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You’ve probably heard of Fiverr, the marketplace for $5 jobs. There are a bunch of SEO-related gigs on the site. I don’t like spending time doing much off-site SEO work, so I decided to try one of these out to see if they were worth anything. The results were actually pretty surprising!
Background
I did some keyword research and came up with a blogging-related keyword that had 1,300 exact monthly searches. The first page of Google for that keyword included some pretty big blogs, but the competition wasn’t too bad. I figured I’d be able to get on the first page.
I wrote a blog post on the topic and included the keyword in the post title, permalink, first paragraph, and a couple more times throughout the post. In other words, I did the standard on-page SEO stuff. I published the article, it got indexed by Google, and eventually made it to the second page. It peaked at #16 in Google for that term, so that’s second page material.
I wanted to get it on the first page, so I went to Fiverr.
Study #1
I’d been reading a ton about link wheels. Pat Flynn’s article especially turned me on to the subject. But that required a lot of work, time, and software I didn’t have and didn’t want to pay for. I searched for “link wheel” on Fiverr. A bunch of gigs came up, and I chose one that had a lot of positive feedback that looked OK. The link wheel wasn’t exactly the type that Pat outlined (as I said, that kind takes a lot of time and effort and would require more than $5!), but it looked OK to me.
I’m not going to go into much detail about what a link wheel is. In short, you create a few pages (Squidoo pages, Blogger blogs, etc.) and link them to your blog, and then you create a bunch of links (social bookmarking submissions, articles, etc.) to those pages. If you want more info, check out Pat’s article as referenced above.
The particular link wheel that I paid for on Fiverr, though, was a bit different. It’s not as robust. Here’s what it advertises:
1. I will build 5 blogs from different sites with links like the scheme on the gig with keyword related content from top article directories.
2. I will get 5 RSS from all 5 blogs and will submit them to major RSS directories.
3. I will make 5 social bookmarks to all 5 blogs (25 bookmarks).
4. I will send you proof.
If your keyword have a 500-1000 searches monthly , I guarantee that you will be on the first Google page for this keyword.
Here’s the simple link wheel that’s advertised on this particular Fiverr gig:
I bought the gig on 3/10. It was delivered and marked as completed on 3/16 (a bit longer than it was supposed to have taken, but whatever). I kind of forgot about it for a week, but then I checked back on 3/22. And the result? #4 on the first page. I just looked again and now (on 4/3) it’s #3 on page 1. Sweet!
And not surprisingly, I saw the traffic from that search term increase.
Needless to say, I was pleased and impressed with this. But I thought it might be a fluke. “Maybe this would have happened without that Fiverr gig?” I thought to myself. I needed to find out if I could duplicate the results.
Study #2
I went and looked through my stats to see what keywords I was getting some traffic from. I found one article that was optimized for a keyword that got 720 exact monthly searches. I was getting a trickle of Google traffic to this post, and I found out that I was #18 and on page 2 on 3/22 for that keyword. I immediately bought the same Fiverr gig that I bought before. The gig was completed on 3/28. I checked the next day and saw that I was #2 on the first page for that keyword!
A couple days later I was at #1, and I’m still there today (4/3).
Here’s the chart showing the search traffic that was coming in for that keyword before and after I bought the gig:
Obviously, there’s a correlation there.
Summary and Implications
Holy crap. It actually worked. Paying $5 did in fact noticeably improve my search engine rankings for the keywords I was targeting. And of course with that came a corresponding increase in the amount of search traffic to my blog. I’ll pay $5 all day long for that if it saves me the time of having to do it myself.
Of course, both of the keywords that I targeted in these two experiments were relatively low-traffic keywords. This Fiverr gig won’t do much for you if you’re going after a competitive keyword that gets 50,000 searches a month. The seller of this Fiverr gig guarantees that you’ll be on the first page of Google within a month if the keyword gets 500-1000 searches monthly. That was indeed my experience, and it happened within a few days.
All of those little long tail keywords add up, and the result will be a significant increase in the amount of search traffic you get.
