Has a Fiverr gig ever increased your search ranking?

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Last week I spent about $20 dollars on Fiverr gigs in an
effort to increase my search ranking. Unfortunately,
it seems that these gigs actually decreased my search
ranking.

Have you ever purchased a Fiverr gig that increased
your search engine ranking? If so, which gig was it?
#fiverr #gig #increased #ranking #search
  • Profile picture of the author Carl Brown
    Yes. I'm almost positive, but the problem is, I was doing other things as well. But, on more than one site, I had no movement until the gig. One profitable site is currently #2 for a keyword, and it's been there for a couple months. Before that I was on page 3 and 4.

    Now that it's where I want to be, I'm not messing with fiverr anymore for fear of messing it up. I'm only adding the best content I can and hope that ensures my place at the top of page one.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ettienne
    Fiverr will get you cheap links that are completely worthless. Don't waste your time
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    • Profile picture of the author Mkcoy
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      Originally Posted by Ettienne View Post

      Fiverr will get you cheap links that are completely worthless. Don't waste your time
      Not necessarily. It depends what you buy!

      I buy content from fiverr. $5 for 500 words. Not too bad and the quality is good.

      I also use fiverr for videos as well. $5 to make a video. Damn right when people used to charge up to $50 for the same thing.
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    • Profile picture of the author imgeek2727
      Yes it can, but you have to be careful who you use. Make sure fiverr person has a lot of great feedback.
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    • Profile picture of the author kenneth1982
      Originally Posted by MikeWike View Post

      Yes. If I remember correctly then someone posted a spun article to his PR1-PR4 private blog network with 800 domains for 5$. I got from #6th to #2nd instantly.
      Yes. I have seen this service package. But his network may by get de-index by google.
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  • Profile picture of the author ThatAblaze
    Fiverr is a tool. Lets call it a hammer. In the right situation a hammer is the best tool ever. In other situations using a hammer will only break stuff. The trick is knowing when to use a hammer and when not to.

    I got to the top of page 1 using fiverr gigs and stayed there for one day. Now I'm #5 for that keyword. My personal philosophy: one fiverr gig can boost you, doing the same kind of gig twice for the same site is dangerous.
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    • Profile picture of the author JamieSEO
      Definitely agree with ThatAblaze about choosing the right tool for the job.

      There are some brilliant gigs on Fiverr, there's also alot of duds. If you plan to use them then here are some tips.

      1 - Clearly identify what action you want taken (eg. article written, article submitted, etc)

      2 - Check their feedback (also make sure they have feedback that is recent)

      3 - Check feedback they received on their other gigs too (do they provide consistently good service?)

      4 - Ask them a question before placing your first order - see how long it takes them to respond so you get an idea about their customer service

      5 - The first time you place an order with that provider make it for one of your low priority sites (that way you don't get kicked in the teeth if their gig sucks)

      If you have any specific type of Gig you are looking for feel free to PM me for recommendations - I keep a database of Gigs I have used and how I rated the results
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  • Profile picture of the author gearmonkey
    Originally Posted by James Liberty View Post

    Last week I spent about $20 dollars on Fiverr gigs in an
    effort to increase my search ranking. Unfortunately,
    it seems that these gigs actually decreased my search
    ranking.

    Have you ever purchased a Fiverr gig that increased
    your search engine ranking? If so, which gig was it?
    It's only been a week? This stuff takes time. Ranking isn't immediate.

    That said, I had lots of folks who ordered my PR7, PR5, PR4, PR3 private blogroll package email me to say they shot up in SERPs. One guy said he went from 100 pages deep to page #2 in Google a few days after he ordered my blogroll package.

