Eric Ward's urlwire.com - worth a $500 investment?

[Jeepster]

I'm after a turbo boost (direct and indirect) to my site's SERPs.

How beneficial is URLwire.com? Anyone here used it? Worth $495?

Given that Matt Cutts has said links from PR sites don't pass link pop, would URLwire fall into this category? (I'm aware the idea is also to generate backlinks from other referring sites).

Thanks

[GKLA]

Subscribe to Ward's linkmoses email newsletter, and purchase the archives.  The insights you will gain will be invaluable.  I'm not sure that a single link will "turbo boost" your sites rankings.  His email archive spans over 2 years and is about 300 pages - a much better investment in my opinion.

[EGOL]

If you have content on your website that gets action when shared on Facebook, Twitter, Stumbleupon, Slashdot, Reddit and similar websites then you have something that might get a little attention from Eric Ward's service.

Value to the visitor.

If you have that then it might be worth the $495.

See, it is more up to YOU than it is up to Eric.  He is simply going to share your site with another circle of people.  He doesn't accept every person who is willing to pay.

I used his service a few years ago for relatively new sites that I felt had very good content.  I think that I got ROI but it can be hard to measure. Since then social sharing has really taken off and I just allow that to happen on its own.