But then this raises a question… Is this “ethical”? And is it a good thing that I can buy my way to the top of Google for $5?
Well… Yes and no. I think it’s a good thing for me because I have great content :) What I write is what people are looking for when they search for that term. But what if you’ve got a crappy blog with crappy content? You’re worsening the search experience for the searcher. You’re cheating. The whole point of Google is to weed out the good content from the bad, and you’re throwing a wrench into that system. You’re making it worse for everyone involved except yourself.
Anyway, moral SEO debate aside, I’m very pleased with this service. Give it a try and let me know how it goes!
- Does this look like something you’d like to try out?
- Do you have any positive (or negative) experience with link wheels?
- Do you have any positive (or negative) experience with SEO gigs on Fiverr?
- Does this kind of thing mess up Google for everyone?
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That’s great that it worked out for you! I just started looking at Fiverr not too long ago. What I found out through forums is that a lot of the services out there are terrible. Such as sending a Tweet with your link to 50K followers. Someone did that and it results in zero cliks. So all the ones with getting FB likes and Twitter followers I’m skeptical.
Even some of the ones doing SEO. You found a nice one that worked but there are many that probably don’t.
On one of my niche sites I had great success with a link wheel and getting up to #3 for my main keyword on Google. Then I don’t know what happened and wasn’t ranked at all. This was way before the algorithm change. Now I’m just trying to get back up. I’m around 600 now. Yikes.
Yeah, Fiverr is definitely hit or miss, and I think in the social media category, there are a lot more misses than hits.
There are a ton of SEO ones out there, and I looked at a ton of them before choosing one. This one I chose 1) had pretty good feedback, and 2) actually offered a service that looked good and made sense from an SEO standpoint (as opposed to something like 10,000 backlinks in a day).
600? Wow. Yikes is right!
Hi Tristan!
I had looked over this gig a week ago and passed on it because one of the reviews: “Please remove the scraped content that you have taken from my site. You are not allowed to take content without permission.” I went with someone who had all positive reviews and got screwed over.
I’ll have to give this person a try for my low keyword sites and pages. Thanks for this review!
Awesome, Moon. I’m glad this helped! Fiverr is definitely hit or miss, and I probably got lucky with this one.
Thanks for commenting!
Hi Tristan, i’ve come here from Moon’s post about your link on her blog.
But i just want to state about this, what happens when Google updates their algorithm to disclude link wheels? surely they will find a way to decipher whether link juice is sourced via a link wheel?
this idea goes against the grain of what Google is after, and anything that does tends to gets removed from their search engines. whilst it might be possible now, down the track it may not be and could get you blacklisted.
im intruiged, but still very wary of the possible future implications, even if it does work (for the now)
what do you think?
- tork
dad blog
Great! I’ve bought some gigs from Fiver. Can you share the link to the gig you was used?
Oh Sorry I found the link on your post :)
Glad you found the link :)
Thanks for commenting, Pumama!
Hi Tristan,
It would be nice experience of using Fiverr. I haven’t tried in yet personally but I have heard about from other bloggers as well, I didn’t take it seriously. Now I feel it’s really a worthy thing.
Give it a try, Sam, and see how it goes. I was skeptical, but the results really do speak for themselves.
Thanks for taking the time to comment!
Hi Tristan, I am really glad it worked out for you. I am a Fiverr user myself and I used to buy some of the best gigs (IMO Gigs with best title are best gigs), but I haven’t had any success at all. I tried them for SEO, SMO and even email marketing but nothing worked out for me.
I hope that I will get time to research more on the gigs present at Fiverr in the future before I go with them. Anyway, thanks for sharing your experience with us. BTW, if possible can you share the link of the Fiverr gig which gave you results. I will try my luck with that gig.
Sathish
Yeah, Fiverr is pretty hit or miss as far as quality goes. I’ve had some great results and also some really lousy results.
I link to the gig I used in the article! Be honest, did you read the whole thing? :)
Yes I did. But I have missed the link when I was going through that paragraph. That’s why I have asked the link to you here. I am going to order the gig now. Hope it will bring in some good results for me. Anyway, thanks for your quick response.
