Can a mod not delete this thread? the guy is offering incredibly bad advice that will get people banned just so he can get more vaultage over at link vault. Anyone reading please steer clear of LV, you will get hundreds of irrelevant links on spammy pages with very low PR which will set serious alarm bells ringing over at Google.
this is similar to digitalpoint co-op network. I don't want to comment about this, but i've seen examples of using digitalpoint co-op network, with million backlinks they rank worst than websites with few hundreds, maybe they are not penalized, but something is happening for sure, most probably google giving much much less value to those links. You will say that "where they can know that those links are coming from such a program". They don't need to know that, they know only that a bunch of links grouped in the same place, probably at the bottom of the page. 4 or 6 links grouped in the same place can never be considered natural. This is similar in adsense, they don't need to know that you are clicking your own ads, they will ban you if they see that all your visitors who click on adsense ads press the back button after they click the ad, or they simply don't make any action. There can be a percent who act like this, but when the percent is almost 100%, there is really a problem. Back to the link, probably you won't get banned, but for sure those links will not count as a normal link, and why not, there can be links that substract value from your website and you will rank lower than before using this. Something similar to penalization, but thinking with a better logic. You must be naive to think that those engineers from google are thinking only in black and white. "those links are bad, those links are good" , they have a very well developed algorithm, those links are count more, other are count less, other aren't counted. You must ask yourself why those websites using co-op network are not topping their keywords. Or take many keywords, the highest paying keywords, and ask yourself why those websites are not using co-op networks, you must be naive to think that those good seo guys that done the work for that websites don't know about digitalpoint co-op.