I stumbled onto fantomaster’s blog today from seo-theory’s blog and I saw something that seemed very interesting at first sight, Fantomaster is offering 20 links a day for about $157 a month the service seems cool he is using a network of existing blogs and sites which have different class c networks, ok this does sound good, but now let’s try to analyze the real cost of the service; the way the system works is that you need to submit 20 unique articles a day to get your articles published and get your one way links. let’s suppose your articles cost you 5 cents a word and you need atleast 500 word articles that is $25 per article which makes  $500 a day in articles, and to take advantage of the 600 links (one link per article) you would have a cost of $15000 a month in just content fees.

Fantomaster also states on his site that all IP addresses are from different class c networks, that is fine as long as the Class C networks are owned by different organizations, if you can do a whois query on the different class c addresses and the owners are different and the networks are different then that is good, otherwise a pattern exists.

Other possible patterns are the use of the same domain name registrar.

Fantomaster also claims that in his system there are no patterns the search engines can spot, but if you are adding 20 links a day isn’t that already a pattern?

The idea of having a centralized control panel to distribute content is not new don’t get me wrong, I think his idea is great especially since we have something very similar to his but we do not advertise it in the open so that our network does not get compromised. If the search engines where to open an account with 20links a day they could easily link the nodes on the network and start banning or penalizing the network sites and flagging them as commercial links.

Fantomaster’s offering seems like a good one if you are actually getting access to 600 different hosts a month, if not there is obviously a pattern, I highly doubt that you will get so many different hosts it just does not make business sense and the cost would be astronomical.