Sathish
I think ethics kinda blur when it comes to SEO.
What you did isn’t intrinsically wrong, it’s just a creative use of the game mechanics, so to say ;)
I believe that if someone knows what to do and how to “serialize” those things, he can allow himself to ask just 5$ for it.
Of course the questions arises: what would happen if EVERYONE used this system? But that’s debate for another post I guess.
I think most SEO stuff is “ethical.” When we do SEO work, we’re just trying to make the best of a crappy and imperfect system. I think that as long as you’re not doing anything malicious, it’s fine.
If everyone used the system, people would come up with other SEO tricks to beat out the competitors :)
Thanks Gabriele!
That’s wicked stuff, Tristan!
This could game the search engines pretty badly but I don’t think you’re doing it. I agree you got quality stuff here so what you bought is just “advertising” (long lasting, Google page rank style). With this exposure you’ll get natural links even faster, now that you’re on the first page. This is smart!!! :-)
Gonna try it.
But how do we keep the fake/bad hat marketers who sell BS (just get the cash and deliver nothing) out of this…? I guess they’re already doing it (perhaps they knew about this method long before search engines gurus blogged about it).
Yeah… “Advertising”.. I like that!
I think most “fake/bad” marketers already know these kinds of tricks. But with the millions of possible keywords out there, I don’t think the competition aspect is really an issue.
Thanks for the great comment, Constantin.
Well, let’s think about it. Tristan got to the top of the rankings and he has great content, therefore it’s a win for the searchers. Currently good content gets outranked by bad because people with low quality content use this means to get to the top.
Therefore one has to ask, if more people with great content did a little SEO work like this then could they dominate the results page instead? And wouldn’t that be a good thing?
Oooo. I like this comment, Ryah :)
“Therefore one has to ask, if more people with great content did a little SEO work like this then could they dominate the results page instead? And wouldn’t that be a good thing?”
That’s a great point. SEO is here to stay, so we’d better do what we can to stay on top of things. Top of Google, that is.
Thanks Ryah!
I rather surprised myself with the logic of my reply, lol. But it does make sense, doesn’t it? Yes Google will try to weed out the spam, but if we can take steps to rank our brilliant content too then it can only be a good thing.
See, it never fails, I learn something every time Tristan. Seriously – I’ve heard all the good talk of Fiverr but haven’t used it for anything.
I was just telling someone the other day that I was oblivious on the whole backlink thing. Alexa says I have 15 and honestly, I have no clue how I’ve acquired those. But I know I need more.
I’m interested in reading the comments to see what the overall vibe is on this topic. I guess I need to learn more. Your post was informative, but I guess overall I need to learn about the backlinks thing all together. I’ll check out Pat’s post as well.
Personally, I don’t see how this would mess up Google – but on the other end, it’s a form of manipulation so I guess it could. But, from the sounds of it, this is how SEO is done…this is a facet of it. And my ignorance surely isn’t in a position to judge whether it’s wrong or right – because honestly, I don’t know. But I am certain that it seems and sounds cool and I’m very interested in doing something similar.
Thanks for the Info Tristan!
Damn Tristan, really awesome man.
The link wheel look solid enough. One other element that could strengthen it is to have a bit of interlinking between each property as well but not to create a complete loop otherwise it would throw up some red flags. But for $5, you can’t beat results yo.
I think I’ll need to try this on a few of my posts because the content is there but I never really do a lot of SEO and link building.
I could see this giving a TON of online revenue gain if you pointed the wheel to a review post.
Hi tristan, this sounds interesting. But I think it’s manipulation. But if you have a quality blog to share that’s ok. but I you don’t ………..
Hi Tristan,
I have only tried Fiverr one time, and I paid a girl to create a video for me. It was an interesting experience and the result was satisfying, at least for $5. Looking at your experiment, I understand what I should have been doing :)
I have never tried a LinkWheel, although I have heard of them. It’s amazing that you can get this kind of results for $5, and at the same time I am a little worried. If it’s this easy, how much crap will we end up getting at the 1st page of Google? I actually thought it would be a lot harder to get to the 1st page of Google.
