Social Monkee: Review My Results
Social Monkee. Certainly seems like it is a good free backlink builder.
Seems to work well. Easy to get inside, and then easy to set up the backlinks.
[NOTE: My results are in the UPDATE at the bottom of this post.]
And, it’s totally free.
Can’t get much better than that eh?
You can submit a URL for backlinking once per day, and SocialMonkee says it will give you 25 backlinks from it’s own private network of more than 100 sites.
It’s about as easy as backlinking gets, and you can’t argue with $0.00.
If that’s all you need to know, then you can go and create your free account now:
SocialMonkee [It took me longer to watch their video than to get started 
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Still reading?
Well I can think of only three questions you could still have about Social Monkee (SocialMonkee.com)…
- This all sounds too good to be true, so what is the catch?
- What sort of backlinks are they?
- Is the effort to use Social Monkee worth it?
The question of “What’s The Catch?!”…
Well for the answer is pretty clear.
This free service is a tempter for their premium paid package for $47 one-time. If you upgrade you can submit 3 times a day, get 100 backlinks, have them drip fed in rather than done all at once, get reports so you can ping the backlinks yourself, and also gives you RSS feeds for your submissions. Also, if you refer 12 others you get the premium package automatically. It’s nice when free really can be completely free.
They also have upsells, ads and affiliate links (eg to The Best Spinner for spinning your backlinks which is a great product I use and recommend anyway), but the system stands on it’s own. Unlike many so-called ‘free’ systems, you don’t need to buy anything else for this to do it’s job just fine.
All in all it seems like a pretty reasonable ‘catch’ to me. A true win-win.
The second question of the technical details…
Here are some extra techie details I found in my hunting.
- SocialMonkee launched in Jan 2011, and in two months had over 25,000 people and an Alexa 3k website which it still maintains.
- They only allow 1 sign-up per IP address, so if you try to set up more than one account it will block you.
- The backlinks are described as do follow backlinks (meant to be better) from a private network of over 100 of the creator’s own social networking sites which he has on new and aged domains on different C-class IPs.
- Your title, description and anchor text really should be ‘spun’ which is easy enough to do particularly for just 25 backlinks
- Many people are thinking the name is Social MonkeY, but the backlink tool is Social MonkeE. SocialMonkeY.com is empty right now and the site that Google likes for the term ‘Social Monkey’ is a online social media community, not the free backlink service of SocialMonkee. Ah well.
- They won’t let you submit the same URL twice, but you can build links to a page, and to other backlinks you already have to that page which is useful second tier backlinking.
- Of course they have the usual restrictions on URL’s that are “adult or adult themed, cheap pharmaceuticals, recreational drugs, gambling, high yield or high risk investments, hate etc”.
- I use the Firefox plugin to make submitting pages easy, but the submission form on the site looks easy as well.
- The creator Colin Klinkert is a fairly well known internet marketer, eg CEO of ViralURL, so it’s reasonable to trust his network, and anyway, there is not much he can do with the URLs that could be harmful.
The third SocialMonkee question of results…
…you are going to have to give me a chance to test a bit more.
I’m going to keep using the free version to make sure this test is realistic.
I’m running two tests now – one on whether these backlinks show up, and another to see if they can help my SEO – and I will report back results as they develop.
Preliminary Social Monkee Results
It is 1 week since I ran Social Monkee on this post, and one other page on my website.
Yahoo backlinks is not a reliable source, but it is about the best around. It shows only ONE backlink for this post (presumably from SocialMonkee links) and ZERO for the other page. Market Samurai can’t find any backlinks for either of them.
Backlink checkers are unreliable, but even so that’s not a good result.
But what about the REAL impact?
This post has been found from the search engines for some great keywords like “social monkee” and “social monkee review”. In fact I can find at least 4 first page results in Google for this post. Is any of that to do with links that Google recognizes that Yahoo doesn’t? Hard to know.
My blog already ranks very, very well, simply using two sets of backlinks – a routine of free backlinks to kick it off, then followed by my real powerhouse backlink builder. You can check my Alexa ranking to see the results of my current minimalist SEO work.
There are also reports that Google is ranking sites that have zero backlinks. So maybe the rankings have nothing to do with Social Monkee.
Anyway, I have just finished setting up a proper test of Social Monkee, and will give it a while for the links to be found before I report on my results.
Meanwhile, if you have more questions leave a comment below, or have a go of this simple and quick tool for some of your own free backlinks..
[UPDATE 2012-01-31: Social Monkee ROCKS - even as a free version for only 25 links!
I won't bore you with the full details of my testing, but in summary I took 16 posts from this site and 2 keywords for each to make it a solid test of 32 Google rankings. Also I ran Social Monkee along side 3 other reputable backlinking methods.
The ONLY one that was better than doing nothing at all was ... Social Monkee! And heck I wasn't even using the Upgraded version. Sign up and discover what results you get...]
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Comments on Social Monkee: Review My Results
In Social monkie we can have url of each post to have 25 backlinks from different class IP’s. Right ?
And also please tell me how to check backlinks? Any accurate tool from ur previous experience ?
Thanks
@Amarendra: They claim to put the links on different class IPs. I can’t verify it.
For backlinks you can use Yahoo eg http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=www.carefulcash.com/social-monkee-review-my-results/&bwm=i&bwmf=u&bwmo=d – or I personally use Market Samurai which monitors all the keywords I want to rank for and also checks for backlinks in a different way.
I have been using socialmonkee from around 6 months,and apart from social bookmarking and forum posting,this is my 3rd thing to do.My alexa rank jumped to 80k from 6lakh in just 2 months after using it.
They have introduced an Elite plan too,where you can resubmit already submitted URL’s afer 20 days
@Jasjotbains: Nice work – was that with the free or the paid version?
@Jessica alba: Hmm. I couldn’t find an ‘Elite’ package. I’d appreciate you sending me a link where I can find out what I’ve missed.
It was with the free version. I upgraded to premium after referring 12 members. I dont know if they have it now,but back then,referring people could get you the premium membership for free
The site is currently down,under renovation,if you may say so.Will surely post the link when it is up and running
@Jessica alba: It’s back up and working fine now. All good.
I hope you found the link
@Jessica alba: No, still can’t find it. Happy for you to post it here.
started using social monkee after going through few reviews.This was more clear and interesting review. Thanks
@Ranga: Thanks for the feedback. Glad it helped, and all the best with your links.
Hi Doc, I am back.. I agree with you on social, pretty cool…
@Rick Martin: You seem busy with posting Rick. Can you give any feedback if the Social Monkee links helped you?
@Dr Martin Russell: Social Monkee gave my site a nice boost, but what really gave me big push, was when I started using the paid version of Tribepro. In the last 21 days or so, my traffic doubled. It’s taken on a life of it’s own. I missed a few days due to power outage in my area and my momentum slowed, but picked up again nicely as I got back on track.
@Rick Martin: Makes sense. TribePro didn’t interest me for the ‘social network spamming’ element and the effort involved (like you said in missing a few days) but I have heard it bring good results.
From what I’ve seen Dr Russell, the people whom I’ve looked at who aggressively used Tribepro Strategy have gotten below 100K on the Alexa Rankings once they hit anywhere from 2500 to 3000 shares on each of their posts. I have seen it happen in 60 days.. ‘Il let you know at the End Of January how I am doing.. So far in 3 weeks my site went from 1.68M to 745K. Dropping anywhere from 40K to 50K in Alexa rankings every 2 days.
Thank you for taking the time and effort to write this review. I received an email from an unknown person recommending social monkee and I was trying to decide if this was a spam or not. After reading your article and everyone’s comments I’m ready to give it a try.
@Silke Jager: Let us know how you go then.
Thanks for your excellent article on Social Monkee. I have started with Social Monkee and will provide feedback later after my experience with Social Monkee. I am impressed with this page’s SERP position for “social monkee”. That a PR 1 page can attain such a high rank is evidence that PR alone is not the determinant factor.
@David @ Buy Books: As important as backlinks are (and PR as well), I think valuable content will eventually win out. Thanks for the encouragement!
