Permanently Closed Marketplace Sales Thread

[BlackSEOWizard]

As a member who paid and cancelled, I can say this network is going downhill fast. With reduced functions, and crappy sites like the one shown above (with hidden links) it's just a matter of time before they get slapped. Just because it's private now doesn't mean it's all hidden from the big G's radar.

Not worth it imo. And do the idiot who said "You don't need to know where the link is being placed" - for real? Try pitching that notion to a client..

Agreed.

 

[johnrapp]

yeah i wanted to use high pr society as part of the SEO Cookbook WSO - now i cant do it. mayne.

 

[Poppa Rotzee]

You HAVE to fix this!

These hidden links can get our asses kicked pretty hard. Please fix the link colors.

We will constantly be updating the "Look" of the network, although some colors may appear close to the human eye, none of them match and have at least 40% difference in between every color value.

In addition, every CSS class has been randomized and the positioning of HTML has been randomized to an extent as well. So although it may not look visually appealing, the color scheme doesn't not break any of Googles rules and does not constitute as "cloaking".

We will be tweaking the algorithm to minimize this occurrence but its almost impossible to completely fix it on every single website. And the way it is set up you can just "Go to a website, and change the CSS for that particular website".

There are a lot of complicated gears turning underneath the clean interface that you see ;P

 

[Poppa Rotzee]

As a member who paid and cancelled, I can say this network is going downhill fast. With reduced functions, and crappy sites like the one shown above (with hidden links) it's just a matter of time before they get slapped. Just because it's private now doesn't mean it's all hidden from the big G's radar.

Not worth it imo. And do the idiot who said "You don't need to know where the link is being placed" - for real? Try pitching that notion to a client..

Lol, nothing has changed about HPS, the few websites with close color matches have existed since the beginning. We have had no unusual PR drops nor lack of functionality. People are still ranking as well as they always have.

Try pitching what to the client? Safety? Try educating your clients, we have a proven track record and they should be more interested in results...if you haven't been providing that (results) for your clients already, then "Lists where the links are placed" is the last thing you need to worry about.

 

[Poppa Rotzee]

yeah i wanted to use high pr society as part of the SEO Cookbook WSO - now i cant do it. mayne.

We always have things cooking =)

 

[dustangle]

I just wanted to say THANKS for closing down the service and hope it will get up soon for the new members.

I signed up the day before highprsociety closed and added my projects.

Review for my sites:
After a week, using only these links, I've moved up from #35 on a medium competition keyword to #5.
I've also moved up from out of the top 100 to #21 for a high competition kw.
A third project that's been stuck for months has jumped to page 2.


The door has closed and the party has begun. And I'm on the inside. Woohoo!

 

[Poppa Rotzee]

I just wanted to say THANKS for closing down the service and hope it will get up soon for the new members.

I signed up the day before highprsociety closed and added my projects.

Review for my sites:
After a week, using only these links, I've moved up from #35 on a medium competition keyword to #5.
I've also moved up from out of the top 100 to #21 for a high competition kw.
A third project that's been stuck for months has jumped to page 2.


The door has closed and the party has begun. And I'm on the inside. Woohoo!

Hahaha, nice! Enjoy!

 

[kegnum]

Hiding the sites from users is a joke. If Google wants to see the network it can easily see the network.

Also even through you sites may show a difference in color to a search engine. When a person visits it, it screams link farm. BMR is the same. One look at those sites and they scream Google take the time to close us down. Heck, you guys don't even monitor the articles that get posted. If I wanted to I go throw down a footprint and drop a few hundred and your entire network would reveal itself in a few days.

Remember Google doesn't really care about link farms and MFA sites, they just dont want to be embarrassed. So if you make a site that looks like ass and it ranks, eventually its gonna get smacked.

 

[Extropy]

Hiding the sites from users is a joke. If Google wants to see the network it can easily see the network.

Yup, that's very true. Hiding it from the users is the entire point. User submitted spam reports have been rumored to be behind the nuking of many sites. Seeing what has happened over the past several weeks has us being more cautious now. We did show link reports for the first 6ish months.

