kale71kale
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Quote: Can SEO Companies and Consultants Be Trusted?
We get a lot of inquiries about search engine optimization services from people who have been “burned” by bad SEO and are understandably cautious about working with another search engine marketing company or SEO consultant. The level of mistrust should be increasing since the New York Times exposed link spamming by some very high profile online retailers, most likely through paid links. Paid links are when someone pays a website for a link to their own for the purpose of improving search engine rank, a practice which Google considers webspam and can get a website banned.
There are plenty of scammers in the online marketing business and just as many unqualified practitioners who do not realize that they are clueless.
A while back, I wrote an article about how to choose an SEO that covered some ways to avoid black hat and otherwise shady SEO companies and consultants. I left a lot of things out, so now seems like a good time to throw a few more out there.
It is usually pretty easy to spot the really bad SEOs. They are the ones making wild promises of overnight top Google positions, guaranteed search engine rankings, and internet marketing success beyond your wildest dreams – all for a ridiculously low price. But even some of the more legitimate SEO companies should be seriously scrutinized. Some of them may... Continued at: http://www.sitepronews.com/2011/08/17/warning-signs-of-bad-seo-who-can-you-trust/
First share your opinion on this blog post and then add any addition info that was not covered. Your article is good and useful and eye opener for many who do not know much about the seo or internet marketing.
Yes moderator you are right these days there are so many seo professional who promise to bring the websites in top ten within few days or weeks using all bad and black hat techniques, which may effect the website in the long term.
There are also some very effective good ethical seo tips which also brings good result.Though it may take a few days more but ethichal seo techniques are good for the long term.
Many business man who are not aware about the internet marketing does not know what is black hat and what is white hat or ethical seo, they are caught in the web of the spammers and get their website banned by the google in some cases.
Instead of using spamming methods we should try to make our website a best source of the knowledge about the topic which website has.We should put unique and useful content in our website and articles sites as well.