@Jessica alba: Oh – and now I can see the results I got with JUST free version, I have immediately jumped on the Elite option to ramp it up even further with more links, more submissions, linked in my copy of TheBestSpinner etc etc. Lots of good stuff (but you can only access the Elite package AFTER you sign up for a free account.)
I have been a user of Social Monkee for sometime now and I am starting to think there is something fishy going on there, its hard to imagine Colin keeping up with such surge in activity and not having to react to keep up. I have notice that the links are being recycled, meaning that links I posted months ago are appearing in my recent post and the obvious part is the links that are shown were not submitted in the recent post. I have also notice quite a few blank reports with only the title and no links. Any feedback?
I’m early days in Social Monkee and I noticed 2 empty reports. Furthermore, I am still looking for the appearance of backlinks from the Social Monkee network to show up in my Google Webmaster Tools reported metrics. Can anyone confirm seeing Social Monkee backlinks in GWT?
@Mac & David: As far as I know, they had some issues couple days ago. Probably you see the reports that had been afected by that issues.
I use social monkee for a week now, but only with the free acount. I will let you now if I see any results in the next month.
@parfumuri originale: Thanks for responding with your information.
OK, sometimes we think we’re clever when in fact we’re not. When I first started with monkee, I tried submitting the same url the next day; didn’t work as you mentioned. I then found out if I delete the reports (obviously I first save the report), I can submit the same url again. I have 5 pages I promote using monkee; so every week I generate 25 backlinks to each page. My question: am I harming my backlink building efforts by “being clever”, or can I carry on doing it this way? Thank you for this very insightful blog I stumbled upon, so glad I found you…
@Mac: Colin has a few websites with lots of traffic eg ViralUrl, so I think he would be as well prepared as anyone to handle surges. I’m not aware of any particular issues, but maybe other commenters can help.
@David: Google plays games. That’s why I wanted to test the RANKINGS results rather than just the links. Have your rankings improved?
@Sonia: Well – you could get banned, so I always suggest following the rules of a place. But it probably helps get more backlinks.
The main problem is that each submission probably has less benefit than the last. Eventually it’s just a waste of time. Maybe do it every 3 months or so, but I’d suggest moving on to other links.
@Dr Martin Russell: My rankings in Google search results for various keywords change (some up, some down) as reported by Google Webmaster Tools. I can generally check my rankings in the actual search results by performing a search. I am building backlinks from various sources, however, none from the Social Monkee network after about a month. Google may play games but I have to play by their rules. They command 65% of the search market and my visitors from Google exceed 65% of all my visits.
Hi everyone, how can I track the backlinks I’m suppose to have received from my monkee submissions? Does anyone know about a reliable free tool? Asking so I can start submitting my backlinks to monkee as suggested by you Martin. Thanks!
Google Webmaster Tools and Bing Webmaster Tools are free. Google has 66% of the search market while Bing + Yahoo has around 30%. Since Yahoo Site Explorer was retired late in 2011, Bing Webmaster Tools now incorporates Bing + Yahoo (so they say). I used both GWT and BWT and as my observations reveal, GWT shows many if not all my backlinks while BWT is way short of the backlinks that I know exist as indicated in GWT.
Thanks for the reply David. Found quite a few backlinks to keep me busy…
Hi Mate,
Your links to SocialMonkee are broken
– Please rehyperlink so I can find it
@James: Appreciate the heads up James! I’ve emailed you a thankyou gift for being first one to point this out to me.
@Sonia: David gave a good reply, and I would add that personally as I browse I use the Firefox plugin SearchStatus which accesses Blekko, and for more formal uses I have MarketSamurai that shows the backlinks from Majestic.
But I don’t recall saying to backlink your backlinks. It’s a good advanced strategy, but make sure you get direct backlinks to your site as first priority.
my experience, social monkee is funcking system !!
their customer service is also crappy. – no response.
I couldn’t register by social monkee the my links.
error and bug is huge……
I’m not recommend NEVER the crappy backlink system.
@Socialmonkee user
If you have a problem with SM, did you register your complaint at reply2colin (dot) com?