Fiverr providers that lose your Google rank

For the record, I did offer SEO services for five years, and I made a lot of money for my clients and myself when I was doing it.

I got out of the business when I needed to start taking a lot of time away from the computer for family reasons, just in case anyone is wondering.



I am a big believer in testing results.

And I have tested a large number of SEO services offered on Fiverr. Of course it must be noted that I probably did not test every offer on Fiverr, but I did spend hundreds of dollars at Fiverr buying SEO services.

Each campaign was carefully put together, so that I could see winners and losers. I wanted to know if there were any services that I could use for my own sites that would be an absolute plus-value.

Personally, I trust my testing processes over the "opinions" of most people.

For example, there is a Warrior who is very well-known with whom I have had many discussions. He says, "I do #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6 and #7 to get great rankings for my sites."

I keep asking him which one offers him the most value, and he says all of them.

So I ask in another way, and inquire whether he has tested any of them as a stand-alone to figure out where he is spending money wisely and where he is spending money for nothing... LOL

The conversation always pisses him off.

So let me read between the lines for you...

He doesn't know which of the 7 items are positive, which are negative, and which offer no value at all -- BECAUSE he does not test each as a stand-alone.

I have tested the techniques he swears are his secret sauce, and I consistently see no value gained from the one technique he swears is THE BIG SECRET to his success. :p

After having tested 60-70 individual SEO offers on Fiverr, I have seen no negatives, but I also have not seen any positive-gains. Everything that I have tested to date amounted to nothing more than $5 out the door with zero gain.



I have seen several folks say that they offer SEO services on Fiverr, and that their reviews are all top-notch.

I have no doubt about that, but I also believe that most people are like the previously mentioned Warrior, who does not know what is actually helping his SEO activities and what offers zero-gain.

I have no doubt that the persons, who are offering SEO services at Fiverr and are getting good reviews are delivering what their customers expect from them, but I seriously doubt if the buyers even attempt to find out what works and what does not.

When most people at Fiverr give good reviews on the service, the review is about the person they are working with, rather than the real results obtained from that service.

I stand behind my original comment:

I disagree. SEO doesn't have to be fancy and overpriced. Some people just love what they do, and don't need to charge a lot for it. In India and Philippines you can live a very decent life with $4.00/hour jobs. An hour of their work can get you some really decent do follow backlinks.

Think outside the box when it comes to SEO. How long does it take to create a new wordpress account + load some articles on it + insert 2 links into each article + submit RSS to automatic RSS feed pinger + set 1 post every 24 hours. That only takes me about 30 minutes for a blog with 15 articles copy/pasted. If the articles are on topic and the links are do follow using your keyword as anchor text, this will help raise your ranking.

I suppose you have a strong desire to stand out in the crowd???

This is the second post from you that I noticed that you BOLD every word in the post.

First, if the quality of your post is good, it will stand out on its own.

Second, the fact that you rely so heavily on making every word in your post BOLD makes me wonder about your self-esteem issues.

So those who want to use software and put them to full crazy mode then U can go to fiverr for SEO jobs. Or else if U want a real SEO expert who understands Google webmaster guidelines, quality link building following all strict guidelines of link building, html, php, mysql code optimization and lots more..........then better find one good one.

ok there's a bunch of people on fiverr who are all using a distortion of edu backlinks as their user name, and trying to feed off the one who you were recommending
Who was the one you were recommending

edu_backlinks__
edu_backlink
edu_backlinks

or someone else

Thanks

I wouldn't pay squat to any knucklehead on fiverr.

Why would you ever expose yourself and your sites
to some clown? Especially an adsense site?

But cause and effect get greatly mixed up here.

I would not be so quick to blame anything for losing
google rank. There are so many other intangibles.

Paul

This myth enrages you, yet you are completely fine with making money off of people by perpetuating the myth that .edu links carry some kind of special ranking power?

Did you miss everything I just said in reviving this thread or did you just completely ignore it?

Put simply, offsite optimisation does not and WILL NOT EVER hurt your rankings. Google will never open the door to allow websites to simply attack each other, it is a recipe for complete chaos and would be a disaster.

Did they do what YOU paid them to do. If they did, and you got "sandboxed", it is not their fault. You're paying for work you asked them to do. As a businessman, only you are responsible for the results. You're paying for their labor (in most cases).

is it permissible to ask who that fiverr provider was?

you mean if target wanted to destroy Walmart, they would just pay someone $5 to black hat seo them? I doubt that would work.. sorry