As you mention dropped domains, i would also say that my experience tells me to avoid backlinks dot com… but like i say not used it in years.

you are better off in tnx – and if i am correct – i think JCPenny had a few TNX links so i would think to avoid them too now.

Nice post and a good read – thanks for that one Searchengineoptimsation.org!

iDCx

How did it work out for Overstock? JC Penney? etc etc etc

@ Admin – google spam cops… you’re so funny man. There are no cops… there are no penalties… I’m black hat in technique but not in principles. I only black hat what should be ranked anyway. 1000′s of sites use these systems and you are either a part of it or losing the race. I thought we were winning generating 10,000 for a client… only to find out we were really losing 490,000. The problem with all the people criticising this system is that they don’t have any TRUE success in SEO, They just ‘think’ they have. A big statement I know but I’ve been on both sides in the last 10 years and I certainly know which works best as far as revenue for clients. At the end of the day that is what clients want – revenue with no down side. That is what they get with this system. Yes I said it NO DOWN SIDE.

We are not trying “deceive” anyone. I’m very public with my persona and anyone who questions our ethics is welcome to contact me directly and we can have a telephone conversation about it. The number is on the website.

Are you saying its not deceptive to pass that off as a health site? Do you think Google spam cops would be happy with it passing link juice as a health site?

If a site is indexed and has page rank then we accept it into our inventory and classify it by its page rank. If a site ever loses its page rank or the page rank decreases in value then our system automatically credits those back to your account so you can use the remaining credits on another link. I don’t see how that is deceptive. We sell sites based on page rank which can be verified any number of ways. It’s not like we are faking the page rank and charging more for it. That would be deceptive.

I just approved your comment, any first comments will need approving. I don’t moderate comments outside of dealing with spam, anyone is free to say what they like.

The review *is* an unbiased review. We had no financial incentive to say one way or the other. I didn’t think the service was value for money, so I said so. I’ve outlined my exact reasons to back my view point up, if you don’t agree with them or don’t like them, that’s fine.

You’re saying we’re bashing inexpensive links. But there is a massive difference between an inexpensive link, and a shady one. At no point did I say they those type of links won’t work, as we all know that sometimes they do.

If you want to sell dropped links I have absolutely nothing against that, but you are being extremely unfair and deceptive in the way you’re going about it. You’re taking the profit but leaving someone else loading up on all the risk, and a lot of them won’t even be aware of it.

Hello,

This is John Sprock. The guy in the cheesy pink tie on the BackLinks.com videos. Since this is supposed to be an unbiased review, we’ll see whether or not “Admin” allows this post to stay.

First of all, it’s always somewhat amusing to see people bash the quality of really inexpensive links (A pr5 for $9, c’mon). But even more amusing is how they lose focus of what they are really buying. When people buy backlinks, they’re not actually buying backlinks, they’re buying results in the Google search engine (If you don’t believe me then answer this question, “Would I rather have 10,000 backlinks and not be in the top 100 in Google or would I rather have 0 backlinks and rank #1 in Google?”). The truth is that people don’t want links, they want rankings. Regardless of how crappy you may think our links are, the fact is they work. We have hundreds of customers including some Fortune 500 companies that buy links from us. If they did not produce results, then people would not continue to buy from us each and every month some of which have been customers in excess of 3 years.

Secondly, of course Google is going to try to use scare tactics to keep you from buying links. They do not make money from you doing free searches on the Internet. They make money from Adsense and Adwords. If people are giving money to link brokers instead of paying for Adwords then I’d try to scare people too if I were Google. (For more info on this, John Chow has a great article on this called “The DarkSide of Google a Spooky Story”.) In fact, Google is even allowing people to do Adwords for buying links. Just Google “buy backlinks” and you’ll see for yourself. They used to never allow Adwords for link brokers.

Also, if everyone got banned for buying links then why couldn’t I just point links to my top 100 competitors and get them all banned and move to #1. Matt Cutts himself, the Sheriff of Google, admitted at PubCon Vegas in November that they have not focused on link buyers because they’re working on other projects.

As far as having to pay for links before you buy them, we don’t want people coming in and spidering our inventory. If you don’t like a link after you place it then you can just cancel the link and choose another site instantly. You can also do this “test” for as little as $5 which was not mentioned. If you don’t like the inventory, then we’d be happy to refund your money if it’s within a reasonable time frame of initial purchase (I don’t recall the author ever asking for a refund).

In conclusion, we’re well aware of the limitations of our product which is why you are not paying $50 for a pr5 and which is why we created a product call AuthorityBackLinks.com in which we manually approve all sites and take into account the following:
* Age of domain name/web page
* Number of backlinks from other web sites
* Number of links on web page
* Google Pagerank

But, I’m sure the “Admin” could also find something wrong with that product since it’s much easier to be Simon Cowell and bash a product than to have any talent and creativity and actually create a superior product themselves.

Thanks,
John Sprock

P.S. @supercan – That’s the tackiest response I’ve ever heard to someone sending a thank you card and a gift for your business. When is the last time someone like your utility company or phone company or any other vendor for that matter sent a gift for your purchases. OMG.