    The key is to finding high quality backlinks.
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  • Profile picture of the author patco
    You get a nice "help" for 5 bucks... If you need a real specialist, I advice you hiring a member here or in odesk
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  • Profile picture of the author christopherk
    There are a lot of good quality gigs. Writers and designers and video makers and seo stuff etc....
    You need just pick out right gigs, don't use spammy crap. Most of my own sites are ranked only by using Fiverr gigs and my own backlinking gigs are also listed in Fiverr. I buy and sell in Fiverr and I'm sure it's great place.
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  • Profile picture of the author Damz
    Yes..Fiverr is awesome..but you've to have good SEO knowledge on which gigs to pick & which gigs to avoid... 1000+ positive comments , doesn't mean its a good gig.. there are some hidden gems,, you better spend some time finding them..
    never order 10000+ links , scrapebox/ xrumer blasts directly to your money site..It''ll decrease your rankings for sure.
    LInk wheels, link pyramids, social bookmarks, High PR links always working for me.
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Fiverr is awesome to diversify your backlinks, I use it often.

      Especially for manual blog comments at high pr pages with low obl, manually bookmarking at Digg, Reddit and such, web2.0 creations (not linkwheels), submission to multiple article networks where you pay $60/month each for (until I have enough volume myself to sign up for these), forum thread backlinks (not the member profiles obvious), pressreleases. Plenty of gems out there, like the above poster said, you have to have some seo knowlegde to pick the right ones.

      Just avoid the mass ones that offer thousands or hundreds of links for $5,- obvious these suck.

      Oh and don't rely on the word "Manual" in the title right away, I saw someone offering 100 manual social bookmarks for $5,-, not even people in 4th world countries work for that kind of money (maybe they would but there is no internet on unknown islands).
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    • Profile picture of the author Dave90210
      Which link wheel is the best?

      Originally Posted by Damz View Post

      Yes..Fiverr is awesome..but you've to have good SEO knowledge on which gigs to pick & which gigs to avoid... 1000+ positive comments , doesn't mean its a good gig.. there are some hidden gems,, you better spend some time finding them..
      never order 10000+ links , scrapebox/ xrumer blasts directly to your money site..It''ll decrease your rankings for sure.
      LInk wheels, link pyramids, social bookmarks, High PR links always working for me.
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  • Profile picture of the author marketwarrior06
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    I have used it for the last couple of weeks. 1 month ago my position was 135 in Google but now its 225. so noting to say about Fiverr gigs.
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  • Profile picture of the author BackLinkiT
    Originally Posted by James Liberty View Post

    Have you ever purchased a Fiverr gig that increased your search engine ranking?
    No, never, and I tried a few. Mostly they either did nothing at all or some were damaging to rankings.

    Avoid fiverr gigs like the plague.
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  • Profile picture of the author christopherk
    How can you say something like this? There are a lot of stuff in high quality also!
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    • Profile picture of the author BackLinkiT
      Originally Posted by christopherk View Post

      How can you say something like this? There are a lot of stuff in high quality also!
      That's my personal experience, Christopher!

      If there really are gigs that are of high quality perhaps you would point me/us to them?

      Or are they the ones in your signature? I do not regard submitting a spun article as 'high quality', I'm afraid.
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      • Profile picture of the author RJS7
        I just ordered a gig and I ranked page one for a fairly competitive word in about 5 days. I was amazed! this one had a few negative marks on it. This is why I have learned to try things out on my own. Yes reviews are very helpful as well!
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        • Profile picture of the author christopherk
          Originally Posted by RJS7 View Post

          I just ordered a gig and I ranked page one for a fairly competitive word in about 5 days. I was amazed! this one had a few negative marks on it. This is why I have learned to try things out on my own. Yes reviews are very helpful as well!

          Now you need think how you can maintain (hold or develop) your page one position
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          • Profile picture of the author RJS7
            Originally Posted by christopherk View Post

            Now you need think how you can maintain (hold or develop) your page one position
            Thank you so much for the advice
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        • Profile picture of the author Oggyoi
          Originally Posted by RJS7 View Post

          I just ordered a gig and I ranked page one for a fairly competitive word in about 5 days. I was amazed! this one had a few negative marks on it. This is why I have learned to try things out on my own. Yes reviews are very helpful as well!
          Care you PM me which gig this was please ?
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  • Profile picture of the author christopherk
    There are a lot of good quality article and press release writers. Cheap and quality BMR posts for example and also other good stuff. You can buy same services in this forum or from SEO companies, but you need pay much much more. Fiverr is place for smart people, you need select carefully.
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    • Profile picture of the author BackLinkiT
      Originally Posted by christopherk View Post

      ...you need select carefully.
      We can, at least, agree on that, Christopher!

