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We've bought 8 packages from Don and Jeremy. Massive jumps each time from the link packages. We have only bought the 2k package and couldn't be happier with the results.

Have used the packages in several niches and sites of varying age and backlinks and no issues with any site, only increased rankings.

-Shane

As you can see, this depends on who you ask. To me, things are a bit more subtle than Tom here suggests. The way I see it, such links in such quantities skew the nature of your link profile: they are 2,000 junk links of the same kind. This can be detected either algorithmically or by the human eye. Algirthmic detection in and of itself this probably near-perfectly safe (I am guessing, mind you), just raises one red flag out of many that need to be raised for your site to come up for manual review at Google. The chances of this are small, but don't believe those who say they are zero.

Whatever you do, you are probably safe until you are nowhere in the SERPs. Start ranking high for something, and the chances of your competitor's SEO digging into your case grow exponentially. Mind you, I am saying that you will rank highly for anything competitive because of the links in question (I am pretty sure you won't), but if you are getting any good links you may well be ranking because of this. So your competitor reports you to Google. Then there are two possibilities. One is that Google ignores the complaint, so you are fine. The other possibility is that they take a close look at your site.

Many SEOs will tell you that external links to your site cannot hurt you. I used to believe that myself, and I still think this is largely true. However, the fact remains that the Web is full of reports of sites being penalized for links. Those reports may be inaccurate. They say what people perceive as penalties are merely devaluations of links. This theory does not explain the fact that once a company tries to clean up its links and applies for reconsideration, many of its rankings can return. There are many reports to this effect on this web too. If there was no penalty imposed by the manual review of a site, why do rankings return?

The truth is, no one outside Google knows its internal workings. That said, what I strongly suspect happens is that a manually imposed penalty is indeed a devaluation of link power, but it's a devaluation that is very broad, and it includes your good / genuine links. Your site's rankings drop because of this (not because links than had no power to begin with suddenly lose their power). Once you apply for reconsideration, you are again reviewed manually, some of those good links may be rediscovered and their link juice turned back on.

There are often violent disagreements in the SEO world about whether or not external links can hurt you. Take a look at this interesting thread:
Google: "Probably Possible" 3rd Party Bad Links Can Hurt You - SEO Chat
I know all the people participating in this discussion, and I assure you that a number of them are kickass world-class SEOs with lost and lots of mileage. It may seem to you that they are arguing about whether external links can hurt you, but in fact they are only arguing about how this may happen. (Reminds me of "guns don't kill people, people kill people," blah blah). You may not have the patience for the whole thread since it turns into a personal squabble, but it's instructive to take a look anyway.

All this may well be irrelevant to your website at this stage. Just keep in mind that whatever links you build to your site will be there for a long time. If you are trying to build a long-term serious online business (as distinct from a fly-by-night affiliate crap site or MFA or some such), I recommend a certain level of link hygiene.

I also used this service on one of my niche sites, and my site jumped to # 1 in about a month(was on pg2, when I started campaign). Currently stands between #1 and #3 because i'm battling some strong competition sites.

Profile links do work but their not the be all end all of link building. The key to ranking is to build all types of links.(ie- links via profile links, social bookmarking, linkwheels, article directories, videos, etc, etc) over a period of time. When you builds like that it ends up looking natural, and without question your site will move up the google food chain.

Paul

Nope. But it's a good idea to diversify.

I would like to be able to give you a definitive answer but I can't. MakeBackLinks.com is only a part of my backlinking marketing strategy. And to track each individual backlink would be way too time consuming. However my stats show they are working in bringing me traffic and consequently sales.

Ken