18th
(This will be my last ever post on Topseos. I have also been told I am not allowed to play on Twitter today as I have excel spreadsheets to work.)
When I wrote my post about Tops SEOs recently (which was retweeted some very influential seo) and questioned the reporting by the Drum Magazine in Scotland, I found it pretty difficult to find any of the tons of bad press on Google about Topseos I knew existed. The articles I am looking for are buried under a TON of self-promotional Topseos press releases and a myriad of Topseos domains and subdomains in (in my opinion) an attempt to bury all those complaints about Topseos, written by trusted seos in the industry.
IN FACT – I couldn’t find ONE good editorial link to Topseos site that I didn’t question the editorial authenticity of it. Funny….
So I thought we could have our own little awards ceremony and list the top complaints I could find about Topseos.
*Feel free to post this table below anywhere. Everywhere, if you want. It’s creative commons and everything is already found on other websites.
Contenders for Topseos Complaints Awards 2012
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Topseos Scam
While drinking Santa’s milk and spying on a few of my competitor’s websites (oops), I noticed they had a fancy graphic of an award claiming their link building tool was….
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TopSEOs.com – A Review of the Top SEOs Paid Rating Service | SEO Book.com
Who is going to pay to tell people that they are good enough and their lives are fine as they are? A fundamental truth of advertising is that advertising the truth usually isn’t very profitable – …
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TOPSEOs Continues Deceptive Practices | Search Marketing Wisdom
TOPSEOs was built on deception, article scraping, and bait-and-switch practices. The industry cried foul, [Name Removed] blew it off as motivated by ulterior motives, I called him out, and 3 days later they issued an official apology, vowing to change. Fast foward a full month, and they continue their ways, laughing in the face of reality…
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| 4 | TopSEOs via @pageoneresults After the SEO community cried out, and lashed out, at Top SEOs for alleged deceptive practices the TopSEOs brass rushed out to do what they do |
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TopSEOs.com $15,000 per month listing fees
There has been a lot of talk recently about how TopSEOs.com might not be the Independent Authority on Search Vendors they claim to be.
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TopSEOS – Why I don’t display my numerous TopSEOs awards | Net Magellan
A long time ago I alerted my friend Edward Lewis about this company that purported to rank SEO companies and awarded them badges. I had been working as an in-house SEO at a large IYP…
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User reports and information about . TOPSEOS bestwebdesignagencies.com http://bit.ly/Ax1TMk contacted our firm after ranking us multiple times in their fraudulent ranking
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TOPSEOs – An Independent Authority?
I wrote about TOPSEO’s earlier this month. Since I’m new to TKG, I asked around to see if we would’ve gotten involved with this organization years ago….
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TOPSEOS - An Independent Authority?
I don’t care if you’re tired of seeing TOPSEOs at the moment. This is something you MUST see to really understand what this organization is doing. I understand why folks around here are somewhat reluctant to get involved as many of you may be paying for your rankings over there. Or, you’re promoting their service on your website properties. I’m guessing some of that will come to a halt here in the near future. There is too much garbage coming out of the woodwork in regards to this company and their related entities.
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| 10 | Topseos scam. STAY AWAY I need to vent- topseos.com is a SCAM. In order to even be on their so-called list of TOP seo firms you must pay- and pay BIG. I sent an email today and one of the owners of the company said that it would cost $1,000 per month to even be ‘considered’ and ranked on ONE list. |
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TOPSEOs Apologizes – Legit or more Deceptive Business? | Search Marketing Wisdom
There’s been a flurry of renewed activity in the past few days regarding the fact that TOPSEOs has been caught using deceptive business practices in their operation. Apparently someone at TOPSEOs, perhaps [Name Removed] himself, finally felt that enough pressure was being applied, because yesterday morning (April 28th), a press release was posted through PRWeb.com where TOPSEOs issued an official apology “to the community” for “confusion”, and where they vow “Changes to the Site”.
