if you cannot see the links in advance – do not buy them. do not accept “test” examples either.

But either way – its a shame to see that these ppl are ripping off honest business owners for digital collateral

notably – their position one for seo company was delivered via greenlights network of backlinking websites – another search marketing company… not saying greenlights tactics are any better than smart traffic, but least they take you in the right direction and not down in this interim of google algo changes.

I am sorry to hear you have been ripped off – if you would like to have an appraisal done by my company – JLB – i can assure you we will take you in the right direction and we know what we are doing reg. dealing with these third party suppliers of links.

Anyway – thanks for publishing this piece I enjoyed the read i am sorry you got done over – i once had a client off epiphany solutions – another bunch of jokers! This time they took the client for £250,000 and delivered 10 converting ppl for that – Maybe it is time that SEO was regulated.

Cheers,

iDCx

I don’t know why you are giving negative feedback to that loyal company, i have give lots of work to that and i am complete satisfied with their service and their work.

After their service almost 50%-60% my business increase.

Thanks smart traffic,

Regards,
Vineet

Keep clear of this company; otherwise you will get in trouble and could find yourself in a worst possible than you are now.

The sad thing is, many of the small businesses using this service do not understand the risks. What is even worst, the SEO companies reselling these services do not care about these businesses. Business is tough enough as it is right now and having your website thrown out the engines is going to hurt. Trading standards are going to have a field day with this.

Serveral months passed blissfully by, (no business from the links btw), with no further contact between Smart Traffic and I. Imagine my surprise when I got presented with a bill from their Debt collection agency for over £ 7, 000.

Needless to say I told them to get stuffed and presented them with an email trail which never showed any such agreement and even an email thread between myself and the Sales manager who disagreed with his company’s demands.

They backed down but insisted I pay the remaining 50% (£1,500+vat) of their 50/50 campaign.

To shut them the hell up and get them off my back I suggested I pay them only £750+vat. They agreed. Now I’m reporting them to Trading Standards for mis-selling and seeking legal advice. NOBODY SHOULD THINK OF USING SMART TRAFFIC or SMART DIGITAL ONLINE.

We had a link building campaign and were sold highly relevant links to our niche. Imagine our horror when the links appeared on totally irelevant websites. Their argument was that the link were on a relevant page.

This is what they do. They have another part of the company http://www.free-seo-company.com they seek out websites and offer them 10 free links a month is they can have a link directory on the site. They then build pages on the site and put the links in place. Getting highly relevant links is not easy so this is how they work round it. If they had the directory on a website selling industrial cleaners but you baby food, they would build a baby food page on that site and low and behold they have now given you a relevant link. Wonderful, not, no page rank and no relevancy whatsoever in Google’s eyes.

Not only are they weak and irrelevant but unbelievably overpriced at £20 to £30 a link. All of their linking is outsourced anyway to India and Thailand as well as the Phillipines.

Be very wary is all I’d say.

I had to chase up reports, the only time my account manager contacted me was for payment. It took so long I had to pay for other services that helped push the site to where it should have been. After 12 months Smart Traffic then decided to invoice me for the 2nd payment even though their work alone did not get me the rankings. When I pointed this out they were not interested and insisted that they had done extra work to get the site to where it was.

I asked to see the extra links but they refused and still insisted on payment and that the contract ensured I would have to pay. I said in that case I would need time to pay at which point they passed it straight to a debt collector. I have never dealt with such an unprofessional company with such a bully boy approach in my life.

The links suppied are extremely weak and unbelievably overpriced, they outsource their linking to the Phillipines, suffice to say that I will never want to have anything to do with them again.

Most people think that the way to the top is to get links but that is only part of the process. My tests show that getting a few good links from sites with a high PR will be of greater benefit than getting hundreds of poor quality non relevant links, thus PR does not go up as you add more links from a lot of sites.

In fact, we believe that intentionally duplicating worthless links from sites that are not relevant to your firm’s business is entirely a waste of time and money and c’mon Google is not that stupid – they know what is going on.

Hope this helps.

The traffic figures they tell you you will get are an absolute lie. Everyone needs to be smart about their own SEO, don’t leave it in the hands of somebody else.