Originally Posted by wankawonk

your money's better spent directly buying links and traffic. i've tried working with services like you're looking at; they're just not effective. it's guys with 2006 mindsets brokering nav-bar/sidebar/footer links like it's 2006.

Go buy some contextual blog posts (or even some black-hat link packages) and buy some traffic to build up your type-ins. you'll get much better ROI than you would giving your money to a SEO specialist.