LinkAuthority Review
Firstly, I’ll start off this review by introducing what exactly LinkAuthority is. LinkAuthority (www.LinkAuthority.com) is a recently launched high quality link building blog network, already boasting near 1000 high PR sites, and growing at an “exponential” rate (according to Musa Aykac, the owner and a good friend of mine).
Screenshot of Link Authority Members Area
What sets this system apart from the crowd is that is only accepts UNIQUE content – much to my relief it is not yet another spinning network – and so obviously only publishes each of your articles to one site. Now this may sound like a waste of time, but I ask you to think about it for just a second. You are getting backlinks on sites that don’t contain duplicate, spun, or otherwise junk content; meaning said sites will not likely be penalized or de-indexed by google so your links are going to last indefinitely.
So instead of having, say, 10 spun versions of the same article on 10 low quality PR 0-1 sites, you’re having 1 article published onto the homepage of say a PR 4,5, or even 6 website! (Well, that’s the idea at least anyway.)
Additionally, the network is “free” to join – on the condition that you submit a PR2 or higher site that you own into the network. Whilst I wouldn’t exactly trust putting my main money site in there, it’s actually a pretty nifty way of getting free unique content on some of your underdeveloped sites, so in reality it’s a bit of a win-win situation.
Another strength of LinkAuthority is that it doesn’t merely rely on it’s users for sites for the network. The people behind it are constantly contributing sites to the system too, which I feel is crucial for a network to do. I can’t stress enough how pleased I am about this, quality services need constant investment of both time and money from its owners and it’s good to see a network getting it right for once.
There are a few things I’m not too keen about however. Firstly, if you add one of your own sites into their system you have no control over what content goes is published onto it. You must accept articles from all categories, so for example having wedding articles on your niche automobile blog isn’t ideal to say the least. In their defence, you have the option of purchasing quota if you wish and they’re cheap enough so this becomes somewhat of a non-issue. The second thing that I’m slightly dissapointed by is the fact that their affiliate programme only pays out 20%. I’d like this to be raised slightly as affiliates are not earning a set amount per subscriber they refer – people can buy 1 daily quota and that’s not exactly earning you a great commission.
Case Study
On to the results. So far I’ve been a member of LinkAuthority for about 5 weeks now. If you submit an article of between 150-300 words, you’re allowed to place 1 hyperlink within it, and articles consisting of 301 or more words are allowed up to 3 hyperlinks in them. I submitted 39 articles each containing between 150-250 words as I just wanted to test the system, so overall I gained 39 backlinks.
My Publishing Breakdown was as follows:
- PR2 Links: 13 – PR5 Links: 3
- PR3 Links: 10 – PR6 Links: 1
- PR4 Links: 11 – PR8 Links: 1
Total: 39
Conclusion
LinkAuthority is a massive step in the right direction, especially after the recent Google Panda update, and I’m very pleased with the quality of their network. They’ve most definitely significantly improved my rankings for the keywords I used in order to test them out, and I’m only little over a month in. This is truly a service that I can recommend in good faith and I will – I strongly suggest you check them out today and give them a try, after all you’ve got nothing to lose.
Cheers for the review! Had Link Authority mentioned to me once or twice on various forums but wasn’t too sure about it (up until now that is). Will give it a go
I too have been using link authority and I too am pleased so far with the results. I’ve seen all my rankings improve on terms that seem to have been stuck at a certain position for months now (very competitive terms too I might add). One thing that is quite annoying though is that they don’t provide you with the link to your published articles so it can get tedious copying and pasting paragraphs into Google, but I suppose you have to take the good with the bad sometimes. I only hope that this network will improve with time and won’t go downhill like networks such as BMR.
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