On the other hand, it might be a lot harder for blogs with not so good content as yours. I would think that you would end up at the 1st page of Google with all your content anyway… it just takes a little longer :)
Thanks a lot for sharing. I might test it as well.
- Jens
Tristan,
Love your name! I also love that you found a great idea that worked and that you shared it with us. I recognize from scanning the comments that it’s hard to find the person on fiverr who really delivered on that promise.
I’m going to have to look into finding a new keyword and see if I can get the same result :)
Hey Tristan,
Wow, what a coincidence! I actually wrote a 2-part series on link wheels not too long ago. I’m happy that you’ve found link wheels to be successful as well. They definitely do work, and your findings are proof of that.
But I didn’t know that you could pay someone else $5 to basically do the same thing though. And your results are incredible! I’ve heard of Fiverr a few times before, though never really looked too much into it. After reading this, I’m definitely going to give the site a second look!
Thanks for pointing this out to us. :)
Christina
I love this post. SEO stuff gets me excited, as you know. So let’s start this blog comment off. I feel like it’s going to be a big one!
First, I actually like the graphic that the guy posted on his gig. It is a little better than what I normally think of when I think of a link wheel because he isn’t just linking everything to the next site in the wheel and pointing to the main site. He has some random interlinking and some of the web 2.0s are getting social bookmarks. Overall, I think it’s looking fairly natural.
Second, I generally hate link wheels. They are so unnatural looking in my opinion. I think link pyramids are much better, and if you are obsessed with the wheel aspect of it, then randomly interlink a few of your first layer links, but don’t be so methodical about it.
Third, I really like that you took the time to track your stats, and actually perform a case study. I’m tired of people posting about SEO who haven’t actually done it, or haven’t taken the time to see the results. They are just regurgitating what other people have been doing. So this is a nice change and gives me even more respect for you.
Fourth, like you mention, I think it’s really important to note that there is no way that a link wheel such as this is going to get you significant movement for a keyword that has a large amount of monthly exact searches and is highly competitive. As far as link wheels go, this is fairly week to be honest. But it is strong enough to give you movement on a less competitive keyword.
Fifth, I don’t really want to get into the ethical argument about SEO. I don’t practice purely ‘white hat’ SEO, because there is no way you can compete with people doing that unless you have a very large budget. I could go all day on this though, which means it could make for a good blog post…
Thanks for that info…great stuff!! It sounds like you have some experience with SEO, is it in your opinion really a game of who has the biggest dollars for ad campaigns, or do you really think a small budget or NO budget business can compete?
I think that a small budget can compete, but you have to be willing to do what some consider gray hat SEO tactics. A no budget company could compete as well if you are willing to do a lot of work on your own. If you have time but no money, you can make it work generally.
There is really a whole world of SEO that most of the people who read this blog have no idea about I imagine. Most of that world involves automated link building processes that are very cheap and very scalable. Feel free to contact me some time if you are interested in learning more.
I am wonder to know about these gigs and its results. Really consider term. Well give me some time i will try this one later. Thanks to suggesting.
I’ve used Fiverr twice. Once the result was…well..there was no result. The other time the result was OK. It’s really hit or miss. But for $5 it’s worth the risk.
I don’t think there is anything wrong with link wheels. They just use spun content in order to build more links. I guess the question then becomes is spinning content wrong? I think Mark Mason put it best (which also happened to be on Pat’s blog): if you discover the cure for cancer and decide to spin it into different formats and distribute it all over the internet is anyone going to complain? No! It’s still the cure for cancer!
In the end it still comes down to providing quality content.
Tristan
Good experiment – pleased you had good results with it. And those results should sustain for a reasonable period of time too.
There are two things that would concern me about this though.
ONe is that Google is always talking about making search results more relevant, and weeding out low quality and junk. And Ezine articles for instance was hit pretty badly in the recent algo change.
Second is that there will be people ranking their websites for stuff – when they have crappy content. That’s not what ‘we’ want when we’re searching for info, and not what Google wants to deliver to searchers in terms of results.
