Comments on: LinkVana Review – 30 Days, Pretty Impressive

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:31:37 +0000

It’s impossible to say what’s “good enough” because every niche / market / website has different needs and competition. You can use LV for many different sites, but if you d o3-4 per day for any domain it’s likely going t obe FAR too many unless you are building 10+ per day through other methods too. The key to success for me withLV has been MODERATION and I’d never let it be more than 1/3 of the total links I’m building for a given domain.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:25:58 +0000

Not sure how I never answered this, I’m sorry – Anyway, yes they’re secret, but I simply went to them after discovery of my own backlink.

By: Merlin

Merlin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:42:40 +0000

I was doing research on Linkvana and I found your site, and I see you been with then since 2007, and are you still a member and you recommend the services, I also notice that you can make unlimited post per day with LV do you recommend this or 3 or 4 per day it good enough.

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:21:44 +0000

sure, there are some that would turn others in, but as I said, these are not really distinguishable as “paid links” anyway – they’re in the context of a blog post. Sure PPP got hit hasrd, and so did / do the link rental networks, bu that doesn’t mean it’s been stopped.

The sad truth is that there’s NO WAY for someone to break in to a c1ompetitive market without some sort of paid link exposure. None. Anyone doing well without buying / renting / bribing for links has a well aged domain that’s been there for years. —-

Do let me know About BL solutions – sounds interesting – Back ways to get in, huh?

By: Hann

Hann — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:28:24 +0000

Hi Scott,

Thanks for the reply! As far as not being concerned with paid backlinks, you might not report anyone but there are still those that might report you especially in a competitive niche.

There’s probably a lot of link selling and buying that goes on under the table that Google conveniently turns its back on but it’s still something I worry about. The guys who did those PPP (pay per post) things got hit hard in terms of having their PR slammed to 0.

Then again, I noticed that you wrote your first LV review in 2007 so I’m assuming that you’ve been okay since then. As far as Backlink Solutions, there are actually backways to get in. I’m going to be signing up for them pretty soon so I’ll be sure to let you know how it performs.

Hann

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:34:18 +0000

I don’t do much Adsense, but you’d never want t violate anyone’s TOS, especially Googles! As far as reporting these as paid links. I have no fear of that, since the links aren’t really paid, it’s an article being written for (or by) you, and the sites that go on are not obviously “selling” links, of the type you’d find in a sidebar or footer. I’ve never personally reported anyone for anything, and I doubt anyones backlink profile could stand up to close scrutiny anyway. – Furthermore, it’s my belief that Google will NEVER penalize anyone for buying links, lest an entire industry crop up to “damage your competitor” buy buying them links. Google simple devalues or “doesn’t count” inbound links that they determine to be paid.

Nope, not tried Backlink Solutions – I see it’s closed though… ;(

By: Hann

Hann — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:23:03 +0000

Hi Scott,

Just found this review when I was doing some research into this blog network. Do you also use LinkVana for your adsense sites? I was under the impression that it’s not a good idea to do so since a visual inspection would clearly be able to determine that the backlinks were from a paid link network which is against the adsense TOS.

Also, if you’re in a competitive niche and ranking well then you can bet that your competitors are going to check out your backlinks and possibly even report you if it notices paid links. Anyway, would love to hear your thoughts on this. Have you tried Backlink Solutions at all? Thanks!

Hann

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:26:47 +0000

I still use the heck out of it ensuring however, that it’s NOT making up the entirety of the backlink profile. You HAVE to vary where your inbound links come from, and no single source would ever be acceptable.

As far as linking to a site that links to your main site, i’m not sure I follow. If you mean “Should you build links to your links” I’d say yes, that’s a very wise strategy.

If however, you mean “Should you link back to sites that link to you?” (i.e. making your links “reciprocal”) then I’d say not, unless you want to share that site with your readers for some reason.

If neither of those scenarios answer your question, please clarify…

By: Linda Grimm

Linda Grimm — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:36:05 +0000

How are you feeling about Linkvana now? Is there a need to link to a site that links to my main site? I don’t readily have such a site, but don’t want to risk Google’s wrath. Really appreciate your comments. Linda

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:28:54 +0000

Oops – all the links above are now fixed – Yes the “definitive guide” is an infoproduct, but it’s one that I highly recommend, we use for clients, and it’s guaranteed totally, 100% white hat squeaky clean.