Should I tell Google about this?

[Jude Vihervaara]

A friend of mine is running a webshop. A local seo-company contacted her with AdWords campaign. They made here an offer where they offered an AdWords campaign where they promise 1000 contact/page visits with €995 + VAT. My friend gave them my phonenumber and said to talk with me about it.

The representative of this company called me and told lots of things about AdWords without knowing that I know it quite well. She told me for ex. that there is only limited possibilities to buy a search term. She told me that only way to get better position is to create better ads. I even asked if there is somekind of bidding system, she denied it. And she sended me the offer and her signature said that she was "Qualified Google Advertising Professional". I have good reasons to believe that she isn't one.

She called me a second time and during our conversation I asked many questions about the AdSense system. Many times she was answering to my questions, she lied or didn't know enough about AdWords.

I ask your opinion, should I contact Google about this company?

[Crazy_Rob]

I ask your opinion, should I contact Google about this company?

I would just forget about it and move on. I get idiots like that calling me almost daily.

Sometimes I screw with them and other times I just cut them off, "NO thanks!" and then hang up.

If you do contact G, just let them know about the "Qualified Google Advertising Professional" claim.

[GuyFromChicago]

I ask your opinion, should I contact Google about this company?

What would Google do? To me it just sounds like someone trying to sell something they're not all that good at...people do it all the time.

Was the link to her GAP page valid?

[Sem-Advance]

You could but Google can do little but invoke caveat emporer

If she has a website where she claims to be Adwords Qualified then yes Google could do something if the claim is false.

Her name wasn't Janet was it???

South American sounding by any chance??

I would post all you can here so others won't be scammed by her.

[GuyFromChicago]

If someone's a Qualified Google Advertising Professional they have page from Google that will verify their qualification. If they can't show you that page there's a problem...

The page would look like this (https://adwords.google.com/select/ProfessionalStatus?id=ySmkdwzidEG41yhzx65ECA&hl=en_US).

[Jude Vihervaara]

Thing is that the company she represents is the biggest SEO company in this country.

[john269]

It seems as if they just want to make money out of you through the use of Adwords.

[Jude Vihervaara]

If someone's a Qualified Google Advertising Professional they have page from Google that will verify their qualification. If they can't show you that page there's a problem...

The owner of this company is Qualified, I know that, but the Qualifying page from Google says that his the only one. It's not saying that there is multiply individuals who's Qualified, just the owner. What I'm trying to ask, is it ok that someone is using Qualified Pro label and using it the signature when there is just one person in company who really is one.

[Sem-Advance]

Hi Jude

Well I would just ask Google what they think about SEO firms who cold call.

Be wary of SEO firms that send you email out of the blue. Amazingly, we get these spam emails too:
"Dear google.com,
I visited your website and noticed that you are not listed in most of the major search engines and directories..." Reserve the same skepticism for unsolicited email about search engines as you do for "burn fat at night" diet pills or requests to help transfer funds from deposed dictators.



Emails and I am sure Phone calls out of the blue.

While many companies cold call and lots of people boast of things they have not done, SEO cold calling seems alot like a lawyer cold calling...if they need to do that... then perhaps they are NOT so good.... that business finds them by itself like it does for others of us.

Most marketers do not need to cold call....Being the biggest doesn't mean you're the best....

http://www.google.com/intl/en/webmasters/seo.html


Hope it helps