Comments on: 5 seo/smo services that promise, but don’t deliver

By: Play uk bingo

Play uk bingo — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:05:18 +0000

Very good and informative. I once fell for many of the ’services’ you mentioned. Seems silly now, looking back lol.

By: seema

seema — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:39:56 +0000

Your blog is very informative n helpful .. thanks…..keep it up.

http://www.seostep.net

By: Donna

Donna — Wed, 14 May 2008 03:47:25 +0000

Interesting and informative article. It is nice that you just come out and say it… BS services. Instantly made me want to read the whole article!

I don’t know what’s funnier, the search engine submission services or the SEO services. Really interesting to hear MikeTek’s inside story. When doing keyword research I often see bizarre long tail keyword phrases that I can’t imagine anyone really typing in. Lots of keywords repeated. It baffled me for a while and then I realized it was probably some BS SEO ‘expert’, with automated software, creating a false long tail keyword that of course no other site would ever optimize for - because they don’t make sense. Then hey, just put that fake long tail in the meta tags and presto… a #1 ranking in Google…. for something no real person ever searches on.

By: seo noob

seo noob — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:15:58 +0000

this article is very interesting find some idea reliable but some are not. i agree about social bookmarking it is true that you can gain traffics if you submit you link into it. thanks anyways for this very informative article.

By: Socially Declined

Socially Declined — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:27:16 +0000

I totally agree….Social Bookmarks aren’t as effective as so called “experts” believe. Why should you do the work when you can add the icon and have others do the work for you. That is what differentiates a senor from a junior.

By: maxyRO

maxyRO — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:21:17 +0000

When you have niche website, it’s better to target specific comunities, not mass audience such as digg or reddit. Nonetheless, occasionally you can try your luck with the big guys, by posting a really good piece of content. There are few niches where a linkbait can’t be done.

@MikeTek: thanks for the inside scoop.

By: windyridge

windyridge — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:15:14 +0000

I agree with most of what you said. Some social networks work pretty well for me. The lesser well known ones, such as Hypediss, Hugg and ILikeTotallyLoveit get me some decent traffic for my gadget blog. Forget the big guys tho’. And I am one of the top users in Bloggingzoom, but that doesn’t get me much traffic either. Social networks depend a lot on your niche. If you are into SEO and blogging many are fantastic for that. But I have a gadget blog, a farm and family blog and a blog about New York. They don’t lend themselves well to the big social networks.

By: MikeTek

MikeTek — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:30:59 +0000

Oh these are the worst. I used to work for a company that offered search engine submissions AND “guaranteed page 1 rankings.” It was pathetic, and I had to be a representative of it to pay my bills for almost a year!

Here’s how they did it:

-They guaranteed “50 Page One Google Rankings in Six Months” or your money back.

-They did some minor SEO on the site and constantly monitored the analytics for new keywords - obscure, long tail phrases, off-topic keywords, whatever came in from search engine referrals

-They added any unique keyword, even if it referred one visit in six months, to rank checking software (IBP in this case)

-They reported the “new page one rankings” as growth to the clients, most of whom were, unfortunately, not web savvy and were completely unaware of how they were being scammed

Of course, any client who took at look at what really mattered - their traffic, or, even better, their ROI - quickly realized that the growing number of page one rankings didn’t amount to jack squat.

And the agency is still pushing this! It’s pathetic…wish I could out them here so we could all share a laugh, but I don’t want to identify the company and get involved in some kind of slander case. Needless to say I’m relieved not to work there anymore.

By: Alina Popescu

Alina Popescu — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:59:31 +0000

Quite interesting article! I agree most of the services you’ve mentioned here are really promising the sky and the moon and never delivering. Except for social bookmarking sites. There’s a different story there. It depends indeed on your readers, your network of friends and what you described as a true nightmare can indeed happen. But it doesn’t always happen If you join the right communities and learn a little about each of them, you can actually have great results.

On the other hand, if you refer to services swearing to get you x traffic/clicks on your ads out of social media in no time, that’s a different story. Social media allows little control over content and results. One can merely hope to influence a little