We file errors the way a library files misprints: by type, so you can spot the next one before it reaches the shelf.
Most mistakes are not clever. They come from hurry, from a spreadsheet nobody rechecked, or from a number that looked good in a column.
People who read forums about links, then place a first order the same evening, tend to repeat the same handful of errors. We list them here with the correction beside each, so the fix is as easy to find as the fault.
Open the checklist at the bottom of this page before every order. It takes a minute and catches most of the damage.
Read left to right: the mistake is the title, the fix is the text.
Fix: open the page. A high number on an off-topic site is a weak choice next to a modest number on a close one.
Fix: vary the anchor text naturally, and let some links use your brand name or a bare URL.
Fix: space orders across weeks so the profile grows like a real one.
Fix: link to the page that answers the reader's question, because that is where a click makes sense.
Fix: check each row by hand, and read why such lists decay.
Fix: look at the live link after placement. Our placements are dofollow, but verify what you paid for.
Fix: wait for Google to recrawl, then watch Search Console for the target page over several weeks.
Cheap is not the sin. Unexamined is.
A buyer with $300 who puts it all into thirty $10 links on unrelated sites has bought thirty things nobody will read, while the same money might have funded six links on sites in the right niche. Neither plan promises a result, but the second is easier to defend.
The numbers are an example, nothing more. See what a link costs for ranges.
In a dated example, a cautious buyer might start with the lowest-priced rows from $1 and read each result before scaling up. That costs little and teaches a lot about how placements look once live.
Watch, then write down. The placement appears in ordered links with its status, and once it is live you open the page and look at it.
Check four things: the link points to the right URL, the anchor reads naturally, the article makes sense for a human, and the page is indexable. If something is wrong, tell support before you order more.
Then wait. Google needs time to recrawl, and then more time to weigh what it finds. Judge the target page in Search Console over weeks, and remember that other changes you made on the site muddy the picture. For the metrics side, read how to inspect a donor.