Dave Kelly is the mastermind behind a new “one-way” linking service called LinkVana.
LV is designed to give its members a substantial & competitive advantage in any reasonably “reachable” market (in terms of organic SEO) because it provides you with the ability to obtain an unlimited number of one-way, non-reciprocal links to your site.
And more specifically – to any page of your site, and with any anchor-text and article context you want.
At first glance, it might seem like a confusing (and pricey) alternative to manual linking campaigns. However, there’s a reason why I jumped on board the moment I saw it go live.
(But that said - it’s definitely not for everyone.)
It’s designed specifically for people who already know how Google ranks sites according to search keywords & keyphrases – but want to shortcut the normal amount of effort and time (and money) it takes to actually build up a substantial number of quality backlinks from a variety of different sites.
Let me explain why LinkVana provides a tremendous shortcut for marketers who understand SEO - saving us tons of time, outsourcing costs and, well - time…
What Is It?
To put it quite simply, LinkVana is cleverly designed to be a natural, inpenetrable & powerful search engine rank-booster because it basically gives you instant publishing access to post your links – with your own anchor-text, of course – to literally thousands of different established, authority blogs.
* Each blog is comprised only of unique content – more specifically, yours.
* Blogs range from a PR 2 to PR 6
* Each blog has a good amount of “domain age” – some are over 5 years old
* Each blog stands on its own two feet with a solid organic foundation of its own backlinks – every site has real authority – not just “fake PR”.
* The blog network is spread out over a vast number of different IP addresses
* Blogs are categorized according to their overall topical relevance
* The blog network is completley private. Even members of LinkVana won’t actually know the URLs that they’re receiving links from (until later when they show up on reverse inlink searches), and no one member has “linking priveledges” to the entire network – rather, they get access to an ever-expanding “cluster” of sites within the network.
This is smart, because it creates an un-traceable environment with NO footprint. This means that your links won’t be discounted and that your sites aren’t at risk (more on that below…)
How Does it Work, Exactly?
LinkVana basically gives you a centralized “mini-article” submission panel, where each 200 word “mini-article” you submit will get published on a blog related to that topic – including a one-way link to your site, with your desired landing URL and anchor text.
If you submit 1 “snippet”, you get one link.
If you submit 500 “snippets”, you get 500 one-way links -spread across a variety of domains, C-classes, IP addresses, and so on and so forth.
If you submit 5,000 “snippets” – well, you get the picture…
Now – a major key here to making this work is making the links build naturally – gradually. And this is exactly what LinkVana does. It automatically creates a schedule for your posts so that they’re published on an on-going basis – rather than “suddenly”, all at once.
(This feature is really what sold me on it…)
From my own tests, I’ve come to see that Google reacts WAY more quickly to links that build up over time.
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Side Note: Article submissions, freeware/shareware submissions, directory submissions and any other kind of “mass, instant” linking campaign is going to have a very delayed effect – if any at all. In fact, I’ve actually had sites drop out of the index for a few weeks due to adding too many links too quickly.
In time, the rankings are restored – and often strenghtened – but it’s a gamble in comparison to building a “sure thing” presence in the SE’s as fast as possible by obtaining links that get built over a gradual time-period.
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All posts submitted are manually audited by a human to ensure quality, unique content is the only thing that ever gets published on any blog within the network. This means that some idiot can’t just “spin” 600 versions of the same thing and expect for that to fly – it won’t.
Similarly, link-spamming will be strictly enforced as a violation. Anyone caught stuffing their posts chock-full of links will be warned, and if they re-offend, they’re outta there. It’s obvious that having a quality network with content that will actually be useful to the blog’s actual visitors is important to LV – impressive.
And finally – crap sites won’t be allowed links from the LV blog network. This includes blackhat sites, cloaked content, scraped articles, and the like. Only real sites with actual value for the visitor can benefit from LV.
Don’t Feel Like Writing Hundreds of Blog Posts?
LinkVana has it’s own built-in outsourcing panel, where if you don’t feel like writing and submitting the posts yourself, you can have LV’s staff of writers create the content FOR you, for $2 per post. It’s very easy to assign projects, and unlike requesting articles, etc – all you need to do is select is click two buttons, which will make sense once you see Dave’s tutorial videos after signup 
$2 per permanent, one-way link. OR, obviously, free one-way links if you create the posts yourself, included with your membership.
