Anyone in the SEO industry who can rub more than two braincells together knows that
TopSEOs is a scam (as should be evident from the links provided later in this post).
Advertising itself as an ‘an independent authority on search vendors’, the marketing material distributed by TopSEOs seems to suggest that a top ranking on a TopSEOs list is a mark of quality.
This is, of course, a big fat lie, as rankings on TopSEOs can simply be bought. The more money you give TopSEOs, the higher they will rank you.
Apparently the
UK company in question has a lot of money to burn to pay for that (expensive) TopSEOs ranking, although it also seems the actual quality of their delivered services, at least
in a few cases, is inversely proportionate to their TopSEOs spend.
A Tangled Web
TopSEOs has been outed for their deceptive practices on numerous occasions (
here,
here,
here,
here,
here,
here, and
here – for starters) yet somehow they just don’t seem to go away.
Many reputable SEOs have written about them and outed their industry-polluting crap, again and again, but TopSEOs just seems to get bigger and bigger.
This is, of course, utterly farcical. Everyone who works in SEO is aware of our questionable reputation, of the mostly negative public image SEO enjoys, and the scammers that contribute to this public image. Yet somehow we as an industry allow
one of the biggest scammers to
thrive and continue to spread their manipulative marketing-muck, thus damaging our industry’s credibility even more.
