[thelist] Bogus web marketing company - can they have your website deleted from search engines?

Will willthemoor at gmail.com
Mon Oct 17 19:58:57 CDT 2011


In my professional opinion someone should probably go ahead and beat the snot out of this caller. How about it, evolt:PA? That is, presuming they're in PA. 


On Oct 17, 2011, at 5:15 PM, joshua earl <joshua.earl at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would have thought that it wouldnt be too hard for them to extort money in
> this way. For anyone who is not prepared to pay they could utilise some
> hamfisted dodgy SEO on the target domain certain to be picked up by Google,
> resulting in a blacklisting. It would then be up to the business owner to
> attempt to prove to Google that they weren't attempting to circumvent
> google's search ranking algos - I think that it would be difficult to prove.
> 
> J
> 
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Nan Harbison <nan at nanharbison.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I got this email from my sister, who is an acupuncturist in the
>> Philadelphia
>> area:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I got a call from some bozo who said that since I was not verified by
>> google that they were going to remove my listing under search engine for
>> google for an acupuncturist within 15 mile of my address - so I called back
>> and found that the company says they are working for google -which I later
>> found out they are not but they still may have the ability to screw around
>> with my listing unless I pay them  money-  my only concern is that I need
>> people to be able to find me on a google search and they say they will
>> remove my listing completely - it will not show up under any conditions - I
>> feel it is a scam -what do you think? I figured you knew because you  do
>> search engine optimization for a living. I would appreciate any insights
>> that you may know.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Her website is http://www.riveroflifecenter.com/. I do follow SEO stuff,
>> not
>> for a living however, and I am not sure whether this bozo/company can
>> actually ruin her ranking on Google. I did tell her to report them to the
>> Better Business Bureau.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks for any insight you all might have on this topic!
>> 
>> Nan
>> 
>> 
>> 
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