Archive for SCAM Watch

Search Engine Optimization Jacksonville – Hometown Scams

For the past several years I’ve provided consulting services specific to search engine optimization through a local website design and marketing company here in Jacksonville. As such, I’ve heard every SEO horror story you can imagine. Until a few months ago, though, I’d never had the pleasure of having my attention turned to [...]

Ignorant Do-It-Yourselfers & Their SEO Fiascoes: The Real Trouble With Search Engine Optimization

A recent rant by John Dvorak at PCMag.com, “SEO Fiascoes: The Trouble with Search Engine Optimization“, has thrown me for quite a loop. I will be the first to admit that there are a slew of companies in operation today that take advantage of the ignorance surrounding search engine optimization in order to turn [...]

Can SEO Audits Help Small Business Websites?

With millions of small businesses and a seemingly endless number of small business websites live on the Internet today, how can you gain a competitive advantage? SEO audits could be the first step toward finding out. If your site isn’t performing the way it should, or the way you might like it to, [...]

Search Engine Submissions Are A SCAM

I constantly come across advertisements for “SEO companies” (and I use that term loosely) that tout the features and benefits of choosing them for all of your search engine optimization and search marketing needs.  Website promotion through search engine submissions is SEO circa 1998.
Yet, the marketing materials for these companies inevitably include within their bullet [...]