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The Private Network Review

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4.2

We are pleased to be reviewing The Private Network. We constantly get asked what works and what doesn’t work in this day and age, and one thing that has always worked and still works are backlinks from high quality sites with age, authority and Pagerank. That is the premise behind private networks like Linkvana, Backlink Solutions, and BlogBlueprint,  amongst others. The link networks exist, because they work, and in reality, when you think about it, at its core, you are simply distributing content to blogs and websites. So to that end, let’s get on with our The Private Network review.

The Structure

First of all, what is The Private Network. As mentioned above, it is yet another entrant into the world of private blog networks. It is a collection of aged blogs with PageRank and authority, such as all the other networks mentioned above. It is more along the lines of a Linkvana because their PageRank distribution is to PR 1 to P4 websites, whereas BuildMyRank does PR1 through PR6 and even had a PR7 at one point, but I believe that was lost to one of the recent pagerank updates. That being said, when you look closely at your BuildMyRank distributions you will notice that about 90% of your distributions are going to PR4 and lower, and there is nothing wrong with that, that is the nature of the game.

Maintaining a high PageRank network is hard, hard work. Believe me we know first hand. But the point is, that the PageRank distribution being offered by The Private Network is on par with what their competition is doing, which is a good thing. But The Private network is not just like those others, they are a high bred network, because while they allow posting to their sites like the others, they are also a HomePage backlinks network as well. Meaning you will get posts placed on their blogs homepage that will be marked sticky and will stay on the high PR homepage as long as you stay subscribed.

The Private Network claims that all of their sites are on unique Class C and even A and B IP Addresses, that each site has its own unique theme, and each site has WhoIs privacy or a unique WhoIs profile. They claim no foot prints and that each site would pass a manual Google review, now all link networks have foot prints, the question is how large is their’s, but they are taking the necessary steps to avoid as much as they can.

This is really nothing new, pretty much all networks offer this at this point, and if they don’t, then they are setting themselves up for failure. So in reality while these are all nice feature for us as clients, they are must haves for them as the owners, because if they don’t protect the integrity of their network, they are the ones that will lose big as huge swaths of their network get discovered and wiped out as we have seen happen countless of times with other networks. So from the start this is all good stuff to have and to know that they are doing.

Sidebar – Just how important is this?

Well, without naming names, we’ve seen one private network lose over 400 sites. Not once, but twice in an 18 month period. That particular network was not even 500 strong, so basically it was almost completely wiped out – TWICE! So yes, this is a *real* concern not only of network owners but for you as well. Because if their network gets wiped out, so do your links.

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Features

With so many link networks vying for your attention, each one throws in their own features that set them apart. The Private Network, while allowing you to post to their network such as you do with the other networks, also offers you homepage links on their network sites as I mentioned earlier. This alone is worth the monthly price to be honest with you. In fact, they state the price of admission is for the homepage backlinks and you are allowed to post to the network as long as you are a member, which is kind of a play on words I suppose, but none the less they offer great value at their price points.

In reality the posting by clients provides their blogs with fresh content so they don’t sit stale with just homepage links. So to be clear, what you get from The Private Network is a 100 word post, written by them, for your chosen keywords and urls that they then post to their website and mark it sticky and keep it on their websites homepage for as long as you stay subscribed. Once your subscription ends the posts will not be removed, but they will not stay on the homepage either; they will just roll off the page like any other non-sticky blog post. The amount of homepage links depends upon which package you purchase, but 100 homepage links is the smallest package. These homepage links are called Premium Links on their website. And creating them was a breeze. As you can see from the pictures below:

Once we signed up we were walked through a few sign up pages where we added our premium links information such as domain, url keywords and we were off to the races, the whole process took about 5 minutes.

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Now that you have your homepage links all set up what’s left is a private blog network to which you can add posts just like all the other networks. With The Private network you able to add 1 link per 150 words, just like BMR offers. So conveniently, since our writers are already used to writing tens of thousands of posts for BMR a month, we can just use some of those for The Private network as well. The difference with these guys is that they will only allow 5 posts per day per domain which is less than you can do with other networks, but it is still 150 links per month per domain which is not bad.

The only concern we have with this is that with so many homepage links, our regular links probably wont see much time on the homepage. While the premise with other networks is that you post, it gets indexed on the high PR homepage and then rolls off the homepage. TPN will may wind up getting indexed on its inner page alone, which is ok, because you still get the age and authority of the blog itself and it’s a good link, but in our opinion not as powerful as the homepage links you will receive from them or the regular links you will receive from other networks. So we would not recommend posting too heavily to this network like you do with a BMR or Linkvana, because the real power behind TPN is their homepage links.