What’s the Value Here? Is It Worth the Monthly Price-Tag?
The end result from using LinkVana is that in a few months - if you’ve done your keyword research, and if you’ve established enough links with the right anchor texts - Google, MSN and Yahoo will be sending you a ton of business, for free.
That’s the main thing.
But the REAL VALUE here – at least as I see it – is that LinkVana ensures that your link building efforts aren’t wasted, that’s the value…
Yes, you can write articles on your own – but who’s to say they’ll actually get published anywhere other than the article directories? – and articles take WAY longer to write. You can build 10 one-way backlinks with LinkVana in the time it takes you to write and submit one article to EzineArticles (or your preferred submission service).
And again – unlike article submissions – the text links build naturally, the links are contained within the article – and the links are posted with your exact anchor text specifications.
Just think about how hard it would be to get 10 quality sites to link to you – with your desired anchor text – on a daily basis. That would basically be impossible, unless you were buying links, or outlaying some serious capital on capable freelancers.
If you’ve had experience with doing SEO the hard way – then you’ll have already “seen the light”.
Now, the other major benefit with LV is that you can develop an unlimited number of one-way links to your own sites, without having to link to anyone, take part in a 3-way exchange or doing ANYTHING to your current site, whatsoever.
If you need to get 1,000 one-way links (over-time) to secure a top-ranking for the most profitable keyword in your niche – you can do it. 10 posts a day for 3 and a half months is all it would take to accomplish that. And you could either outsource that, or hire someone for the project specifically, etc.
Take a moment to really think about what that means in terms of long-term traffic for almost any keyphrase you want to dominate.
Finally, the other thing that I really appreciate about LinkVana is that your control panel is built smart. You can add an unlimited number of projects (usually a “project” is a virtual workspace for a domain of yours), each with its own link URLs and corresponding anchor texts, which can then be instantly inserted into a blog post that you’re creating – or simply “outsourced” at the click of a button – literally.
I’m already implementing LV into my daily marketing itinerary – I’m genuinely excited about this, because I know how much my SE rankings mean for my wallet!
Some Considerations and Potential Pitfalls
My review has basically been nothing but roses so far, but there are a few things that you need to think about or at least take into consideration before pulling the trigger.
While I trust Dave based on the instant wave of positive feedback I watched him receive from people I respect when he first launched the service – no system is perfect. Especially not new ones.
LinkVana is, by its own design incredibly secure and effective.
HOWEVER – as always, the one thing that always fails whenever a perfect system is involved is the people.
The long-term success and value of LinkVana will ultimately depend on the people behind the scenes who make the wheels turn. This includes the management, content moderators and the writing staff. As much as you’re investing in links and SE rankings with LinkVana – you’re also investing in the people behind it.
And this can be a great thing – and likely is – but it’s the people that can, at times, potentially ruin everything.
Even a perfect system.
This is just something that you need to be aware of and consider so that you’re not making a purchase without first thinking sensibly about the risks associated with the investment.
So – with that in mind, let’s take a look at the breakdown of the service:
LinkVana in a Nutshell
Pros:
* Legitimately create unlimited one-way backlinks to any URL, and with your desired anchor-text
* Links are published on actual authority sites (with pagerank)
* Postings are automatically “stagger-scheduled” to ensure that your links grow naturally and gradually
* No code required for your own site – you don’t need to take part in any kind of link exchange
* Guaranteed link-placements
* Secure blog network with NO traceable footprint or crappy (or dupe) content
* Built-in Outsourcing option for truly “hands-off” link-building
Cons:
* Not for SEO beginners – you need to understand keyword targeting, etc. before you attempt to use LinkVana
* Still requires “work” to some degree. Unlike 3WayLinks, where you just “plug in” and get links – but at the expense of having to provide links to other sites, along with potentially being penalized if a footprint is recognizable within the network. (So it’s more of a security-feature than a “con”)
* Price may be an issue for some – especially those who are just starting out in the organic world of SE traffic
The Final Verdict:
The final verdict is that if you understand the basics of SEO – you’ll have reached your own verdict already about LinkVana if you’ve read this article fully.
It’s a HUGE time-saver, to say the least.
And in comparison to buying one-way links on an individual basis, the price is hardly even a factor. Many webmasters are literally shelling out 4 to 5 figures a month just to maintain their collection of PR 6, 7 & 8 link spots (or whatever). Take a look at any major “link marketplace” if you need to verify that.