Personally I don’t think that I’d do this kind of linking – but paying $5 for it IS attractive, and something that I’ll seriously start thinking about when I start creating eBooks for sale on my site.
Good, informative post. Keep on keeping on.
Paul
Hi Tristan,
This is totally new thing for me as I haven’t heard about Fiverr. Now I think I too give it a chance in near future. BTW thanks for sharing your experience. ;)
Link Wheels are just great for any blog or site. It really help to improve your SERP and I too looking to create one for my blog. I know it’s time consuming but I want to do it myself if I could not receive desired result then I might try out Fiverr as per your suggestion.
Wow this is really awesome results Tristan. I have some software that could replicate the Fiverr gig for free for me. Hopefully my results will be as good as your :)
Hey Tristan,
Congratulations! I could hear the excitement in your voice and I KNOW the feeling. I haven’t used anyone on Fiverr for that type of work, not yet, but I have for other and have been very impressed. Sure, not everyone will do a good job or any job at all but no problems. They will credit your account so you can continue on.
I think what you did was great because I know you have good content. For those that don’t, heck no! But we can’t stop those types of people from doing what they will continue to do. As long as we sleep at night then it’s all good…
Thanks for sharing this with us. You’ve definitely got my mind to thinking now.
Adrienne
Tristan,
Nice experiment. I do like the simple link wheel.
Your next step might be to have your Fiverr link between those sites. This would make it more solid and give you some longevity.
I am off to read Pat’s article. Thanks
Great test with awesome results! I do have a few issues with it though…
For one, I would love to know how old each blog post is. Are they older posts or newer? I know this isn’t going to make a terribly huge impact on the results, but I think it would be interesting to know just the same. I don’t know if this is still true, but I’ve seen blog posts of mine hit the front page and then drop off, then go right back up. That would be naturally, too, without promoting the link in any way.
Second, I wonder how these results are going to be long term. I wonder if Google will ding you for some future change, or the sites your link is promoted on giving your link “less weight”.
Either way, as long as it’s not hurting the site in the long run, I don’t see anything wrong with tossing in $5 and seeing what you get. :)
Wow. I’ve been going back and forth with using Fiverr, and have been kind of hesitant. But after this recommendation, I’ll have to give it a go. Of course, I’ll have to do my research on keywords, because in my niche they’re very few keywords, but they’re all highly competitive.
Thank for the recommendation, though!!
Delena
Wow!! i am very impressed with your lovely post.. i am so glad to left comment on this..
I’ve bought some seo gigs on fiverr, mostly link building, and I never saw any results, I thought they are all useless. It even happen to me that I bought gigs from different sellers and they were using the exact same websites to build links on… very disappointing.
One thing that I found good on fiverr is an article writer, he is the best I ever worked with and will continue to.
Congrats for your accomplishments and probably I will have another look at SEO gigs on fiverr, now that I read your story.
Hi Tristan,
Interesting blog. I always wrestle the moral issue on these types of decisions. I guess all’s fair in love and war AND advertising. And if you want to throw in a little more rationalization, you could say to yourself that you are really doing people a service by exposing them to your excellent product/service. I’m going to check it out. Thanks
Riley
I personally don’t see a moral or ethic dilemma with this. You are basically helping the search engines find your content. The reason you do on-page SEO is so that your site is more friendly to the search engines. The reason you do off-page SEO is so that the search engines know how relevant your site is.
There are less acceptable forms of doing SEO, but in my opinion, you are only harming yourself. I really think I need to write a blog post about this and submit it to Tristan…
Do it! Let that anger out, Mitchell.
Reminds me of a recent post on the SEO.com blog: http://www.seo.com/blog/black-hat-ethical-white-hat/
Hey Tristan – I’m glad to see a Fiverr gig has worked so well for you. I have purchased a couple backlink gigs from there and have yet to see any results. We’ll see…
Are you going to do any other off-page SEO to these sites now?
Thanks
Lonnie
I’m on the fence when it comes to stuff like this. The content that the links are pointing to maybe good and relevant, but that does not make the links authentic. When I link to your blog from my site, I am doing it for my readers first, with the byproduct being that it helps your readership level grow a bit. I don’t link to your blog to help with your search rankings as my primary goal.
