Bingo, good lead to the post I was going to make.
The problem with BHW is that most of us found this place because we want quick and easy rankings. People pay for some of these quick ranking services, and a few months down the road the sites are penalized or rankings drop. What's a new guy going to pick, $50 for some blog posts for instant results, or $300/month for white hat services that may take months to see results? They want the quick results. Not only that, but who has the best reviews? The $50 guy got results in a week, he leaves an amazing review of the service. But six months down the road he has no idea what actually caused his penalty.
If I did a service here it would be several hundred dollars per month. Why? Because that's the time and money it costs for me personally to properly rank a site. In fact, I couldn't even offer a service because I simply don't have the time. I'm not looking for quick rankings. I want a site that's going to be making money five years from now, and I'm well on my way. I bust my fucking ass scraping, digging, begging, building, trying to get legit quality links to my site. I know how valuable these links are. It could take me hours of work to get one decent link.
Google has changed since 2012. I took a big hit. I stepped away for about a year, it used to be my sole income, well into six figures a year. I've been busting my ass for the last 6-12 months trying to get back to where I was. But I told myself, I will never have another hit by penalty again. I don't want that feeling of years of work all thrown down the drain in the blink of an eye.
If you want quick results, just be prepared for them to be short lived. PublicBNs, with your link on the same pages as 20 other people? How long do you think those last? You have to start thinking outside the box and planning for the future.