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Got burned by a bad SEO consultant in Denver last month - lost 3 months of rankings
I hired a guy who promised fast results with 'AI powered' optimization. Three weeks later my traffic dropped 40% and I found out he was keyword stuffing and spamming links from shady farms. Google manual action hit my site on March 15th and now I'm digging out of a hole. Cost me $2,500 upfront and probably 6 months of recovery time. Anyone else dealt with a fake SEO guru and had to fix the damage after?
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the_beth3mo ago
Had a guy in Austin last year who charged me $1,800 for "local SEO dominance." He set up 50 Google My Business listings for my bakery from a single IP address. Google banned all of them plus my main one within two weeks. I lost every single review I had from 4 years of business. He just disappeared after I confronted him, changed his number and everything. Took me almost 8 months of submitting appeals and building real citations to get back on the map. These people know exactly how to game the system until it breaks and then they vanish.
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ross.sean3mo ago
At least yours came with AI, mine just charged me and ghosted after a 404 error page.
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