Im am not here to prove a point to you and im not here to sign up to a seochat forum to win some kind of article contest. SEO is not about writing some article and claiming you are a champion. I originally posted in this thread becuase i like to let the original person know that SEO and the price of $3000 is an acceptable amount to pay to a SEO agency providing they offer the service they are after and i have provided information on what results i have given my client along with my price of $1800US which i charge for 3 months mainenance & SEO so she or he has an idea if what they spent was good value or not.
Just received a comment on my blog where they mentioned that the Found Agency had been blacklisted. Found agency do not even rank for their business name!!! Interesting. http://www.google.com/search?q=foundagency http://www.google.com/search?q=found+agency And some comments on my blog about the "Bad SEO Case Study" work they have done for travel.com.au.
Ouch. They are also not ranking for any of the popular SEO terms they used to dominate. So it does look like Found Agency was banned from Google. Looks like they'll need to clean up their act if they want to be ranking in Google again. My company started using tools like copyscape and found a lot MFA sites scraping our content. A whois lookup displayed Found Agency as the owners of a lot of those sites, I don't think it is smart to register MFAs/scraper sites under their registered trading name...
At the behest of my company, I dug a little further and the Found Agency isn't banned. They are still listed on Google, but appear to be penalized. They rank 48th for their brand phrase "Found Agency" and 40th for "search engine marketing". Threadwatch member reckons it is a hand-edit but if it is, it'd be the first Australian firm that I've heard of being penalized manually.