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if you are trying to rank more than 2-5 sites then you can try that out. You should also consider build my rank.
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Me and my friend are having experience with Linkvana, and it's really worth the money spent to build contextual backlinks. Just give it a shot man.

I am a linkvana user although I haven't used the others mentioned here.
Actually I am using linkvana and linktator2 together and so far I am getting good results. I mean, my sites are rising in google and I am receiving more traffic than I ever had before.

I have tried both Linkvana and BMR and I would say to go for linkvana if you have more than 1 sites to promote as mentioned above by Al amin and danlew, i have seen real amazing results recently and few days back we got a mail that they are providing 100 free social bookmarks as part of subscription.

I have herad mixed reviews about it so cant tell you for sure

BuildMyRank is a similar service with higher quality blogs. Highly recommended!

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I'll chime in here.

I have been a solid high volume user of Linkvana for coming up to 3 and a half years now, and it's pretty much been the backbone of my link building over that time.

It's a very solid service, period. While some say it's too expensive, you really do get what you pay for in this area, and it's actually a way better investment than you may think, considering that you can waste a LOT of time with other networks, and you also may not get as good quality links. (time is the most important factor really, SEO is not a fast game as it is)

I have a network of around 240 niche blogs, that I have built up over the last 3.5 + years (the majority of them build last year, and late 2010), and pretty much all my sites are in the top 10 in google now for a large percentage of their target keywords. This is primarily due to my use of Linkvana as the main link source for my sites.

One of the best things about LV is that Dave, the owner, and his team are actually improving and adding to the system all the time, based on what actually works. They know what works, because they actually use it themselves. Like a lot of link building services out there, Dave started LV to create a solution for his own needs in building links, and getting his own sites higher up in the SERPS.

This is really important, because SEO is always changing, so you want to be up with the latest news and strategies, and be sure to be using it in your campaigns.

In the last 3-6 months LV has seen a huge amount of additions, and from talking to Dave on skype, there are some even cooler things to come.

At the moment, as you can see in the image at the link below:

2012-01-28_0111 - Jing library

there are already quite a few different ways of promoting your sites.

A REALLY cool new thing they have just added, is 100 social media links to any page (with any anchor) in your account, per month.

Dave has also been considering moving to a credits based system, so that you can choose whatever services you want, because right now, some of the other link building methods in LV are an additional fee. For me I have only ever used the blog posting, and that's been powerful enough all by itself to push my sites to the top of the SERPS for many low to mid comp keywords for multiple sites/projects.

So anyway, if you want check out my blog on LV, which also has an extremely high value exclusive offer that I setup with Dave, then checkout my blog:

Linkvana

(the video post at the top of the index explains the exclusive)

Cheers, and if you have any questions or want to chat about it, just PM me, or leave a comment on my blog.

Best of luck,

Nick

I would recommend BuildMyRank than LinkVana. BMR gives better result and I believe it's the best private blog networks. And it's also cheaper than LinkVana

I have to say, as a member of Linkvana since August 2008 now, I am very impressed with the way that LV is staying on top of the game, in terms of updates, and keeping their service top of the game in terms of not only the quality of their network, but also the new additions to their link building options, which you can take advantage of as a member.

Part of the reason that I mention this, is because if you have been to this site recently in the past, you will have noticed that I took down the 500 posts offer, for anyone who signs up to Linkvana through this site. This is because, while the posts that I was offering where very high quality, they were obviously not 100% unique, and were SIMILAR in nature to spun content. While I felt that my content was good, and I was seeing verification of this in the way it was being indexed by G and the other search engines, Linkvana have made it clear to me that any sort of content like this, no matter how high quality, will not be allowed onto their network.

While this is obviously a spanner in my works, and to be honest a bit frustrating, I totally agree with LV when it comes down to it. We want to make sure that the quality of LV's network stays as good as it is. As far as the content goes, well im still trying to figure out a way to offer something REALLY valuable to you guys who want to sign up and get a bonus, apart from just the normal 25 free posts bonus that LV offers for signing up.

I'm using BMR now, but there are a few Fiverr gigs offering Linkvana posting services. If you give them 5 articles, they'll post them via their Linkvana account. I'm not sure if this is against Linkvana's TOS, but it may be an option for those that want to try the service without committing to $150 a month. I'm not sure if Linkvana offers a free trial like BMR.

So far I like BMR, I've only submitted 38 posts. I've gotten (1) PR0, (17) PR1, (13) PR2, (3) PR3 and (4) PR4. I've heard BMR is all random, so some people who are luckier than me may get a huge amount of PR4 and less PR1s. One of the PR1 blogs my link was posted on went down to PR0. I'm going to stick with BMR for a while; it's kind of fun to submit posts and see which PR you are going to get. Like a prize in a box of cracker jacks!

The difference between Linkvana and BMR is that Linkvana accepts posts faster than BMR. I've experience used them both, but for originality and quality I would choose BMR. As of now, my friend is using Linkvana for himself and for his client.

I used LV in the past and I wont touch it again.

A whole bunch of their blogs were deindexed by Google, which resulted in the staff of LV scrambling desperately in order to "repost" links.

I grew suspicious when I couldnt find any of my posts, then when I did find some, they were just links, without the text.

Denial finally ended in admittance from a representative of LV, informing me of the Google deindex.

