A new contextual linking service called NextGenLinks promises to be the next best thing in improving your sites ranking in the search engines. The new service provides contextual deep linking to every page on your site which is very different from many other similar services that only link to the home page. Deep contextual linking is much better for search engine optimization and appears more natural to Google and the other search engines.

You get complete control over every link to or from your domains with this new system. Outbound links from each page are limited to five to prevent too much pagerank leaving your pages. You can also automate the inbound link building which is the default if you do not want to control who links to you.

One thing I had trouble with during the testing was thier spider did not find all the pages on my wordpress site. Not sure where the bug is, but since the URL’s are uploaded using a CSV file it was easy enough to make my own list. I’m sure the minor issues will be ironed out in time.

The customer service and interaction I have observed from the owner Charles Kassotis has been excellent so far. From what I saw he replies quickly and answers people questions. I have not had the chance to test the rest of his Help Desk yet.

The basic process after joining is to register your domains, add a small piece of code to your domains, spider your domains, optionally edit and upload a CSV file of urls and keywords, then wait for inbound backlinks and approve outbound links. A fast and easy process considering all thing, though the links did seem to come in slowly, but that will improve as more users are joined to the potential list of link partners.

I have hopes NextGenLinks will only continue to improve in the future yet am pleased with what I see from it so far. Contextual and deep link building is the way of the future because it is so close to natural link building the search engines will love it.