I purchased a backlinks package, I ordered (Get 200 high Page Rank 4+ backlinks for $75)
First, I ordered and heard nothing for three days. Then I get a message saying he was about to run it, I got my report.
First he claims these are PR4+ backlinks, they are not. All the links come from PR0 pages but some the root domains do have PR, a good percentage have no PR at all.
Second in his ad he claims
This is correct, they are not blog posts, they are ALL forum member pages which over 2/3 are blocked to guests (ie: GoogleBot)
I would rate this service very poor, I paid 75.00 for 200 PR4+ baclinks and received about 40 total useable links, some of which are nofollow and some which have no PR what-so-ever.
I find this unacceptable so I wanted to give others a heads up.
Once again, when dealing with clients who have no idea how SEO works, why hire someone to do SEO services for you if you know all about SEO yourself?
Now you want to tell us what works and what doesn't.
Ok, I have explained to you several times by email and you're still not getting it. Where are you getting this notion that the links are not good?
First of all, the links are good. The links do actually show up when checked with a link checker, this is a fact. But you wouldn't know this because you just got the report and your links haven't even had a chance to get indexed yet.
Next, you keep raising a pointless argument about links not being usable because Guest & Google bots can't see them.
We never stated that the links would be seen by forum guest. I tried explained this to you already but you're not paying attention. If you want the links to be seen by visitors, you need to run a xrumer campaign. Not High PR backlinks.
And as far as Google bots goes, again the links show up because Google has no problem indexing them just because guest don't see them.
The purpose of these links are to fly under the radar while getting PR juice to your URL. Check out Angela's list and others, it's the same type technique, and we know it works.
You do NOT need to have your link on a home page of a PR site in order to receive the benefits or the PR.
Just like when you place an article on Ezinearticles or on Craigslist, the page that your article or ads is placed on has no PR at all.
But it still shows up on the first page of Google, especially if you've used your keywords in the title. This happens because you are using the PR power of the High PR site.
For even further proof of this....Google "Buy Viagra" this will really cook your noodle.
That's the whole principle of web 2.0 marketing. Also, see any works from Howie Schwartz. His whole marketing strategy relies on borrowing the PR power or High PR web 2.0 properties. And it works!
And, lastly we've been providing SEO services for years now and have had no problems with any of our services. Just check the thread, so why would we sell a bad service now?
Or, why do we have several repeat webmasters for this service if it's bad?
I think you need to get more information on SEO before you make comments like these.