Be careful hiring Link Building Services and Directory submissions

They’ve been there right from the time of when the term SEO was coined. Link building services, Forum Link Building and Directory Submissions. They worked really well once up on a time and that’s it. Unfortunately, they don’t give the edge they used to and interestingly  could put you in trouble rather give any help.

The reason I’m writing this post is that recently, there’s been a flurry of emails I received from link building services, all types of them. I’m guessing my email would’ve landed up in some “Pick your victim” spam channel, that I’m receiving these crazy, crazy offers.

And one such offer was from a link building service company, which made me think that – yes, this is it ! Hire this guy for all my websites and I can go on a vacation for the rest of my life.

The offers were just too good to be true at rates that were only as much as the PayPal commissions I pay for a month.

But having a deeper look at the site gave me some “insightful” revelations.

The website, which was offering the service of “Forum Link Building” , ( which some geeks prefer calling SPAM ) from PR 9 and 8 forums even, had a page rank of zero on it’s homepage. Ahha.. !

I checked out some of their sample links and found that many had been deleted, some dead, and some with imaginary URLs that didn’t even care to exist – ever. So this ended up probably as some spam engine, that got them chucked out of the Google index. And I believe the clients too followed.

But the testimonials on the website too were so convincing and just pushing me so hard to – click that Paypal button.

So is there something to learn from this ? Yes. Plpease keep away from “too good to be true” offers. They are misleading and inappropriate, most of the times. Check for credentials always. Check websites they’ve helped with, talk to them, and find out if they know what they are doing really. Or it’s going to be a cool rip off.

I have nothing against these companies personally, but cannot stand the false promises they make. It’s not always genuine you see. Probably they should change their business model. But I’m guessing there’s a lot of money being pumped in there for “experiments”.  All the best.

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