Scams means an attempt for deceiving an entity or a person to gain confidence fully, and it’s a word people want to stay away. There is no other meaning for SEO scams than swindling or cheating owner of  website or online business by offering dubious amount of SEO services.  In earlier days of search engines during time when Yahoo, and AltaVista ruling markets of search engines,  search engine optimization was in an infancy but SEO scams were  prevalent still but numbers weren’t very alarming. Once SEO techniques became widely in demand and popular several fly-by-night scammers or companies with the questionable skills of Search engine optimization utilized this opportunity and then made an entry in market for making money, and started providing the SEO services which were not worthy.

How to identify a SEO scam? Mentioned below is some of the claims list related to the  SEO which is nothing other than the SEO scams.

  • Page 1 guaranteed rankings
  • Getting millions of back links in X days
  • Knowing about working of Google algorithm
  • Submitting our websites to hundreds of  search engines in x days
  • Knowing about secret SEO sauce, but don’t share
  • Having good experience in the industry
  • Fast visibility
  • Faster submission to many directories 

Our Search engine optimization services delivering long lasting results

With these statements don’t get carried away. SEO scams one need to check while hiring an SEO company for making our website search engine friendly can be a monumental decision. So, if we find any SEO company trying to feed any of these types of statements , don’t then spare them to another glance. And more important for understanding and conducting a research what typical SEO companies do before hiring. Here is some  list of things which a true SEO company has to offer.

  • Analysis of our content, website structure and business
  • Advice website development suggestions
  • Advice hosting’s, redirect use of the java script’s, rich media suggestions  and so on
  • Researching of keywords
  • Content optimization and development
  • SEO sharing of knowledge
  • Off-site marketing
  • Local SEO

SEO business is very helpful indeed to know about market to then prevent by becoming a scam victim. These scams are short-lived usually, because of no matter how they appear legitimate to be very sneaky and then shutdown legitimately.