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Ask HN: An SEO startup is impersonating a physician. What should I do?

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Re: Ask HN: An SEO startup is impersonating a physician. What should I do?

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The physician has a lawyer. The lawyer needs to send a DMCA notice to whoever is hosting the fake site, be it server reseller or webhost, then have the lawyer send Google[1] a DMCA takedown request. It should resolve itself quickly as technically it could be reported as phishing.

Google DMCA Information: https://support.google.com/legal/answer/3110420?rd=2

Re: Ask HN: An SEO startup is impersonating a physician. What should I do?

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This is exactly why I got out of SEO services. I always did quality, white hat, and ethical work and had a lot of great customers for a long time, and they started getting eaten up by these idiots. Basically the story would be: 1. I perform work for customer, they're satisfied. They would show improvement and start getting more traffic. 2. Some scam company company calls them and appeals to their sense of greed. 3. T…

No matter how good the SEO ... someone will always tell your client it's horrible. And "prove it" with an SEO report card. And then no matter how much good you did, your client will always have that thought in the back of their mind that maybe it could be better. Little do they realize it could be a lot worse. Here's some of the crazy I see far too often: - SEO guys that run paid traffic through their client's affili…

I encountered a variation of the 'backdoor' one. After the client commissioned a new website without his sleazy backlink farm hidden, he tried to convince the client that the new site would ruin their search engine rankings unless we put his scripts back on. When rebuffed, he started making wild claims about the new site being insecure (best example: "this nginx thing they use was made by RUSSIAN HACKERS!"). Didn't work out great for him.
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