swd2006 - 10:08 pm on Jun 30, 2006 (gmt 0)

Hi,

Earlier this year I asked a SEO company to optimize my small e-commerce site. They told me useful things like using appropriate tags around <H3>Headers</H3> etc but they also added my url to quite a number of dodgy looking directories, like the old Yahoo directory but more naff. Since I have seen my Google listing go down and not Up. Could these bad links be causing this?

I had optimized the site myself the best I could but I thought a decent SEO would do a far better job...not the case.

Thanks