Has anyone tried Rank Warrior for Link Building?

[pbhatt]

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[matbennett]

Oh you are brave posting that on seomoz!

Not tried them, and honestly don't think I will be. Most of what they appear to be doing is exactly the kind of thing that google are currently on a (very effective) war path for.

1000 wiki type links?? 1000 article submissions? These are not going to be quality links even if they are described as such.

If you use such a service on your website you could well find yourself hit by a penguin penalty. If you do then it is going to be close to impossible to then get those links removed again.  You could try contacting those 1000 article sites by hand and asking them to remove the link, but it will take an age and you are not guaranteed a reply.

[KeriMorgret]

A service like this is something that SEOmoz in general doesn't recommend.

This is the OSE report for one of the sites listed on their testimonials. OSE obviously does not know who helped build what links, but you might find it interesting to look at the links and ask yourself if this is what you want for your site. http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/links?page=1&site=www.theservicedoffice.co.uk&sort=page_authority&filter=&source=external&target=domain&group=0

For example, the site in question does have an EDU link, but you think Google has probably figured out that http://blogs.cornellcollege.edu/stovall/2011/04/15/utilitarianism/ has been long ignored in terms of cleaning up comment spam and doesn't give much credit to a page like that.

[Klarke]

Something tells me those ninjas are no match for a Penguin.

[MarieHaynes]

Is there any way you can get my competitors to use these guys?

Let's see...they write 7 articles that promote my keywords and distribute those to 150 different directories.  Another thing they do is build 250 blog comments and 4000 articles!!!!

When I see those numbers what I'm thinking is that this will either ruin a domain or create a $xxxx to $xxxxx job for an SEO who does penalty removal.

RUN AWAY FAST!