SEO Autopilot Review

Including Case Study Results

This SEO Autopilot review sets out to explain the  power of SEO Autopilot as a best in class link building tool that is maturing nicely. Made by a team from Greece by a team of coders and SEO experts headed by Elias Leivadaras.

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If you’ve visited the site of Facebook page for SEO Autopilot, you’ll know the name, as well as referring to the hands-free nature of creating high quality links, also refers to Elias’ previous occupation – as a pilot. I’ve spoken to him several times, and as with all products I review and recommend. This is a product I own and use. It is a “daily driver” for my own websites.

The first thing you should know about the software is that it is created by people who know what they are doing. SEO Autopilot fulfils the 4 main criteria of successful software

  1. It was created by people who understood the goal. Coders, designers and engineers who absolutely understand what the purpose of the application is, how it is best used and with a solid idea of an effective workflow.
  2. SEO Autopilot works out of the box. Everything that can be made simple is. There is no new language or terminology to learn. If you know search engine optimization, and you understand the vital role that high authority links plays in getting the best exposure for a website in a commercial market, then SEO Autopilot will be second nature to you
  3. Support. Got a problem? Found a bug? It gets fixed. Updates are frequent, often several in a week and this has been the case now for almost 2 years. The high authority links from high domain authority (DA) sites change in the way they need to be created often. The team of coders being this best-in-class-SEO application understand that and keep on top of it.
  4. Future-proof. Along with great support this product is future proof. A great benefit of having a hybrid subscription / one off fee model ensures that retaining high levels of subscriptions incentivizes developers to keep software up to date. New features, new site types, new ways of indexing.

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Features of SEO Autopilot

This SEO Autopilot review covers a  huge number of sites within many different types

SEO Autopilot categorises sites, but it isn’t a slave to platforms. If a high authority link needs to be coded individually? Then the developers do that.

The site types currently are:

WEB 2.0 (Accrued content authority and leech over time domain authority)

Content rich links. The ability to create content on these profiles repeatedly. Blog style sites. Very high authority sites suitable for first tier links that offer a DA (domain authority) of 90+ in some cases. These links can form the cornerstone of the most effective safe SEO. With a sensible content schedule and good content interlinking practice the sub blogs you create on these sites will continue to grow in authority over time. Leeching DA from the parent site to your own sub-site and content.

Social Bookmarking (Indexing and link diversity)

SEO Autopilot social bookmarking is split into 2.  This section is the platform-based bookmarking. Using CMS systems like Digg – a platform that has literally thousands of sites on it

Authority Links (Best in class domain and page Authority)

This is a real power house. This is what makes this SEO Autopilot review a joy to do. These are top quality links and a real differentiator between this application and other link building tools you may have heard of or read about.

Authority links are “the boss” Each task to create these links needs to be individually coded and individually maintained. What is more they work. With over 90% success on any given run. Sites like ted.com (home of the famous “ted talks). Adobe, Yelp, Medium. These are seriously strong links.

At the time of writing this review there are over 90 authority link options. 50+ of which start with a domain authority of over 80

Let’s repeat that again in case you didn’t get it first time

50 hard to get links, that even experienced SEO’s struggle to get by hand – with a domain authority of 80+ created automatically by SEO Autopilot. Along with another 50 or so with domain authority between 30 and 80.

This really is a BEAST of a linking tool.

List of built in high authority sites with a domain authority greater than 80

Edu Links (Trust)

No SEO Autopilot review would be complete without mentioning EDU links. Once again most of these have to individually hand coded.

These links are about trust rather than authority. Most are profile style though I fund it very easy to add content to the profiles once created so you could, in theory, use these links in a similar way to WEB2.0 sites. But that isn’t really the point.

These are very versatile link types. If your market is one where your consumer base expect either academic or explanatory text to support or encourage sales choice then .EDU sites provide an excellent platform for links.

You can use the account details exported from SEO Autopilot to log into these educational profiles and add content as you need to. This is an example of using this application in ways others might not have thought of and a strategy I use regularly for myself and my digital marketing clients.

WIKI Links (Trust)

WIKI sites are also about trust. This site type has been through the mill over the past 10 years. Being incredibly popular around 2012 and 2014, then Google bought down the ban hammer. The poor-quality WIKI sites were wiped out, de indexed and the links on them removed forever.

