LinkAuthority Review – The Next Generation in Link Building
(As this is our own service I have done this review as a third person review to stay unbiased and treat it like any other platform)
LinkAuthority is a brand-new link building blog network, just launched a couple of months ago December 2011. It currently has more than 700 sites and is growing on a daily basis. What’s different about this service is the fact that it only accepts unique content and submits each article only to one site per day. This may seem like an incredible waste of time if you are currently using a spinning network, but when you stop and think of the mechanics behind it you may just change your mind.
Another great selling point is that the service is free if you submit your own PR2 or better domains. They do allow you to purchase extra quota if you want to submit more articles than your domains allow, but LinkAuthority says they would prefer you earn your credits rather than purchase them. They have set things up this way to ensure that only aged and high-ranking sites are included in their network. They have no interest in merely building a network of thousands of useless blogs.
How It Works
Once you sign up for the service you are more pushed along the lines of submitting at least one PR2 domain to the network (Although there are paid options they are not hugely advertised). With that domain you are allowed two article submissions per day. As you add more domains your quota goes up; and the higher the PR of the domains you submit the more quota each domain is worth. This is not a new system by any means; most of the contributor owned networks operate on some sort of similar system. The difference comes in to play when you talk about how articles are submitted and published.
When you submit your original article it will first be run past a moderator who will check it for quality and uniqueness. Once that moderator agrees that your content passes, it is submitted to only a single site. The system would then build backlinks into every published articles to get it indexed. That means there is no duplicate content anywhere else on the web. This is a great benefit, especially after the Google Panda updates started punishing content that was excessively duplicated and/or watered down. When you submit your article and it is accepted, you can rest assured it is going to a quality website and it will be unique.
By the same token, the articles submitted to the domains you contribute to the network will have passed through the same strict moderation. That means you’re not going to get any spun and re-spun junk that already appears on 15 other sites. You will have high-quality, unique content to help boost your page rank and traffic.
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The Referral Program
Another unique aspect to LinkAuthority is their referral program. This program rewards users for referring others to the service. For every person you refer who submits a PR2 domain you are given an extra daily submission credit. Refer a couple of dozen new customers and you can see how quickly your submission credits can go up. It is a great way to increase your credits without having to buy into the paid system. Of course, if you still demand extra credits you can purchase them as we said earlier.
A Public-Private Mix
LinkAuthority’s main strength lies in how the network has been structured – Not only can users add sites as mentioned above which are all moderated before being accepted into the system. But LinkAuthority also contributes their private network into the system. Which makes its a hybrid network with 50% being user owned and 50% being owned by LinkAuthority itself.
The only downside I can see and if this is something that’s important to you, is that LinkAuthority creates all of the categories for you. You have no control over this portion of the program. You also don’t have direct control over what sites you’re articles are submitted to. Because of the fact that it is all unique content going only to one quality site each, this usually isn’t a problem though.
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Case Studies
Since mid December where we were alpha testing the system, we created one campaign and have until now published 60 posts on high PR sites. The breakdown is as follows:
- 15 PR2 posts
- 16 PR3 Posts
- 19 PR4 Posts
- 6 PR5 Posts
- 4 PR6 Posts
All of these posts have been indexed, most were indexed within 24 hours.
Rankings wise the keyword that was targeted had an exact match of 18k so was quite a competitive term. The site was at position 9 and as I now type this the site is at position 3 in the rankings.
Since it’s free to get started there really is no good reason not to give LinkAuthority a try. At the very least you’ll submit a single domain, write a couple of articles every day for a month, and see where it goes. Of course, if you’re not interested in producing unique and high quality content this network is probably not for you. You might be better off looking for one that accepts spun and auto-spun content.
