I hired a company who I thought was a Canadian company to perform SEO for my adult content website. Veda Soft Solutions Pvt. Ltd. http://www.vedasoftsolutions.com claimed they will devote 3 developers to work on my site at the cost of $200 a month. About a week later they had emailed me that the, so called, work that had been done. I reviewed the code and they had simply stuffed my ALT tags with keywords and created a sitemap page which was nothing more than copy of my landing page with 4 links on it. There weren't 3 developers working on this. It was just the one guy with rudimentary SEO knowledge. When I complained I asked for his phone number. He resisted for about a week and eventually he gave me his number in INDIA. When I demanded he call me as I was not going to call India, he left voice mail on my phone to which I could barely understand because of his heavy Indian accent. He claims in his emails his name is Robin Smith and that he sometimes visits the Toronto office. Yeah Right! He also insisted that I wait 3 months for the SEO results. I understand it takes time, however I am well aware that his approach is more likely to blacklisted than more SE traffic. I knew I had been scammed and discontinued the service with a demand for a refund of my $200. They will not return my emails. They are scam artists…
Honestly... What did you really expect to get for $200/month? How much work per month would you and 2 of your smartest friends do for $200? How many hours would the 3 of you work to net $86 each before taxes? I charge $125/hr w/ a minimum 20 hrs JUST to do a site review before any work starts... Of course, I leave them with LOTS of documentation on everything I found wrong or that could be improved, why what they have now is less than ideal, and exactly how to fix it. And then if there are things they don't want to deal with or can't handle themselves like Mod Rewrite changes for redirects, I charge them $125 to make changes to their site. I wouldn't get too bent out of shape. Consider it a learning lesson and move on. For every SEO out there that knows what they are doing there are at least another 100 that know just enough to be dangerous and run scams like this... There are two old sayings that come to mind: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is... and You get what you pay for. I know it doesn't make you feel better, but rest assured that you are not the first or last to be duped by this company or the hundreds of thousands of others worldwide who pull off the same types of scams on a daily basis. PS: How did you pay them? Visa is a beautiful thing... Their dispute process works really well. Paypal less so.
but I'll allow it. I've had my site for over 10 years. ANY moron knows that keyword stuffing is a major no..no... in a ddition to repeating paragraph text. This has been the case for all of the major search engines since at least 2001. This particular site is very much a niche site and I didn't have the time to learn the most recent ways to get top listings. So, unfortunately I chose to outsource this task.