Rooturaj's Blog

I am writing this review on Valentine’s day 2011. My first line of Advice.

Please do not buy anything from hydrabadgift.com

why do we send gifts? Why do we pay extra money to get them delivered on time? Why do we choose special occasions to send those gifts?

You know the answers to that. You are probably reading this review because you are going to do the same. This is Valentine’s day and I am pissed up since morning. I paid 550 Rupees for a bouquet and 200 Rupees more for Midnight delivery charges. Its 12 30 in the day and no delivery yet. How kool is that?

Here is my research on hydrabadgift.com

They have other sites like indianflowerplaza.com and are registered under the company Apex Flower Mart. All of them are shitty services like the above. they have two numbers displayed on different sites.

When I placed my order they took my call and assured me it will be delivered at midnight with probably 30 mins delay due to bad traffic in the worst situation. I mentioned clearly what date and time is it supposed to be delivered. Even then no action till now. After 6 pm the day of booking they switched off all the phones. They put them on for some time but do not answer any call. You simply go mad.

These are bastards of first order who are not only spoiling the Indian brand worldwide but breaking the trust of online buyers in India as well.

To avoid confusion here is the crap of a website they have.

So just in case you are considering to put any orders on these three sites. Watch out you will only be repenting and cursing yourself like I am doing now.

I am not being paid by anyone to write this. You can contact me anytime to verify my sanity and non alignment.

Finally if anyone from apex Flowers, India flower Plaza or Hyderabadgift.com is reading this – FUCK YOU BASTARDS. May your Valentine run away with your neighbour.

For all you link building professionals, website owners mystified by SEO, Newbie SEOs and others I am taking time to review another link building service. Generatebacklinks.com

I was on facebook and their ad banner caught my attention. I know almost all cheap SEO packages available are total crap. But it helps you to know what people in your industry are doing to lure more clients – so that you might find the loopholes and improve upon them.

So I follow the banner to their website and take a look the packages which are no doubt very attractive. Then I notice the Live chat option and give it a try. Someone named Jeany comes up to assist me. I make it from the language that she/he is an Indian compatriot even though the site is Western (or so they claim). Halfway through the chat I confirm that too.

I ask them how many different domains will the links be from and what kind of links. To which the agent answers 2000 links from 2000 different domains and all of them forum signatures. That sounds very generous to me for an investment of 10$.

Now I ask them about samples and the agent promptly sends me a link.
http://thecity.sfsu.edu/~csc313/bb/profile.php?id=90670
I see the link and jump – wow .edu links. Could I have asked for anything more? So Happily I say – ” I am bookmarking the site and I will come back to close the deal latter”.

But but Butt …..

My enthusiasm dies out as I go into my second phase of link analysis. I open that link and its a bloody profile page. With almost zero content which I am sure will be duplicated over 2000 similar pages.

I check the page for an index on Google and behold nothing there as well.
So I go back to the chat and the same agent comes up. Upon my enquiry if there will be any real forum posts or just profile links she/he says just those profile links. I explain how they are shitty for SEO as they are not indexed and she says many of their clients are benefiting from the service so I should also be benefiting. Thats a mugged up answer almost every bull shit SEO company gives in response to your arguments.

The agent even tell me about 5% of the links will be indexed. Pooh .. thats only 100 links out of 2000. Now by this time I am suppressing that demon inside me from getting inside the screen and strangling her/him by throat. Further the agent tells me I can get more benefit by making RSS feeds of those shitty links and bookmarking them as well.

Blah… you make me 2000 crapy links in 5 days and I spent months trying to get them indexed? How smart.

So there you go friends .. I have shared my thought and experience with you. I hope it will help you in deciding before you opt for an SEO package.

Cheers
Rooturaj

PS : By the way I tired to send myself a chat transcript and they have disabled the sumit button. But I copied it and you can see that below.