- Feb 27, 2009
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Order placed for 5x DR 40+
Got it...assigned!
Somewhat rambling review here
Order placed on Feb 10th for 5 X DR20-30 and 5x 100RD links. TAT was stated at around 3 weeks and the orders were delivered around on schedule on Mar 2nd and 5th. John has setup a nice little portal that shows you your orders, their status, and allows messages to be posted back and forth on each order’s page.
Link Placement: Fairly natural looking placement. A couple of the pages had additional links to other sites but most of the pages were kept to a small number of overall links (1 link to my site + ~1-3 links to other sites) which looks fairly natural to me.
Page Relevancy: The pages themselves were all generally quite relevant to my niche
Sites Relevancy: The sites tended to be somewhat more wider ranging in what they covered. They could be considered relevant but were also generally covering a broader range of topics than just my niches.
Site traffic: I ideally like to have links from sites that are getting some organic traffic themselves as this indicates to me that they aren’t just links farms but actually contain content that’s good enough quality to attract an audience. The sites I received ranged from low overall organic to ones that were getting ~1k/mo. Pretty good IMO.
DA of Sites: Checked via Moz. For the DR20-30 package my links were 22-29 DA. For the RD100 package my links were 23-38(3 of the 5 links were above 30DA). Was pleasantly surprised about the 30+ DAs
RD of Sites: This is a grey area for me. The link report states the RD’s for the links as being well beyond what was orered (195-877) however I am not able to independently verify the actual RD’s. I’ve tried using the free versions of AHREFS and Majestic however both fail to show the reported RD’s. Majestic (as of 3/23) still shows under 100 RD’s TOTAL to my site. What software (preferably free) are you guys using to validate number of RD’s?
Speed of indexing: I think 7/10 of the sites were already indexed and showed up in my GSC within days. A couple more showed up within a week. As of today (3/23) there is only 1 link that has yet to show up in GSC.
Comparison with other offerings: I do have a point of comparison from BHW now as shortly after I ordered the package from John, I ordered a package from one of the other stickied posts here (the one by Sarkar). Their packages do offer a larger volume of links from more diverse sources at lower prices however John’s links are of higher quality and do appear much more natural.
Impact on site/rankings: This is ultimately what it boils down to right? I had been working with an SEO company to do some onpage optimization and limited link building (avg of maybe 1-2 DR 20 links a month for the past ~6 months) prior to this so I could see the effect of link building over time. Since the marketing company was charging quite a bit for what they were offering, I figured going directly for the link building would be the key and expected this to have a noticeable effect on KW rankings or traffic or my site’s DA however as of 3/23 I have yet to see any significant changes. Perhaps it is too soon.
Will continue to check on the stats and maybe post a followup in a month’s time. Cheers.
Thanks for the awesome review!
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