services promise but dont deliver

SEO/SMO services that promise, but don’t deliver

I was browsing a SEO forum and going through my feeds and just saw a bundle of services that, coupled with my reads, got me thinking. There are a lot of BS services out there that guarantee you getting on the first page of Google or getting a storm of visitors on your site. In fact, few deliver what they promised and you might get stood up, a few bucks shorter. Here is a quick breakdown of some services that might not be what they claim to be:

1. Search Engine Submissions - Well, they’re called search engines so what they do is search. Why should you bother submitting your sites when they will index it anyway. In other words, if you built it, they will come! Prices for this top offer range from $5 to even $50, depending on the number of search engines your site gets submitted to (lol). Here’s a random quote from one of these services: When you submit to these 66 search engines, search results will show up in hundreds of other engines. For instance, Google powers the Yahoo search engine. Search listings in Google will show up in Yahoo as well. Why would you pay $299 to Yahoo when you can get listed in their directory by submitting to Google??

2. Directory Submission Service - This might have its purpose, but done carefully and steadily. Firstly, don’t get tricked into PR of the directories - this is only for homepages. Your link will be submitted in an inside page, without any PR, among tens or hundreds of other links. Forget getting PR juice. Secondly, most of directory submissions are done bulk, in a few days. You might trigger some alarm system if you wake up over night with some spammy links. Thirdly, you can avoid this: some submissions require confirmation via email. You can simply confirm these emails once every 2-3 days to ensure your links will be properly distributed. Cheap service, $10-50 for anywhere between 100-500 submission, listings not guaranteed of course. You get the report and over 100 emails asking you to confirm the link.

3. 100 diggs for $x or 100 friends for $x - This is one of my favorite BS service. Ideally, with 100 diggs you get on the frontpage. But these diggs will most likely come from the same IP and will get your submission flagged, burried or even your website banned. 100 friends? Forget it! There are some automated services that add digg users in bulk. But who is gonna add you back? Spam is just one step away! I’ve seen people asking $50 for 100 diggs.

4. Social bookmarking services - Just imagine your story/website submitted to high traffic websites. Ideally, you can get some traffic and inbound links. The real picture is that your bookmark will get submitted by a user with a weak profile, a bad title and in a bad category. Your link will not receive any votes and will probably get lost in the thousands of links submitted daily.

5. SEO service of the Gods - aka frontpage in Google or your money back. Don’t you just love these folks? These guys can guarantee putting your website on Google’s frontpage or in the top 10 for a competitive keyword or your money back. Surprisingly enough (no, not really, I was expecting this) the companies I’ve come across that offer these services are from India. Here’s what some guy got off this kind of service: work to get your ranked, one on one on messenger, guy that works his butt off for you, reports emailed to you on suggestions for onsite changes and of course, no link building budget needed. You only pay the SEO-ers.

Some other services I encountered and I just want to mention since they are just to good to pass:

- Make cash collecting email addresses - that’s how you get spammed
- Custom made sites for $45 that I think come optimized and already ranking
- Traffic sale / 500,000-2,000,000 targeted visitors - this is bound to get your ad platform bursting with cash or Alexa ranking going up

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