Systems link these are the reasons why Google has been changing their algorithms. I’m not sure how they are going to repair this but eventually they will have to adapt to more of a social search model than a model based on links and key words.
I can see where you’re coming from, James. The system is currently pretty easy to manipulate in some instances, like this post showed.
But do you really think a more social-heavy search will solve the problem? I mean, I could go on to Fiverr right now and get 200 Diggs, a bunch of retweets, tons of Facebook fans, lots of Facebook shares or likes all for $5 each.
It seems to me like there are two differing main ideas of why Google is imperfect right now:
1) There are inherent flaws in the algorithm, so it doesn’t always return the most relevant or useful result first, or
2) The algorithm is good, but people have just found ways to exploit it by paying for backlinks, etc.
Either way, the system is imperfect. We all know that. And either way, I’m screwed if I do nothing about it. Google’s algorithm isn’t a moral code, and Google is not a perfect entity. I don’t feel bad about “artificially” inflating my search rankings. If I write the greatest blog post in the history of mankind about a certain subject but am on page 4 of the SERPs and no one ever reads it, is that really the best situation for anyone?
I dunno. This is definitely an interesting subject that people on both sides of the issue are extremely passionate about. As for me, I do very little off-site SEO work for this blog apart from normal commenting and guest posts. But then again, I’m sure there are purists out there who think even those things are sketchy. Whatever.
For me, this is one of those if-everyone-jumped-off-a-bridge-would-you moments. As far as I’m concerned, yes, everyone is jumping off the bridge, so I might as well, too.
I wrote on my blog about how Google needs to revamp its search to look at sites from within your social network. Sites like Digg are popularity contests, not necessarily the best stuff out there. It’s high school all over again.
But if Google looked at where your friends are surfing, where their friends are surfing, and built up a ranking system that gave you access to the best stuff from within that group, search would be more valuable again. Google does a good job with searches that should not change much (ie weather, currency exchange, measurement conversations, movies in ). Everything beyond those should have your social network’s suggestions up top.
In that model, the system could still be gamed (ie your 50 friends went to the exact same places repeatedly) but you could just cut off that friend and sever the non-interesting links. It will take time to get to this level, but I think they are working towards it. If they aren’t, sites like Blekko or even Facebook could very well be looking into it.
” If I write the greatest blog post in the history of mankind about a certain subject but am on page 4 of the SERPs and no one ever reads it, is that really the best situation for anyone?”
By using your techniques, you could be burying MY greatest blog post in the history of mankind and no one will ever discover it. My belief has always been if one person reads my site and finds it valuable, than my job is done. I don’t need 100′s of people to discover it and read my stuff in order for me to feel satisfied. My goal is to change one person’s way of thinking. If more come along for that journey, great, but I am happy with that one true fan.
I always think of people like Isaac Asimov who wrote daily for 40 years. With hard work and dedication, results will happen. There is no reason to rush the results or force them to happen.
Sure social results sounds nice, but if I’m looking for something like reviews for TVs, I’m not going to want to see the stuff my friends are seeing. Maybe I want to see things that my friends haven’t seen.
In my opinion, you are more than welcome to do the link building just like everyone else. If you don’t, then you are just causing yourself to not get the kind of traffic you deserve. If you think that your content is worth reading, why not take the extra step to make sure it gets read? Why let the people with the subpar content rank ahead of you?
I feel that people like you are very close minded when you refuse to use SEO to promote your site. How is this different than taking out a half page add in the yellow pages back in the day? The person doing that is just the same as the person that is paying for SEO services to get their site ranked higher in the SERPs.
Tristan, aloha. Thx so much for sharing the results of your experiment. Since my knowledge of SEO is minimal, at best, this appeals to me. Paul Wolfe’s words also resonated with me as I am writing some e-books; he did a terrific list of “18 Ways to Use Ebooks to Leverage Your Online Business” over on Steve Scott’s site. What a perfect application of Fiverr & SEO this would be.
