Comments on: How SEO companies can rip you off. http://www.techwebmedia.com/2007/12/10/how-seo-companies-ripping-you-off/ SEO and web marketing company from Boston, MA Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:47:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Stop Waiting for SEO Heroes and Make Great Stuff | Scott Clark - Finding the Sweet Spot http://www.techwebmedia.com/2007/12/10/how-seo-companies-ripping-you-off/#comment-901 Stop Waiting for SEO Heroes and Make Great Stuff | Scott Clark - Finding the Sweet Spot Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:59:21 +0000 http://www.techwebmedia.com/2007/12/10/how-seo-companies-ripping-you-off/#comment-901 [...] spent on SEO despite the economic slow-down. I’m afraid, as described here, we’ll see more bad SEO from previously employed agencies, IT professionals, and, for goodness sake, stall muckers [...] […] spent on SEO despite the economic slow-down. I’m afraid, as described here, we’ll see more bad SEO from previously employed agencies, IT professionals, and, for goodness sake, stall muckers […]

]]> By: Sergey Rusak http://www.techwebmedia.com/2007/12/10/how-seo-companies-ripping-you-off/#comment-58 Sergey Rusak Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:24:17 +0000 http://www.techwebmedia.com/2007/12/10/how-seo-companies-ripping-you-off/#comment-58 I agree with you, we can't call this SEO... I agree with you, we can’t call this SEO…

]]> By: Yuri http://www.techwebmedia.com/2007/12/10/how-seo-companies-ripping-you-off/#comment-51 Yuri Wed, 12 Dec 2007 03:05:53 +0000 http://www.techwebmedia.com/2007/12/10/how-seo-companies-ripping-you-off/#comment-51 I hope you realize that you do a disservice to yourself and to the industry by painting SEOs black in an attempt to gain SEO clients? I'd suggest a better title "How to detect a SEO scam". It'd be more precise, since most SEOs I know are pretty good. In fact, the examples you listed are not SEOs, but scams. You shouldn't call them SEOs. SEO is someone who builds, improves and promotes a website with something valuable, using useful content and such. Cheating a customer is a fraud, really and it shouldn't be called SEO. I hope you realize that you do a disservice to yourself and to the industry by painting SEOs black in an attempt to gain SEO clients?

I’d suggest a better title “How to detect a SEO scam”. It’d be more precise, since most SEOs I know are pretty good.

In fact, the examples you listed are not SEOs, but scams. You shouldn’t call them SEOs. SEO is someone who builds, improves and promotes a website with something valuable, using useful content and such. Cheating a customer is a fraud, really and it shouldn’t be called SEO.

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