SEOLinkVine Elite Review

I'm almost at the point of being done with them, just looking around for replacements. A few complaints about the SEONitro and Elite SEOLinkVine networks:

Seems like no matter how I try to Apply or Re-Apply to sites for login/passwords, I can never log into about half of the sites.

About 40-60% of the sites were down at any given time anyway. Email them and ask why? "Migrating server," which has been the same answer for at least the last 8 months without the sites coming back live.

You get 10 blogroll links per month with your membership. Problem is, 70% of the blogroll links I tried to add never appeared on the websites. Email them asking why? They said they'd fix it, but didn't fix a single one that I can tell (and now most of the sites were removed from the networks anyway). Out of 140 blogroll links I added throughout a year, 99 of them didn't show up on the sites or the sites were down/gone. And I made absolutely sure at the time I submitted the blogroll link that the site I was submitting to was up and not loaded with dozens of already-existing links.

They just (this past week) went from about 2,500 sites on Elite SEOLV and SEONitro to 686 total. I'm trying to update my list, but it seems like at least half of these 686 sites are currently unavailable (browser never loads the site, although I can access any other site on the web I try that is outside of their network).

The automated networks are completely separate, but everyone who subscribes to the automated networks gets access to the same manual submission network. With 8 automated networks (on SEOLV), this means there are ~400 people able to submit to the same manual network. The odds your post stays on the home page of any given site so that Google can crawl it is extremely small.

Even when I check the daily posting done through the automated network (reports are provided by the services), a fair number (25%) of the sites seem to be down! What? Why does the software report the post as being submitted to a site that is clearly down? And give me a perma-link to a post that obviously doesn't exist?

On the positive side, they have always emailed me back quickly when I have a concern. I know other people have complained about it, but my experience has been good.

To sum up:
+ Good customer service
+ Automated networks provide daily posting reports
- Half the sites are always down
- Half of the remaining sites you won't be able to log into
- 70% of your blogroll links will never appear
- The time your post/links appear on a home page is extremely small

So I don't know. Some of these seem like such simple issues. If a site is down for 3 months, take it out of the list. Make sure the apply/re-apply links work to get logins, or if the site is not allowing anymore logins, take it out of the list. Make sure the blogroll function works, or only put sites that still allow blogroll links in the list and take the rest out. But, over a year, all of these have remained as ongoing issues.

If they open the networks again, and you're reading the sales page and considering buying, take my advice:
1. Multiply the size of the network by .25 to get the percent that is actually working at any given time.
2. Multiply the monthly blogroll links by .25 to get the percent that will actually appear.

If they would fix these issues, I'd have no problem with the networks. De-indexing isn't their fault. Having tons of sites routinely/permanently down, more sites that you can never log into, and non-working functions like blogroll links is their fault.

2 months ago when 50+ sites got de-indexed i received the same auto reply answer every time as i did recently!

"We are now repopulating the network as fast as we can with our reserved inventory in addition to newly purchased aged/pr domains. Please bear with us during this process."

the diff now is YES all the sites in the network have been de-indexed!
I would be happy to send anyone a list to verify this.

as of today you are still accepting customers on a network of de-indexed sites.
Why have they not be removed to mitigate the damage?

None were replaced in Feb or march!

so why don't you process the $497 refund i requested for feb and march. for a network that couldn't be used. I have paid you guys over $5000 in linkvine elite!

Oh and the guarantee of your links be remain permanently after you a customer for a year? how do you handle that one?

you need to close all your affected networks to unsuspecting new customers ASAP !