This was a "review copy" that was given to me, and while I appreciate that this team was kind enough to do that, I also want to make it clear that I would never tarnish my own reputation in exchange for a review copy of an SEO service. I tell people ahead of time that, good or bad, the words I'll write will be nothing but an accurate representation of what was delivered to me and that is exactly what I'm doing here.
I'm not sure where to even start with this review...there is simply so much for me to cover. These guys definitely are legit and so is their service, I suppose I should start with that so that the above isn't interpreted as a bad thing. No bullshit, if I were to sum up my review into a few sentences, my review would be: I could tell you without question that if I were to do the same exact same thing that this service did at the same level of quality, it would take me nearly 30 hours. Even if I only paid myself $15 an hour, that's still $450. This service is a high quality service that does what every IM'er should be doing to their own site (and every IM'er could probably do on their own, but at an enormous time expense and would probably still miss the mark a bit in comparison to how well these guys did it), but most aren't. They have the expertise & experience to deliver this service very well and they do things right each step of the way and didn't cut corners (like most of us do when we are at hour 15 of a backlinking campaign).
This is a service I'll be paying for in the future and I definitely trust these guys with my sites.
Now, for more detail, I'll go over the final deliverables that I received.
Here are some screenshots of the contents of the finalized report zip file I received:
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I can't, for obvious reasons, share the contents of each of the files in those folders, but I wanted to demonstrate the level of thoroughness and the sheer value (even if we were only talking about volume of work to dollars spent, there is a lot of value, and that is without going into the quality of the work, which I'll get to in a moment). 9 times out of 10, if the report(s) you get are garbage, you can almost rest assured that everything from that point forward will also be garbage, so it's always nice to see that a good amount of time and effort went into creating & organizing the final package.
All of the images were 110% spot on perfect in regard to what images should have been going into the posted articles. I didn't have to provide these guys with a single thing, other than my desired pages to backlink to and the keywords I was targeting. They took it from there, including grabbing the images. Obviously they did their research.
The articles were good, not fantastic or anything, but they were good. They weren't the quality of what I would pay my own writers, but then again, the writers that I pay for content are writing content that I'm putting on my main site as direct-end-user content...not content that I need, more or less, to just be indexed and link back to my main site and "have it count" so to speak. If I were to compare apples-to-apples in regard to "bare bones get-it-done" content to their content, their content comes out ahead. It's 100% readable with no goofball sentences that you typically see coming out of spinning software. I don't see g having any issue at all with any of the content whatsoever.
Inside each of those "spun articles" folders you see in the "Articles" screenshot above, are over 30 spun articles in each. Tell me the last time you wrote articles that were good enough to be spun 30 times, have each of them be readable & make sense AND still be different enough from one another that each one could be considered indexable right alongside another one and not have it be dupe content? I know the last time I did I wanted to rip my fucking eyeballs out...haven't done it since, and finding a service that does these types of things well (which is what the entire campaign is resting on, more or less, is difficult). So these guys definitely hit it out of the park here.
These articles were used as the foundation to build up the rest of the links that you see in the "report files" screenshot in the web 2.0, document & PDF sharing & article submission report files, so if the articles were crap, it would have done zippo in regard to getting my sites to move.
I'm not going to go into each of the files within the "report files" because it's overwhelming enough just to see the contents, let alone have me write out some an explanation for each. Just know that the backlink structure they're using to get all of the articles, 2.0's, documents/pdf's indexed & passing juice to your site is solid. They know what they're doing here.
There really isn't anything at all I'm disappointed with or would have been disappointed with had I paid for this service. It is exactly what it says it is. It's NOT some magic formula to get your website to rank number one, but it is a hell of a time & money saver to do the things you need to do if you ever want to get your site to rank number one (or in the top ten)...see what I'm saying?
The only thing that I feel is a bit "gimmicky" is the provided "on page SEO" report. While it's thorough, it's information you might find in a high quality web service that analyzes your site. I'm not saying it's bad, I'm just saying that for MOST experienced IM'ers, you're going to open it and more or less know the majority of what it's going to say before you even read the first line. There is value in it for those that are less experienced I imagine.
I saw a rankings increase for 2 of the five provided keywords in the final report they provided me. The others were at the same position, however the span of time between when it was compared and when the report was delivered wasn't really all that great, so I can't really say one way or the other here.
I'll come back to update rankings stats in a few weeks, however as I said, this is a service that I would pay for regardless simply because what you're ordering here is the foundation of SEO efforts...it has to be done and these guys are doing it at a huge bargain and are doing it better than 99% of us would probably do it when working on our own sites.
A++ guys.
