If You Use Fiverr - Watch Out for Scammers

**DRK** · 06-19-2011, 08:02 AM

Some of you may or may not know about fiverr.com. For those of you who don't it's a place where you can buy and sell services for $5.

Many people use it to buy cheap SEO services. You need to be aware that there are many scammers on there though.

I know this from not only personal experience but I have had people approach me to do Joint Ventures with them doing just that. Obviously I said no.

Here's some tips:

-Always use people who have a lot of positive feedback. You'd think that's all there is to it but these guys are good at tricking newbies.

-Avoid mass spam services like profile and blog commenting unless you're going to backlink a buffer site (a page that links to yours that is not your domain).

-When you receive your report make sure you check that all of your links are live. I've seen many people that send fake reports and a lot of people just accept it as work done.

-If you're not happy don't give a review yet. There's a link in the messaging area that says got problems? Use that and try and get the person to deliver the work promised. Worse comes to worse file a complaint to fiverr. It won't stop them from creating another account but it slows them down.

Bottom line is there are many scammers out there when it comes to SEO services. It's not just online either. I find a lot of them with the local SEO work that I do. Pisses me off to no end.

Hope that helps. Fill free to PM me if you have any questions.

**mikesmith** · 06-20-2011, 02:47 AM

Thank you for some interesting tip... Although i have already hared of Fiverr but i never consider it as with 5 USD you should at most expect 5 USD and itself specially SEO work for 5 USD is nothing not even to the countries like INDIA!!

**IfrahimM** · 06-28-2011, 04:30 AM

Thanks for that alert, I had seen about this kind of services on some other forums and planned to buy one as far as it is low cost, but it seems, it sometimes may do harm to my site due to excess links, I have to be alert. Cheers for the message.

**juliettelixora** · 06-28-2011, 04:50 AM

the worse thing about this is that you have paid for the wrong services. And put your site into a jeopardize scenario because some of them might be using black hat SEO practices.