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Top 10 Placement on 8 out of 10 Top Search Engines
I was contacted by a company that offered me that deal for $3000. Is it worth it or is it a scam?
The pitch sounded good and for $3000 they gauranteed top placement on 8 out of 10 search engines including Google, Yahoo, Excite, and Lycos to name a few. This sounds too good for only $3000 since the return would obviously surpass that amount in no time. Any thoughts?
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Thats a lot of money to shell out, you better check out the company and make sure they are for real.
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for wich keywords? and how much keywords?
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Guaranteeing top rankings is always a red flag. Guaranteeing on 8 out of 10 is more like a roadblock. My guess, is that all this company is doing is going to use pay per click search engines to get you those top rankings. Overture, Findwhat, Adwords and Lycos will be enough PPC engines to cover the majority of all the big search engines. By the sound of this pitch, they'll just pay 10-15c per click on low volume search keywords and "guarantee" you the top rankings. Either way, this is way too fishy for me. Ask for references and list of current keywords they have top listings for. WG
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I got the same call. It is not PPC but they do server redirects so only use domains that you can afford to lose. If you go for words that will pay you back the 3k expect your competitors to turn you in.
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sure,,,just place the money in an escrow account,,and they'll get it when the results are in.
No one will ever do that though. |
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I've seen such companies that offer such guarantees, yet they're on about the 10th page of the s.e.'s ..
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Can't guarantee any SEO, unless PPC of course.
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I will SEO for you..50 keywords for $600
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just got that same phone call from traffic-power. For 3000$, it's a heck of a price. I think, that if they want to come into the adult business, they have to be more open and truthfull. I ask them if they had any other tgps (I was contacted about Raven TGP, which is already number one on that term on google)...but wouldn't tell me in the name of fair competition
It might have been a very legitimate business but you have to be more professionnal in the way you expose yourself when you ask such a price. They have a top 10 list of business, that i have seen, but sorry, i was not impress...
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Google themselves will tell you NOONE can give you a placement on their search engine. They say 8 out of 10? One will not be google, so that leaves 9. If they pick un challanged keywords and link you up everywhere you might make it, but how's that a guarantee?
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Read the terms carefully because they only guarantee a few top ten listings. PS: There are a lot of good SE specialists here, but this company has 100 times the resources of all of them combined. I'll let you know how it goes.
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Oh, and I still have no link popularity.
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Yeah they aren't the most professional business out there. I think they're undergoing changes or something. They had a salesperson call me without even looking to see if I was already using them, lol. I said to the guy: "Is this a sales call?" He said yes and I told him to do his homework next time. ![]()
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Seriously though, let me know how you do with them. Although the image they gave from others in this thread doesn't sound that professional, I'd be interested to see if their traffic can speak better for them. WG
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I'll show you what they've done so far, just give me a sec.
Not that impressive though. I was originally going to try using you wired guy, but at the time you weren't taking on new clients.
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These same fuckers have been going down my client list (mainstream) contacting people, telling them that we didn't know what we were doing by saying we couldn't guarantee top 10.
They also gave the same pitch saying they are only one of 3 companies with this million dollar proprietary secret software that enables them to get the top 10 spots. I'd like to get ahold of these fuckers!
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Anyway here's the stats: 5 listings 2 in google both in top ten 2 in netscape one in top ten(I didn't even know there still was a netscape) 1 in cnet With no link popularity. Their user interface is cool at least. Here's a small example: ![]()
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From what I understand, traffic-power.com is banned from Google because of spamming. If you search their site, it won't list on Google at all. That says a lot about a company that boasts they can get you on the top 10 in no time.
I got a recent call from another company that is publically traded and offered the same deal for $1500 a month. They sounded a lot more legit. Just my - Buyer Beware and be sure to research before spending that kind of loot!
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In regards to the stats, what they're showing you just looks like usage logs from webalizer (ex: http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/sample/). Nothing really fancy about it, its just a nicer template than the generic ones Webalizer provides. As for the results they are getting for you, I'm sorry to say its all the same listings. Netscape's listings are provided by Google. So a #1 ranking on Google means number one on Netscape automatically. Same for C|Net, provided by Google. So in reality, they've got you 2 rankings, not 5. WG
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I'm glad I only did a small test campaign with them, that's for sure!
I still feel like I'm getting fucked of course. ![]()
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don't even have control over those key words/phrases. Further down you can see the *.to redirect domains being used to sell their bullshit service. They are obviously bait-fishing for domain owners and not webmasters or SE gurus. Send them a reply email with the Google link to "traffic power" and tell them if they can get on page 1 you'll give them (little finger in mouth) ONE MILLION DOLLARS!
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You're right about SEO's too. That's how most the people on this board make their livings I would guess. I just got off the phone with them and they said another 4 weeks and their pages should be indexed. I'll let everyone know how it goes, but I think it would be better to do it on your own anyway. That way you keep all your domains, scripts etc. When/ if I stop using these guys I'll have nothing to show for it.
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They are not indexed by google.
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sounds like bullshit to me.
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good post..!!
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sounds like a scam to me
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I can probbly get you the listings you want for much cheaper...
ICQ me...
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The funniest part of this whole ordeal so far was when THEY gave ME the list of keywords they were going to use, lol.
I called them up and told them they were full of shit, and we changed some of the keywords. I also remember in the very beggining saying to them that there was no way they could get a first page listing for a term like :sex toys and they agreed with me. ![]()
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Well Raven tgp got around 10-15 hits days with google+netscape and sometimes yahoo. So, your stats Dave are very enlighting... The fact that they aren't even listed on google is a thumbs down, all way down...
The sad part is that she have two of my e-mails and my phone number, and i will ask her to delete them. Gee...i just can't beleive the price tag.
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they contacted me too, although they quoted me $2000...my only concern is someone who is good at SEO is gonna make lots of dough, that they offer a service, it's either very hahahahahaha-cutter formula style or limited in scope |
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I actually searched them out before they started doing those sales calls. They prefer to do massive campaigns obviously, but I'll be able to tell whether or not they are any good with my small test campaign of 20 keywords.
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I'd rather just spend a little elbow grease and do the research myself. It's amazing what can be learned from boards and other tutorial sites.
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