Google's Become Very Kind To Me and I Don't Know Why
Last Update: June 27, 2012
Hot as hell today here. And what goes with hot? A robo call from an SEO company that wants me to update my Google listing. All I have to do is press 1.
What else goes well with hot as hell? Two robo calls from SEO companies. The second robo call started with: Google wants your site to be number 1. We are associated with Google and can make sure your site is #1.
Isn't Google nice to me today?
Perhaps to make up for the heat advisory?
I'm hoping none of you guys make such calls, such claims. By the way, among other things I do, I do SEO for some local businesses. Been looking for a white label SEO reseller program... but don't trust none I've found. They still sell hundreds of article backlinks and call them powerful.
I see myself more of a consultant than a hands on SEO/Marketer. If these calls started with some reasonable words... 'Hi (you must always start with a greeting with me, even if you're a robot). Would you like more targeted traffic to your site? We specialize in getting webpages found in Google..."
If they had started with something like that, I'd have called them back and tried to set up an agreement whereby I find the clients, determine their needs and, if the needs require SEO, they do it. You know, they want $500 a month, so I tell my client $1,000. They make what they want and I make what I want.
This is not the first time I get those very messages, so I must assume that they work. And I must pity the poor business owners who press 1.
The amount of energy put into these misleading campaigns is equal to what's required to run honest to goodness campaigns. Yet, the honest to goodness ones would produce longer lasting results. How come so many SEO companies don't know it?
Do you know it?
What else goes well with hot as hell? Two robo calls from SEO companies. The second robo call started with: Google wants your site to be number 1. We are associated with Google and can make sure your site is #1.
Isn't Google nice to me today?
Perhaps to make up for the heat advisory?
I'm hoping none of you guys make such calls, such claims. By the way, among other things I do, I do SEO for some local businesses. Been looking for a white label SEO reseller program... but don't trust none I've found. They still sell hundreds of article backlinks and call them powerful.
I see myself more of a consultant than a hands on SEO/Marketer. If these calls started with some reasonable words... 'Hi (you must always start with a greeting with me, even if you're a robot). Would you like more targeted traffic to your site? We specialize in getting webpages found in Google..."
If they had started with something like that, I'd have called them back and tried to set up an agreement whereby I find the clients, determine their needs and, if the needs require SEO, they do it. You know, they want $500 a month, so I tell my client $1,000. They make what they want and I make what I want.
This is not the first time I get those very messages, so I must assume that they work. And I must pity the poor business owners who press 1.
The amount of energy put into these misleading campaigns is equal to what's required to run honest to goodness campaigns. Yet, the honest to goodness ones would produce longer lasting results. How come so many SEO companies don't know it?
Do you know it?
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Renni
Premium
Yeah...my local clients get calls from other SEO companies all the time and I guarantee they would not put in the work that I do. They tell outright lies about the sites like there is insufficient backlinking. That's one thing I definitely concentrate on. I guess they want to offer the million auto-backlinks I don't get involved with - I like the backlinks to be legitimate. In fact, before I joined WA, I got a call like this as a client myself and they wanted $200/month (which I guess is cheap by today's standards) but they didn't really do anything to really get the site promoted or offer me any good advice. Most talk a good game but are rip-offs and we have to compete with them - and they obviously have enough money to run a good marketing campaign. Maybe they don't really know how to run an honest campaign. Maybe I should promote WA to them when they call! heehee
DABK
Premium
I get a lot of SEO companies contacting me about particular sites I own or my clients' sites. They tell me they could get me to #1 for abc keyword, and I'm already #1 for that keyword.
They tell me I need to submit my site to the top 100 search engines. They'll do it for a measly $70.
They tell me my to put in my url in the tool they attached so as to find out my SEO score. Then they show me scores on 72 categories, 60 of which have nothing to do with nothing.
And my page scores 3 of of 100 on 59 of them, and 37-53 on the others.
None of them tell me what they propose will get me traffic, let alone leads and sales are 100% out of the question.
They tell me I need to submit my site to the top 100 search engines. They'll do it for a measly $70.
They tell me my to put in my url in the tool they attached so as to find out my SEO score. Then they show me scores on 72 categories, 60 of which have nothing to do with nothing.
And my page scores 3 of of 100 on 59 of them, and 37-53 on the others.
None of them tell me what they propose will get me traffic, let alone leads and sales are 100% out of the question.
nathaniell
Premium
"The amount of energy put into these misleading campaigns is equal to what's required to run honest to goodness campaigns."
I've always thought this. In the time it takes to try to successfully trick someone, you could just be honest and end up with something decent at the end.
I've always thought this. In the time it takes to try to successfully trick someone, you could just be honest and end up with something decent at the end.
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