I have known of your service for a few months but didn’t really use it. Created an account and fumbled around with it.

Another notable service I’ll admit to using here and there is LinkWorth. They’ve had this product up and running for what seems like 2 years as well. So rather than making this a “he said, she said” episode, I used the miracle of the internet to research.

Linkxl – John says 2+ years, based on his crunchbase profile

I found a press release you issued on May 21, 2007 right here.

Understanding that ‘maybe’ the release was some time after a beta period, I went over to archive.org and researched the linkxl.com just to kind of prove your timeline.

On March 21, 2007, linkxl is a FFA directory site.

On May 1, 2007, linkxl appears different, as you have it now.

linkworth – another place I know runs these type of links

I found a press release issued on April 30, right here.

Looking at linkworth on archive.org, I see the change on their site here:

On April 8, 2007, there is no listing of this product on their site.

On May 7, 2007, the site mentions the product.

My point of this research? John seemed very stolen from. It’s very possible your idea had nothing to do with it. Maybe they took the other guys idea? Maybe they took a little from both of you. It’s only been out there for 1.5 years and the first appears to be linkworth, then linkxl. However, based on the pub inlinks has been getting, I’d say they did it wrong. Why tell the world how you cheat?

I really haven’t done much with this product because of the thing some people have spoken about. If the link was inserted upon publishing, it would be great. Since you’re plugging a link on content that’s probably been cached, it’s pretty easy to spot.

spanks

Thanks for taking the time to comment. I appreciate you mentioning LinkXL. I’m quite uneducated on the topic of buying links so I didn’t realize that InLinks could be a mirror of yours. I’m sorry for not catching it.

I went over my liveblogging coverage from your session and don’t recall hearing too much (if anything) about your program during your presentation at PubCon. In fact, I believe you wished in the comments that you had pimped it more.

Thanks for the link above. I’m off to go check it out.

Thanks again for commenting and for a great presentation at PubCon!,

Lisa

I just wanted to mention that inlinks is a clone of http://www.linkxl.com which we have been running and promoting selling links in content for almost two years. It is really odd that no one mentions this in their posts. You were even at the last pubcon a few weeks ago where I spoke about LinkXL and selling links in existing content.

I was shocked. honored, and pissed at the same time that a large venture capital company ripped my idea.

Oh well, I guess well be the under the radar links in content seller.

Here is our 2+ year old profile at cruchbase http://www.crunchbase.com/company/linkxl-com

-John

I used it for a while…before I got pounded like those gophers in the gopher hammer game and penalized.

Dude… I LOVE that game. I used to “cheat” by wielding the official gopher-basher in one hand and using my bare fist with the other hand. I would destroy my hand… but it was a small price to pay for being the champ.

Not so fast. In regards to how they have maintained the position of being the number one destination on the net time and time again, coupled in with the money that pumps into their systems, they might as well be the “Government of the Internet”. When they say jump, the majority of the web development and SEO community tend to jump on cue. TheMadhat has gotten it right; Google has already nixed the system, I used it about 7 months ago and we got a womping in the serp’s. I removed the site from the system and things went positive.

It’s my opinion that Google has already penetrated this network and is sitting around waiting to put the foot down on it’s users.

“Under the radar” means not using a network and buying links the old fashioned way; aka 1 to 1 communication.