 Those that are left are the best. They did not allow content spam, they were excellent gate keepers of their trust and in some cases quite a bit of authority. As we do this SEO Autopilot review the ones currently in the application are very high trust. Sites with age over 5 years in most cases, well indexed, content rich and with internal URL’s used as citation by other authority sites.

Single Platform Social Bookmarking (Authority)

There is social bookmarking – and social bookmarking. These second sites (maybe I should have put them above this in the list) are the cream of the crop at what they do. No SEO Autopilot review would be complete if it didn’t explain why Social bookmarking is split into two site sets in this way.

The idea of a bookmarking site is to provide reference points for links and citation for high quality content. This in turn accrues authority over time.

The amount of authority a site might gain depends very much on the opinion Google and the other search engines have of the site. There are some solid pointers which suggest that the “platform” sites (those that provide a CMS that anyone can upload onto their hosting and create their own version of) do not generally have anything like the authority of sites that are built from scratch.

Most of these sites are uniquely coded. Though some do use platforms. All are much better at gatekeeping, therefore any application such as SEO Autopilot that can get through the gatekeeping an create profiles for its users is a massive SEO boost.

Forum Profiles (Index and diversity links)

Forum profiles. Using one of the many forum platforms that are readily available on the internet, SEO Autopilot offers literally hundreds of sites where a user can create a forum profile. While these are not the strongest links, and the attrition rate can be quite high, they are excellent 3rd tier links and, if sorted correctly, the better forums can add a decent amount of authority to any linking campaign. Their primary use is for link diversity and 2nd and index tier linking

PDF Upload (Trust / Diversity / Content marketing)

I love PDF uploads. Why? Because I write a lot. I use speech to text to draft out maybe 2,000 words in 20 minutes, then polish it in another 20 minutes ready to rock.  

If you take a content marketing approach, and you have an aptitude for creating content and can format it reasonably well, then a PDF upload link is for you.

There are so many marketing opportunities that roll off the ability to use this link type that I would have to write a separate blog post just to outline the possibilities. But this is an SEO Autopilot review, so I’ll leave that for a future blog post.

But let’s just say you have an article or two, or use a content generation tool to create a PDF, then upload it. You will likely get a link in the profile you create on the repository site and a second link if the PDF is indexed.

PDF use is very niche specific in its application. If you are in an authority niche, where Google expects content and explanation, PDF’s can perform this function for you. PDF’s are frequently seen on page one of Google in these text heavy markets.

Products or services that require explanation. Educational products, scientific ones are ripe for PDF authority content.

In this case a tier one set of PDF links is a must have. Get them properly powered up and you are away.

If you are in a less verbose market place, then use PDFs differently, as either diversity or, if you choose which sites to upload to carefully, as a trust link.

WEB 2.0 Profile links (Authority / Diversity)

Some WEB2.0 sites allow profile creation but are either weak at content or have an unusual content format – that is to say they are not blogging in the traditional sense. They have high domain authority, are well known, but the iterative process of creating posts, cross linking, co-citation and adding them to a traditional content based first tier linking structure is not do-able.

But the profiles a new user creates are well worth the time and effort. A good high-quality link on a high authority site is worth

SEO Autopilot Review Quality of Life Features

Title generator

Create titles, tags, subtitles easily. Ensuring they are of the correct format for whatever submission type you are doing. All handled for you

Proxy handling

You are going to need proxies. They are essential to the smooth running of a good SEO tool, and no SEO Autopilot review would be complete without an overview of proxies. We have a guide to efficient proxy use here.

Multiple captcha options

Website gate keeping is an ever-evolving profession. While some automated tools can save you a small fortune, some of the newest and most devious captcha and anti-spam methods require an element of human interaction. SEO Autopilot offers many options. We have a full guide on effective captcha handling here.

For reference the list of integrated anti-captcha tools with SEO Autopilot are;

  • 2Captcha
  • Image Typerz
  • RIP Captcha
  • AntiCaptcha
  • XEvil (application – direct call to the Xrumer companion tool)

Multiple spinner integrations

Personally, I use hand written content for most first tier linking. But I know many in the market want good quality spun content. That passes Copyscape. Luckily SEO Autopilot has a direct call to Article Forge and as a long time user of Kontent Machine I’ve found handling content created in that tool is very easy indeed – though it does need to be copy and pasted across.

