Wanted to give a bit of feedback. I
did pay not only for the 50 Edu backlinks, but I
added in both extra options as a test
- 20 Multipage Web2.0 Blog Links +$40.00
- 30 Social Profile Links +$20.00
TL;DR -- Am already ordering another 50 Edu package, will not order the options again.
I am currently running a bit of a test of Edu/Gov providers, so I went for the full monty.
I didn't expect too much from the additional options, to be honest, and I wasn't too disappointed ;-)
But one after the other.
Communication with the seller was very easy, just the necessary. The project was executed in time.
The 50 Edu links are perfect. I received 54 links, 4 .gov, 50 .edu - most of them are profiles but with a nice long, well-spun text that had my URL and anchors intelligently placed. Obviously some manual work had gone into preparing that. I would estmate that half of the links are follow, half unfollow. But what surprised me most is the quality of domains: 20 were US American (with some of the Nation's top universities in the list), only a handful Asian or African.
The Social Profile links the opposite of the Edu links: not recommended at all. I got exactly 30, as ordered. Most of them are on what I would not necessarily call a social site, like issuu, or on bookmark sites. If you would have to name a few social networks quickly, I can nearly guarantee you: those names are not in the list I got. But yes, links they are, created on high-authority sites, with a short spun text. These type of links make some sense in my eyes, for link diversity, but there are cheaper ways of getting them. Just be aware that you do not get social network accounts with that, just links on profiles. (And there is obvious room for improvement: for instance, the profile holder names were random, and very often a male profile photo was paired with a female name)
The Multipage Web 2.0 blogs are somewhere in the middle. I could see myself buying them again, maybe. They were well done, consisting of 12 blogs with 2 blog posts and 8 sites with 2 articles and an about-page. The content of the two articles was about 1000 words in total, spun, with one photo and one video and one link. So all in all, I would say the exact bare minimum of what you pay for. (also: not 21 blogs, for instance but 20). Here you get all the names you would expect, so wordpress, tumblr etc. are in there. A nice touch is that the blog names all contained one of the keywords.
I contacted the seller and asked for the login details for those blogs and he sent them to me - I would have expected that to be part of the report, but it wasn't. The report consists of only a list of URLs, nothing else.
Summary: I expected to get a slightly more pro-active treatment, given that I had spent 100$, not 40$, and I expected the options to be connected to the main product in some way. For instance, since the EDU links are mostly profiles anyway, I expected that the social profiles would be of the same people, probably even linking to the respective edu page. That requires a bit more set up for the automation tool, but the effect would be so much more professional. Seems I expected too much.
But the base product, the 50 Edu links, is solid, well executed and very much worth its money.
PS Have indeed ordered anew, transaction code 809**********712
