What's your opinion on Rankpay service?
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Any experience with RankPay? Is it worth?
Thanks
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Hello All,
I was just about to hit pay now button but after reading this conversation and suggestion ( Brian Dean ). started rethinking.
Thanks For the helpful discussion.
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I'm all about performance.
That being said, I don't own or work for Google.
Anyone that claims to make guarantees is usually an SEO you want to avoid...especially when it comes to promising a rank for a specific keyword.
Like some other people said, they may be the cat's meow. But if you don't see what links they're building for you, your site may get nailed the next time Google busts out another update (which may be very soon).
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Hi Matt and Shane, thanks for your replies. Indeed there is something fishy. I have been using their service, defined some keywords and they seem to rank me up. I mean they charge if you get a rank between 1 to 10. The fee depends on your ranking for those keywords.
But when I ask them to show me what is the work they are doing. They just say the following:
_"Thank you for your email. We provide the summary status report under the recent activities area, however we don't provide the specifics given our Performance-based Business Model. We originally launched by providing customers with every tactic within their custom program, and then we unfortunately had customers exit the service and simply utilize the plan that we spent time developing. _
We evolved our model a few years ago to strictly performance-based pricing based on our responsibility to deliver results, and we understand this approach will not be for every customer, however we'd love to demonstrate our effectiveness for you, and appreciate the opportunity."
I did some research and found very weird posts mentioning our website in Google+, forums, twitter, etc. They were just a few, but the problem is that they mention our web with a bunch of non-related and spammy texts. Maybe that is the work they do.
I think, will move out of this type of services. They may make a difference on your ranking but at the end the website gets a bad image with strange social postings.
Thanks again for your help and comments!
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It's not difficult to rank extremely for long-tails. Factor in you just need to rank in the top ten to earn a first page ranking and it get's easier.
Look at their current first page rankings:
"dog care software"
"pilates in jakarta"If it's to good to be true (and cheap) it's usually not worth it (DISCLAIMER- I have never used their service and they could be good).
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Exactly. Sounds ominous.
Also, it seems like their main method might be blog posts... Great, IF done correctly. Looking at the pricing, I doubt it will be done correctly or will be poorly written.
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"_RankPay uses proven SEO practices to achieve rankings and abides by industry standards, including: credible link building, relevant blog postings, trusted social bookmarking, and select directory submissions in order to build a consistent, customized SEO program for each and every customer. _
Our SEO Team has partnerships with hundreds of publishers, blogs, and directory sites. Nearly all RankPay SEO activities result in permanent exposure, even if the program is no longer in Active status. We work with our partners to identify relevant context for opportunities to further strengthen our customer's SEO programs."
So basically they use white hat, and on page to rank for terms they know they can rank for, they most probably do not take on all clients, only small to medium businesses that can see easy results in an easy market, by white hat.
The issue I see in this, is there is no longterm business growth strategy, only the putting of all eggs in the Google Keyword basket, in the hopes that these terms will make money.
I am with Matt, cannot give a opinion on whether to use it or not, but it really depends on is all you are trying to do is get keywords? Then it might work for you.....
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I'll admit to not being too familiar with their service but after looking on their website I still can't tell what methods they use to "gett you to rank 1" (in their own words).
Smells fishy to me instantly.
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