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*DISCLAIMER: I AM IN NO WAY ASSOCIATED OR AFFILIATED WITH THE COMPANY MENTIONED IN THE BELOW POST.
Hi all,
Ok, I received this newsletter from a reputable web newsletter which was advertising this SEO product.
Visit: SEO software: website promotion, submission, ranking and marketing tools
Now, read the stuff on the website.
They're so confident that they say "Guaranteed top 10 rankings" or they'll refund your money.
Anyone tried such stuff before? I'm thinking of buying it cos' it's really too good to be true!
Imagine....I try for keywords like "funny t-shirts" and my website comes up within the top 10 results on Google!
Any advice, opinions, comments etc are highly welcomed!
Thanks!
Xeon | |  | |  | |
that's an outright lie. How can they 'guarantee' top results without knowing what search keywords you want to rank for?
what if you wanted to be top 5 for "britney spears'? Theres no way in hades they could pull that off. "britney spears" is one of the top 5 searched phrases on google year after year. The top site for that phrase gets literally-- millions-- of daily hits from search engines. So I know their claim is already a very overblown statement w/o them asking what words you want to rank a site well for.
Sure they might be able to pull it off for MUCH less competitive phrases, but to make a blanket statement that they gurantee a top 10 or 20 ranking is just wrong. It reeks of 'baiting' n a bad way. The only people in the world who can guarantee you top rankings that are the people who run each of the search engines--- and I doubt they are in the biz of making individual websites. certainly the folks making websites for a living cannot gurantee anthing to do with a search engines rankings or results unless they are working for the SE's themselves.
To me, that has the distinct smell of a scam to get people to part with their money. Just like those old barkers at a fair claiming to sell a tonic that regrows hair -- GUARANTEED. Yeah, sure it is.
For example, if they were truly able to "gurantee top rankings" for all keywords, they would already be millionaires themselves -- many times over. Just by creating their own sites and being #1 for the most popular google seaches like "american idol", "britney spears", paris hilton", etc, etc. They would design those sites around using the google adwords campaign, and get paid by the click from google.
So if that company is as good as they claim, they wouldn't have to lie to you and sell "seo designed websites" for a living, they would be cashing in on the easy money from their own top ranking sites. Those kinds of sites generate hundreds of thousands of dollars weekly in advertising money paid from google. make sense?
so their claim sends up instant red flags in my mind. I dont see their company anywhere in the top 30 for mosty of the SEo related keywords for their industry.
when I searched for "SEO design" or "seo rankings" in google, their company's website was nowhere near #1-#10? Not even in the top 50 before I stopped searching. Of course according to their claims, they can gurantee that, right? I guess the guarantee doesnt apply to themselves. If they can NOT do this for their own business, should you trust thenm to do it for your biz? Clearly not. You'd think they'd be talented enough to do it for their own keywords, right?
So you have to ask yourself: why arent they in top 10 themselves? If they arent capable of promoting themselves the way they claim to do for you, then youre definitely looking at a scam of some sort. I didnt dig deep enough into it to find out or google what other webmasters think of their claims. But if you trot off to webmasterworld.com and search their site for "ibusinesspromoter.com", im sure they will already debunked the claims there in detail.
To put look at that another way: would you have a guy design your tshirts, who is himself wearing an ugly tshirt design that promotes his own biz? I sure as hell wouldnt. But your sense of trusting a stranger may be greater than mine. ;o)~
Also, these so called 'internet marketing firms' that make such claims use what is called 'blackhat SEO' to get your site up in the rankings. What that means is they are knowingly cheating google by providing "doorwaypages" for google to see that human visitors don't.
In otherwords, once google finds out that your site is doing things totally against it's terms of service, they WILL ban your site totally from their indexes. You will no longer exist at all in the Search engine.
And trust me on this, your competitors will turn your site designed by them in to google asap, if they see your site "suddenly rising" into the top places where it never was before, and breaking the TOS. I turn in my cheating competitors every morning to all the major search engines, after I check the status of sites I have designed and SEOed. No one should be able to "cheat" google and profit from it. The ones that "magically" rise to the top from out of nowhere, are almost always violating the SE's TOS, and are simple to get banned by emailing the engines.
dave
here's a link for you to read up on:
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White hat versus black hat"section in this wiki: Search engine optimization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia