Top Ten Listing Guaranteed

Results of Their Top Ten Rankings

When they were done doing SEO on my site I went to Overture and reviewed search frequency. I saw about 200 clicks/ month (and only 3 of the top the listing terms in the group even listed as being searched for) between all the terms they had me listed in the top ten under. I have been told a good thumb rule to use is that Overture listing results are about 7% of the overall internet searches. I recognized doing the math that this would probably work out to less than 200 clicks a month. Any price for those clicks would be too much to pay. Every click counts, but 10 cents a click (paid a year in advance) for words that were not even highly targeted is not a good deal. Since they were inept and took 2 weeks to perform that inadequate top ten listing guarantee service (that they Guaranteed me Top ten Listings in one week), I demanded a full refund. From that day forward any internet optimization any of my sites have seen has been by me.

How Unethical SEO Firms Get Your Top Ten Listings

(What they did to fulfill the top ten listing guarantee.)

• submitted my site to Inktomi (which supplies backup listings to many other sites and is the primary for Hotbot, also backs up Overture and MSN)
• change the meta keywords tag and description tag to words that people were not actively searching for
• changed the file names of a few of my pictures
• change the associated image ALT tags to things they were not
• copied the meta description at the top and bottom of my page
• he also had me create a file that was named the same name as one of his bad keywords then link between the two using the same text each way
• I asked him if that was ok then what was to prevent me from duplicating the same page over and over, changing only the title name
• he liked that idea and the idea of me placing the same meta tag on every page for uniformity - this is the most stupiderest thing ever - and that's not even a word

• anyone who does not communicate with you throughout the process
• anyone who promises prompt results, good top ten listings typically take months to occur
• anyone promising you top ten listing without seeing your site (especially for only a few hundred dollars)
• anyone who does their traffic generation for your site using off site pages (when you stop paying the traffic goes away)
• anyone who uses invisible text
• anyone who's main change is only to the meta tag and they do not have you change the page itself
• anyone who recommends the arbitrary creation of new files
• also check to be sure that they are not using cloning or cloaking