One thing we took to is that at the moment they do not offer an import feature for posts, but they have instructed us that the import feature will soon be available and they are currently testing it. So for the moment you have to add your posts one at a time, which is a pain, but shortly you should be able to import your posts. Also they do not allow spun content, as per their support staff. Now that being said, Linkvana says they don’t allow spun content either, but you can push well spun posts through the Linkvana network. We are not personally recommending you try, nor are we going to try to buck the system, but if anyone does, let us know. If they are anything like the BMR editors you won’t be able to sneak spun content through, so just how well they check their posts or not is still up in the air. They do have their own outsourced writers available as well for post writing or you can alternatively use ArticlesOnTap.com to purchase content.

Another item worth mentioning is their interface, it is very clean and intuitive to use. We have seen a few others fail at the interface level, and really not having providing a good user experience right off the bat can sour you on a service right away. So this was good to see. Additionally their support was very helpful and quick in answering any questions we had. And one more important aspect we learned that wasn’t mentioned on their FAQ at the time, is that they maintain keyword exclusivity for the premium links, meaning once you pick a keyword for your premium links nobody else will be able to use that same keyword for their premium links, that is of course unless someone else beats you to your chosen keyword. So sign up before your competition does I suppose.

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The Results

We just added keywords and links and posted some content to their network, so in all fairness we can’t speak for actual results of their network. But from our real world experience of being members of just about every link network in existence we can pretty much speculate what will happen and feel fairly confident in recommending the service.

The fact is that these networks work – Linkvana works, they all work – so there is no reason to believe this will not work. We have used homepage backlinks from other providers, and we use our own network for it as well. They work, different niches and different websites will have varying results, but in a nutshell getting homepage backlinks from sites with PageRank should and usually will help your rankings. We also post content to all the major networks out there as well as ours, and it works, so posting to their network of blogs should more than likely help your rankings as well. Again this all depends on your niche and your site age and authority. We would not recommend that The Private Network be your only method of linkbuilding for any website, but we would recommend it for people that are already using a lot of other services and are looking for more links, more diversity, and just more in general for their linkbuilding.

That being said, we will update this post in about 30 days to post about any recent results, while we selected a couple keywords we are doing other linkbuilding campaigns to, we also selected a few keywords we haven’t ever done a thing to – so we can measure the results. So please do check back if you wish, but I encourage you to sign up while the network is new and not saturated and see the results for yourself – the beginning of a private network service is always the best time to join and use it before the masses come rolling in.

Support

So far, I have opened two tickets, and they have both been answered within a few minutes. I suspect that is because the service is new and they don’t have a lot of tickets yet, but thus far they have been helpful and they even sent some recommendations via the support desk, which may be helpful to others with their SEO efforts.

Pricing

Their pricing in my opinion is actually very fair, their starter package is $105 a month and for that you receive 100 homepage backlinks for which you can distribute on 8 keywords, within 4 urls on 2 domains. Additionally for that $105 a month you can post up to 300 posts with 1 link in each for two domains, that is 5 posts a day per domain. Now keep in mind that does not factor in the cost of content for those 5 posts a day per domain, so you will need to either write content or purchase it.

Most homepage backlinks services alone charge you around $100 a month just for the homepage backlinks, so with this network you also get access to the network posting for that same price. This is extremely reasonable in our opinion. They also offer an Advanced package for $190 which will supply you with 200 homepage backlinks and posting for four domains, and a ultimate for $270 a month for 300 homepage backlinks and posting for 6 domains. One more thing that they offer is free 1 on 1 SEO advice and coaching with one of their SEO Experts, we didn’t test this feature out, so we can’t speak to its effectiveness but as a bonus add on – its a nice to have.

The Private network Bonus

The Private Network appears to be a nice addition to the stable of private networks, while we recommend BMR for their high quality network, this service should be a great addition, and we are thrilled to be using it. However it would be great to have some free content to post to The Private Network. If you purchase The Private Network via our link we will send you ten (10) FREE Links on High Power Network for subscribing to TPN. The articles are provided by ArticlesOnTap.com, so you can be assured they are top quality, 100% unique articles ready to post. You will also receive a 10% off coupon code for any future orders of articles from ArticlesOnTap.com. You won’t find a The Private Network coupon here, but the ArticlesOnTap coupon will come in very handy for content. To redeem your bonus simply follow these The Private Network Bonus instructions. Once we confirm your purchase was made through our link, you will receive your bonuses.

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