      Kind regards

      Peter
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  • Profile picture of the author emigre
    Fiverr gigs are useful for 2nd and 3rd tier links if you're into that.

    I would not risk it with money sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mack Attack 77
    I like the hammer reference above...but Fiverr has it's place. I like it for things like facebook likes, social bookmarks, and content.
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  • Profile picture of the author NACAdam
    Lots of times you can get spam gigs that will decrease it. But it can also be part of the google dance .. Anyhow I have reached page one with many a fiverr gig..
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  • Profile picture of the author LifeIsGood
    It has been my experience that a lot of people here on the WF are offering SEO services, but instead of doing the work themselves (as implied or as advertised), they are simply hiring people on Fivver to do the work.

    Much of what you may think is being done by the WF member is in fact being outsourced to someone else on Fivver for $5. They charge us whatever the market will bear (according to their offer) pay the Fivver guy $5, and they just pocket the difference. Sad but true. It's epidemic.

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    • Profile picture of the author RJS7
      I have had that happen to me before was very upset. This is how I looked after it happened
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  • Profile picture of the author Juvv2096
    I think there are a few decent services on fiverr, but you have to know what you are buying. For $5 what can you expect though, seriously.

    The best thing on there is the article writing I think. Get some BMR style posts written, and use them on other networks and stuff. Some of the writers are bad though so choose wisely! I have done about 4 or 5 different writers, and one of them was EXCEPTIONAL. I actually use that person every single time now, and have dropped all other writing.

    So yeah, try out a few services, make sure you know what you are buying, and if you like them, bookmark it! (or contact them off fiverr lol)
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  • Profile picture of the author ruudbwai
    fiverr gigs are the quickest way to decrease your ranking! full stop. they are usually automated, and i think google has a grip on automated software patterns..even twitter blasts will hurt you. I can think of no positive outcome from fiverr LINKING gigs...may be ok for graphic design, or article writing etc, but not for link building work.
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    • Profile picture of the author joetheseo
      Your dead wrong. Full stop.

      Having over 100 websites, I use Fiverr near daily, and 99% of the time it helps my rankings. (Of course I'd never use these links on a client's website.)

      As someone mentioned above, you need to have previous SEO knowledge / experience to know which gigs to buy / the timing to buy them.

      Sorry ruudbwai, you're wrong.

      Originally Posted by ruudbwai View Post

      fiverr gigs are the quickest way to decrease your ranking! full stop. they are usually automated, and i think google has a grip on automated software patterns..even twitter blasts will hurt you. I can think of no positive outcome from fiverr LINKING gigs...may be ok for graphic design, or article writing etc, but not for link building work.
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  • Profile picture of the author orpaz191
    Originally Posted by James Liberty View Post

    Last week I spent about $20 dollars on Fiverr gigs in an
    effort to increase my search ranking. Unfortunately,
    it seems that these gigs actually decreased my search
    ranking.

    Have you ever purchased a Fiverr gig that increased
    your search engine ranking? If so, which gig was it?
    Yes. a lot of great gigs, but you need to be careful.

    Originally Posted by ThatAblaze View Post

    Fiverr is a tool. Lets call it a hammer. In the right situation a hammer is the best tool ever. In other situations using a hammer will only break stuff. The trick is knowing when to use a hammer and when not to.

    I got to the top of page 1 using fiverr gigs and stayed there for one day. Now I'm #5 for that keyword. My personal philosophy: one fiverr gig can boost you, doing the same kind of gig twice for the same site is dangerous.
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  • Profile picture of the author adammck
    Fiverr has worked for me... I'm pretty cautious of the baclinks i buy. I've had one that seem to affect one of my sites (but who knows really).

    The others have got me on page 1 with specific keywords...

