LinksManager Discriminates Against MLM

I had used LinksManager and their free companion site, LinkPartners, in the past to help find suitable link partners.

Links to your web site from other relatively popular, relevant sites builds your "link popularity," which is one of the factors search engines consider when determining which websites to display in search results.

Unfortunately, LinksManager has decided that MLM Network Marketing sites are beneath their squeaky clean "ethical" standards. To their credit, LinksManager has sought to improve the quality of their services because customers using their program were in danger of losing link popularity due to poor quality link campaigns.

Their efforts to encourage relevant, meaningful links between customer sites is commendable. For example, customers must agree to a series of statements that emphasize solid link management principles. Sites must be approved in advance to weed out "link farms" (a collection of links with no meaningful content on the site).

In contrast to these positive changes in their policies, LinksManager's de facto classification all MLM sites as inferior represents a gross misunderstanding of the network marketing industry.

At a time when even the conservative financial community is applauding the success of mlm network marketing companies (example 1, example 2), it is a shame that LinksManager has fallen prey to the simple-minded notion that "all MLM's are bad."

Here is what LinksManager told me:

Your LinksManager account (bestmlm - http://www.best-mlm-opportunities.com) has been account [sic] closed because we do not allow most MLM sites to use LinksManager. You will not be charged. We do consider MLM sites that have a unique site design containing primarily unique content.
Note that LinksManager contains only a handful of MLM-related sites, some of which seem to violate their discriminatory policy and others that provide support services to MLM companies. Thus, despite their conciliatory statement to the contrary, LinksManager effectively prohibits all MLM Network Marketing companies.

Cognitive psychologists classify levels of thinking processes from the simple to complex. LinksManager's "all or nothing" criteria for MLM web sites is an example of a low level cognitive process, characteristic of younger children who cannot grasp the concept that "good" and "bad" exist on a continuum.

Let's hope that LinksManager and others who possess higher-level cognitive ability use that intellectual prowess to make more informed decisions about network marketing companies and the industry as a whole.

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