Rip-Off SEO Con Job Exposed: My Rant & Rave Against These Crooks
Run For Your Life (Grab Your Money, Too!)
I posted back in April of 2008 about an SEO firm that got fined by a Washington judge for ripping off clients because they “guaranteed” top ranking positions.
As I stated in that post … RUN FOR YOUR LIFE if any SEO consultant or agency promises you top rankings. NOBODY on this earth can ETHICALLY promise you that your targeted keywords will obtain top rankings! Plus, month after continuous month as so many of these unscrupulous people will claim.
Yes, it IS POSSIBLE to maintain top rankings for a very long time, but no ethical SEO consultant will ever make a flat-out promise like that. On a side note, I have written posts on this blog about my own real ranking examples and show you how I accomplished it.
Well … lookee here my friends … look what I innocently stumbled upon this morning while doing my usual research:
Take a CLOSE look at these screenshots. (Yes I have “protected the innocent” by blocking out certain bits of information.) Take a CLOSE look at what is stated and what the monthly fees are. Do you think this reeks of a con job?? I sure do.
The only thing I don’t get is the fact that top rankings (especially for keywords that really do receive traffic) cannot be guaranteed, thus within a very short amount of time, clients will likely see a drastic drop or total disappearance of their rankings. I know WHY he has to offer a guarantee (builds a comfort level for the potential client), but how CAN he offer a money back guarantee and stay in business very long?? Get my drift here?
I would think every (smart) client would end up DEMANDING a refund rather quickly!! Maybe there are enough gullible people out there that will continue to pay month after month, so he makes more money than he has to refund?? Beats me!!
Anyway … all he will be able to achieve for the long term is possibly top rankings for obscure keywords that have basically little to no competition (and also not being worth anything as far as generating traffic to the client’s website). Who is going to continue to pay for that, month after month?
This has GOT to be a fly-by-night type operation. You know, I am almost tempted to call this guy and see exactly what he is promising. I’d like to see how he will make this entire site rank highly over-night! And month after month, too! After all, this niche I’m in, the niche of SEO, is brutal competition-wise. (I cannot brag to you yet of many top rankings. I am being honest with you!)
Anyway, I just had to show this to you. The site looks genuine enough, but there isn’t one other page of information to it. Whatever link you click on, you stay on the same page. That kind of sends up a red flag, too.
And I, too, can write the most glowing of testimonials in a matter of minutes if need be (hint-hint).
Because I don’t want to see any new web owner get taken by SEO con artists like this guy … I am posting this to educate and alert you that whatever SEO consultant you are thinking about using, please make sure “top ranking guarantees” are NOT in that consultant’s vocabulary! 
