Linkvana IMO Rating:-

Linkvana is an established system for generating very high quality backlinks to your websites and this review considers the Linkvana service along with a few others.

Linkvana is not cheap, but when you want quality, you should expect to pay more.

Getting Started

When you first log in to Linkvana , you must Add a project and specify a domain and assign it to a category. You can have unlimited domains in the system. It is these domains that Linkvana will get backlinks from the Linkvana network.

Linkvana consists of a large blog network. These are not free blogs, or spammy junk blogs, but high quality blogs with established PageRank of at least PR2. Most of the blogs have higher PR and they are all indexed in the popular search engines.

The blogs are spread across a large range of Class-C IP blocks which is very important for backlink building. Google and the other SE’s like to see backlinks coming in to a website from different IP addresses.

Linkvana owns these blogs and they say they add new ones regularly which keeps the network fresh.

They cover a wide range of nichesThe blog names are pretty generic so they can cater for a broad range of niches. Some of these blogs are considered authority websites, and a backlink from an authority website, can be as powerful as 20 backlinks from low or no PR websites.

An example of a couple of these Linkvana blogs can be found below:

http://www.zcherry.com

http://bhampulse.com

If you look at these, you will see how the posts work.

Each Linkvana member is assigned an initial batch of blogs. Over time, each member will get access to other blogs in the network, but they restrict the number of blogs you can post to at a time.

The member must write their own blog posts and assign ONE BACKLINK to their website within the blog post text.

You can add links and anchor texts into a special area.  This is optional, but is useful when you come to outsourcing the writiing of your posts.  You add links in this fashion:

http://yourdomain.com|keyword-phrase-1

http://yourdomain.com/page2.html|keyword-phrase-2

and so on.

If you want,you can group keywords for the same page like this:

http://yourdomain.com|keyword-phrase-1; http://yourdomain.com|keyword-phrase-2; http://yourdomain.com|keyword-phrase-3 and so on.

You can create your blog posts offline and just copy & paste them into Linkvana. As with any blog post or article, you must ensure you optimize it for your desired keyword or keyphrase.

This posting preparation can all be done in advance and the system will then post to the appropriate blog at an interval you specify in your project area. That could be daily, every other day, every week, or simply at a random interval which makes the intervals appear more organic.

This is my favorite feature of Linkvana - I absolutely love it. You can have months of content for your websites prepared in advance and the system to drip feed your posts over time.

You can also see at a glance how many posts have been sent to the blogs, and how many you have queued. So you know when you need to think about topping your blog posts up for a particular website. That is a very useful feature.

Automating tasks like this makes the subscription worth while, but I still think there is room for improvement as I will explain later.

For each website you have in the system, you can specify keywords and the anchor text that will be used as the backlink on the blog. To me this is a weakness in the system. Only being able to specify one anchor text. A different system I review offers the option of spinning the anchor text.

Linkvana includes an outsourcing feature where you can opt to pay to have posts written for you and automatically posted with whichever website link and anchor text you select. They charge $2 for each post, but the quality of the posts are excellent and totally unique.

You can buy credits for the outsourcing and I have a deal whereby you can get 50 FREE Linkvana credits here, so that would get you your first 25 posts written for nothing. Of course you don’t have to outsource writing your posts. You can just write them yourself.

Personally, I use a bit of both.

I used the 50 free linkvana credits to get some quality posts written for me, and I used them to get some ideas on how to write new posts along the same lines. Obviously I re-wrote them completely so they still appeared unique and not just spun content.

I have a personal method to write hundreds of unique posts by using a special tool. I spend 1 hour writing one seed top quality article then I run it through an engine which generates hundreds or thousands of totally unique, readable and grammatically correct versions.

Each of my posts passes copyscape tests, and come out at over 70% unique in Dupecop.

All you do is copy and paste the posts into your Linkvana project and you can set up posts for the next 3 or 4 months leaving the system to do the rest.

I spent around 90 minutes adding a bunch of posts into my project, but once its done, you can pretty much forget about it and move on to another website.

