Paid Keyword SEO Really Work?

So i have been doing the whole website thing for about 7 years and throughout the years i have used a few different services.

I bought .EDU links, hired people to make blogs,
Paid for a monthly SEO service.. blog comments, forum link, ect. The basic normal services everyone offers.. its all the same..

I'M OVER IT!

This really feels like a good scam..

It really seems like each time you get a report from anyone who you paid to do SEO gives you some xml file with a list of urls and if you actually check the pages you will see its in a comment that is total spam..

Or a forum profile with 0 post 0 activity and the only link is in the profile page..

Maybe you buy a blog post.. If you read the blog it's total crap.. makes no sense most of the time or looks like "spun" text.
Also it will be on a blog that is spammed out with 100,000+ spam blogs with a worthless domain name. 0 PR and probably never gets traffic.

Maybe this is just my experience or a lot of people don't take the time to find out what their paying for... What work was done...


My conclusion is this.

SEO services are a scam.

You can not tell me you know how to beat Google at their own game.
Google's main focus is to provide the best, most relevant, website..

Doing millions of aspects, from content on site, to time on site, and bounce rate.

Really you could hire the most experienced SEO professional doing the most proven SEO tactics. But without a good time on site and bounce rate you will never stay ranked #1

That's just 2 aspects to the Google search engine.

People say i use different IP address, emails, names, each time they make a blog or comment. If you do that your using proxies. Don't you think Google will mark proxies as spam..

Now we have to deal with a new SEO called "Negative competitor SEO tactics"

You basically spam your competitor's url getting it removed from Google..
And Google reply's "We are working to prevent competitor's from harming your website. If you find a site linking to your website contact the site owner to remove the link."

Basically meaning they have not found a way to fix this issue. And negative SEO can be done on your website removing you from Google for months..


So post your thoughts, let me know what you think about this.

PLEASE NOTE: 99.9% of anyone who replies to this thread and posts a link to their own SEO website is just one of the many scammers. Give your trust into real reviews. You can tell fake from real. One give away is if you can't give a review. Website owners make fake review/comment pages.. If the comment has a photo its fake. If there is no "Add comment" it's all fake.

Just some last pointers..