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| 12 | TopSEOs Infamous for Fake “World’s Best Local Internet Marketing Awards.”
TopSEOs Infamous for Fake “World’s Best Local Internet Marketing Awards.”Six reasons you should steer clear of TopSEOs and those who market the acceptance of their “World’s Best Awards.”
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Topseos.com Awards For Best SEO Company Not Transparent Enough
Apparently Top SEOS produce rankings and award badges for best seo companies in various countries (including the UK) … except folk are of the opinion you might have to pay TOPSEOS.com thousands
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| 14 | Topseos – ONE MORE COMPLAINT AGAINST TOPSEOS – ARE THEY A SHAKEDOWN OPERATION OR LEGITIMATE SERVICE? This week’s buzz in the SEO community is all about complaints against TOPSEOs (and questions for [Name Removed], one of their owners) – a company that sells rankings and awards within the SEO industry. While they bill their rankings as a “competition”, people from a number of highly reputable companies in our industry have come out essentially saying that TOPSEOs is nothing more than a shakedown for money. |
| 15 | TOPSEOs Deceptive Practices – An Interview with [Name Removed] This week’s buzz in the SEO community is all about complaints against TOPSEOs (and questions for [Name Removed], one of their owners) – a company that sells rankings and awards within the SEO industry. While they bill their rankings as a “competition”, people from a number of highly reputable companies in our industry have come out essentially saying that TOPSEOs is nothing more than a shakedown for money. |
| 16 | Topseos - TOPSEOS DECEPTIVE PRACTICES This week’s buzz in the SEO community is all about complaints against TOPSEOs (and questions for [Name Removed], one of their owners) – a company that sells rankings and awards within the SEO industry. While they bill their rankings as a “competition”, people from a number of highly reputable companies in our industry have come out essentially saying that TOPSEOs is nothing more than a shakedown for money. |
| 17 | Topseos - TOPSEOs Deceptive Practices – An Interview The real concern for me with respect to TOPSEOs is the fact that they have no problem utilizing the Bait & Switch tactic. Potential clients think they are taking action on TOPSEOs.com to contact Company A but get Company B instead. Bait & Switch is fully illegal, as in AGAINST US LAW. Anyone who has suffered through this should contact the Better Business Bureau immediately, or companies like TOPSEOs are going to stick around. |
| 18 | Topseos - My company has been in Top seos in the past, but because we do not buy their leads now, our ranking has dropped. They claim to simpy “evaluate” seo companies, however, that is loaded with B.S. They tell consumers that they should look at their rankings because they have a stringent policy of ranking. Well, if you think that stringent rankings involves how much you are willing to pay Top SEOs, then I guess you should use them! TOP seos is a total scam. If you are person trying to evaluate SEO companies, dont use them. They lie. |
| 19 | Topseos - TOP SEOs is a SCAM !! Lately many people must have seen SEO companies publishing results about getting top ranked as the best seo company in a given country or best link building company in a given country by TOP SEOs so i decided to look into it further. One of my old client ranks ranks at position one for best seo company in UK for almost last 1-2 years and he told me that they pay a large chunk of money to top seos to maintain this listing. My partner in Australia asked top seos for the top spot in Australia but they were told that its already booked by the same UK company and they can get the 3rd position and lately the UK company stopped their operations in Australia and we were given the top spot again for money. So in short TOP seos is basically a SCAM and there is no actual research done for ranking the SEO companies on the basis of the seo services they provide. |
| 20 | Topseos - Verified SEO: The Latest SEO Scam? topseos.com. a company claiming to rank SEO companies on the service they provide and then supplies them with badges listing their rankings to use on their website and emails etc. I came across them a couple of years ago and thought it would be good to get the SEO company I work for reviewed and listed so we could use it in marketing collateral, after all, looking at the criteria we ticked all the boxes to rank well. So we contacted them to ask for a review and inclusion in their rankings and how we got included. Their response? “You need to pay” or to put more detail on it, you have to pay anything from £400 per month to £1800 a month to be considered for rankings. Hardly sounds impartial does it! |
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Topseos | Ripoff Report Directory | Complaints Reviews Scams Lawsuits Frauds Reported
Topseos.com or Top Seos rates and reviews companies based solely on how much they PAY, the more money you give Topseos.com the better your rating. Basically I can be a crappy SEO company, pay Topseos.com 1000′s of dollars and they will say I’m number one!