    You really just need to check the url/request the url, then take a look at the context of the page, number of links already. Sometimes even talking to the seller and trying to get your link placed somewhere better can even help.
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  • Profile picture of the author lovboa
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    For people who order on Fiverr thinking of them as "gigs", you're most likely taking a shot in the dark with the gig that you think will get your site shot up the rankings.
    Even if a gig has a bunch of good reviews and thumbs up, 99% of them are reviewing based on delivery, which the seller usually does deliver. They are not thumbs up based on effectiveness.

    For people who think that ordering the 10,000 forum profile links directly at their money site could possible shoot them up the rankings, then you are really using Fiverr to harm your site.

    For people who think of Fiverr as an outsourcing tool for things that can save them time and energy (like building 50 social bookmarks to sites like digg, reddit, etc) then Fiverr can be considered an awesome tool.

    Meaning...don't take chances with services that hype their services. Know SEO before you order and only order what you would do yourself to your site, but would rather have someone else do it for you for $5.
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  • Profile picture of the author joetheseo
    Here's a tip for the newbie Fiverr users... When you buy a gig to help with SEO, you MUST understand exactly what you need.

    Don't go on the hunt for gigs with the intention of "anything that helps with SEO."... Instead, dissect exactly what type of links you need, or whatever it is, and then hunt for the best gigs for your specific "niche" type of link building (article marketing, senuke, bookmarks, etc etc).

    Think outside the box. If you see a 15,000 Scrapebox blast, some would automatically discount and not bookmark it... Well... Think... What else could you use 15,000 SB comments for?

    Fiverr is a great tool that requires sufficient brain power to handle it correctly.
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  • Profile picture of the author ExploringInfinity
    Originally Posted by James Liberty View Post

    Last week I spent about $20 dollars on Fiverr gigs in an
    effort to increase my search ranking. Unfortunately,
    it seems that these gigs actually decreased my search
    ranking.

    Have you ever purchased a Fiverr gig that increased
    your search engine ranking? If so, which gig was it?
    It depends what you're ranking, and what gigs you buy.

    I increase rankings of youtube videos without problem on fiverr. Websites take a bit more work.. and $20 is nothing. Just sayin'
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  • Profile picture of the author JeanneLynn
    On one of my sites, I used 5 of the Fiverr gigs (in a 4 week period) and I ended up killing it. To be fair, I had it blasted with Scrapebox and xrumer, got some profile links, purchased a UAW gig, bought one of those double deluxe 12 site linkwheels and paid to have my site spam 300 edu sites. So I guess I was reckless in ordering those gigs to begin with. It was a site that I didn't really care too much about. I wanted to see what would happen. LOL, a bad thing happened.

    The thing was that all of the sellers had great feedback.

    I used BMR on the sites that I did care about and now it looks like they'll be dead soon too. The irony!
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    • Profile picture of the author pcodigital
      This was an interesting Reading. After I finished Reading this thread I decided to close my gig on Fiverr.

      I just did it.

      I had a perfect 100% reputation. I did the job as best as I could. I offered services for free as a bonus, I made sure my clients always got value, I was featured on some WSO reports as a recommended Gig. But it never occurred to me that after all the fine work, people were really looking at my service as cheap labor or worse.

      Well, no more.

      I have to thank you for opening my eyes. I got a peek behind the screen.

      ****

      To answer the original question from James Liberty:
      What services did you hire? How old and big is you site? Did you link to several pages or just a few or maybe just one? Did these gigs modify your link profile?

      Saying you spent $20 doesn't say anything.

      There are several services on Fiverr that can definitely help you to increase your rankings. But you need to make a SEO plan that fits what you site needs, and follow it using the services of gigs on Fiverr.

      The advice from JamieSEO is very good.


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      • Profile picture of the author Openxcell Inc
        I have heard about the fiverr gigs,but I don't know the usefulness of that for increasing search ranking. I have get all information about the fiverr gigs and how this is working for increasing the search ranking of site.Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author humboldt
    Oranges .... I was about to point you to a Google page that assures webmasters that spammy backlinking from dubious competitors won't affect your SERPS, but it appears they have changed their tune !

