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Can we talk about the $500 I spent on a 'magic' backlink package back in 2019?
I was just starting out and desperate to show results for a local bakery client. I found this service online that promised 100 high authority backlinks for a flat fee. The guy running it had a slick website and lots of testimonials. I figured it was a shortcut. Big mistake. The links came from spammy directories and weird foreign sites that had nothing to do with food. Not only did the bakery's rankings not move, I'm pretty sure it triggered a manual review that hurt them for months. I had to refund part of my fee and spend twice that time doing real outreach to fix it. It was a hard lesson that you really can't buy your way to the top. Has anyone else fallen for a backlink scheme that looked too good to be true?
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michael80323h ago
Remember that whole PBN fad a few years back? I read a case study where a guy bought a network of sites that all linked to each other. Google figured it out fast and deindexed the whole network overnight. His main site tanked from page one to nowhere. It's the same old story, just a different wrapper.
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sandra_moore3023h ago
Yeah michael803, it's like that everywhere now. Fast fashion falls apart after two washes, those quick diet fixes just make you gain more weight back. People keep selling the same bad idea with a new name, hoping we forgot what happened last time. It's exhausting trying to find what's actually real and what's just a repackaged scam.
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