Burned by a bad provider last year
So, last year I hired a cheap link-building service that promised DR 50+ links. Turns out, half of them were PBNs and the rest got deindexed within three months. My client’s rankings tanked, and I had to spend weeks cleaning up the mess. Now I’m super cautious. Does anyone have experience with a trustworthy link-building service that’s transparent about where the links come from? I’d rather pay more for peace of mind.
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Ouch, that's a rough one, and unfortunately pretty common. I had a similar scare with a client in the finance niche a while back. Hired a "budget" provider, got a batch of links that looked great on paper, but a Google update wiped most of them out within a quarter. Client's traffic dropped almost overnight and I spent a solid month doing disavow files and damage control. Not fun explaining that to a client who's paying you to grow their site, not shrink it. After that I got paranoid about vetting providers properly, asking for actual site examples, checking traffic in Ahrefs myself, not just trusting screenshots they send over. Eventually a colleague pointed me toward RuleYourRankings , and what stood out was they actually let you review the exact domains before anything goes live. No mystery boxes, no "trust us" pricing tiers. I've used them for a couple of campaigns since, mostly manual outreach and real editorial placements rather than owned-network stuff, and nothing's dropped off yet. Doesn't mean every link lasts forever, nothing does, but at least I know where my money's going and can explain it to a client without cringing. Paying more upfront for that kind of transparency is way cheaper than the cleanup bill later, trust me on that one.