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Traffic power as we all know is a company which is involved in search engine optimization, Their marketing tactics has always brought a lot of anger and frustration among companies, Their main targeted customers are innocent website owners and webmasters, Traffic power just called them by phone and explains them about the nature of the SEO business and they give fancy offers to clients saying they will get very good ranking in major search engines, Many people have fallen for this type of marketing hype,
So everything was going on peaceful for traffic power when suddenly fake struck them, Traffic power has been using a bannable technique to raise ranking for their clients, They create keyword rich pages and add a javascript mouse over redirect to that page, So when the users land on the page the main page loads in certain seconds, The users ignore the page they land on and concentrate on the page they are finally redirected,
This technique is not appreciable by search engines, Google especially is very strict on these type of tactics, They are aggressive towards people who use these tactic and ban them if those SEO companies use it to manipulate their search results,
Traffic power has more than 2000 clients, 2000 clients for traffic power means lots of manipulation of google results, Google immediately woke up to this occasion and penalized many of traffic power's clients, This brought a lot of chaos among many of traffic powers clients and they started asking for money refund, Many many online SEO forums started bashing traffic power and their services, Penalty by google has brought a lot of loss for the Traffic power company, They had massive celebrations for their search engine success but now they must be suffering due to massive loss,
There are law suits filed against traffic power, Even The Best Business Bureau has posted more than 35 complaints sent by traffic power clients, Edward Lewis of SEO consultants has added specific section in his SEO consultants site to bash traffic power, Don't know what his motive behind that section probably he wants more business through traffic powers existing clients, But his service is really valuable and has saved many people for falling for traffic power's fake search engine optimization services,
In My opinion google did the right job by penalizing traffic powers clients, It will definitely teach traffic power company to change their tactic and stop spamming search engines, Google rarely penalize sites for any sort of spam but traffic power has really tested google's patience, SO in my opinion what google did against Traffic power if right,
So what does traffic power say about Online discussion SEO forums,
This is what they say in their FAQ page:
Are online discussion forums the best place to get your information?
No. Forums are not the best place to gain impartial information. Most forums are attached in some way to a marketing or SEO firm. This is not the best resource for getting an impartial view. There are some forums that are ethical and fair and allow all views to be heard. Most of these forums do not allow trashing of competitors or self promotion. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to distinguish the good from the bad.
This is what they say about Edward Lewis of SEO Consultants,
One of the biggest perpetrators of one sided scams is Edward Lewis. Mr. Lewis' SEO company, First Page Results, is a direct competitor of Traffic-Power selling ridiculously high priced search engine optimization and overpriced paid placement. He also secretly administers a one sided Website called SEO Consultants where he has orchestrating an extensive attack against Traffic Power. He is one of the most vocal users of the "one-sided forum" scam and specializes in trashing his direct competitors in forums all over the Internet. The reasons for his hatred of Traffic Power are clear. Traffic Power has been able to accomplish in four years what he was unable to do in eight, and that is dominate the SEO market by outperforming all other SEO companies in price and performance. Our rise has surely impacted the bottom line of our competitors, being that most of these companies are small one man operations and cannot compete with companies of our size and considerable resources. These fear tactics and smear campaigns should be an embarrassment to SEO professionals everywhere, but the truth of the matter is that these practices are widely used for marketing and lead generation by unscrupulous SEO companies. Mr. Lewis says that his SEO Consultants' smear campaign is organized by an anonymous "Consortium", but in the reality it is a desperate witch hunt organized by a threatened, small time, one man basement operation.
