Bump for Steve! This guy is a pro. Here's some more results. Every month I have Steve upgrade my mininets. I have 2 different sites and I've gotten great results with both.
Keyword 1 - 681,000 results. Domain age is 1 year, 4 months old. When I started I had no rankings for this keyword, and the domain was not quite a year old yet. I'm at a mininet 3, and he's in the process of upgrading to a mininet 5. I'm placing #3 for my main keyword, I expect when all the work is finalized I'll be at #2 or #1. Along with social bookmarking the sites Steve created I should easily have #1 within the next 30 days.
Keyword 2 - 502,000 results. Domain age is 5 years, 9 months old. I purchased this site to flip, its an ecommerce site. When I started this site had absolutely no backlinks anywhere. The only good thing was the domain was 5 years old so I could flood it with links. Its at a mininet 5 now, in position #6.
Just for a laugh, and to prove my point. I took those rankings from sites that have had them for years. How do I know? One of the website owners emailed me demanding that I stop outranking them, and the other one emailed me to ask how I did it. Neither of them got a reply (sorry Steve!)
If you're on the fence about whether to do this, just do it, it's well worth the price. To those complaining about price, then do it yourself. This is a lot of work and Steve does it all by hand, no automation, no spinning, no BS, just quality work at a fair price. And to top it all off his customer service is aces across the board, he actually remembers you, your sites and what work has already been done as well as making suggestions on what should be done to improve your rankings. Stop asking questions and just do it.