Receivelinks vs. Link Vault

Which one is better, in terms of the size of the network and the number of different links you can get?

Anyone use both for the same site?

TIA

 

Yes, I agree too with Link Vault.

 

Really? I've heard lots of complaints about Link Vault (although I've never tried it), and all of those complaints are strengths of ReceiveLinks IMO. Link Vault has been around longer and has a bigger network, but RL has tons of options and great support. Has anyone heard any complaints about ReceiveLinks?

 

I had all of my links deleted at one time because I had gone over my points limit by like 4 points. Not much effect to my sites, but it really made me angry.

What are the complaints about LV?

Thanks for the responses.

 

Hello,

I have been using RL for several month and feel satisfied with their service. And its true they have a very reliable support. Check their forum.

Cheers !

Thibaut

 

I agree that RL has better forum support and more options how to manage your ads. And their script works for asp.net not only .php.

 

If you HAD to choose one - I would recommend receivelinks because of the following factors:

1) Link vault consistently has 25-35% of the links you get MISSING
2) Receivelinks lets you set your site (OBL) or ads (IBL) to a specific category only.
3) Receivelinks support is better

Howeever I don't want to discount link vault. I have very good success with it as well, just you have to take the bad with the good. Link vault's main strength is it has many more sites in the system today, but who knows 12 months from now?

For me? I use BOTH and that is my recommendation!

 

I would have to pick Receive Links over Link Vault receive Links lets there users trade points and limit there ads and sites to a language and/or category and LV does not.

As gford said the ads show to be on a lot of pages but there is a high % of the links missing all the time and the pages there on there is a good % of them not cached in the SE's like they say they the page have to be. RL is about 7 months old and LV is about a year older then RL so there network is bigger. RL has had some problems but so has LV and there has been users on both network that have had lost all there links at least at RL you get an answer from the admin. LV admin has posted on the forums that updates are on the way and will be active in 4 weeks well thats been like a year ago. also the admin on the LV forums sensei has only posted like 4 times in the last 6 months.

I thank I have tried both out I am the top poster on Receive Links forum and the #3 poster on LV forum.

 

Lack of support, deleted links, lack of ASP/ASP.NET support, no ability to restrict to category are all complaints I've heard about LV. Like I said, I haven't tried it myself...

 

I think these programs all suck big time. I have tens of thousands of links from LV and I don't see much improvement in terms of rankings.
No wonder, since many links are missing or nofollowed. I wrote a backlink checker and the result was enlightening to say the least.
Consequently, I think these programs are worthless in terms of linkbuilding and since everyone sticks the link as far down in the footer as they possibly can they are also worthless in terms of traffic. I rarely ever see a click from any of those links.
Also I have set a category (Travel something) and I am still getting tons of completely unrelated links and I have had so many unrelated links to spammy sites on my site that I finally pulled the plug.

It is also very common in those programs that people use cloaking software so that the links aren't even visible to search engines. Hell, there are more ways to cheat the system and leeching of your hard work than you can ever imagine.

 

I got a penalty applied to an otherwise white hat site by building links too quick on LV. This was my own dumb fault of course, so I don't really blame LV for this.

However, I stopped using it because the links just weren't relevant, and so many links on DMOZ clones, forgotten forum profile pages, pages that no longer existed, pages covered with adsense, pages of scraped content and all other kinds of low quality sites. It's ok for promoting MFA sites, but be careful promoting your main site with it.

People don't want to put LV on their good sites, so invariably the average quality of the network is low.
Bot that was about a year ago, it might have improved since then but I'd be surprised.

The paid RL option lets you specify minimum PR and other nice options, which I think would make a massive difference. Getting a rubbish page to PR1 is actually quite difficult, so I think this would improve the quality a fair bit.