviews to get members involved. In order to earn credits, you will have to write a solid review on another site. The reviews are graded from A to F so you have to make sure you take some time to research the site, as the staff removes poorly written reviews.
In order for your site to stay on the top of your category, you’ll have visit 30 sites, review 5 sites, and make one post in the forum every day. If you don’t do this your site’s ranking in the directory will be placed lower (of course the listing is always changing). Alternatively, you can pay $30 a month if you want to stay near the top of your category without having to review and visit sites every day.
If you visit the homepage you’ll realize the featured sites in the right hand corner. You can get your site placed in that box by referring other members to the service. LinkReferral has a 5 level matrix system (similar to MLMs). The more people you refer to the service, the more your site will be featured on the front page.
A problem with LinkReferral has been the quality of the sites in the directory. Unlike many web directories there doesn’t seem to be any kind of screening for the sites. That’s why you’ll come across a lot of spam blogs, sales pages and blatant Adsense sites. The staff does check to see if the reviews are written with quality, but bad reviews still make it through sometimes.
Reputation
The feedback on LinkReferral has been mixed. While the service can bring in a lot of traffic, members have been complaining that the visitors are untargeted and do not convert into sales. This is the case with many traffic exchanges but marketing business related products and services seem to work better than niche products.
On the other hand, many members have said that LinkReferral helped get their pages listed in the search rankings. Some have even increased rankings or got their site included in Google’s index. The secondary from using LinkReferral is this search engine boost, but this will only help you if you are using SEO to get traffic to your website. In my opinion, people who are setting up new sites and want to get some help in the search engines will get the most out of LinkReferral.
Domain "Whois"
The Whois information for a website lists the owner and their contact information. The Whois information for "LinkReferral" is public which is generally a good thing. This indicates the owner of this site has nothing to hide.
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