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I get calls at least once a week from someone who wants to set me up with "first page placement" in ALL the search engines. They all tell me to go to their website and download a plugin, then they will demonstrate how well it works.
DUH! I haven't seen anyone yet do a search for "plugins to alter search engine results"!
It doesn't matter how many hits or visits you get unless your content offers enough value for the prospects to contact you! Success on the web takes a multi-faceted approach, and you can get all the traffic you want by providing information worth looking at and advertising it everywhere - in your email signature, on all your ads and mailings.
Vicki Lloyd
Vicki@VickiLloyd.com
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re: Promises, Promises - Jul. 19, 2006 |
| Posted by Lead Generation |
Vicki,
You're right. But in the beginning any website will be slow, no matter how good it is. We will all get anxious, and when these "magician/scammers"
come calling and promising us great search engine placement, being human we can get weak and talk ourselves into thinking, "well it can't hurt to try".
Nowadays when they call, I ask these scammers for an example of their best client website in my area, we type it in together, and when they see my website ranks higher than theirs, they shut up pretty quickly. But it took time and major effort to get there. My site is pretty much the same site it was when I put it up last year, but it took until now to see it rank on Google very well. It was always great on MSN though.
The points I really wanted to stress to newbies though is that SurfSpeak and it's sister companies are, in my opinion, committing fraud...and they even give me the smoking gun to prove it every time I get a "hit" from them.
The hit is a redirect, not an actual web surfer. Their claims of web traffic are misrepresentations, manipulations of data to exaggerate their client base. We aren't seeing live surfers, but bots. Period.
Next, your comment about Searching for plug-ins is quite insensitive to the reality of their approach in the sell. They are claiming the plug-ins are distributed free to a client base that uses them for IMs, for Internet Radio programs, for toolbars, and other extras where people "opt-in" to the service. When these people use that browser for a search however, the plug-in activates that displays our banner/page on the top of the screen if that user searches for our keyword string. The application truly could be legitimate service, and useful. The problem is that for SurfSpeak and the like to get the top dollar asked for, they need to prove heavy traffic.
There isn't though, and that's why they are manipulating their stats and
using bots to create an illusion of heavy traffic. All the sister sites appear to be fed off the mother site, so it's really one company under many guises. The URL they use to manipulate stats comes up on my stats program as this:
http://plugin.secureservicepack.com:7777/SearchKeyword.dll?redirect=6&URL=arizona%20real%20estate
Copy it into your browser, Go, and wait about 20 seconds. You will see the page I dedicated to unique visits from SurfSpeak clients. BUT it will suddenly redirect to other clients, all by itself, and keep redirecting over and over. Each one of those clients will believe they are getting unique visits to their website. They are not because none of us are clicking to go there, nor are we clicking to enter either. THAT is the undisputed proof of FRAUD.
I'm no expert at law, but I would have to believe this proof alone would make a class action lawsuit attorney start to drool, wouldn't you?
Tony Pomykala
Tony@ArizonaMansions.com
Edited by LeadGeneration on July 19, 2006 at 10:56 am |
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