My beefs with Link-vault

Thanks Domenic. The links are showing only on some of my pages. Some of my other pages are spiratically hanging. I fear, if other webmasters are experiencing the same thing they may remove our links to avoid the hang time! Are you experiencing the 1-2 minute load time on some of your pages, Domenic? For me it seems to have improved but on the weekend my sites grinded to a halt at one point, then up then down.

So I understand what your saying the DB of LV users is on one server and the user admin is on another? If that's the case why are my sites hanging?

 

None of my sites are hanging and all links are present; it may be your server/host. I don't believe there is any communication between site and LV server just for a page load.

 

Thanks VB, yah today the links are present on the pages that I have checked and load time seems good now. I have also rec'd an email this AM from LV.

Yes this is unfortunate and I am happy with this situation as I understand it now! I am going to check with my host to see why the hang time . If no other LV users were reporting this then it has to be my server, I agree!

 

Homer I think vBMechanic has pretty much hit the nail on the head here.

The information about what LV links to place on your pages is stored in a file on your site (one you had to add when installing LV). That is where the link info is called from. So as mentioned, instead of querying the LV server when a page loads, the code in your page query's this file on your server with the list of your links in it. So your pages don't consult the LV server to display links.

 

Ok it's six months down the track...LV has had time to sort out the problems mentioned in this thread.

So what's the consensus, how's LV doing ?

 

Something about the 'news' section at Link Vault is they do tend to let everyone know what little bug fixes they are doing as they go or what improvements they are making.

It's all very out there and open in that regard, so have a read of the news section and if you understand programming stuff that will probably help you interpret some of it.

A lot of people said the coop would fizzle and die, a lot of people said link vault would fizzle and die. To date neither has fizzled and both have grown (while remaining completely unique and different).

There are some interesting ideas kicking around the private forums at Link Vault at the moment... worth a look.

 

Well the system, in theory is good. However, I think what lacks is the ability to be proactive from the creator's perspective. Once we all agree that this is a tool intended to help your rankings along then we have to say how are we tweaking this tool to, at least, fend off the cat(G). What I mean is Google has aggresively gone after this and other 'link schemes'.

I still use this tool, but not much...for deep linking on a few small sites it seems to still have results but as far as anything significant, nothing (some may say even worst). Since Jagger 1 I am convinced, without tweaking, LV and ALL others are going to eventually be rendered useless. Relevance and quality of linking is a big issue now with Google and I think that's where LV and others need to drastically improve, IMO.