Google Scams

Latest Google Ads Scams May Be Google Themselves

Be careful out there.  For years I have saved several people per year who had "help" from Google with setting up their Google Adwords (now referred to as Google Ads) campaigns.  There was a time when I was warning people about fake people calling and tricking business owners into letting them "help" them with Google [...]

99 SEO Problems and I Don’t Know Which Ones Matter

We all get those emails telling you how your site has all sorts of issues and fails the SEO test of that person from seoexpert@yahoo or whatever that sent it to you. Even some of the national companies have tests built for you to fail as a selling point.  In actuality, we all could do [...]

SEO Myth Madness: SEO Myths that hurt your wallet

In the spirit of March Madness, this week I wanted to address some SEO myths out there that can really hurt your wallet and leave a bad taste in your mouth.  In just the past week, I have seen some examples of a few of these giving the industry a black eye.  Unfortunately, like with [...]

Google Taking Action Against Fake Google Calls

Just a quick update this week about Google finally taking action on robo-callers that claim to be working for Google. This has been happening for years. Google will not typically robocall you. They do have automated call answering when confirming local businesses, but those are initiated by the user.  They point out that they always [...]

By |2020-05-05T16:24:52+00:00September 18th, 2015|Categories: Google Updates, Scams, SEO Scams|Tags: , , |

Phone Scams: Be Wary of Fake Google Calls

This has been going on for a while now and I have addressed it before, but I have seen a new influx of fake Google calls to business owners.  Please be very careful when someone calls you saying that they are "Google".  I've even met with prospects who told me that another company worked with [...]

By |2014-09-17T16:09:08+00:00September 17th, 2014|Categories: Scams|Tags: , |
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