Hi,
It's with some reluctance that I am posting a brutally honest review of this service... The fact that nobody likes the confrontation and so people are inclined generally to leave a review covering only one part of the service is pretty visible on a lot of BSTs. So I have positive and negative to report. So first off I'll go with the positive.
Positive Factors - rank increases are definitive. From 92 - 49 and from 104 to 70's I think. It's a rank increase. Here's a picture. Very nice to have a rank increase. This is positive and I want to thank FastRank for that.
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Looking at that there has definitely been ranking increases. I can see that and everyone else can. That is a bonus.
Negative Factors
1. Communication. The timeline of events goes like this
- Nov 18th I order and ask for links dripped over 1 month if possible.
- Nov 19th seller confirms order and replies they will drip links over 1 month as requested.
- Dec 2nd I ask for an update of my order. Was told to PM them my URL.
- Dec 3rd I pm'd them asking on the status.
- Dec 5th replied they were building links and I should see improvements in 3 days.
- Dec 6/7 I replied thanking them and reminding them that it was a 1 month drip I requested.
- Dec 8 they replied
my report would be ready that week - I understood this to mean the link building was done.
- Dec 14 I reminded them they said my report was going to be ready and that I wanted dripped links/1 month.
- Dec 15th they replied they were almost done my report and gave me a screenshot of strong rank increases (see above)
- Dec 18th I reminded them about my report they were constantly promising me
- Dec 23 I reminded them that I was supposed to get a report on the week of the 8th.
- Dec 23 I was told that they "resent" my report and I finally received it. Spend some time reviewing it.
- Dec 26
I PM'd them that there was a HUGE problem with my links. No response received/acknowledged/anything. See Part 3 about that.
Communication with this service is bad. They tell you your report is done, can be expected very shortly, etc, when that is far from true. A look in their thread confirms this.
I also think they aren't exactly honest with their customers. On December 23rd they told me my report was "resent". I use roundcube for my business email and I can tell you there is no "spam" filter to filter it out. The email wasn't lost the first time. In my opinion it was never "sent" the first time.
Communication I'll give a solid 3/10.
Service - I feel this service is very misleading. I ordered the $99 package and here are a couple things promised vs what I got. Adv is advertised, reported is what the report contained.
Adv: 70 .edu / .gov backlinks Reported: 13 .edu backlinks. At the time of writing there of the 13 backlinks reported 7 are actually there. 2 are redirects to some other website (assuming OP owned) with my link.
For 7/70 or 10% of what I ordered, I'll give a solid 1/10.
Adv: 200 article directories Reported: Not easy to find because the report is mostly social bookmarks. I found 18 in the report that might be article directories after going through the report.
Again I got 10% seemingly of what I ordered. Solid 1/10.
Adv: 45 quality web 2.0's. Reported: 50 of them - all seemingly decent. Glad to see something is still working. 10/10 for this.
For what it's worth the report says "Please Note: Certain links have been omitted to protect our network.". I'm assuming this is the PBN which I was supposed to get links from. Quite possibly and I'll take their word for it that it's there.
Overall Service: 2/10
Lastly, quality of service I feel deserves it's own review. I have some complaints about this. First if you review the above notes I made, one thing was emphasized over and over in my communications to FastRank and that was link velocity. Drip over 1 month was what I said. I got scared about this when they told me on the 5th that my report would be ready and over the next 3 days I should see improvements. Seemed very quick to me and I took a moment to remind them that it was to be dripped over a month. After this service I took the liberty of running my site through AHrefs. I understand they aren't the be-all-end-all and that they probably don't find lots of links and all that other stuff. Take a look at the link velocity on this 1 month drip... Keep in mind November 18th is my order, and December 5th they said I was building links and
should see improvement in 3 days. With that in mind...
1 Month "Drip Fed" Links
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Now call me skeptical but I call complete BS on following my instructions of dripping over a month. The email they sent to me with the final report said they would finish dripping my links. I hate to be so cynical but I think I was just told whatever it would take to get my money and then screw the customer. If there were links being dripped (which is possible) it isn't this link package likely. Or it's just a few here and there. I got a slam of links to impress me with the "ranking improvements over the next three days" is the feeling that I get. That doesn't look too drippy. Again, I am aware of the limitations of Ahrefs (they don't own/know/contain the entire internet in their DB) but given what I see here I would *guess* that I didn't get drip fed.
Further Problems
I have a unique target market that caused some problems here. To help you understand lets take a keyword that illustrates this but isn't mine. "Pot". A pot is something you cook with. However, pot is also a word for marijuana. My target niche has a similar confusion around words, one which is drug related. So do you think the OP checked out the website to see if I am selling Lagostina or Paderno Pots or just assumed I was selling marijuana (or my keyword equivalent)? Apparently I'm a drug dealer.
Long story short, I have a lot of links pointing to my site showing the health dangers and deaths associated with my product. Because he scraped and ran with the drug one instead of the other one. I messaged him on the 26th of December, and of course am getting completely ignored. So to sum up...
Summary
1) I saw a serp increase. That is awesome.
2) hoping I don't get annihilated from Google because of not being honest about link velocity
3) seller communication/honesty doesn't seem to be there
4) my product has lots of links telling people my product is some street drug which they will die with.
5) when you have problems with the service, the seller totally ignores you.
I give the seller a solid 3/10 and the 3 is for the serp increases which don't even BEGIN to cover the other problems, but I'm trying to be nice.
Until the seller starts taking his business seriously I would suggest people stay away.
Hate leaving reviews like this but I don't want someone else to see their site go through the same.
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