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| 22 | Topseos – Fell for TopSEOs…advice? So yesterday I check out their site and we were ranked #1 for SEO Copywriting. For about two seconds I was jumping for joy…but after that I got sick to my stomach. In all the chaos with end of year stuff and the holidays I never considered the fact that they didn’t take any references. They never evaluated anything. Here we were ranked #1 and they couldn’t possibly know anything about us. Not to mention that there are plenty of more established SEO Copywriting companies. I’m starting to freak out… |
| 23 | Topseos - Top SEOs PPC and SEO Competition Ripoff So go signup for this meaningless search engine optimization competition and spend $5000 to get an award that has no significance. True SEO specialists have no time for this kind of biased competition, and you will get much more value in your marketing career to spend this money on quality directory links or add it to your pay per click budget. |
| 24 | Topseos - The Stupidity Behind TopSEOs – Best SEO companies in Australia So in a few words: If you want us to rank you for what you want to be ranked… you need to pay 1K per month. mmm fair isn’t? |
So who actually wins the Topseos Complaints Awards 2012 – you ask?
Well, that’s going to be difficult as there could be legal matters. I dont want people putting the Hobo logo on their sites saying I rated them as a TopSEOS Complainer. I will need to get some disclaimer….. hang on….
I will quote this bit from Topseos – which basically says my rankings awards aren’t worth the bits they are written with – that should protect me:
User agrees to not hold topseos.com and/or [Name Removed], LLC and/or any members and/or any managers and/or any of our partners and/or suppliers liable from any decisions they take. Furthermore, [Name Removed], LLC is not liable for any statements, representations, descriptions, comments, or opinions posted on the Site. [Name Removed], LLC cannot guarantee the accuracy, integrity, or quality of Rankings. Under no circumstances will [Name Removed], LLC or any third-party providers of the Rankings be liable in any way for any Ranking, including, but not limited to, any errors or omissions in any Ranking/s, or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of the Ranking/s.
OK – with my disclaimer out of the way – I can now present the Topseos Complaints Award 2012 to……
Winners!
- Alan Bleiweiss – Topseos Complaints Awards 2012 • Gold Winner | Twitter (follow him and show your appreciation - he needs some followers to get over 5000)
- Edward Lewis – Topseos Complaints Awards 2012 • Silver Winner | Follow Edward On Twitter but make sure you have an avatar.
- Aaron Wall - Topseos Complaints Awards 2012 • Bronze Winner | Follow Aaron Wall on Twitter
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You want a few hundred thousand spun press releases to go with that award, Alan?
Let me know.
Oh – and I forgot – if you want to keep your award – I want £1,000 a month for it. Or a beer. Whichever is easier.
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PS – Yes – Edward Lewis was also a champion of this – a truly animal reporter. Alan edged it by introducing a human element to the investigative journalism that was led by Edward, by actually interviewing the man behind Topseos. Aaron Wall featured as often, it takes someone with the celebrity he has to get the rest of the seo world to take notice.
PPS – I also emitted any single person’s name from the entries quoted from around the web, including the man, the myth, the legend behind topseos. The problem is with TOPSEOS – not one individual. This isn’t a witch hunt and I don’t want to besmirch any one person’s name.
This article is 100% MY OPINION BTW. And that opinion is that Topseos and their Top SEO Awards suck balls, wether they ‘work’ as advertising or not for the seo companies who want to be associated with them – which I hear they do – very well. Go figure.
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