I wasnt annoyed at the deindexing of my backlinks/posts, but moreso the way they handled it.

Quite unprofessional really.

As for BMR, havent used it *yet*

There are too many different comments. I think you should have a try.

A lot of conflict info :-)

I am using Linkvana for quite some time and really impressed with the service. I've used Linkvana to consistently rank my sites very well in serps. I can certainly vouch for these guys. If you find the monthly fee too steep then I'd suggest checking out this I will write 4 unique posts and submit it to my Linkvana account for your chosen keyword for $5 on fiverr.com

BMR is by far the most powerful. For someone who submits close to 100 posts a day to all the major networks, BMR is the bees knees. For the handful of people giving bad reviews with it, you are definitely doin something wrong. I can show you rankings of THE most competitive terms solely using BMR and ALN. BMR games the algo extremely well through the high powered domains they buy and their secondary link building. The constant stream of totally unique content keeps every page of every blog crawled and indexed which is pretty much the most important aspect of quality link building.

I thing Blog Networks do work its just how they do it.. There is a new and very uniques one coming soon there are rumours I have heard!!

I have used both BMR and Linkvana... both actually worked great for me... But i guess it really depends on the keywords that you are targeting....

and yes.. BMR is a bit more strict with regards to articles as compared to linkvana

Doesn't matter how many sites are there is the blog network or how many sites you are trying to promote. they can be of real help for sure.

You can run a test to decide which network you should use.

Having said that, you'll find that the consensus is that LV is pretty bad in terms of ROI. It's a lot of money each month, with very little results.

BMR used to be good until a bunch of my articles are now on PR0 and PR1 sites.

I started using vendors of high PR private networks - better value and better rankings; since it's private, PR is more stable, sites less spammed, and rankings end up being much better. And then I built my own high PR network, but admittedly building your own network can be expensive initially.

I have used Linkvana in the past... and it definitely did well for me... But you really have to consider the keywords that you should be promoting. Chances are your competitors may be using this same service as well.

You might also want to try BMR (buildmyrank)

I'm currently using BMR and I do like them because of their high standards. I agree that the majority of my posts go on low PR blogs. Out of 65 posts, I've only gotten one PR5, so I'm not sure how many PR5 blogs are in their network or if I'm just very unlucky.

Does Linkvana have higher PR blogs in their network? Also, how many domains and posts per day does Linkvana offer for $147 a month?

From the looks of this thread BMR seems to be the winner by a hair.

Great discussion,
so here are my observation from past experience and trending consensus in this thread
Linkvana worked very well till mid 2011 and then BMR provided fresh network from beginning 2011 to Nov 2011 at cheaper price so it attracted most of low and mid budget IM'ers that resulted in overuse of network by now and we can see from above comments that BMR network quality is going down and they have lost their effectiveness and looks like their network was hit by last pr update as most of user complaining about content getting posted on low PR sites.
So i feel personally that people tend to stay away from linkvana saying it as costly network so it is not used(spammed) by many hence it is more virgin network and that's why it can be effective too and people are getting results too.I think its human tendency to be impulsive and restless when we are putting more cash. so far i had kept my calm and linkvana worked great for me and they are in market since 2007 so probably they know how it works moreover they keep updating their system and network, last week i got a mail from them about their new social promotion launch as free add-on to their regular subscription.
at the end you can test out any of the services, try whichever works for you the best and stick to it and have patience, it's internet marketing

I agree that BMR has gone downhill lately, and probably because it's more popular now than ever. I currently have over 25% of my posts on sites that are now PR0, and another 25% are on PR1 - and many of those sites are completely deindexed from Google.

I can't speak for Linkvana, but I don't know if the 3x cost is worth it.

I think they do have filters and checks to check posts before it is published on their network and as mentioned in this thread by Everythingbranded here that
So like any other quality network they are trying to maintain decent network, so i think its good

I agree that the financial investment of setting up your own high PR network isn't worth it to most people. However, between BMR and LV you'll find that despite the 20% deindexed domains and 50% PR0& PR1 domains, BMR still has better stats in terms of domain authority and rankings than LV.

I guess if you're limiting your options to either BMR or LV then it might appear to be a close tie. (Although personally I think BMR is better).

However, a better option for me, before I built my own network, was to find folks who owned their own network and pay for posting. This is what the big guys do (literally - they approach bloggers for a post with a link in it). Anyway, the first "unknown" private network I used had a handful of PR2 and PR3 sites and the results I got were much better than the kind you get from these publicly known networks. Plus, because they're privately owned, the owners put a lot more effort into them.

There are a couple of these "tiny, unknown" networks around and they're not overly expensive to use. I may open up my own network for a few posts in the future, but it will be more of a "guaranteed rankings service" rather than a blog posting service. However, I'm not too sure of this yet, since obviously network security etc is a big concern to me.

Another alternative to LinkVana I've seen is Authority Links Network, but I've been using it for a few months now and the results (for me) haven't been worth mentioning. But it's certainly cheap to use.

In regards to the different PR sites on BMR that accepts the posts, shouldn't that have some relation to the quality of the post? ie. better post have better chance landing on higher PR blog sites?

kentutz, BMR allocates posts randomly. All posts you submit to their network have to be high quality.
The main cost with BMR is not the monthly subscription fee, it's the cost of unique posts.

I would just stick with BMR they rock and everyone knows it

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