Plz Help!!!!!!!! My Client go to sue against me

Hello Guys,

Plz help me. 7 months earlier I agreed with my client to bring his casino site in top 10 ranking for the following keywords.(his site is casino related)

gambling, online casino, casino, online gambling, online casinos etc.

But now some of my keywords under 100 and some of coming under 250 in google.com.

We have work a lot on this site. Now my client saying that, he is going to sue against me because we wasted his 6 months time.

How will I understand my client about competition of this niche?
how will I prove that, It is justified in 6 months with a new domain.

thanks

 

erm, did you sign a contract? did you give any timescales?

if you promised to deliver within 6 months, and signed a contract to this effect, he WILL sue you. if not, he probably can't.

tell me, what methods did you use in your SEO campaign?

 

I have signed in a digital contract (PDF file).

 

Perhaps he might be happy with a (partial) refund?

 

You should know before u are accepting that project...now no option is available for you but still u can tell your probs to client may be he can understand...best luck

 

i believe it may be illegal to promise specific rankings. I'd check out if this is the case in your country.

 

Did you really agree to get someone in the top 10 for these extremely competitive keywords on a brand new domain?

Did you specify in the contract any timeframe or what would happen if you failed to deliver what you promised?

It's difficult for anyone to advise you without knowing which country's laws will apply to this contract and the specific details of the contract. You may be better off getting legal advice somewhere if you cannot resolve this problem.

 

It really all comes down to the contract.

It would to be a safe course of action to start gathering your analytics to the site and be ready for anything in case he/she does pursue that course of action.

There is something that you can lean on and that is the third party here that would automatically be considered in your contract.

You cannot control the outcome of Google because you do not work for them nor can /will you ever be able to legally summon their algorithm because...that's never going to happen.

You can basically blame the unknown factor here for the failure as it seems to be which is Google.

Outside of that realm that's really the only fall back that I would know to use as a defense against this type of lawsuit but again it really all comes down to what you put on that contract.

It might be worth the price just to have an attorney look over the contract to see if they can find you a loop hole.

 

If you have signed the contract then it can only be resolved by a refund otherwise if there is no contract or by word of mouth he cannot sue you. However, keep in mind not to take projects which are tough to achieve.

 

We haven't received even a penny from the client. Our agreement was whenever the site get top ranking he will pay. this was the agreement.

 

I haven't received any money from him. We were working with our resources since last 7 months. The agreement was whenever the site got top 10 ranking he will pay the money.

 

Look there is a cut throat competition in casinos,gambling sites in internet marketing.
In the first case u should not commit him to get top position.Rather u should have assured him that u willl try to put ur best.
Fine nothing can be done for past.
Now what u can do is u can simply show the plus points or the sires achievements which u have made in last six months for ur site such as some baclinks, some traffic.
And i think to promote ur casinos site link exchange is the best option.Give much stress on it.

As per my opinion if u r dealing with a foreign client i dont think u'll b able to retain him.Sorry to say that but instead of wasting ur time in convincing him u better search for a new one.

 

If you haven't been paid at all for the work you already did, then I don't see what he can sue you for. If anything you should be telling him off for not being clear on when he was going to pay. Sounds like your employer is a scammer that wanted to get the work done for free.

 

I agree, that's what i think... If he hasn't paid you, then you'll not have to worry anything.

 

Gambling keywords are very competiive and it is impossible to achieve top 10 rankings with a new website. You shouldnt have agreed to this in the first place. Not only for this keyword, any sufficiently competive keyword cannot be within first ten spots in search results, especially if the website is new, you made mistake, just show him the tasks you did for the past few months to get him top rankings. That should suffice because it would prove you have done your due diligence in the contract.

 

Wow, I feel you! and I sure don't want to be in your shoes right now.
I would talk to a lawyer and see how he/she can spin this around.

 

Any suit would have to prove damages.

he could show that not having his site up for those 6 months cost revenue, but that is really weak.

walk away. online gaming is a horrible niche to try to rank in. sounds like a huge jerk as well.

also, don't do spec work. they have no skin in the game and therefore won't respect you as a professional.

 

As you didn't charged him single penny, he cannot sue you. However, you can still ask for the charges after all you have spent hours doing SEO on his website. If he is saying he is going to sue you then it is pointless because he haven't paid you a single buck!!!

 

How you could agree that you can bring website in top within a specific time where nothing in your hand except to play in short of areas.

You are not google or yahoo or bing so can give them guarantee that you would make the site in top pages within a time.

And look at the industry, a highly saturated area where you are as a small fish in the whole sea.

Its not to have business in real time but its efficiency to deliver the commitment if you can not do that you should not touch it.

I wish you can solved it our by any way. Best of Luck

 

If the site is only 6 months old that could be to do with why its ranking so badly. I had a site that was on p7-8 for 6-7 months and then suddenly - without my doing anything either onsite or links - rose to p1 and is now in the top few. Note that site is not for such a competitive keyword but it had got some form of new site penalty/sandbox to start with.

I've read that new sites can be in sandbox for up to 8-9 months - my site was 6-7 months.