Help-I have an SEO Problem and Don't Know What to Do!

- Have you checked on this guy portfolios?
- How many sites he succeeded brought up to Google's attention (Get ranked)?
- How hard the keywords he had dealt with (Which he managed to rank those sites)?
- How long the sites he ranked in Google remains on the track?
- Ask him to prove at least one of the site he had worked for (High ranked ones), maybe by altering some html on that site.
E.g: "Add footer note on that site, such as (This is my work)"

$750 is still a huge of amount, I don't pay people if he/she doesn't showing me proofs.

No I didn't ask for any proofs- I just trusted his positive feedback from GAF. I will ask him for that, but I'm just very skeptical of the whole idea that someone could manipulate the Google algorithms and rank you in Google 1st page for any keyword.

Have you seen any positive movement at all of your site since hiring him?

There's no way that come March 10th you're just going to shoot to page 1 (I'm assuming you're not anywhere near page 1 now?)...Google doesn't update website rankings only once every 60 days, it's constantly updated.

SEO isn't a mystery and there's no way to get a site to page 1 (assuming it's not a very low comp keyword that lets you start there) without doing proper on-page and off-page (backlinks) optimization.

1. Extremely doubtful if you aren't already close. There are no magical, secret loophole ways to get to page 1 for competitive terms - Only proven strategies.

2. I'm pretty sure he can't do anything off-site, without any access to your site to get it banned.

Regards,
Chris

Edit: If I had the secret to gaining certain page 1 results for competitive terms without any of the typical SEO strategies...the last thing I'd be doing is offering that for people at $750 a pop on GAF. I'm guessing the reviews he had posted were flubbed.

Hi Islander,

Firstly I'm very sorry to hear of your troubles. Your right, $750 isn't chump change.

I know I'm a bit new to this forum but I've been an SEO for just a shade under 10 years so maybe I can help you out a bit.

Any SEO that guarantees anything is WRONG to do so. The problem is that SEO isn't an exact science. There are best practices, but Google's algorithm will forever remain a mystery to everyone but a few people at Google.

The problem is that almost no one will ever tell you this. His intentions may have been good, but guarantees don't exist in this line of work unless its a money back guarantee if he doesn't get the proper results. That's the only guarantee I have for my clients.

Sometimes scammers use something called a 'long con'. They build trust for a short period of time and do legit work or buy a legit account. Then they take a long-term service like SEO where you are not expecting results for 60 days and take your money. (I don't know him, and I am not saying he is a scammer).

Most start with the best intentions after reading an eBook or two and having some longtail success, then they think they can get ranked for 'weight loss' in 60 days. I do believe that most get in with the best intentions and just can't deliver.

I've done some investigation for you and this may help you out:

1. The guy claims to be an SEO. If you visit his site you can see he only has 6 backlinks in Yahoo and none in Google. Not a great sign. But in his defense, some overseas contractors I've used are too busy building backlinks for other sites they forget about their own.

2. He's a member of WarriorForum. His Warrior name is naderwanis and doesn't appear to be very active on the forum, he has only 1 post and joined in Sept of 2009.

3. He owns about 11 Domains. His e-mail is naderwanis (at) gmail com but his name appears to be Abdel, Nader or that is a partner. He is based in Egypt.

4. This is his contact info:
me-market
339 cleopatra Ave #12
Alexandria, Alexandria 12345
Egypt
+20.0123654789

5. On GAF he doesn't have a project bid over $90 USD which makes your project about 8 times his average. Most have no final bid prices at all. This I would say is not a great sign. It could've all been faked.

Soooo...sorry this was so long but I like research. To answer your last questions:

He may be able to, but it doesn't look promising at this point. If you PM me with your keyword or site I will give you my opinion.

Yes. But it's going to take him a long time and a lot of man hours. That's why you have to be careful with SEOs. If you build too many links too quickly you can get banned or sandboxed. Even worse Paypal doesn't cover transactions that don't involve the transfer of a physical product with tracking. I'd still file if I were you and send him a quick e-mail explaining the situation.

He's only had the domain since 2005. I also saw 2 not so favorable reviews for him on GAF. It doesn't look good especially if he's threatening your site. Certainly not professional.

I really hope this works out for you. Guys like this make us all look bad.

you need to very passions if you are doing the internet marketing of your website or if any other person is doing the internet marketing of your site and no body can give you the surety or like guarantee that your site will be on top 10 in 2 or 3 months.it can be on top 10 within month or may be not on top 10 after 4 months.

No one has the power to guarantee placements on Google. That would be insanity. They wouldn't be wasting time helping you for $750 on GAF, they would be raking in millions or even billions by ranking their own websites and getting billions of hits.

I say file a dispute and get your money back if they haven't delivered what they promised. Before I became an SEO myself, I got burned many times in this kind of deal for guaranteed rankings for $XXX. It never worked out. I had to learn it and do it for myself, and I tell all my clients the same thing.

Hi there

Sounds like a similar guy I hired he was called nader or something, i sent him money which was a mistake, and then he tryed to change the terms of hte agreement, so I said Ill have my money back then, thats when he started threatening to get my sites banned etc.

I claimed my money back via the payment gateway we used, and am weary who i hire on GFL now

Woc

Yeah, You should be careful when dealing with people on GAF. I have used GAF many times and I always use milestone escrow payment. I think using escrow is the way to get rid of this kind of problem.

I am also working at GAF as an seo expert. I am wondering why did you pay him $ 750 in advance. How many days have past since you assigned him the project? yes, Seo takes time.

Sounds too good to be true.

Good hope everything works out for you. In my opinion he has to be a scammer.