How to Avoid SEO Fraud: 5 Signs of SEO Fraud
How to Avoid SEO Fraud: 5 Signs of SEO Fraud
Fraud #1
Guaranteed Top 10 Listings within 10 Days
Scammers will either add your site to Google AdWords paid listings, and your site will show up in the sponsors section, which by the way anyone can pay for. Subsequently you will always pay this scamming firm more than you would pay to Google if you purchased AdWords paid listings by yourself directly from Google.
Secondly, they will get your site in Top 10 Search Engine Results for competitively low & unpopular keywords that you won’t even get any traffic from them.
Fraud #2
SPAM Email Offering Cut Price SEO Services
Most SPAM email offering SEO srvice use and anonymous email address, such as a Gmail address. These are get rich quick scams perpetrated by illicit companies in an effort to secure your hard earned money without any true intent of increasing your SEO rankings. DELETE these emails immediately!
Fraud #3
Automated SEO Submissions
It is still uncleaar to me what they (the scam artists) mean when they say "automated". Automated search engine submission services are 100% useless because of one main reason...99% of organic search engine traffic comes from Top 5 search engines: Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask & AOL. (60% to 70% of this traffic comes from Google.) Simply put to be listed in a favorable position other websites have to link to your website, but other sites will only link to your website if you have good content. "It's not enough to be a good guy, it is necessary that the others know about this."
Fraud #4
We submit your site to 1000+ search engines!
Simply because virtually all people use the top 5 search engines available today: Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask & AOL. 99% of organic search engine traffic comes from Top 5 search engines(60% to 70% of this traffic comes from Google.) That means the rest are rendered irrelevant and not worth the effort of exploring them.
Fraud #5
We bring you thousands of hits!
The number of visitors to your site is a more accurate method of measurement than keyword rankings. But along the way, some SEO vendors trick you into think that visits, page views and hits are the same. When they say they bring you hits, it means number of times an element on your site has been accessed: pages, images, scripts and so on. A simple email with images hosted from your site can register multiple hits from a single visitor. So it’s possible for someone to deliver hits without even visiting your website.



