Documenting my experiments with SEO Neo! Do mass backlinks still work?

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Hey all … hope you‘ve had a good week :smile:

So, I took advantage of the black Friday deal over at Stealth Code (the makers of SEO Neo). It was a deal worth having and I couldn’t resist.

The old-school black hat is still at my core, if I’m perfectly honest with myself. I mean, what are search engines if not a machine to be manipulated … he he

Anyway, I’m thinking I might document my progress here so you can see if this tool is something you might be interested in using yourself.

Right upfront, I will say there are extra costs on top of the SaaS subscription. You’ll need a VPS (unless you run a box at home), proxies (the more the better), a Captcha solver service and if you’re going to generate a lot of AI content, you’ll have Open AI API costs too (there is a way to snag enough free API credit for smaller backlink campaigns).

Anyway!

Progress so far …

  1. Ordered the VPS on the Friday and got frustrated when the auto setup failed, meaning I had to wait for Support to return to work on the following Monday (weekend lost).
  2. Then I was lucky enough to have bought Neo just after an update which temporarily meant module setup was not persistent (two more evenings lost).
  3. Not doing so well so far … lol.
  4. It’s all systems go now (Neo support is very responsive and they’re always updating the tool with improvements).
  5. My new catch-all gmail is now set up, ready to rumble. I still have plenty of Captcha credit from my previous testing of the 30 day, limited feature trial version.

Next steps …

This weekend I’m onto setting the tool up for it’s first campaign. Buy some proxies, create a load of content and hopefully make my first proper test campaign.

SEO Neo has a very powerful local SEO module, so once I’m more proficient with the software I’ll focus some attention on my local 1-page website (that has the potential to generate 20-30 leads a month I reckon; maybe more).

But before that I’m planning to target some of my parasite pages as, in my opinion, it’s very risky pointing these backlinks at your primary business domain name (top tier) unless you’re very confident that you’re not leaving obvious footprints.

With parasite SEO it’s different though. Because these domains receive many thousands of backlinks daily, so another 1000 from little ole’ me won’t raise red flags.

Or will it? Lol

Let’s find out ….

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[UPDATE] Experiments with SEO Neo ... 1 week in :)
Let's all do the Google dance!
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Love this. Keep us posted with what goes on.

Where did you purchase your VPS from? Technology is great, when it works right, lol. Also, how much have you dropped into this project and do you have a cap on how much are you planning on spending before you say that this isn’t worth it? (And you don’t have to share either - I’m always just curious).

Also, is this just for backlinking or also creating content? And what are you going to be using it specifically for?

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A German outfit called Contabo. I have used them before and was pretty happy with the service. It’s budget but is enough to get started with Neo. If things go well I can always up the spec to allow for many campaigns running concurrently.

The black Friday deal for Neo was $299 for 3 months. So basically, 1 month free … and that’s locked in for future renewals I think. Nice :smile: Then, the VPS is around $26 a month, I bought 20 ISP proxies at $36 a month and my Captcha credit cost so far today is approx $0.15 for 140 captchas solved (that’s mostly used up creating accounts on web 2.0 blogs like Wordpress .com and Tumblr (among many others).

So far, using GPT-4o Mini, I’ve generated 90 unique, 1500 word articles for free. Well, I actually managed to spend $0.29 before I realised switching from v5 to 4o Mini seems to drastically reduce the cost - I’ll report back more on content generation costs in future updates :smile:

I’m going to try and keep it under $200 a month. When you think, just a couple of Clickbank sales would cover that then it seems like a good bet. I’m paid up for 3 months with Neo which should be enough time to tell if it’s worth it … watch this space!

Great question. It can do both. It needs lots of content to run the backlink campaigns but you can also run Private Blog Networks with it (PBNs) … so potentially, if enough people here are interested we could set up a DMC PBN … but that’s another post!

Initially, I am focussing on building tiered backlink networks but in the future, there are many more options. The local SEO for one … the PBN and there’s also a whole world of Cloud blogs yet to investigate (Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure and many others!)

I’m going to need a good three months to get into this thing properly!

Right … back to the lab :nerd_face:

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It’s been over a week now and I’ve completed 1 campaign … lol

Click here to read the story so far!