So the value is incredible – for those who understand why it’s valuable.
Bottom Line: If this article made sense to you – then I strongly recommend LinkVana for generating easy, “point and shoot” rankings for your site.
But if you don’t “get it” – then don’t get a membership just yet. Focus on the free linking methods for the moment until you have your own experience, tests and traffic results to rely on as a foundation of SEO knowledge on which to base this kind of decision.
LinkVana is currently in pre-launch.
The price jumps up by an extra $50/mth when the pre-launch is over, so if you’re going to try it out – do so “sooner than later”…
30 responses so far ↓
1 terry // Dec 21, 2007 at 9:25 pm
Hi Chris,
Sounds great as long as the blog posts and articles are of good quality.
Thanks for the tip. I will check LinkVana out.
Terry
2 arindan // Dec 21, 2007 at 10:07 pm
Idea is good.
Thanks for information
3 admin // Dec 22, 2007 at 3:43 am
Hi Terry,
Each post is moderated through LV, so crap doesn’t get published.
Dave seems to be doing a great job of running a very tight ship.
I kind of wish his site explained more about that with, say, a video or something. Right now it’s actually kind of hard to gage the service based on his current “sales copy”.
It’s a brilliant system. A major shortcut if you’ve already been buying one-way links, especially on an individual basis.
This will actually bring your linking costs way down, if that’s the case…
-Chris
4 Steve Carter // Dec 22, 2007 at 4:57 am
Chris – does this mean you are going to stop using 3waylinks.net because it is more risky? Or are you being greedy and using both?
Steve
5 admin // Dec 22, 2007 at 5:26 am
Definitely being greedy, Steve
3WL isn’t a risk, in my opinion. Jonathan has gone to great lengths to ensure network security, and there’s nothing “illegal” (whatsoever) about doing 3-way exchanges.
It’s basically just a fancy form of doing reciprocal linking.
However, the advantage – or trade off, I should say – with LinkVana is this:
* Unlimited backlinks to your domains – not just 250
* You don’t need to link to other sites – therefore, no loss of pagerank (or “authority”)
That’s the beauty of LV.
-Chris
6 Leah // Dec 22, 2007 at 8:21 am
Chris, thanks for the frank review of LinkVana. Do you think it will be effective with the “loose” (my definition because I’ve always done heavy duty keyword research) keyword research that is described in your Lazy Affiliate book?
7 Cindi Randoe // Dec 22, 2007 at 4:12 pm
Looks like a great way of getting those elusive one way links. I need to get plenty to promote my site to an authority site in an already busy market so this looks to me like a great investment, having said that as I am just starting out at present i will have to think carefully about the price point. Do you think working with 3WL would be a better way forward til the business could support the investment required for this? My site is not actually live yet and will be a few more weeks before it is able to take any money.
Thanks for the info..
Cindi
8 admin // Dec 22, 2007 at 4:15 pm
Hi Leah,
The way the network is set up, it will be effective for almost any keyword in medium-sized niches, and effective across the board for “mid-tail” keywords, with long-tail targets being an easy goal along the way.
I suppose with enough backlinks sent through LV – over time – you could even rank for keywords with major, major competition.
It’s a smart system.
I’ll be using it in conjunction with my other methods, and it will actually take a large chunk out of my link-purchasing expenditures.
Thanks for the comment,
-Chris
9 cheapcarinsurance // Dec 25, 2007 at 7:03 pm
Sounds interesting. I will give it a shot.
Thanks!
10 victor // Dec 26, 2007 at 5:04 am
Thanks for posting this.
I signed up because it really sound like a great system.
I have only one concern, are the blogs related to your niche? For example if I have a weight loss website then the link back should be also from weight loss websites, that would be the most effective.
I hope that’s the case, otherwise maybe they will be adding more that type of blogs to their system.
Thanks,
Victor
11 admin // Dec 26, 2007 at 8:41 am
Hi Cindi,
At this point I’d say that 3WL may be a better option for you to get that initial traffic from low and mid-tail keywords. Once you’ve got the cash flow from SEO as a result of 3WL, article submissions, blogging, squidoo/zimbio, forum posting and other organic traffic strategies – THEN join LinkVana to simply make the process more straightforward and, in a sense, “guaranteed”.
Merry Boxing-Day!
