Ordered a total of 40+ gigs on Fiverr

How quickly can you put a logo together? Just curious.

I think you just made fiverr some easy money. Besides most of the gigs you ordered are SEO relating meaning it might take months before you see any results.

A fiverr gig is good to get the feel for how well a new site, a mini site, or an inner-page will do before you invest in serious link-building.

For $200 you could have signed a contract with someone to guarantee you a ranking. That's what I would have done.

Good luck though, Fiverr is a lot of fun to use

Looking through the image, I see that some of the gigs are costing you much more than $5 - it's going to be really interesting to find out if they provide better value for money and turn out to be in your recommended gigs list

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I agree. I love Fiverr for design stuff (banners, logos) as well as Stumbleupon, Digg and Alexa gigs, but I can't say I've actually seen the results for the seo gigs I've purchased.

Im not saying your wrong, because in some instances that does make since. More times than not though, I personally find it better to order from express sellers and top rated sellers. It can be tough to maintain an express gig and to me it requires a much better seller. Bad feedback and being on time both play a part in keeping an express gig alive. I find I get alot more sales with my express gigs at that, so keeping them as express is very important.

Fiver is certainly full of trash and good gigs and sometimes it can be hard to find the really good ones out there, ecspecially when it comes to seo. I offer some of the same services on fiverr I use on a regular basis that I know works. I cant get every site to page 1 for $5.00 but it helps out alot. Thats where I feel alot of people get confused or their hopes up to much with fiverr. Its 5 bucks and the seller is only making $4.00. There are so many threads that pop up on IM forums about fiverr being junk when its simply not true in the big scheme of things. You cant expect to get to page 1 for $5.00 but if you know seo and what gigs to buy you can do it with fiverr very easily and for way less than it would cost elsewhere.

Its funny to see someone who ordered 20k blog comments say that it killed their site and then another person who ordered the same thing say their ranks skyrocketed upwards. The same gig and yet different results. Its simply because 1 person knew how to use them and 1 person didnt. For $5.00 you cant expect the seller to tell you how to use the gig and teach you seo.

This is exactly what I have started doing. I could get so much more important work done if I didn't have to deal with the little, time consuming, tedious prerequisites. Fiverr is perfect for those.

Another great example. I know of a couple of good gigs that do keyword research using SE Cockpit, which is $77/month. If I'm building one site, I can't exactly justify that price, no matter how great the product may be. But, by paying $5, I can get access to its features without having to shell out for the full thing, and the work is relatively easy on the gig provider's end. It's a win-win.

It could also be good for split testing. For example, i'm not gonna pay the subscription fees for all the article submission/blog networks out there, but I could submit to several for $20-40 easy using Fiverr. All I need is somebody else with a subscription and the foresight to offer that as a service.

Fiverr is great for the occasional task here or there. The key is doing your research and not trusting Fiverr's own internal rankings for things. Some of the best work I have received on Fiverr were from people buried in the stack of gigs.

In the past year I've purchased 75 gigs from fiverr, here's my thoughts on using it. It's a great place to get certain things done cheap. You may have to purchase several gigs before finding a few gems, but when you do you can use them over and over with good results. For bigger projects I use elance, scriptlance or guru, for a few key reasons, with one of the most important being that communication is waaay better and it's much easier to get a point across particularly if the details are complicated.

Anyway, here's a few of my favorite gigs...gigs I've ordered multiple times each. These folks do a great job, exactly to the specifications, and are very timely:
I will design a professional high quality EBOOK cover for $5 on fiverr.com
I will solve any CSS issues you might have for $5 on fiverr.com
I will narrate your short story or book for an MP3 audio production for $5 on fiverr.com
I will code in html/css/javascript for you for $5 on fiverr.com
I will proofread anything, up to 1500 words, for spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors for $5 on fiverr.com

FYI, one of the downsides to fiverr is that they prohibit any contact with a programmer outside their platform, so if a programmer gets a great reputation and gets hired elsewhere or otherwise moves on, you can loose contact with them. It's a real pain considering how long it can take to find a good one. I don't want to suggest attempting to contact them outside of fiverr, but something tells me a lot of people do.

Sometimes cheap labor isn't all it's cracked up to be. That's why some of these companies collapse as well... they think that they can go the easiest route by getting the cheapest labor... then, when the work isn't done nearly to standards (a La cheap labor), the company is trying to play catch up but by then it's too late. Not all companies but there are those out there that do.

Definitely make sure you do your research on the Fiverr gigs that you get beforehand. Also, not sure but I probably wouldn't recommend buying a bunch of backlinks and SEO gigs at once as things need to look natural, so maybe getting a gig out there that may give you 200 backlinks within a 7 day span or something like that can appear more naturally than getting 15,250,345 backlinks in 24 hours.

There are some great Fiverr gigs out there, but there are also those that get great ratings because many don't really know what they get other than the promise of the sun, moon, and stars, and a paper to say "the Sun, Moon, and Stars are now yours. Thanks for your $5.00".

You really don't want to devalue your site from Google so harshly that it winds up on page 235 in Google search for a long tail keyword that should easily rank. Just my two cents. Shop Fiverr, but do it cautiously.

And depending on the service he used, there are some members in here that could've provided that service for two months, maybe three months (depending on the package chosen) instead of a 24 hour timeframe.

There's no SEO person out there with major talent that I could see giving the equivalent of $77 a month or $147 a month for the equated price of $5 (er, $4.00 since Fiverr gets to keep their 20%).

Not if they're for multiple sites.

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I know the saying is dont put all of your eggs in one basket, but i think you took it too far my friend.

Doug

Not in the least my dear!

waiting for your share in SIMM group

lol.. $5 for getting your competitor sandboxed.. sounds very evil, I hope no one doing this.. they would get their karma later on :rolleyes:

Wow seems like you have quite a few drinks when you go out!

Sounds like you need a breathalyzer lock for your keyboard!

ACTUALLY...it ends up being a profit of an even measlier $3.92 per gig, after the Paypal fees. And the TWO WEEKS you have to wait before your money clears. And yes, I agree...that's lame.