After consulting via PM with some of Steve's other customers, I stuck my toe in the water with his smallest mininet. It's been just ten days, and the KW has already moved from #17 to #10 in MicrositeMasters, (#9 in RankCheckerAce) -- and one of the biggest assets has yet to go live.
I should add that the links aren't even all hammering at the anchor charted above; in consultation with Steve they are diluted at least 50% with a selection of branding, generic and ancillary KWs.
In any event, Steve's communication is excellent and speed is fantastic: the sites get built like clockwork. And he doesn't skimp on sharing his expertise. If, like me, you could benefit from talking w/someone with many years of SEO under his belt it would almost be worth buying one of his services simply for the opportunity to consult with him.
FYI, this review was not compensated in any way (and he doesn't know I'm giving it.) Anyway, Steve gets my highest recommendation, particularly if you're looking for a whiter-hat way to rank client sites that lets you skip the part where you apologize for wrecking their business.
Update of Barack's stable rankings:
More recent results from a smaller Mininet with a multiple keywords used only a few times each, plus some generics mixed in to avoid over-saturation.
Google.co.uk was the target, here:
(note the format is DD/MM in these charts; all are October 2012)
WickedFire member throwing33 gets huge traffic increases from the SERP increases I get him:
throwing33;1901184 said:Here's a site I've been working with Steve on for the last few months:
October still has a week left, too.
Long term SERP chart from a client who wanted to stay anonymous on here:
Here's an AdSense site I worked with metalhead on starting around the end of May.
As my SERP increased my average daily visitors went from around 100 per day to more then double that.