On to results

Before I mention some areas for improvement, let me tell you about some of the results I saw.

Linkvana is a considered purchase and at $147 a month is something not your average marketer can afford, but I tried the Linkvana Special Offer for 5 a day trial to see what it was like before deciding whether to pay a further $147.

I used just one website promoting 3 Clickbank products that I had only registered 7 days prior to joining. I had gotten it indexed in Google already, but there were no backlinks and it had not generated any revenue at that stage.

I created a new project in Linkvana for this website and used my own tool to create a batch of posts. I set the interval at ‘human’ which just means random.

Now after 3 days, I ran a search in Google to check for backlinks and I had 12. Very impressive.

The posts I wrote that got posted onto the Linkvana blogs generated organic traffic from clicks on the links as well as bringing sea arch engine traffic. I could tell be checking my web stats. By the 5th day I had received 52 unique visitors. No Clickbank sales but I made $1.31 in Adsense clicks.

I decided to extend my membership to a month and stumped up the first subscription of $147. That is a hefty sum to pay out, but I knew I had the money back guarantee.

For the next 2 weeks I added a few more of my websites, but they were already indexed and already had good backlinks. So it was pretty difficult to judge the impact Linkvana was having on them. But the new site I added started to show real improvements in traffic.

I was ranking on page 1 of Google for my main keyphrase in position 3, with about 8,000,000 results. That really impressed me I have to say.

I made 2 clickbank sales in those 2 weeks, and Adsense of $17.54. I also got 98 subscribers to my mailing list. The CB sales were worth $65.55 which when added to the Adsense came to $83.09. Not bad for a new website in 2 weeks. I was very excited about this, so I started to write more posts for the other websites. Unfortunately I did not see the same results with these other websites.

It may be that the niches are either too competitive or maybe the websites just don’t convert. That’s something I need to look at.

But what I did see was real results with my new website. (Incidentally, I registered this new website after reading a Ewen Chia PDF. I paid $47 for it but I think it might have changed my fortune. I will review that separately in another post) Anyway, back to this review…

By the end of my first month, this new website had received 1290 unique visitors, had generated 9 Clickbank sales totaling $239.90 and Adsense of $59.51. My subscriber list had gone up to 269 which is just amazing.

The quality of the traffic I received must have been really targeted to get such good results. (At least I consider them good results). I put that down to the excellent posts I wrote. I also did some article marketing of my own along with some hubs, and I posted on some forums I use.

So in one month that new website netted me around $300. So I am keeping the subscription for at least a couple more months just to make sure it wasn’t a fluke.

Now earlier I mentioned that I thought Linkvana had room for improvement.

My main gripe is the inability to change the anchor texts of the links. I would like to see the introduction of spinning text in both posts and anchor texts. This should not be difficult to implement and would make Linkvana a killer backlinking demon. This would mean that a member could just add one post in a spin ready format, and Linkvana would post a different version to each blog with a different anchor text in each one.

Another gripe is having to write single unique posts, or outsourcing that task. It does become labor intensive and expensive. One solution would be to introduce a spinning function so the post text could be spun, but for $147 a month I think a member should get a monthly allowance of free credits that they can put towards outsourcing posts. Maybe another option would be to allow a member a number of free credits for each website they have in the system So if you have 5 websites you get 10 credits a month. If you have 50 websites you get 100 a month. Just an idea.

And a final issue was that the Linkvana system went down several times. I guess the server they host the system on is not sufficiently robust to accomodate so many database simultaneous requests. THis is a real problem for them, and they need to get that fixed.

So in summary

Linkvana:

Linkvana is a 4.5 star service and just loses a little due to the cost and the inability to spin content.

Pros:

• Automation
• High quality blogs High PR blogs
• Scheduling of posts
• Unlimited websites allowed
• Very low cost trial period offered

Cons:

• Restricted to one anchor text
• No spinning
• Weak Infrastructure
• Linkvana subscription of $147 a month is prohibitive to Newbies