It’s been 10 days since I joined SEO LinkVine and I think it’s fair to say the jury is still out.  I have only submitted 2 articles so far as I wanted to examine the effectiveness of SEO Link Vine before I devote a lot of time to it.

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My articles were both in very different niches – one was a quite obscure, very narrow interest article in the travel niche, the other was a fairly generic article in the Internet Marketing niche. I wanted to test if the results were markedly different. I submitted my articles on 1st and 2nd September. Both articles have been syndicated 11 times each.

By syndicated, I mean the content has been posted to 11 different blogs according to the SE Link Vine stats. In addition, the 2 articles are in the pending queue for review for syndication to 16 other SEO Link Vine, they have been that way for about 7 days though.

Sites Published On:

I have only been able to ascertain 3 websites (from linkback notifications) where my articles have been published, in all cases these were autoblogs with zero PR.

Traffic:

I have not been able to ascertain any traffic from the posts that have been published.

Inbound Links:

None of the inbound linking tools I use have picked up these links. This is really to be expected as they will take some time to show. In each case where I have discovered my content I have pinged the url to hopefully give the SE’s a little help in finding them.

Rankings:

One of my sites, the travel site, I went from no 6 to no 3 in the last 10 days. I could not put this down solely to SEO Linkvine though as I have been promoting this site quite heavily elsewhere too.

Conclusions Thus far:

  • Although my content was accepted 100% in one case and 86% in the other by those who reviewed it, I expected more sites to be involved in the network and my content to be published more times than it has.
  • The content has yet to be reviewed by a further 16 sites, and has been in that status for about a week. This suggests to me that quite a few of the SEO LinkVine members are inactive.
  • All 3 of 22 sites I have discovered my content have been autoblogs and all with zero PR. This makes me question the authority of the sites, their likely traffic and consequently the value of any inbound links received.

A note about content available for syndication from others

I signed up one of my autoblogs (yeah I know, I’m as bad as the rest!) in the healthy eating niche to receive content from other SEO Linkvine members. I was presented with about 50 articles and was only able to use a small percentage of them. Many were spammy beyond the extreme, many hadn’t been spun to give a decent uniqueness to them and many were completely off topic. I dont want penis enlargement articles on my nutrition blog thanks very much!

So, as I said the jury is still out. In many respects it’s too early to tell the effectiveness of the system, but I think it’s fair to say I’m not holding out much promise. I have another few weeks before I get charged again, so let’s see what happens. Stay tuned for the next update!

For part 1 of my review please see SEO Link Vine Review Part 1.

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