Consolety

YES, If you build links just for the sake of building links, it can harm your website. Because building links that are not relevant can actually have a negative impact on your site. Usually what happens with link exchange is that people email other webmasters and ask for a link, this link will be placed somewhere in the footer, or a page which nobody visits (what good does this bring to your site?) well, not much. And it's a horrible hassle to email other webmasters, where some of them never check their emails because they are targeted with spam offers regularly, others are not interested, or some even don't know how to add the links to their own site. With consolety you only need to install the plugin on to you WordPress website, validate your website and get a manual approval from one of our admins. (That's it, after that it is a set and forget application!)

YES, 100% it is better than guest posting! Guest Posting is forcing you to write content for the other website, and in return they write something about your website. But writing content "just for the backlink" is less fun then actually providing your own readers with valuable quality articles to read! (I think Matt Cutts has a tear in his eye right now). Consolety then picks up your valuable quality content and matches it with other users in the network who have written a valuable piece of information on the same topic! When there is match... You both now have a related content section under your post. Another thing to add is that Guest posts have contextual links! Meaning that a word is a link within the article. But how does the person that reads your post know what's on the other side of the hyperlink? If you write something about dogs, and the word dogs is a link. When the user clicks on that link he might find out that it was not what he was hoping to stumble upon! meaning? he clicks the back button in matter of seconds. Ouch!! this has now affected your website! because that click back to the original post form your website is called a bounce! With Consolety the chance for that to happen is very slim! Why? Because we display the "related content" section nicely styled under your blog post with a Title, short excerpt and a "view details" button to the other users blog post. Meaining that; Consolety improves your audience's experience! There is no surprise what's on the other end of the click-through button, since the user knows exactly where it is going to be directed... To the related content. Just defining these few benefits of using Consolety over Guest posting is more than enough for me, while we haven't even gone through the horrible process of finding someone to guest post with!