[thelist] SEO Proposal

[ben morrison]

On 07/11/06, Mark A. MacInnes <mark.macinnes at awakeanddreaming.net> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> One of my clients has just received a proposal from an SEO company. They
> have no experience of SEO whatsoever and I, and my colleagues, only know
> some fairly general points about SEO. One of the points in the proposal
> is extremely worrying to us:
>
> - Create a high number of (80+) websites to create reciprocal links to
> the company website
>
> Now I remember reading that Google finds this type of thing basically
> evil and that Google banishes websites from its index when it finds
> companies doing this. Unfortunately, I can't find any links that prove this.
>
> Does anyone have any experience of this or indeed know for sure if this
> is the case?

i would be very worried if a SEO company offered me this service,
there is a place for SEO but not for companies that offer services
such as "create a high number of (80+) websites to create reciprocal
links to the company website", this will in effect lower your rankings
with google[1]

ben

[1] http://www.ahfx.net/weblog.php?article=83



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Ben Morrison