Hey I used a well known bookmarking service (edit: its not a service from BHW) to get only 25 bookmark backlinks to a page that I had that was already at #3 for a low competition keyword in my niche.
After the bookmarks were completed my position of #3 dropped to god knows where. Maybe below #70 right now, I don't even know. But its not on page 1, 2, or 3.
Only 7 of the 25 backlinks stuck but it seems like those 7 backlinks were enough to get my page taken off the first couple pages of the google serps.
I was under the impression that backlinks can never really "hurt" you, they just won't add any value. But I'm starting to think this is wrong. When I inspect the back links of my competitors' who are still ranking on page one for this keyword they all have 0 backlinks. As soon as I added backlinks I was taken off the page one... Damn it man FUCK