Alex Whalley just launched a gig on Fiverr. Though you always come up with great headlines, Tristan, not everyone does. For $5 Alex will create a catchy headline for you.
You must admit, $5 is a very inexpensive education. Thx for sharing your results, Tristan. Aloha. Janet
Ya sure ! Seo (online marketing) plays very vital role in site’s improvement in Search Engines. By getting best quality seo service you can get your site in google top. It’ll provide you lots of visit/traffic and business.
I know a friend who work in a company. So he asked me that within a year his companies new site leads on google top. So I checked that site and amazing really it’s come on first google search…….
i hope i can implement this technique.. im still learn and need advice from all of you.. Thank you so much bro..
Interesting study. That’s great that you were able to see such dramatic results from one link wheel.
It always amazes me how much some people are willing to do for so little. Even using something like SEO Link Robot or SE Nuke I would still charge more.
If you can find reliable providers like that, that is awesome!
I noticed that one person that purchased the Gig was upset that the content used to create the link wheel was copied from the target site. Did you also notice this? Is this an issue? Seems like they should at least spin the material to pass a simple duplicate content check.
huh ! huge rise in traffic from one link wheel ? definitely going to contact that seller
I agree with you Tristan. I have used the fiverr gig service on link building, some of them doing very well. Now Google index my pages in less than 20 minutes after created any post. Also receiving better traffic from search engines.
I’m not comfortable PAYING for a good ranking. I’d feel better getting by WORKING at it.
great post. I am going to try it out!
I’ll let you know!
Hi,
In my opinion, Fiverr is a great way of getting a lot of useful things done on low prices, there are a lot of people that have great websites with high PR but they are newbies at marketing so they will sell links on their blogs with only 5$, advertisements, banners and so on. Link-building is extremely important, especially with the text anchor, it brings a lot of results and increases the brand-awareness very much. Thanks for sharing!
Actually in Fiverr, seller just only receive $4 so I think it could not bring more search traffic.But it’s a good source because I have ordered a gig that seller create me a len on Squidoo and it rank well on Big G
The whole of SEO stuff is based upon the principle of getting out the maximum of the limited resources you own. SEO is a better way to enhance traffic to your site than advertising and annoying people. And, yes this whole SEO stuff is worth a shot because it indeed provides results.
According to me, one should really give it a try. And then take the decision at his own if he want to use the service again or not.
Hi Tristan,
Fiverr is new to me but I have worked for and with some other free lance websites and I think that such services may be used to increase your ranking but in a positive manner.
I will try Fiverr.
Thats awesome… and for only $5.00 I think I am going to try that out
Not bad at all! Imagine the benefit of it in exchange of $5. Worth of the time and money as well. Maybe site owners must give this service a try and see how well it will work for them!
Best Fiverr job. Thanks for sharing.
Link Wheel is very good for improving your search result.
Wow, the service is cheap but it’s effective to you. I need to try it and blog the result soon.
I think it’s pretty lucky that you managed to get such good results from a person on Fiverr. I needed a logo to be designed for me and ended up having to do it myself because the three different people I tried just completely failed… Perhaps link wheels are simpler and therefore have less chance of disappointment.
Fiverr is a great tool for monotonous jobs but it’s best to try and choose people who have good reviews by previous customers.
Would this be safe? I mean, I don’t want google to blacklist my wwebsite or anything.
I recently used a $5 link building pyramid on fiverr and went from pge 5 to page 1. Well worth it in my opinion
Given that Panda updates are deprioritising the importance of links, linkwheels and other linkback strategies are short term gain, most likely long term kick in social butt.
Personally, I believe that most SEO consultants do brands more harm than good, and that SEO is something that is better handled internally in the business.
I work a system that focusses heavily on engagement, socialisation, and value value value, and it delivers reliable, amazing Search engine results.
Gaming the engines and traditional SEO are dead.
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Wow your post is so helpful thanks :)
I am trying various gigs on fiverr (not just seo ones! there are so many funny gigs there),
and I will definitely try the gig that you mentioned. Especially because I have had worked with big seo companies before, paying them $3000 a month, and didn’t see ANY improvement.
