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So Alex PMed me, and acted in a very professional way, showed no emotions even though I bashed the shit out of his service.

....

My complaints were dealt with the utmost professionalism.

Will I order again? Definitely.

Wow... I'm an truly and utterly humbled.

I thought that there was no chance you'd ever want to work with us again. I just wanted to right our wrongs.

Thank you so much for giving us a second chance and make right by you. Clearly it was worth the effort :)

Happy holidays man. Looking forward to working with you in the future.
 


Spoke with Alex a few times by phone and the guy conducts himself well. Very professional and on point with his knowledge. Very open with me as far as his expectations and advice for a few campaign ideas I have. Placed my order and will be keeping an eye on the results.
 
Want to Know More About Our Content Standards?
Check This Out


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NseYzHtslE"]Watch it here on youtube.[/ame]​

Inside I talk about...

  • How we screwed up Pr0xyhub's order (and how we fixed it).
  • What EXACTLY are our content standards?
  • What is our roadmap for HOTH content
  • Our upcomming Christmas sale!

See Examples of our Content Here.
Judge for Yourself if its up to Your Standards.​
 
nice cause, just ordered some. I've had good luck stopping the google dance with these links, hopefully they'll work some magic again.
 
Just a quick heads up-

We're at about 20 hours (of 48) of our Christmas Sale.
We've already raised $210 for Charity water, enough to
give 10 kids clean drinking water!

If you haven't made an order yet, please do so here

Even if you don't want to place an order, please help us
reach our goal of $5000 to give 250 kids clean drinking
water in Africa. They will die without it.

Please donate to our charity water campaign here
or
Place an order at our Christmas 2010 sale - save $30
and we'll donate $10 to Charity:Water on your behalf.
 
order completed on the 10th, was waiting for some results before i post.

to be honest, i had my doubts about this too... for the first 14 days or so, i didn't really see much movement and was kind of disappointed.

then i got impatient and took the top level links (along with some other parasites) and blasted them in DFB (2000/day).

i just checked today and the screenshot of the main keyword is attached. it will speak for itself :)

since alex and team is making the effort and promise to increase the content quality as described in video and post, i would order again. content quality is important and it's nice to see how the previous situation was addressed
 

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Received my report. First time I've had any link building done and I like what I see so far. A little premature to judge results but based on what has been delivered I'm sure it wont be long before things start moving. Will buy again.
 
Ok so I ordered a 5HOTH back in November.

Before hand I was floating around 7 and 8 on the SERPs and now I hover between 1, 2 and 3.

In fact there are probably even more juice coming that I haven't received yet.

All reported links seems to work and content was of reasonable (good enough) quality.

I would happily order again.



Transaction id: 9MA728240R3605628

Can I has iTrader?
 
Ok so I ordered a 5HOTH back in November.

Before hand I was floating around 7 and 8 on the SERPs and now I hover between 1, 2 and 3.

In fact there are probably even more juice coming that I haven't received yet.

All reported links seems to work and content was of reasonable (good enough) quality.

I would happily order again.

Transaction id: 9MA728240R3605628

Can I has iTrader?

Thanks for the review! iTrader coming right up.
 
Review

We made an order on the 9th Dec for 5 HOTH. There was a mistake in the confirmation email sent out the next day saying the order was 1 HOTH, not five, which further took till the 13th to be told it was a typo. The report was delivered on the 17th, so an 8 day turnaround.

The deliverables

Wordpress Blog

So we are coming close to a month on this. Site explorer shows 4 links to the wordpress blog. Webmaster tools does not register we even received a link from this blog. All of the pitiful four links are from forum profiles.

The content of the blog posts was not checked, it was taken from other sources and spun. We offer a free service on our site, yet one of the articles says we cost 'less than $10' and another part of the article says we 'cost less than $50'.

Imagery for the posts is well chosen.

Blogspot Blog

As with wordpress, the site does not show up in webmaster tools. What is more pathetic is site explorer shows up one incoming link - from itself.

Squidoo

The lense doesn't even show up in site explorer, nor does it show up in webmaster tools. We have purchased lenses after our HOTH package and all of them have been indexed and show up.

Article Submission

So the report email says they send out article submissions once per week. I have received exactly zero emails about article submission reports.

The Verdict

Worst $200 I've ever spent on SEO. The service was friendly but slow to respond. The articles were not written by anyone who had anything to do with Alex, as shown by the mistakes made in the articles which said we were a paid service. The turnaround time was mediocre.

The only thing which should matter - the results - are nowhere to be seen. We have received exactly ZERO visible backlinks from our $200. The squidoo, wordpress and blogspot have also shown absolutely no authority either.
 
Insomniac,

Thanks for your detailed review.

Can you please send me your Order ID so
I can look into it myself?

Unfortunately, I believe there were some
major misunderstandings in terms of expectations.

I will do my best to clarify here, and hopefully
you'll send me your Order ID and we can sort
it out in greater detail in private.

Regarding Indexing, YSE & Google Webmaster Tools

With regard to YSE, they are notorious for
picking up links very slowly. There are pages
we've HOTHed multiple times and seen
increases in SERPs multiple times, that show
very little in YSE. To be completely honest,
I have no explanation for why this is.

Webmaster Tools is an even less reliable
back-link checker.

Again, I'd like to know your order ID so I can
check if your properties got indexed, and if not,
we'll run them through the indexing module again.

We can work to get your properties indexed
by Google, but we can't guarantee how individual link
checkers will treat them.


Regarding Article Content

The articles were not written by anyone who had anything to do with Alex, as shown by the mistakes made in the articles which said we were a paid service

The articles written, were written by the
writers employed by us and not by someone else.
If there are any issues, I will accept full
responsibility for them.

