I ordered the 2,500 links, 100/day package. Order placed about 3 weeks ago. Steve provided the e-mail address and password right away. Day one he was proactive in letting me know that some directories were rejecting the title as "not unique" and that new titles were required.
It was for a small site (about a dozen pages) that I haven't done much with in the past couple of months, but it was consistently ranking 2-5 for secondary keywords (4.2 millions sites on the Google) and 7-11 for the primary keyword (approx. same number of competing sites.)
Traffic and rankings had been climbing steadily over the past 9 months without too much work having been done.
Basically, I forgot about it and was just reminded by Alexa's review that I should check it out.
The email account shows 896 email confirmations from directories. About 6% of them (so far) require email or URL confirmation. Of the 300 that I've been through, 2 were 404 and 4 rejected the link - mainly niche specific sites for which my site wasn't appropriate. As Alexa noted, a few sets of directories on the same IP.
Current Rankings:
# 1 for the two secondary keywords.
#6 for the primary keyword - breaking into the top 3 will take a bit more effort with msn and other (somewhat) larger sites above.
Yahoo shows the site to have about 60 new links.
The tag provided is now the #1 search string for the site - and it wasn't one of the primary keyword search phrases previously.
Ranking #7 out of 8.2 million for the tag phrase.
Traffic up over 80% (on average) over the past 3 weeks.
Attribute all of the increase to Steve's service?
No, but it certainly gave it a great boost.
I look forward to seeing the final report when the work has been completed.
So far, well worth the price.
Thanks.