-Chris
12 admin // Dec 26, 2007 at 8:45 am
Hi Victor,
The blogs ARE segmented into *general* niches. However – what I’m about to say will be a relief to some, and perhaps a bit hard to swallow for others:
It really doesn’t matter if your one-way links come from “relevant sites”.
That’s a myth.
The only factor is:
* The link anchor text
* The CONTEXT of the link (the words around it)
* The authority of the site/page hosting the link
* How many links like this exist
That’s the reality.
LinkVana really does make it easy to get these kinds of links – much faster than any “begging” campaign.
For more information, see my previous post, “6 Harmful SEO Myths” on this blog…
Cheers!
-Chris
13 victor // Dec 26, 2007 at 10:03 am
Thanks Chris, I actually checked your report after I submitted the reply. It was an eye opener.
many thanks,
Victor
14 Leah // Dec 27, 2007 at 5:17 pm
Hi Chris,
Based on the feedback you gave to Cindi to start with 3WL, I have a question.
I have the $ to use Linkvana on a new site. My goal is to make things as quickly and simply as possible. That’s why I’m thinking of Linkvana instead of 3WL. Based on my goals, do you think it’s best to start with Linkvana instead of 3WL?
Thanks in advance for the help.
Leah
15 admin // Dec 28, 2007 at 5:28 pm
Leah,
If you’ve got the budget, then LV is the simpler solution, but you’ll need to create the content (100 word blurbs) for each link.
This can be outsourced, though.
It can also scale up to thousands of one-way links.
-Chris
16 abbas // Jan 2, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Good posting for the SEO guys.
17 Video Marketing Tactics // Jan 5, 2008 at 12:23 am
Thank you for the very comprehensive review Chris just what I was looking for.
Frank Bruno
18 Matthew // Jan 15, 2008 at 7:21 am
Awesome, I reckon I’ll add this alongside my 3WL membership. Cheers Chris!
19 Hani // Jan 16, 2008 at 11:23 pm
Don’t you think Google is going to catch onto 3 way linking methods soon enough?
It’s not different to reciprical linking except it’s between 3 sites. I think it would be pretty easy for Google to figure out and drop any sites that do 3 way reciprical linking as soon as it becomes popular enough.
Hani
http://www.internetmarketing2.com
20 admin // Jan 18, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Hi Hani,
Google can see 3 way links – yes.
BUT, it works.
And for your mini-sites, your “kindling” sites – this equates to easy rankings, which means targeted traffic, which means COMMISSIONS.
It also means list-subscribers and an initial surge of traffic with which to propogate over to your authority property (or product, or both) when those are ready.
For your authority “mother” sites, you don’t necessarily want to play games with SEO, or take any kind of risk.
In all honesty, even if you take part in so-called “black hat” linking activities (3-ways aren’t black-hat, by the way), the way that Google combats those is through making large-scale, ALGORITHMIC changes.
They’re not going to individually audit your little site on hamsters, or whatever. Unless they get waves of complaints, etc.
They’ll instead isolate an overall problem, and then aim to “cancel” whatever shortcut exists by reducing the linking value of certain patterns that it can recognize across the board.
This is why 3 way linking, buying links, mass submissions and everything else are a means to an end – getting your network of sites “trafficked” so that your actual visitors can take the torch from there, tell others, which results in a NATURAL “link love” effect that Google actually counts on to generate its ideal rankings.
Obviously, this only happens with sites that provide value.
This is why your mini-sites are created for relatively fast profits from free traffic, whose sole purpose should be to eventually funnel much of their traffic to something of value.
Something that others will talk about, generating a PERPETUAL “linking campaign”.
All the best,
-Chris
21 Len // Mar 1, 2008 at 2:03 am
Hey Chris,
Sorry to ask a question that’s unrelated LinkVana (which I subscribe to, and is turning out to be one of the berst investments I ever made) but I have a product question that’s related to Part 3 of your book (which is also one of my best iMarketing investments) … but what do you think of 30 Minute Backlinks?
http://highenergymarketing.com/recommends/30mins/
Thanks.
22 admin // Mar 1, 2008 at 2:38 am
Hi Len,
I should check that out.
That looks like a rather “familiar” strategy
Maybe she’s doing something to avoid the sandbox…
I’ll let you know what I think
-Chris
23 faraz // Apr 6, 2008 at 12:14 am
Hi,
If I understand correctly, what we are getting is – the ability to post on a high quality blog network.