Regarding your second statement, "the articles said
we were a paid service..." - this doesn't make any
sense to me.

The articles we write are not supposed to be about
you, your company, or your website. They are just
supposed to be articles relevant to your niche.

Our goal is contextual relevance, not sales copy.

It is possible that our writer encountered one
of your articles in their research and chose to
rewrite it. If so it was purely by coincidence and
it is the first time its happened in 450+ orders.
If you'd like, I'd gladly have them create another
article for you without any mention of your company.

I'm sorry if we were in any way unclear or misleading
about our content standards. I actually made a post to
clarify this a week or 2 ago. If you have a minute,
check out our Explanation of Content Standards here.

Regarding Article Reports

Article submissions are *batched* weekly, but this does
not mean that you get a report every weak.

In all of our sales content, we've always said "you'll
get your article report ~2 weeks after your authority report."

If you got your Authority Report on 12/17, then you'll
be getting your article soon. Probably by end of week.

Regarding Effectiveness

As I've said before, we are a link building service.
We do not control all aspects of a site's SEO. As a
result, we win some and lose some. Before your post,
these were 2 reviews with positive SERP reports.

I'm sure there will be more of both in the future.

I am truly sorry that you didn't see the value in your
HOTH order. Please keep in mind, you still have articles
being submitted and I would expect them to have an impact.

All in all, the concerns here have more to do with a
confusion in expectations than actually poor service.

I would love to help you out and look into your order more
thoroughly to make sure there were no actual errors.

Just email me with your order id @ Alex@HOTHTactical.com


Thanks,

AP


 
Alex, I love your use of large font and different colors in your response to make sure your post is larger than my review. I find it interesting how all of your responses to negative feedback in this thread do the same thing, yet all of your other posts avoid it. Very classy. I can do that too.

As for your comments about YSE and webmaster tools. As of the original order date the site shows exactly zero backlinks in both. The site was brank spanking new. Due to my other efforts, and making a news article, the site now shows 901 external links from other sites on YSE and 438 in webmaster tools. None of those links originate from a HOTH.

Remember, none of the links YSE or webmaster tools shows existed on the 9th as the site was brought online on the 8th.

In regards to the articles. The writer should understand when writing an article, mentioning two different prices twice is a bad idea, regardless of how poor it is to refer to a free service as paid. Understand I'm not complaining about the quality of writing, I'm complaining about the serious lack of thought put into the writing.

Oh wait.. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME. I just did a search for some text in one of the articles on the wordpress:

One of the best ways of tracing the owners of cellphone numbers is to conduct the reverse lookup cell phone number where you can get relevant results like the name of the subscriber, its address and location, and other contact details among many others. This kind of lookup, using the reverse method to trace the owners of an unregistered number that shows up on your cell phone, is best in stopping the very annoying prank calls done by various pranksters.

On some occasions, this is best in finding out the owners of those unregistered numbers that your relationship partner constantly received or called on; thereby resolving relationship issues early on if ever it exists. In other cases, this is also useful during special events and occasions in your life, such as birthdays and anniversaries, wherein you constantly receive text greetings from people whose numbers are not yet registered in your cellphone; and you want to thank them using their first names for their warm greetings on your special days.

Having so many ways where you can significantly benefit from performing the reverse lookup cell phone number, it would be best to select an option where you can simply do the procedures with ease; that allows you to conduct process several times in a year with much convenience on your end.

These requirements can be achieved by using the online solution for this quest; by taking advantage of several online services that allow you to trace cellphone numbers to its owners and get instant results. Most of these facilities usually have different plans to offer; based on your need and preferences.

If you want to perform the reverse lookup cell phone number only once, then you can choose the pay per search plan which will only cost you less than $10; however, if you want to conduct another search in the future then you will incur the same expenses again

If you think that you will have to perform the same procedures, several times in a year, on various units during several occasions, then it would be best for you to get the annual membership plan that allows you to have unlimited searches on many mobile units within the paid period. This option will only cost you less than $50 for all the aforesaid benefits; aside from the convenience it offers.

In any case, you have your options as stated herein; just choose which method and which plan is ideal for your quest to conduct the reverse lookup cell phone number.

That links to this ezinearticle as the first result

Reverse Lookup Cell Phone Number to Trace Cellphone Owners

That article was written on the 10th of fucking march. Fuck am I pissed now at your lying ass. YOUR WRITER DIDN'T EVEN WRITE THE FUCKING ARTICLE HIMSELF.

Don't try bullshitting me that I shouldn't have expected the article to be unique. YOU DIDN'T EVEN SPIN THE FUCKING THING BEFORE REPOSTING A NINE MONTH OLD ARTICLE.
 
Insomniac,

With all due respect, in almost all of the posts
in this thread I do my best to write in short
sentences, use descriptive headings, and apply
color to distinguish where necessary.

Some people have made fun of the practice, but
I find that it makes it easier to scan through an
otherwise, intimidating block of text.

I do apologize if you've taken this as some sort
of diversion or method of disrespect. I assure you,
it is anything but that.

With respect to the article you posted, I agree that
this looks really bad.

Here's the thing though-

I need your order ID, otherwise I have no way of
looking up the order and looking into it for you.

Please understand that I have no disrespect or
animosity towards you. I'm doing my honest
best to help you.


I posted a reply to most of your concerns here, as
well as a private message where I offered to help
with your order. Please help me help you by sending
me your Order ID so I can look into it and actually
help resolve the issue.

I cannot stop you yelling and berating me in this thread.
But I definitely can't offer any help without your
Order ID.

Looking forward to your email/pm.

Thank you.

-AP
 
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