Google Annihilation – crap or actually useful service?

Google Annihilation is the last in line of the recent 3 way link exchange services, and is definitely the one with the strongest marketing. This however does not automatically mean that it is also the best, as a matter of fact I have bought Rob Benwell’s products before and found them to be mediocre at best.

I have received at least 10 e-mails pushing Google Annihilation, all from the well known marketers and all offering big bonuses. In his two videos Rob does what sells the best, he brags about his xyz dollar accounts and his Ferrari. This is what usually sets off red lights for me and when I see that in a product I try to avoid it. Good products do not need this kind of marketing, I would much rather get a recommendation from someone I trust and then go buy it – or not.

What also annoys me is the fact that Rob actually does not explain what this product does, I had to pick that up from another review site. He tries to spark interest for his product with insufficient information, I can understand that, however give me at least something which can help me decide if I should buy it or not.

All together I am not really impressed so far, but that does not mean that these sort of 3 way linking services can not help you gain more traffic by ranking higher because more incoming links are pointing at your site. Will it make your server crash? I doubt it, but you can reasonably expect to gain some more linking power from it and through it more traffic.

How much more traffic can you get? It depends on your choice of keywords, for this tactic I would personally use “long tail” keywords and combine it with other link building methods like article marketing.

There are however some key points you should check if Google Annihilation contains:

1. Easy set up for all kinds of websites and blogs. For Wordpress a simple plug in would be best, there should also be detailed instruction how to set up a page with a an outgoing links for some of the most popular website builders like for example XSite Pro.

If there is no such information people without good knowledge of HTML will have serious problems setting this up.

2. The only websites you should be able to see is yours! If you can see address of websites linking to you search engines will also see it and will eventually catch up on this and ban your sites. Advice – do not use this service on your old, high ranking sites!

3. There should be several templates available for your outgoing links webpage to reduce the footprint, it should also use your default website colors and font.

4. It should build links very slowly, no more then 3 to 5 per day, both incoming and outgoing links.

5. You should be able to link to both your index page and internal pages, as you want. I recommend about 50/50 % linking.

6. You should be able to use multiple anchor text, some kind of rotation would be best.

7. Once a website links to you it should never again be allowed to link to any other of your sites. This will reduce the chance of search engines catching up on this and banning your sites.

8. It would be great to prevent the sites from the same IP’s linking to each other. For example if there are 50 Hostgator users all linking to each other, all from the same IP’s it will significantly reduce effectiveness and increase search engine footprint.

So should you sign up or not? Only you can answer that, however I would check to see if Google Annihilation has the features outlined above, or at least some of them. This service can help you rank higher and get more traffic, however it will certainly not make you millionaire over night – keep in mind that it could also damage your ranking or even got you banned form SE’s.

***UPDATE*** I’ve been reading some comments about “Google Annihilation” on Warrior Forum and it looks like other folks are not impressed with this service.