Ok first I'm not to keen on you putting this info for the whole board to see figured you would send a message, but hey you must have had a point to make yea?
Secondly all these sites are what I call my "junk" sites in the sense that I have a particular method of making money with them. I have over 400 sites these are just a fraction of my junk pile. I could go into further details but that would be giving away a method I have that is currently still bringing me in quite a bit of money.
You say your service didn't sandbox me this could be true I won't dispute that. However, the first site was doing very well dancing between the 1st and 2nd page I wanted it to be more steady on the first so I added your service and soon enough it was gone. So I tested it on a few other sites all were doing pretty well then added a push and BAM gone! On the 2nd site you speak of I had the site indexed and ranked on the first page I was trying to out do a friend's site so I used your service and BAM gone! His site is still on the first page for the kw actually I think he is 3rd or 4th. He does the exact same thing I do to get sites ranking only thing different is he didn't use a link push which his site is still ranking and mine isn't. And yes he and I use the exact same methods he's even shared his sources with me. On the site he tested out a link push with it was ranked for his kw for quite awhile then he tried out the service and BAM his was gone as well.
All 10 sites I used a link push on have vanished all of the other sites in my junk pile that I didn't use a link push on are still ranking and ranking well. I will def report back to let you know if they return and if they are ranking better than ever. My post was not to discredit your service, but to make it aware that link pushes may not work for all types of sites cause they clearly are not working for mine.
As for your statements on directories maybe google devalues them maybe they don't everyone has an opinion on everything in SEO. Currently article directories are being "devalued" as we have all seen with the Farmer update. However, AMR still works wonders for a lot of my sites. As for directory links they were suggested to me by a friend to try em to see what they would do for my site. All my junk sites are basically a trial and error effort of seeing what method works the best and fastest and what brings me a decent ROI.
Also the kw monthly searches maybe low but that doesn't mean they don't make money
I will probably use my 12 pushes for this month and discontinue your service if my sites come back then hey I will be using it again. My goal (because I'm such a cheap ass when it comes to spending money) was to eliminate the need for a VA to do link wheels for me lol. I wanted to get a push then build off of it with more pushes. I'm thinking that SEO Link Robot is probably a better fit for me and my test/junk sites right now.
First site - bunch of junk directory backlinks created 02/01/2011
Second site - Very high competition (.79 out of 100) and only 480 local monthly searches 07/2010
Third site - Brand new site again 02/12/2011
Fourth site - Another new site - 12/22/1010 - 390 and 480 local monthly searches for 1st 2 keywords
I'm guessing the rest of the sites are all pretty new as well. You really want to stay away from the junky directory links as Google has completely devalued them in the past month or so, make some changes in your meta tags, choose some keywords that are not so hard to rank unless you are willing to build more quality backlinks and wait some time to get them ranked and stay there.
You're not sandboxed because of our service, you are doing more of a google dance as you have some very new sites that are going to take work to get ranked long term as well as some keywords that you are targeting that have more searches and make sense to rank for as these will not make you money for the effort you will need to take to get them ranked long term.
Google is also not a fan of sites that you have to deal with a pop up/under when you are trying to leave it so you may want to reconsider that as well.
