Any thoughts on SEO Company likethis.biz and Ineedhits.com?

[f1fanaticgt3]

Hello everyone! Long time no talk!

I am finally back into the scene after some time away. I never really did much before, except for some parking. I am now back at it with a website+content as an affiliate for Global Resorts Network selling premier vacations at discount. It is a nice commission and am hoping it will do well, but I obviously need to have my .com name get some exposure.

I don't have more than a couple hundred dollars to spend right now on any type of SEO. I ran acrossed a site likethis.biz. They have a number of packages to offer to help optimize and spread your site. The package I have the most interest in right now is the Bronze Package. Currently for $295.95 for one month I will get the following done to my site:

1. Initial Set Up : 10 hours2. Monthly Support: 10 hoursInitial Set UpKeyword map: 18 keywords:
3 hoursStarter marketing plan (1 - 2 pages, without analyzing competition):
3 hoursFull main page optimization:
2 hoursAutomatic Search Engines / directories submission:
1 hourPopular bookmarkers:
1 hour

Total:

10 hoursMonthly SupportDirectory submission:
4 hoursSocial Media Optimization (SMO):
4 hoursReport/consultancy:
1 hourInternal optimization tweaking:
1 hour

Total:

10 hoursESTIMATED GOALSGoogle Page Rank of 1 for main page (3 months) progressing to Page Rank 2 (6 months)
Presence in all major Search Engines
Presence in TOP 100 for a targeted keyword in one top search engine (3 months) and in TOP 50 for a keyword in one top search engine (6 months)


So what do you guys think of this? Is that worth $295.95? Is this a scam or a joke? What do you think the honest result would be?

I also found a site for very cheap that would help me out. IneedHits.com would submit my website to over 300+ search engines for only $2.99.

Their basic package of $49.99 a month comes with a Keyword Analysis, Code Optimization, and G-Boost which will get your site on Google within 7 days.

I am very interested to know what some of you guys think about these two services and if they are even worth my time. If they are not than what are some of your suggestions?

Thanks so much for the help guys! I reall appreciate it

James

[dragonzpit]

Have u tried Advertising here

[netprophet]

Both of these companies advertise and/or are promoted on StatCounter.

In my experience thus far they both are not worth wasting your money on.

LINXBOSS - This company offers a back link service (outlawed by Google) The warnings signs from them were obvious from the outset, no contact details or employee information on the website. I emailed them and someone called Erik (who under pressure says he is Erik Wickstrom) replied very quickly and helpfully but when he was asked this :-

Erik

I think I am almost there, sorry for so many questions.

i am worried about the way in which you operate / portray yourselves. Why all the cloak and dagger approach? i.e. no address, no telephone numbers no company details, no officers of the company etc...?

Who precisely are you hiding from?

I think I may start by promoting our www.xxxx.c o m website which is not a major brand of ours as I fear that we may suffer from some backlash from Google if we use our main www.xxxx.c o m brand as it already has a reasonably high Google search ranking.

Is there a danger any domain we promote via your service could be blacklisted by search engines in this way? if so, then I will go ahead with xyzxyz.com

Regards
Jon

I received no more replies despite sending it a number of times, nothing at all ?

You can draw your own conclusions from that.


INEEDHITS - Offer a quick hit (1000) service and they do for sure generate "hits" but that is all they do, literally. If you expect the "hits" to be visits or views from real people forget it. They obviously have an automated system , this is one of them (http://www.adv-adserver.com/tserve/itrafficserver.html?) that records a "hit" on your website, that doe snot record anymore than a 0 sec hit. Their customer service is 100% dreadful...but they take your money fast enough. So if all you want is to look at your StatCounter stats and see it go up then this is for you.

regards
jon