Linkvana Review – It Doesn’t Work!
It’s really hard to find an honest review of Linkvana. Search for Linkvana and you’ll find pages of rave reviews. That might be because they pay affiliates $50 per month per person they sign up. They can afford to pay affiliates that amount because they charge a massive $147 per month for membership (that’s $1764 per year!). This unique service is designed for people with a serious interest in what getting high search engine rankings. This review will give you the good and bad sides of the Linkvana.
The price seems reasonable considering what you get. It is a service designed to get you good quality one way links. The way it’s done is by you writing a short blog post between 100-200 words long and including a link to your website. It gives you 100% control over the header, anchor text and keyword usage. Your post will be published on one randomly picked blog from Linkvana’s network. You can write as many posts as you like and set what speed they get published at (upto 5 per day).
The Linkvana Interface - It looks ethical enough by telling you only to link to white hat sites.
Linkvana keeps their blogs from becoming an obvious spam-fest by having several strict rules on what your posts can contain. You are not allowed to use words which could indicate your site is related to gambling or porn and you can only place one link per post. Using duplicate content can get you thrown out of the network. Most importantly, you are only allowed to link to genuine non-spam sites.
Other than these rules, the quality of the posts can be very low. Just type out the first thing that comes to mind and there’s no need to proof read. Personally I could setup up to 30 posts per hour (as long as I wasn’t being distracted by TV or anything).
That means with two hours’ work I would be able to get 60 links to any of my sites, surrounded by unique, keyword rich content which would come in at a rate that seems natural to search engines. What’s more, each blog they own has a pagerank of 2-5.
Sounds too Good to be True
Yep. Of course it is. Google seems to have deindexed most of the blogs run by Linkvana. It has made around 90% of the links worthless. I’d give you an affiliate link to their website but it might do me more harm than good.
Linkvana Conclusion
Linkvana makes a valiant effort at trying to cheat the system but in the end there is no escaping Google’s will.
Who should use it?
No one. It’s expensive, naughty and your links will be deindexed.
Hi, I am considering to join membership of Linkvana but once I read this post I totally think again. Do you have any idea about how to find the best backlink services? Thank to your posting.
I came across this review searching to see if anyone had been penalised by linkvana links, you see I have been using the service for 6 months and built links to 15 different websites, over 1000 links altogether. 90% of those links are indexed, even the ones I posted 6 months ago so you claims that they aren’t indexed are unfounded in my opinion.
There is an interesting discussion about this at webmaster world, and all seem to be in agreement that linkvana is the ideal way to build links. How is it any different from an article directory? In fact I bet the content on the linkvana blogs is of far better quality!!
My experience with link vana is nothing like yours, I guess we’ll have to leave it at that.
Hi Jim. Thanks for your comment.
Article directories don’t go against Google guidelines of publishing paid links. It’s a grey area, but a fairly dark shade of grey I would say. Most article directories though are full of crap too.
I’ve just done a search for 11 linkvana posts I posted (exact phrase searches) and only 2 of them were indexed so I wouldn’t say my claims are unfounded. I think Linkvana would be the ideal way of building links until Google notices and starts manually checking all blogs with short posts each containing a link.
It’s good that it’s working for you. I’ve got a handful of links which are on decent pages with PR so maybe I’ve just been unlucky with the rest, but I doubt it.
Interesting post.
Question. If you rate high for the allinanchor google command but are still languishing in postion 500 does this indicate the quality of those links is being down graded by google?
Otherwise you’d be on page one right? I paid a lot of money for a “SEO franchise”. I’m guessing they are using one way link building software but their method seems ineffective. Could this be why you think?
But then why would Google not just delete those backlinks altogether.
Also, if you do a search for the sites in bing, they appear on page one as opposed to position 500ish. This seems like a pretty sure sign Google is punishing the sites for appearing on crappy link building blogs. Any way, I would appreciate your input, as I’m keen to get my money back from these cowboys.
Thanks for putting up a non affiliate review of Linkvana. I have been seeing it a lot lately and wondered how it all worked and I now know to keep clients away. I imagine the sites you are getting on are and were junk.
I don’t have much experience with the allinanchor command so I’m not really sure but what your saying definitely makes sense to me.
What you’ve said about Bing is a very good point and pretty much proves that Google must be punishing them.