I personally don't have any hatred about Traffic power but I always wished search engines are never manipulated by any spammers, Search engines adds a lot of value to online non web savvy users, They are here to provide us an organized information on the net, So I wish all SEO/ Search Engine Optimization companies stick to search engine guide lines and make the search engines a great source of relevant information,
So everything was going on peaceful for traffic power when suddenly fake struck them, Traffic power has been using a bannable technique to raise ranking for their clients, They create keyword rich pages and add a javascript mouse over redirect to that page, So when the users land on the page the main page loads in certain seconds, The users ignore the page they land on and concentrate on the page they are finally redirected,
This technique is not appreciable by search engines, Google especially is very strict on these type of tactics, They are aggressive towards people who use these tactic and ban them if those SEO companies use it to manipulate their search results,
Traffic power has more than 2000 clients, 2000 clients for traffic power means lots of manipulation of google results, Google immediately woke up to this occasion and penalized many of traffic power's clients, This brought a lot of chaos among many of traffic powers clients and they started asking for money refund, Many many online SEO forums started bashing traffic power and their services, Penalty by google has brought a lot of loss for the Traffic power company, They had massive celebrations for their search engine success but now they must be suffering due to massive loss,
There are law suits filed against traffic power, Even The Best Business Bureau has posted more than 35 complaints sent by traffic power clients, Edward Lewis of SEO consultants has added specific section in his SEO consultants site to bash traffic power, Don't know what his motive behind that section probably he wants more business through traffic powers existing clients, But his service is really valuable and has saved many people for falling for traffic power's fake search engine optimization services,
In My opinion google did the right job by penalizing traffic powers clients, It will definitely teach traffic power company to change their tactic and stop spamming search engines, Google rarely penalize sites for any sort of spam but traffic power has really tested google's patience, SO in my opinion what google did against Traffic power if right,
So what does traffic power say about Online discussion SEO forums,
This is what they say in their FAQ page:
Are online discussion forums the best place to get your information?
No. Forums are not the best place to gain impartial information. Most forums are attached in some way to a marketing or SEO firm. This is not the best resource for getting an impartial view. There are some forums that are ethical and fair and allow all views to be heard. Most of these forums do not allow trashing of competitors or self promotion. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to distinguish the good from the bad.
This is what they say about Edward Lewis of SEO Consultants,
One of the biggest perpetrators of one sided scams is Edward Lewis. Mr. Lewis' SEO company, First Page Results, is a direct competitor of Traffic-Power selling ridiculously high priced search engine optimization and overpriced paid placement. He also secretly administers a one sided Website called SEO Consultants where he has orchestrating an extensive attack against Traffic Power. He is one of the most vocal users of the "one-sided forum" scam and specializes in trashing his direct competitors in forums all over the Internet. The reasons for his hatred of Traffic Power are clear. Traffic Power has been able to accomplish in four years what he was unable to do in eight, and that is dominate the SEO market by outperforming all other SEO companies in price and performance. Our rise has surely impacted the bottom line of our competitors, being that most of these companies are small one man operations and cannot compete with companies of our size and considerable resources. These fear tactics and smear campaigns should be an embarrassment to SEO professionals everywhere, but the truth of the matter is that these practices are widely used for marketing and lead generation by unscrupulous SEO companies. Mr. Lewis says that his SEO Consultants' smear campaign is organized by an anonymous "Consortium", but in the reality it is a desperate witch hunt organized by a threatened, small time, one man basement operation.
I personally don't have any hatred about Traffic power but I always wished search engines are never manipulated by any spammers, Search engines adds a lot of value to online non web savvy users, They are here to provide us an organized information on the net, So I wish all SEO/ Search Engine Optimization companies stick to search engine guide lines and make the search engines a great source of relevant information,
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Another "unhappy" Traffic-Power client:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=365207
saw this in google answers thread,
From: Violet Olson
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 12:40 PM
To: 'Sovereign Funding Group'
Subject: RE:SOVEREIGNFUNDING.COM URGENT
We are currently looking into the Google situation because we have
noticed a great many people disappearing from them. This is something
that happened in March and April as well but it was a bug in Google
that was causing the problems, not our code. Nothing we do would get
you removed from any search engine. Here is the link that explains
part of the situation with Google,
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3354441 we thought
they had it fixed but maybe not. We are looking into it. As soon as
we find something out, we will let you know.
Thanks,
Violet Olson
Lead Customer Support Specialist
Traffic-Power.com
Found this on a site, Think it was related to Traffic power,
I was thinking.... hmmm what should I write about that could really help my subscribers. Then it struck me maybe I should tell them about how I have been taken for more than $1500.00 in false promises. Sure why not! I sure wouldn't want that to happen to you. We have to be careful out there so I'm hoping this learning experience that I had will help you.
You don't hear this to often from experienced marketers but that sure doesn't mean it hasn't happened to them. I'd bet my reputation on that one. Be sure you know what you are getting into before you sink your hard earned cash into it.
Listen folks I've been doing this for more than 3 years and I'm still learning and you will too.
