Sorry Smart Traffic, Didn’t Know it’s Illegal to Give Bad Reviews
I’d like to apologies to Smart-Traffic.co.uk for giving them a negative review. They’ve informed me my review was illegal.
I received a phone call from them yesterday. Apparently they’ve been advised by their “lawyers” that they should take legal action against me if I leave my negative review of their company on my blog. I was told “just because you have a blog doesn’t mean you can say whatever you want.” I told him I was just reporting my experience. He said something along the lines of “it’s costing us money and you can’t prove everything I said was true” as the reason I have to take the review down.
So as they insisted the review has been removed from this website. You can now find the smart-traffic.co.uk review on a much more popular and high ranking website . You can rest assured that if Smart Traffic still have issues with this, I will seek more media coverage of the subject. Giving a bad service is one thing, threatening legal action against anyone openly reporting their experience is another. I’m not going to let a corporation get away with bullying tactics.
By the way Smart-Traffic, don’t bother calling me again. If you want to get in touch, you can email me, so that everything we both say is recorded. That seems fair doesn’t it?
I considered using this company to outsource some SEO work to and like you, I opted for them because they were top of google for a number of SEO related keywords. After leaving a message on their site, I received a phone call from one of their sales reps who went through the SEO pricing with me. I cant remember how much he wanted. I think I must have hit my head and knocked myself unconcious when I fell off my chair when he told me the price.
I totally agree these guys are useless, i spent £4500 and our website has not moved in 4 months, dont use them.
I too am putting together a blog and website about the Good Bad and Downright Nasty web marketers out there. Congratulations for exposing these people. When people are looking for a way to make an income, they don’t need to be sucked by useless and often grossly expensive systems, or, in my case a follow up by a boiler room trying to milk anything up to $22000!!!! for ‘mentoring’. It is our responsibility to help people, and be the good guys. My negative experiences will be just that – experiences. Publish and be damned! Let ‘em come and get me!
Things are going haywire fast enough anyway… Hopefully we are not yet to the point where it is illegal to give an honest review of a service, including it’s down side.
Isn’t it funny that when a bad review is posted here a good one suddenly appears. I wish we had read through the whole of this site before we took them on.
We had a link building campaign and were sold highly relevant links to our niche. Imagine our horror when the links appeared on totally irelevant websites. Their argument was that the link were on a relevant page.
This is what they do. They have another part of the company http://www.free-seo-company.com they seek out websites and offer them 10 free links a month is they can have a link directory on the site. They then build pages on the site and put the links in place. Getting highly relevant links is not easy so this is how they work round it. If they had the directory on a website selling industrial cleaners but you baby food, they would build a baby food page on that site and low and behold they have now given you a relevant link. Wonderful, not, no page rank and no relevancy whatsoever in Google’s eyes.
Not only are they weak and irrelevant but unbelievably overpriced at £20 to £30 a link. All of their linking is outsourced anyway to India and Thailand as well as the Phillipines.
Be very wary is all I’d say.
Thank God I search their name on Google before I go for their service.
DO NOT USE THESE GUYS FOR ANY SEO WORK – PERIOD.
They are a bunch of con men based in South East Asia with a UK post code, they use cheap labour, bad links and there staff our all ex criminals from the UK looking for an easy life abroad. I got stung badly by these C*nts, 5000 quid and my site actually went down the rankings. Rubbish!
Smarttraffic give you bad links, I would never use those guys again.
Interesting. . . . . I can’t believe that a “lawyer” would phone you about your website. If you had violated any laws, their lawyers would have communicated this to you in writing. It sounds like some shmuck trying to intimidate you.
I have read dozens of bad reviews on the Internet and it would be in the company’s interest to read your comments and maybe phone you to see what changes they could make to improve their product.
Whatever happened to freedom of speech in Britain? Go to Hyde Park – do they still have the “speakers corner” – and tell the whole world what an overpriced, lousy product they
have.
Oh,my! So many of us have said nasty things do you think we should run and hide from these gangsters?
I am in despair with SEO companies. I have tried Just search, Smartraffic and now Sayu. Has anyone else heard of Sayu ? I cant find any reviews. My experience with them has been bad and I need to find anyone else with experience of their service to help me get something for my money.
Do not use smart-traffic.co.uk they hacked my site after giving them my access details, cant prove it was them but i am damm positive it was them, they done some work on my site, my traffic went from a new start out company of approx 50 hits a day and 30 – 40 keywords on page one some in postion 1 2 and 3, every single keyword dropped off, my traffic went down to 1 hit and i think that was me looking at the site. all for the price of £1400.00 when i spoke to them about this they said it will bounce back, this did not happen, so i got my developer to roll the site back to a previous date before they had touched it, and guess what everything came back. Because of this problem they told me that they would build 50 high pr links, they did not give me one single link, i have sent a review to a review provider and now the review provider has contacted me saying that smart traffic want it taken down. Well i say this, SMART TRAFFIC dont rip people off or destroy their websites and you wont get bad reviews. Smart traffic are based in thailand, they also have another company called student computors, they tell you they they do seo work for this company ( Look how well it is doing) arghhhhhh Yes you do work on that site becasue its your own blomming site. DO NOT USE http://WWW.SMART-TRAFFIC.CO.UK YOU WILL LOSE YOUR MONEY AND YOUR SITES REPUTATION.
smart-traffic review: You would be a fool to use smart traffic for your seo, you would get better results if you done nothing at all, plus you would save your money, keep this blog going as companys like this dont deserve good paying customer like us.
Looks a little like sour grapes to me -
I used smart traffic for my seo and they do charge high prices but they have delivered on their work and i have numerous number 1 listings, i have used lots of different companies and these were the only guys that could deliver results.
I have just finished looking over your reviews, about 30 minutes after getting an email from this company for a demand for just under £9,500 after I called them to say the work they were doing was not working. They said I’ve signed a contract and want it paying up. They also said without sending me an invoice that they were going to take legal proceedings against me. What should I do?
Nice work, mate. This company called up my wife about her website – which I’ve been gamely trying to get up in the rankings in my spare seo time (ie the odd 5 minutes here and there) – and I sort of suggested it would be quicker and easier for us to pay up to get someone else to do it. But now I think not. As I think someone mentioned above, this company’s time would be better spent contacting their dissatisfied clients to see what they could do better. Pretending to be lawyers and doing a piss-poor job of threatening people is actually much more work…
We have had a nightmare with Smart Traffic. Our website went from top 4 to not even being found for our phrases. Our new web marketing company who got us to number 4 are having a nightmare trying to rectify the mess that Smart Traffic have done to us.
Hi i used Smart Traffic them 2 years ago and they got £4500 from me. Said i would get my money back if they could not get me on the first page of google. They did very little and no refund. Dont pay a penny to smart traffic up front
I did leave a bad review on Review Writer. They tried to get the post removed but failed lol!