{"id":374,"date":"2009-05-18T19:33:11","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T19:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/?p=374"},"modified":"2013-12-11T14:21:42","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T14:21:42","slug":"first-search-consultancy-seo-cowboys-with-a-different-technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/18\/first-search-consultancy-seo-cowboys-with-a-different-technique\/","title":{"rendered":"First Search Consultancy &#8211; SEO cowboys with a different technique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am used to seeing all the scam letters from SEO companies <q>guaranteeing first place on Google<\/q> etc. Lately a friend has been getting pestered by phone calls.<\/p>\n<p>Today she had one from <q>Google<\/q>.<\/p>\n<p>Or at least a company impersonating Google.<\/p>\n<p>The company was First Search Consulting (<del datetime=\"2011-12-13T19:07:53+00:00\"><\/del>). A bunch of snake-oil selling cowboys.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t link to their shit website as it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Plays music when you load it<\/li>\n<li>Doesn&#8217;t have valid <acronym title=\"Hyper Text Markup Language\">HTML<\/acronym><\/li>\n<li>Will help them in search engines<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Amusingly, like all <q><acronym title=\"Search Engine Optimisation\">SEO<\/acronym><\/q> companies, their own search results are pitiful. The only search page keywords which get them on the first page of Google are the company name.<\/p>\n<p><acronym title=\"Search Engine Optimisation\">SEO<\/acronym> isn&#8217;t the only thing they do though, oh no.<\/p>\n<p>They also do Broadband and Web Design.<\/p>\n<p>On broadband, they don&#8217;t actually have that yet, but they are taking orders for a too good to be true deal. Their expertise in the area shines through when they mention they need your <q>MAC<\/q> code, which changes on a monthly basis.<\/p>\n<p>Fuck knows what they mean by that.<\/p>\n<p>A <acronym title=\"Media Access Control\">MAC<\/acronym> code in relation to broadband would be a code put on your network card when manufactured which stays the same forever unless you go into the guts of the software and intentionally change it. It certainly doesn&#8217;t change frequently never mind monthly.<\/p>\n<p>But their web design side.<\/p>\n<p>Holy crap what an abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Their portfolio has 9 examples of their work.<\/p>\n<p>None of which validate.<\/p>\n<p>Nine of which have table based layout.<\/p>\n<p>These fucking cowboys shouldn&#8217;t be allowed anywhere near computers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am used to seeing all the scam letters from SEO companies guaranteeing first place on Google etc. Lately a friend has been getting pestered by phone calls. Today she had one from Google. Or at least a company impersonating Google. The company was First Search Consulting (). A bunch of snake-oil selling cowboys. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,3,51],"tags":[279,280,281,282,283,212],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-random","category-rant","tag-cowboys","tag-first-search-consultancy","tag-scam","tag-scammers","tag-search-engine","tag-seo"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2731,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/2731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}