    Check out :

    Can competitors harm ranking? - Webmaster Tools Help

    When I was first pointed to this last year, Google said :

    “There’s almost nothing a competitor can do to harm your ranking or have your site removed from our index. " ( I found this in an archived post )

    .. which wasn't 100% re-assuring in the first case ..... note "almost"

    But now Google says :

    "Google works hard to prevent other webmasters from being able to harm your ranking or have your site removed from our index."

    and there are now increasing stories of websites under attack by competitors .

    So even if you had been diligent and built up SERPS and PR with no automation tools at all, you are now at the mercy of those with these tools anyway ?

    Go figure !
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    if not now, when ?

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  • Profile picture of the author patch1308
    Absolutely! I've spent several hundred dollars on fiverr gigs over the last 12 months with predominantly excellent results in SERPs.
    I am very selective and has been said before check out the feedback first and make sure there's lots of good feedback. This strategy has helped ensure I've had mainly positive results.
    Disclaimer: Please be aware that Google frowns upon purchasing links to manipulate page rank. So use sparingly!
    Good luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author humboldt
    patch1308, are you happy to share your fiverr gigs
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    if not now, when ?

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  • Profile picture of the author Ndot India
    Never buy any back links because Google will not like this. Even if you buy back links they will provide you back links in low quality sites which is not relevant to your niche.
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    • Profile picture of the author dotgirish
      Originally Posted by ruudbwai View Post

      fiverr gigs are the quickest way to decrease your ranking! full stop. they are usually automated, and i think google has a grip on automated software patterns..even twitter blasts will hurt you. I can think of no positive outcome from fiverr LINKING gigs...may be ok for graphic design, or article writing etc, but not for link building work.


      Originally Posted by joetheseo View Post

      Your dead wrong. Full stop.

      Having over 100 websites, I use Fiverr near daily, and 99% of the time it helps my rankings. (Of course I'd never use these links on a client's website.)

      As someone mentioned above, you need to have previous SEO knowledge / experience to know which gigs to buy / the timing to buy them.

      Sorry ruudbwai, you're wrong.
      @joetheseo , Have to agree with you ..

      Its just rubbish to believe that fiverr is bad (or not good). Most of them who comment about this doesn't even have an account on fiverr.

      Getting a 1 minute sales video created for $5 is bad ??
      Getting a link pyramid with seo articles for $5 is bad ??
      Getting a wordpress website setup for 5$ is bad ??
      Getting good bookmarking done for $5 is bad ??
      Getting a programming assigned done for $5 is bad ??


      Come on . this fourm allows to talk doesn't mean any one can BS ..

      Be logical , pick the right guys and it works .. Full stop..
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  • Profile picture of the author extremejava
    My experience is that too much of fiverr is harmful for website because of the spam links you get. Better spend $20 for getting 1 link from PR6 with maximum 10 outbound links
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    • Profile picture of the author MarcusHichens
      The link wheels have worked for me. Like mentioned look for ones with lots of positive feedback
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  • Profile picture of the author chenkev
    It really depends on who you use...It's a huge site - you'll find good providers and bad ones too.

    The trick is to stick with the good ones once you find them.
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  • Profile picture of the author JeremiahSay
    It used to work before but it doesn't work today..

    It might still work today BUT you're putting your website at huge risk..
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  • Profile picture of the author Ryan Draper
    Yes, in fact there is one type of gig I recommend in my new WSO that is essential, not only for good ranking but to get Google on my side.

    I use it for every one of my sites and I teach it in my 4 Hour Niches system.

    -Ryan
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  • Profile picture of the author cagliostro
    Fiverr is 90% pure junk for SEO. Rating are COOKED.

    Article writing is so and so, social bookmarking is ok if you search for the right one.
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  • Profile picture of the author zemphsta
    wow thanks everyone . I alway wondered about fiverr . I will use it for article writing and graphics but be careful when it comes to links
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