Just an ordinary joe - Checking out the internet.
SEO – search engine optimisation – is the game of making websites appear on page one of Google, and other search engines.
AuroIN is a company that ostensibly does SEO.
On their website you will find this video.
And there is a glowing testimonial from a Roger Scheuer of Ecofo.com:
Image may be NSFW.
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The SEO provided by AuroIN was so successful that Roger has gone into retirement, and retired Ecofo as well! Or something:
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
If a dormant website is the best that AuroIN has to offer as an example of a succesful client, there is nothing more to say.
Other than saying that it is really worth doing your due dilligence prior to purchasing any SEO services online. Scammers and scam companies have a shared characteristic: the fake testimonial or the testimonial that lacks any credibility.
A couple of other companies that give great examples of untrue / fake testimonials are here:
and here:
The tax club is one unpleasant boiler room operation that provides a retired Naval Officer as a video testimonial example of one of its successful clients – and he mentions his business called ‘Our Fishing Boat dot com’.
When you check out the website that The Tax Club helped him with…
it is sad indeed. And because The Tax Club was friendly – he still probably blames himself for lack of commercial results, and does not realise that he has been had – and almost certainly for a few thousand dollars.
Needless to say The Tax Club is being investigated by the FTC…
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2013/04/taxclub.shtm
for ‘bilking’ a full $200 million from elderly and vulnerable US citizens!
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2013/01/taxclub.shtm
…and that gets to the root of the issue:
Really unpleasant internet scammers manage to get away with extracting very large amounts of money from vulnerable people – and because those people are so vulnerable, they don’t have a voice, and don’t generally complain.
Only if the scam gets into the hundreds of millions, will the official consumer protection agencies *start* to take action – and then, only really rather slowly. Meantime the scammers just go on and on with impunity.