As an ex client of this dubious search firm in the UK, I want to put the warning out to any unsuspecting consumer or marketing directors- that this firm uses blackhat techniques in it's approach of marketing companies online. Unfortunately the owner (Warren Cowan) provides little explanation as to why he has had several companies blacklisted by Google and then has the audacity to list them in his case studies!
My company suffered tremendously at the hands of his developers who charged us roughly 15, 000 GBP/month only to outsource his linking strategy to India. For thse of you who don't know- outsourcing linking relationships to India is a highly corrupt "black hat SEO technique" underfire with Google. After repeated attempts to salvage what was left of my reputation with Google the only answer I received for my trouble was one month of free service?
I continued my research (after it was clear I wasn't to be compensated for their monumental errors) and managed to interview a few ex-employees of the company. As it turns out, the company continues its policies of bad judgement all the way down to the employees. I heard several instances where employees weren't paid correctly and humiliated by the owners wife (who incidentally is their chief marketing officer). I hear that they drastically pay their people well below industry standards and not on an ongoing basis. This sort of "what have you done for me lately attitude can only lead it's employees to do outlandish and unethical things.
I have since had to rebuild my website entirely from scratch and lose over 9 years of organic rankings at the hands of greenlightsearch.com. Please do what you must to not make the same mistake I did in hiring this firm.
Beebo
Chelsea
United Kingdom
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