Want a good link for $20?

March 6th, 2007 · 1 Comment

As far as buying links goes, $20 for a link for a ‘lifetime’ on a decent site in your ‘theme’ seems like a pretty good deal! Well that is exactly what the folks over at V7N’s contextual link program offer. I don’t typically buy links through brokers, but here is a quick list of what makes these guys different from TLA or Text Link Brokers.

-The links you buy are contextual
Your link will be featured inside a paragraph on a blog posting. It won’t be grouped with a bunch of other links in some “Sponsors Section’.

-they don’t publish their list
This makes things a little scarier, because while you can specify what type of sites you prefer, you don’t know where your link is going until it is placed. However it reduces or even eliminates the ‘footprint’ which SEs might be able to detect a ‘paid’ link.

-every link is the same price
This makes it a breeze to budget for link buys especially when a client is involved.

-most of the links they get come from blogs
This means as soon as the post goes up containing your link the SEs are pinged, and will hopefully come and index the page quicker.

-You can specify multiple sets of anchor text
This makes the links even harder for SEs to detect as paid links.

Overall I had a pleasant experience buying links from V7N and would recommend their service. However there are a few things I would like to see added/changed.

offer a link package for somewhere between $20 and $1000.
start an affiliate program
offer more details on if the links you buy will be launched over a certain time period or all at the same time

This has NOT been a paid review (although V7n if you want to give a squirrel a nut I am all for it).