Linkvana Testing

As I mentioned in my last post, I recently signed up with Linkvana. Because of it’s high price ($147/month) I really need to do some testing that lets me know if the service is worth the price sooner rather than later. So much like with my article marketing experiment I am setting up some pages where I link to them with nothing but Linkvana to see what kind of results I get.

I should point out that I do not recommend this method as the best way to build backlinks, this is only a test. As soon as I’m done with my test I will send links to these pages with other methods as well. I think it’s a bad idea to rely on any one system for building backlinks. It makes sense to me to get backlinks from as many different sources as possible.

So what do I think of Linkvana so far? I definitely like the lay out and how easy it is to use. And I love the idea of it. It seems like a good way to get backlinks. Admittedly it may not be entirely “white hat” but I don’t think it’s “black hat” either. I don’t really see why it’s any different than submitting articles anywhere else, except that you have to be a member to do it. I guess some may think that’s a big distinction, but I don’t see it like that. You have to pay money to do a press release too – is that “black hat”? Certainly not.

But the ease of use and the idea don’t mean crap without real results to back it up. That’s why I test. As with the article marketing test, I’ll update when I have some meaningful results to share. In particular I am testing a Squidoo page I just created with a target keyword phrase (2 words) that has 113,000 “phrase” results in Google including 21K+ that have the phrase in the title.

UPDATE: I have not been particularly impressed with Linkvana’s results and I think for the amount of time I spend doing the posts and the price tag ($147/month) it’s just not the right fit for me so I have closed my account with them. I do recommend (and plan to remain a member with) Article Marketing Automation & Unique Article Wizard. The great thing about those services is that you only have to do one article to get back a lot of links on a lot of different websites. With Linkvana you have to do a new post for each and every link you want back. It becomes very tedious.