Also even through you sites may show a difference in color to a search engine. When a person visits it, it screams link farm. BMR is the same. One look at those sites and they scream Google take the time to close us down. Heck, you guys don't even monitor the articles that get posted. If I wanted to I go throw down a footprint and drop a few hundred and your entire network would reveal itself in a few days.

Show me a single article directory that would actually pass manual review. Even Build My Rank's "high quality" stuff fails easily.

I have two people on my staff who work for Leapforce. In case you didn't know, that's the Google manual review team. So I'm well aware of how sites are categorized, spammed, etc. That's why we do things the way we do, both with content quality (or lack thereof) and underlying HTML spin.


We all generally fall under the radar of Google. If they really wanted us gone, we'd all be shut.

 

[nivonuke]

Are there any exceptions for reputable BHW members? I just got a new client that can really use this service.. Was using numerous other services for my other clients, but this one would be perfect.

 

[kegnum]

Yup, that's very true. Hiding it from the users is the entire point. User submitted spam reports have been rumored to be behind the nuking of many sites. Seeing what has happened over the past several weeks has us being more cautious now. We did show link reports for the first 6ish months.

Agreed, I assume those nukes were probably xrummer and sb blasts. Though I personally feel that pages that are not linked to at all are much weaker, I do understand why you would make the decision that you did.

Show me a single article directory that would actually pass manual review. Even Build My Rank's "high quality" stuff fails easily.

I have two people on my staff who work for Leapforce. In case you didn't know, that's the Google manual review team. So I'm well aware of how sites are categorized, spammed, etc. That's why we do things the way we do, both with content quality (or lack thereof) and underlying HTML spin.


We all generally fall under the radar of Google. If they really wanted us gone, we'd all be shut.

Agreed, as I said, I think that BMR is a joke, they want high quality articles just to put them on junk sites. I hope you do have Google employes on your payroll, although I would not recommend advertising that fact.

Thanks for taking the time to respond to my concerns.

 

[Poppa Rotzee]

A forum on the site for members only would also be sweat.

Totally undercover network helping each other out and giving ideas and input ;-)

FYI guys, our HKSEO Forum is up, i'm just tweaking it right now. It will have its general area, but then have HKSEO Product specific threads (Linklicious, High PR Society, etc) that you guys can use to talk to us and each other about related topics or receive special "gifts" from time to time. =)

 

[Poppa Rotzee]

Your service seems awesome overall but its confusing me little bit. Do you offer homepage posts per month fees or do you offer permanent blogposts ?

They are homepage subscriptions. You basically rent space for a monthly fee and you can choose between regular homepage links or contextual.

 

[GTRM3]

Are these blog comments on the private network? therefore are they less spammed and low OBL?

 

[Poppa Rotzee]

Are these blog comments on the private network? therefore are they less spammed and low OBL?

Absolutely... the comments are posted on our network.

 

[Poppa Rotzee]

^ Everything that is done on High PR Society, is done WITHIN High PR Society and on our network that consists entirely of PR1-PR6 sites.

 

[nicknick]

Guys just a suggestion, not sure if it has been said previously but here goes Firstly, I am happy that you have stopped giving out reports as i very much do agree that it will better help protect the network. But personally I think that for each project that is created I.E within the article module, you should show a pie graph of the distributed links for that project.

I think visual stats like this for the individual project would be great just so we can track whats going where, not only just within the "DashBoard" page.

Anyway great service and keep up the good work!

 

[Robert W]

I had a notice telling me I had 500 credits being being reimbursed and to cancel my subscription before I could execute any projects?

I canceled and reactivated it, and I think I may have lost my original credits?

Also, I purchased a lot of homepage links last month; Will I not be able to create any articles until I beef up my subscription to cover all those links first? Or do I need to manually cancel the links?

 

[macbookpro]

^ Everything that is done on High PR Society, is done WITHIN High PR Society and on our network that consists entirely of PR1-PR6 sites.

Well one my article seems to be having a travel to an external network

 

[Corrupt]

macbookpro, don't worry, that article will be moved to a PR1+ site in the next update. Happened with me too a couple of times, but it changed after a week