Small Business Owners: Horror Stories of Shady SEO Agencies
Small Business Owners,
First up - Not disclosing you are using CTR Manipulation or dangerous backlink-building processes to the client.
Have a horror story, share it in the comments and as always, feel free to argue or call me names in the comments.
Kicking off my series educating small business owners on how to avoid getting hosed by agencies and freelancers.
Listen to me........ Google wants the CTR click metrics to come from LOGGED IN GOOGLE ACCOUNTS. None of the CTR manipulation tools out their are using logged in accounts. It's worthless.
the directions. That would work.
You could hit the streets and hand out flyers with a QR code to
Also, you didn't black out his name in the first screenshot
Wait, so he admitted to doing something wrong and then edited his answer to say, "No, I'm not doing that"? lol
Sad to say, clients also ask to rank their GMB or website within short time!
How do you answer this question from a prospect: Where are these backlinks coming from?
Can I trust the backlinks Bright Local is selling?
What about The Hoth? Web 2.0?
How about the new AI generated click throughs manipulating GMB and website rankings? Will Google pick up on this? - I'm starting to see these "SEO" agencies pop up all over and I can't see Google liking it since it isn't real organic traffic....but it
can mimic it pretty close!
be a good thing for local service businesses. If you get a few good back links for the head term, that will help rank for the head term locally.
There is something I do on every client that I call the SEO core. You go in and you really optimize their homepage for what the website is about. Usually, it’s an h1, some keyword density stuff, and update their local schema. I think that backlinks can
Hohoho nseo exist lol... New debate...
After learning the little bit that I know now the website they built really sucked for SEO.
Learning about all this and actually doing it is a major pain in the ass, but I'll be damned if I'm going to get ripped off again. I paid web . Com $100 a month for probably 10 years, yeah I got some calls from the website here and there but not many.
