Is a Traffic Power "See" Page dangerous?

[elysian]

As Quoted from pageoneresults post in the highrankings.com forum.

Comments: You have 72 hours to remove these forums from public view...

ww.seo-forum.net/
ww.seo-professional-forum.com/
seo-talk.net/
ww.web-advertising-info.com/

If they are not removed by Wednesday 10-06-2004 at midnight EST, we will begin to publish personal information we have pertaining to the executives at Traffic-Power and 1P. The first item that will be up for public viewing will be [snip] personal history. This will include the [snip] in the late 80s.

If the forums still remain at the public level by 10-07-2004, we will make public our latest copy of the 1P/Traffic-Power client list which contains over 9,000 URIs within your network. Yes, we do have an inside contact at your company who has continually provided up-to-date client information for our review. If you do not believe this, here is a small sampling of that data. We are pulling 10 rows randomly from the Excel file...

I have only one thing to say here about "pageoneresults" and his obsession with this particular SEO company... EXTORTION

[GiftsForYouBiz]

Wow! What a thread. This has been some really interesting (and unfortunately humorous) reading. Although its taken me the better part of this afternoon to read it all, I've enjoyed it quite a bit.

P.S. I get 3 calls a week now from TP. I think they put me on their harrass list since I started this post. Next call I get I am reporting them to the FTC.

Re: reporting phone calls to the FTC ... 5 calls per week? 10 calls per week? I wish the same applied for fax machines. We were getting fax spam calls once or twice per day, but were told it had to be 5 times per day to be considered harassment.

I have been avidly reading the threads in this topic on the forum and as a relative newbiew to SEO have come to an unavoidable conclusion. DO NOT ENGAGE ANOTHER FIRM TO DO YOUR SEO....

Hmmm, I learned the basics from my neighbor, and he is an extremely honest SEOer and runs The Info Group. I was so happy for him when his site jumped from a PR4 to PR6.

During the optimization process the PR of the site would come up, as would the rankings, but the PR would increase as a part of the process of getting better rankings for the site, not the other way round.

Great advice!

A very good suggestion for someone learning SEO is turn off the green pagerank bar on the Google toolbar, as it will then not distract you from important ranking considerations.

I agree with that concept, but I certainly like to know when it goes grey, and consider perhaps I did something wrong. But you're right, if you build it right, keep optimizing it according to good practices, and the green bar will grow accordingly.

Maybe we'll start a new thread: Most Creative Way Someone's Messed With Traffic Power.

This is good practice for telemarketers in general. I seem to recall a chart of sorts that gave points for being able to do certain things to marketers; make them swear, get the boss on the line, get their boss to swear, etc.

This all reminds me of both "LinksToYou" and "Bernard Haldane Associates"

I'm so glad I can't afford to even consider SEO services and "Guarantee"-type services. I'm forced to learn and do it myself. --> Long live Rocky I

[jmiller]

Another "unhappy" Traffic Power customer:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=365207

[jmiller]

Other SEO / Traffic Power victims:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=378789

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=365207

[richkoi]

Got another call from 1p.com today and they insisted that it was not true that they were/are Traffic Power.

Hmmm... that's funny, look at where they came from when they visited my site:
oz.trafficpower.com/leads/in/view_lead.html?search_by=&search=&count=130&order_ by=first_name&slice=all&limit=1&start=1

I guess they are encouraging their sales people to lie now. Oh wait, they always did that.

Rich

[elysian]

I just saw a post on jimworld that seems to have located 1p's Australian site at www.1stplaceseo.com.au

[rap4]

The nerve!!!
After getting my site (http://rap4.com) vanished from google now they are send me to collection.

It took me months to get back google and have lost gerrrrzillion hits, urgggh

Good this I paid with a credit card and did a charge back :) I was lucky

[sem-seo-pro]

Hey everyone

We need your help webmasters!!!

Aaron Wall Author of SeoBook is being sued by the same comnpany that destroyed many of your businesses with their black hat methods.

Please call or write the Nevada Attorney General, Nevada Better Business Bureau, and any other consumer protection organizations you can find in the State of Nevada and file formal complaints regarding "deceptive business practices" aganst the company that ripped you off.

If enough of you help out Toilet power will be so busy documenting and answering the complaints they'll probably back off the law suit!!!

Thank You

Clint

[richkoi]

It's been awhile since I have heard much about TP, but here is the latest BBB report I found.

http://data.fortcollins.bbb.org/comm...l?bid=46007325

Interesting as their other BBB report still exists:

http://worf.usshurdman.com/~vegas/co...l?compid=58697

I have also been receiving cold calls from several companies that have a oddly familiar sales pitch to TP. Be aware everyone. Question the sales person as much as you can before even considering an SEO firm.