That’s when I realized that more money doesn’t necessarily mean better seo.
So maybe it’s the same other way around – less money doesn’t necessarily mean bad seo.
Awesome I like this techniques very much and I am sure it gonna works definately.
I will surely going to experiment this.
Thanks a lots for this.
I am tempted to try this but don’t want to do anything that would damage my site in the eyes of google. Given that this was first posted in April, can you tell us if you have continued using this method and is it still effective?
Jeff, I think I might have used it one more time after I wrote this post. But the posts that I did it for are all still #1 in Google.
Hey Tristan, this is Kevin Stacey here. Congratulations on finding methods to leverage Fiverr for SEO traffic.Fiverr really is a rich resource for link building and if you get creative. I combined some Fiverr gigs with some other SEO strategies that brought surprising results.
An SEO strategy I recently put into action was buying 5 EDU blogs (not edu spam comments..my OWN blog), and then having my EDU blog posts bookmarked and pinged on Fiverrr. It seems that the authoritative backlinks from the EDU blogs, combined with the bookmarks helped push my blogposts and articles to the 1st page of Google in 2 days for long-tail keyphrases. I even wrote a recent post about this on my blog.
Here’s what I did:
Fiverr Gig: http://fiverr.com/users/ravan786ji/gigs/bookmark-…
EDU Blogs: http://www.edublogfinder.com/buy-edu-blog-backlin…
Good luck to all…get rankings, make money!
http://fiverr.com/users/shekhu747/ this is my fiverr profile and i am earning a lot of money.there is my some cheap seo gigs.this are professionally done and all will be done manually
I like your “generic” link wheel. Found your site via Stumble. Curious what you think of my link web 2.0 wheel – that can be found on Flick if you search “link wheel” both versions are row one position #1 and position #2
That’s amazing! only just for $5. It’s really worth a try Tristan and you’ve already seen the results. Thank you for sharing this one. It’s the first time I heard it.
Tristan, just came across your article from StumbleUpon. Thanks a lot for sharing your experience, especially in the level of details you did. I’m 100% with you on ethical implications, but as you mention, if you cater quality content, it shouldn’t be considered inappropriate. I wonder what Google things though.
Great article. Don’t have any experience with Fiverr but will check it out, everything is worth a chance when you are trying to work on SEO. Link building has been my focus and it has given us nearly instant results. A lot of work though…
You’re right. Hit or miss. You really have to weed through the gigs and look for comments from people who posted feedback after seeing results, or that refer to previous results from the same gig.
Haven’t tried fiver but would surely take a dip with a 5 dollar AVP. Thanks for recommending. Btw, I love your study-oriented post. Keep it up! (:
Hi, thank you for this great help. I am the fiverr that create this link wheel. Thank to all good comments.
I find many information about “link wheel don`t work” and want to notice that link wheel created on right way still works and better than before. Many link wheel creators come after me in fiverr. More of them combine link wheel with scrapebox blast – huge mistake. Link wheel with only high PR link properties is other mistake and this is the reason I include my own PR3 domain on the scheme. With my new bookmarking system all of the blogs are indexed in 2 days or less. 10 more high PR bookmarks to money site are included in my service now.
If your site goes in first page less than a week after any link building campaign the reason is only your good on-page SEO. Other myth “my site is crawled by google in 15 minutes” – noway. Have few changes in google algorithm. I get new domain, next blast it to 250 bookmarks. It was indexed 6 hours late and on the next day my domain was deindexed. 3 days after my domain was indexed again and one week late 2 pages of my domain was crawled. Nobody can tell google “do this” even with .edu backlinks.
I have looked at fiverr, and I’m sure there are some good options for link building there. I guess the best thing is to read the reviews, and go with someone that has had a good rating. Like many things online, there could be good options and spammy options, so it is important to read what others have had to say.
Hi ,
Thanks for recommending this link-wheel campaign in Fiverr. Surely, there are a few gems here and there in Fiverr, but you will have to find them by trial and error. I think I should give it a try.
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