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"Victim-1 and PHILLIPS were former business partners and are currently business competitors."
It's not like he's offing SEO competitors at random. He knew and worked with the victim personally.
SEO Company CEO Contracts Murderers to Kill Competition, Client Exposes All
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#32I had a nasty bout with an SEO marketer a few years ago. He had taken content from my website and other assets of mine without permission or advance request. I was willing to overlook it as an inevitable cost of doing business. But when he started to steal my customer reviews word for word and posting them as fake reviews, I became irate. I guess I am OK with someone stealing from me but I felt the reviews were my cu…
well that escalated quickly. Hope I never have to get into a situation like this, happy to hear it got resolved.
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#33I had a nasty bout with an SEO marketer a few years ago. He had taken content from my website and other assets of mine without permission or advance request. I was willing to overlook it as an inevitable cost of doing business. But when he started to steal my customer reviews word for word and posting them as fake reviews, I became irate. I guess I am OK with someone stealing from me but I felt the reviews were my cu…
Out of curiosity, why didn't you report these facts to the authorities? Fear of wasting time, or of retaliation, or something else?
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#34>... does very little to enhance our web presence in the first place and then never does anything further to improve our results. Complaints are met with excuses. In other words, ... ... a company that makes false promises and delivers little value. SEO agencies in a nutshell. Disclaimer: I'm a SEO.
digital snake-oil, idiots will always fall for it.
well, sometimes it's even a more or less sophisticated scam (blaming it on idiots is too short sighted)
a simple blueprint of the most common seo scam:
1) sell them something external that does not create additional work for the client and assign value to it i.e.: links, linkbuilding services, tools, ...
2) disable feedack loops (it takes x month until you see an impact, introduce "magic numbers" seo tools)
3) wait & take money (a.k.a. deplete ressources that the client might use for otherwise improvement)
4) trigger value creating project i.e.: better targeted title tags, sitemap.xml, responsive, webperformance, ...
5) see immidiate benefits
6) assign impact to 1)
7) addiction / lock-in cycle completed
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#35Coming from a post-Soviet period, I am surprised a bit that this doesn't happen more often. Company owners would be killed seemingly without much worry if they crossed anyone powerful. I was doing homework one night and felt the house shake, I thought it was an earthquake. It turns out a bomb went off in a 5 story apartment building nearby. Someone was trying to kill a banker so they left a bomb by their door.
While the US is by no means perfect, it has a functioning justice system that isn't corrupt enough that people feel like they can get away with murder.
Unless they have badges.
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#36Coming from a post-Soviet period, I am surprised a bit that this doesn't happen more often. Company owners would be killed seemingly without much worry if they crossed anyone powerful. I was doing homework one night and felt the house shake, I thought it was an earthquake. It turns out a bomb went off in a 5 story apartment building nearby. Someone was trying to kill a banker so they left a bomb by their door.
It doesn't happen more often because in an environment like that, the mere threat is enough.
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#37I had a nasty bout with an SEO marketer a few years ago. He had taken content from my website and other assets of mine without permission or advance request. I was willing to overlook it as an inevitable cost of doing business. But when he started to steal my customer reviews word for word and posting them as fake reviews, I became irate. I guess I am OK with someone stealing from me but I felt the reviews were my cu…
Out of curiosity, why didn't you report these facts to the authorities? Fear of wasting time, or of retaliation, or something else?
Not the original poster but I feel that sometimes you just want it to be over even if taking a loss on it.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
While the US is by no means perfect, it has a functioning justice system that isn't corrupt enough that people feel like they can get away with murder.
Unless they have badges.
Or affluenza. Rich people don't go to prison in America, the ones that do are the rare exceptions.
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#39So the government caught this guy in a Sting. What would even motivate such an operation? I have heard of Traps being laid out for potential pedophiles, drug addicts etc. Buy why would they go after this kind of criminal preemptively?
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#40I had a nasty bout with an SEO marketer a few years ago. He had taken content from my website and other assets of mine without permission or advance request. I was willing to overlook it as an inevitable cost of doing business. But when he started to steal my customer reviews word for word and posting them as fake reviews, I became irate. I guess I am OK with someone stealing from me but I felt the reviews were my cu…
Out of curiosity, why didn't you report these facts to the authorities? Fear of wasting time, or of retaliation, or something else?
Not everyone is rich.