The owner of Learn Speak Spanish, Johan, was very apprehensive when I presented the new method of promotion to him. But we have previously worked together on other sites and he knew that I always had quality advice. Finally on 28-01-2010, we decided to test a smaller package on his site which included 20 of everything.

We decided on 2 keywords, learn Spanish cheap and buy Spanish course. Both are pretty targeted keywords with some hefty competition. “Buy Spanish course” has 20 million competing pages and another had 1.5 million competing pages.

I will let the numbers do the talking:

To put it simple, IT BROKE EVEN THE HIGHEST EXPECTATIONS WE HAD!

For The keyword Buy Spanish Course :

• The site ranked NUMBER ONE, yes number one.
• Page one of Google had 3 of his pages listed
• Page two had 3 of his pages listed again.
• In total, within a few days, 17 of his pages ranked in top 500 positions. He OWNED Google for that term!

For the Keyword Learn Spanish Cheap :

• 1 Page one ranking
• 2 page 2 ranking.

In total, within a few days he had 24 pages ranked in the top 500 position.

The Package he bought can be seen here

This is what he had to say in the end:

Hi my name is Johan and I am an affiliate marketer.

I got in contact with Hari thru DP; I think I ordered some articles from him. It got to be almost 1 year ago. Anyway, since then I have been talking to Hari about IM. I knew he did SEO for clients, but since I’m a very skeptical person towards all kinds of SEO-services I never ordered SEO from him, or from someone else (I have been burned a couple of times. Money for nothing…)  So one day a couple a weeks ago when we were talking, he claimed that he got a package that took his client to #1st spot on Google. At first at laughed at him and said “yeah right…” coz I didn’t believe him. He said I should try it myself.

And guess what? I did. JUST TO PROVE HE WAS WRONG! I never thought I would make the first spot. I gave him my URL and keywords, waited a couple of days. And the work was done.

In a couple of days I had some web2.0 properties on first page which was linking to my site. And after 2-3 weeks MY SITE WAS ON FIRST PLACE FOR DESIRED KEYWORD. And if that wasn’t enough, I got web 2.0 properties on the first page as well, ALL linking to my site!

And I hate to admit it, but I was wrong, Hari was right. I’m got to #1^st place as Hari said. I’m defiantly going to order more from him!

The Package he bought can be seen here

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