Before I get into this. I want you to know that I will leave names out of this for the fact that I don't know if these people still work for the company I was dealing with at the time. In addition they also have their side of the story too. Their is always a but and I'll tell you what company NOT to deal with and why. This is only my opinion. If you've been with with me for awhile you'll know I don't talk down to anyone nor do I treat people with disrespect or lie.
This all happened over a period of 2 years but the contract was for one year. This contract was for search engine positioning and a link campaign. It started in Sept of 2000 just after I started my business
Those of you who know anything about search engine traffic know it takes time to get results. The results do not come over night unless you are using targeted traffic like the Pay Per Click search engines. In fact depending on what you are looking for, it can be an ongoing task so make sure your in it for the long run.
If you want to know how to get top ranking in the search engines you have two things that are a must.
One is targeted keywords and the other is incoming links that are in the same market you're in. Of course there are the other factors which we show in our videos on our site but for know that's the two most important things that you need.
So I'm a new marketer back in 2000 just gettin my feet wet "OK so I was up to my knees". I had my site ready and was ready to launch it to the world. My ezine came out 2 days after my site was launched and I was off to the races. What a feeling 6 months in the making and now this baby was launched. Whew, I was excited and I still am today. I set my goals to achieve and it was time to put it all together.
Until one day Wham it hit me.
Mark you need to get some help here or learn and teach yourself.
It was simple but yet I was wearing 11 different hats and couldn't see for the fog ahead. So I figured I had better hire out what was sucking up much of my time and that's when I started looking around. I found one company and went with them they kept there promise they said if after 3 months I don't start seeing some new traffic they would refund my money.
This search engine company stated to me that it would cost 150.00 to maintain my site after they had reached our goals. Certainly this was fair because they gave me 25 optimized pages and they would take care of them not me. Like I said after 3 months into this they came back to me and said they needed more time I agreed to 6 more months provided that if they didn't obtain what they said they would I would get half my money back.
Guess what folks? I got half my money back and didn't have to wait or anything. The company gave me their word and refunded me 675.00. That agreement didn't work out and I did receive my money back.
As you can see I was pretty reluctant to start off again with another company. After a few months I decided to go with another company which was a big lesson learned. This contract too was for a year and it would guarantee me top results with a new technology they use. I wrote a letter to the sales person informing them what I had gone through with the last company and I was assured this new technology would work in fact the guy called me and spoke with me personally.
They gave me the red carpet and I had access to see what they were doing and the results I could see with a quick download. I waited because I already new it would take at least 3 months to get results or maybe even more. After about three months I had a look and It really didn't change much until the 5 month and it turned for the worst.
What happened was the access I was given to check my results was no longer working so I had to rely on their search engine support team. Red flags started going up and I was not impressed I called to talk to the sales rep and he was not in or did he get fired so I found out 4 weeks later.
I tried working it out with them and then I found out through my investigations that they were linking my site on porno site link farms. When I asked for an explanation they said they new nothing about it but the funny thing was all the so called pages they linked too were on my host server. This I assume is the new technology that they used. Linking to porno sites will get you nothing but BIG headaches.
Of course the lesson I learned was to watch who you deal with and
to learn and do your own work.
Long story short I do my own work now and my rankings are moving
along nicely. Hopefully this has helped you out because I sure learned an expensive lesson. Finally, don't get TrafficPower.com to do your work for you and remember that's just my opinion. If your stuck on something and your not sure just ask and I'll do my best to help you out. Don't go doing what I did. It's taken me over 2 years to get over this one and the negative impact it's caused for our business.
Brian Steward
I have been trying to get Violet Olson to refund my hard earned $3000 with no luck. Eric Kirk, supposedly of Top Rank Consulting, sold me a contract for SEO optimization. Top Rank says their a Market St NE in Salem, Oregon; this is a UPS STORE! They are located in Las Vegas, NV and do business under several different names and go to great lengths to keep their location hidden. The references they use are fake; they people calling back are employees. The owner is Matthew Marlon he owns a home at 2975 S. Tenaya Way, Las Vegas, NV. His -hone # is 702-632-4431.
This company has never performed anything under this contract, and it seems they never intended to. They refuse to refund my money. THEY SUCK!
ok, i will accept you are the best traffic generator but one thing tell me, how you stare people towards your site may i think there are several sites those are having more reputation comparison you....
http://www.commediait.com
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