{"id":579,"date":"2010-01-21T21:29:59","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T21:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/?p=579"},"modified":"2021-04-03T12:49:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T12:49:56","slug":"first-search-consultancy-send-in-the-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/21\/first-search-consultancy-send-in-the-lawyers\/","title":{"rendered":"First Search Consultancy send in the lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <acronym title=\"Search Engine Optimisation\">SEO<\/acronym> company <a href=\"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/18\/first-search-consultancy-seo-cowboys-with-a-different-technique\/\">previously discussed here<\/a> with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ronanobrien.info\/selling-first-place-on-google-scam\/\">dubious<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/productforums.google.com\/forum\/?hl=en#!category-topic\/webmasters\/chit-chat\/jnPTFWqYxzQ\">reputation<\/a> has sent in the lawyers against someone who posted about them.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently them phoning up people claiming to be from Google and people reporting this is grounds to send in legal threats.<\/p>\n<p>In the actual thread a number of people posted their experience with the company (the post was third in Google when you searched for the company). These included people claiming to be former and current customers and former staff.<\/p>\n<p>A boss then waded in claiming that their staff did no such thing. His rambling run on sentences were something to behold. Then a number of testimonials appeared from satisfied customers with a very similar writing style. He then posted again claiming people writing bad things about his company were all working for his competitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An SEO company previously discussed here with a dubious reputation has sent in the lawyers against someone who posted about them. Apparently them phoning up people claiming to be from Google and people reporting this is grounds to send in legal threats. In the actual thread a number of people posted their experience with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[280],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant","tag-first-search-consultancy"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","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=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4057,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/4057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}