Link Indexer Integration

  • Instant Link Indexer
  • Lindexed
  • Indexification
  • Index Inject
  • Express Indexer
  • Speed Links

Our favourite is currently not on the list, but we provide an overview of the best indexing service we can find here.

Timing options

The key to success with any tools that accesses search engines and high profile websites is reliability of the connection and the survivability of your accounts.

This is achieved using proxies. How hard you hammer your proxies is the biggest factor on how quickly they get banned. Being able to set the time to check email verification, delays between captcha solve attempts, delays between account creation and content submission attempts is a valuable control element. SEO Autopilot review process, for our own case study (below) tended to use quite slow timings.

  • 720 seconds to check emails for account creation verification (12 minutes)
  • Retry 1200 seconds (20 minutes)
  • HTML timeouts 30 seconds

SEO Autopilot Link Building Success Rates.

Those that know me from my support of previous tools over the years probably are aware that I’ve been using SEO Autopilot for over a year now. In fact, as I write this SEO Autopilot review, this very site is almost a year old.

And I’m only writing a review now?

Well that’s because I’ve been using SEO Autopilot for the best part of a year and my use case is a tough one. The niche I was primarily interested in ranking is car hire. Based in two European countries. For tourists using golf resorts or local people on vacation.

Altogether the list of keywords I wanted to rank was around 120, however there were 8 “root” keywords that were at the heart of the market. Words and phrases that were used in conjunction with others. These were my primary keyword set.

Google PPC keyword planning tool is a decent pointer for how tough a market is commercially. (though not always in SEO terms) This was a tough market.

The keywords I had Google rated 2 as High competition, 2 as Moderate and 4 as Easy.

The search split was huge. The two High competition keywords had over 10,000 searches per month on average (though the market was somewhat seasonal) the Low competition keywords were all under the 500 mark and were typically more related to the area and activities in general as opposed to explicit car hire terms.

The Moderate keywords were the key. As usual an SEO scan and proper competition analysis showed that these moderate keywords were absolutely what I wanted first and foremost. While one had only 100 searches a month, they were absolutely buying terms. They represented a search term used by a potential buyer right at the end of their “buying journey” with their credit card in hand.

You will find this everywhere. For example, “Plumber in Mytown” sounds like the phrase every plumber in “Mytown” wants to rank for.

It probably isn’t as good as they think.

What earns the money, the phrases that get the phone calls from clients ready to spend are phrases like “Boiler maintenance Mytown” and “24 hour leak repair Mytown”

SEO Autopilot Case Study Results

SEO Autopilot Case Study Set Up

From May to February last year I ran SEO Autopilot. Creating a 80+ first tier links set up to the root URL of the website, then over time adding 6 pieces of cornerstone content SEO optimized for a sub set of commercially relevant keywords and created a link structure for each of these as well with between 40 and 60 1st tier links per URL.

In all cases I used a limited number of proxies. It did vary throughout the 10 months but typically 20.

These were fully private proxies that cost $100 for a month for 20 or as much as $10 per month each. All processes were run slowly on a VPS. The timings are in this article above.

I used Imagetyperz to solve captchas and the content was very high quality. The 80 first tier links to the root URL for example were created with 10 uniquely written articles spun at sentence and paragraph level. Very readable. I would challenge anyone to think they were not completely unique and hand crafted. For the entire process of performing this case study for my SEO Autopilot review I kept a record of all the metrics anticipating that I would write this case study

Other Tools I Used

At the back of my mind I knew I would write an SEO Autopilot review of the results, so I collated the information (I use SEO Powersuite. Rank Tracker to  track the ranks (Doh!!) and Website Analyser and SEO Spyglass to do competition research. Very valuable tools for the professional SEO

Then using the SEO Autopilot diagram creator, I treated every single one of these links to a 2 tier link blast. Powering them up slowly, over time. Adding authority or leeching authority from the parent site the links were hosted on.

SEO Autopilot saved my perhaps 90% of the time this would have taken if done by hand. It did the “grunt work” for me.

After 10 months this is where we are today.

Keyword Progress

The top 8 keywords in terms of market difficulty. Positions in Google month by month

Aggregate Progress Graph

SEO Autopilot case study progress. Aggregate and average position in Google.

The site has gone from zero visits per day and zero revenue to an average of almost 400 visits per day and a monthly revenue of in excess of $2,000. This in just 10 months.

All thanks to SEO Autopilot

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