500 links for £50!! Wow! This kind of stuff makes me laugh
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I put a project up on a well known freelance website for a completely unrelated task to link building. I got a response which just made me laugh and i must share it!
Hi,
Sir i am providing a good services always,I have a serious person,so our Bid is not only to win a chance work with you but also maintain a long Term relationship with the bridge of this project.And if you have find Any error and any thing out of your criteria so you have full authority To ask us about that,i will correct that always.here i am attach our Link sample,please check.Budget £50 GBP:-
1.Social bookmarks Links 100 Links ALL PR1 AND PR1+
2.Forum posting Do-FOLLOW 250 Links ALL PR1
3.web2.0 links 50 Approved Submission every Article contain
5
links
your site so total 50*5=250 links,4.1 article writing for web2.0 submission.
5.Link wheel :- 100 link wheel links.
TOTAL 500 LINKS IN £50 GBP
ALL work done in manually Sir.
I hope you like this.
I am waiting your positive response Sir, do not waste my time.
He actually sent me an excel sheet with all of his link wheel domains... all PR 1/2. Is anyone really stupid enough to go for something like this? I hoped post-penguin would wipe out this kind of activity!
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I've noticed loads of this since Penguin, I think their hope is to catch out as many people as possible until folks catch on that it really doesn't work anymore and does more harm than good.
Unfortunately while there are people out there who don't understand the right way to do things there will always be someone trying to make money from the wrong way to do it.
Steve
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