So,if we want a link to a dog site of ours , we write an article about dogs and post it in the network. If we want a link to a self improvement site,then we write an article about self improvement and point the link from that article to our self improvement site.
And that means,that we can get links to unlimited sites of ours.i.e. if we write a 1000 articles then ,we get a 1000 links. If we write no articles,we get no links.
Is that correct? Or am I missing something?
I have one more question– Can we link to squidoo lens of ours when we post the articles on this blog network?
bye,
faraz
24 admin // Apr 6, 2008 at 4:00 am
Hi Faraz,
That’s correct. Except keep in mind that the articles only have to be 100+ words. Also, the incoming links are coming from an in-context block of unique text.
This is miles different than an easy-to-footprint author byline, footer links or a “link box” template of some kind.
It’s this setup that makes LinkVana so powerful.
Also – I’ve only written a few posts myself, when I was first using the system for a test site. After that I simply use their built-in outsourcing feature, which is optional. It costs $2/post. For example, I just purchased 150 permanent one-way, high-quality contextual links with about 25 varying deep-links and anchor-texts for $300 through LV, in addition to the membership fee.
But even at $300 + $147 for the month (for the project) – for 150 QUALITY one-ways? $447 is a complete joke.
Buying links individually, $447 would get you about 10 permanent links from sites with a PageRank of 3 or 4, max.
Many of the sites in the LV network are PR3+, with a stable foundation of their own backlinks and domain age.
(That’s the other thing you’ve gotta watch – if you’re buying links from link marketplaces like the DP forum, don’t just buy based on PR – make sure the site has at least 500 incoming links across hundreds of unique domains to secure its actual “worth”).
Also keep in mind that the membership fee “cost factor” decreases with the more links you build. For example, spending $1000 in outsourcing to get 500 contextual, quality one-way links then brings your cost to $1147 for 500 one-way links, which comes out to being $2.29 per permanent link.
The links are queued and then propogated randomly, slowly, so as to emulate natural growth patterns. You can also control how, and how fast, they “grow” once queued.
Every post is human-reviewed prior to posting to ensure legible, sensible and unique english (quality content), proper linking and that the destination URL isn’t a scraper site, blackhat or spam.
As you can tell, I’m a huge fan.
-Chris
25 cheetu // Apr 27, 2008 at 12:24 am
Hi Chris,
For each link we have to write a 100 word post or out source it!
That’s good to have a unique quality link on auto pilot, in this manner the anchor text will also stand unique…
Now I can Imagen how GG will react to LV links, but it is expensive for me right now even if I out source 100 word post at GAF for 20 cents.
I have to really think about it, and wait until my bunch of sites get finished.
But its really a great tool, thanks Chris for sharing it.
Cheetu
26 Cheryl // Jan 10, 2009 at 12:09 am
Hi Chris,
Thanks for the informative blog on Linkvana. I see it’s over a year old (how time flies) but still relevant. I just became a member of LV about a month ago and, knowing the value of good backlinks, I’m looking forward to better rankings on my major money site.
My question is about my blogs that are being created using caffeinated content. I think the content is good because of the way it pulls together related content on my topics. I have one site that’s completely devoted to learning acoustic guitar and I’m getting some great YouTube videos. If no one else looks at this site, it’s been a great site for me because I’m always looking for new tunes to learn.
Does CC fall into the category of “scraper” site? Sure hope not.
Thanks,
Cheryl
27 Tyler // Jul 7, 2009 at 11:07 am
Please let me know if you would like to exchange link with a pr 4 blog, thanks!
28 Neil // Sep 20, 2009 at 11:47 am
Building one-way link is the key to getting your site at the top of Google but be careful not to overdo it. The idea of posting in staggered schedule is what will make this work plus the PR of the site where you would be placing your link, and of course, the fact that it is a one-way permanent link.
Thanks for the clear product review.
29 Shelly // Feb 8, 2010 at 10:28 am
You said “It automatically creates a schedule for your posts so that they’re published on an on-going basis”
If I added 100 links, would it do one a day for the next 100 days or would it do 3 a day? Essentially, how often does it stagger the articles?
30 Vicky Suttles // Apr 24, 2010 at 4:53 am
Hey I’ve just posted a little something similar just about LinkVana – The Holy Grail For Unlimited One Way Links? on my site yesterday morning. How small is the world wide web
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