bbsbone - 10:50 am on Nov 19, 2008 (gmt 0)

Yes, this sort of company does tarnish the whole industry. Recently, indeed, am still having a major blow up with a UK SEO company.

Not quite as bad as these guys as (they don't promise more sales etc) but is one of these top 10 positions in the major engines or your money back type outfits. Paid the first 3 months (which isn't covered by g'tee) to get a pretty SEO 101 on-page review plus they do a link building campaign consisting soley of emailing webmasters asking for links. 3 months brought in 5 agreed links and 8 no thank-you's. Spend was $5500 or so at that point.

Tried to bail out, caught by buried Ts and Cs (yes I know I should have gone through them with a fine tooth comb first but I was a trusting fool back then) Upshot - have to pay the balance - 9 months at $1000 a month to get out OR stick with it while they it seems do very little and if I want to sort my own SEO then I'll end up paying them under the terms of their g'tee! I chose to do neither and am now in legal with them and likely to lose.

Has anyone else been caught out by this moeny back-contract lock in approach? If so was it successfuly fought off?

[edited by: engine at 12:46 pm (utc) on Nov. 19, 2008]
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