Also, they put several dozen outbound links on my site, but my site had inbound links primarily from my clients and organizations. Mainstreet had gotten me an inbound link from Dmoz (which was good) and a couple others, one of which was from Mainstreethost.com and one from a no longer existent website – both marked, “links by mainstreet host”. That was all they had accomplished after 5 years with them, despite their yearly assurances that they would add one or two per month.

Once I learned what SEO was really all about, I told Sam Vangelista that I was not going to continue. At that point, his hard sell tactics turned to semi-threats. He called, saying that my ranking was about to fall off a cliff and that the damage would be unrecoverable. Every time he called, he tried to make it sound as if the sky was going to fall the next day unless I signed up again.

I did not sign up. Instead, I learned what I could about SEO, then optimized the website myself. During the months since I left Mainstreet, my traffic has grown exponentially. I rank well in the search for my target search phrases and the company call volume has greatly increased. Internet clients were never much of a factor while I was with Mainstreet. Now, clients who find us on the internet are a major portion of our business.

I also found hidden links to the Mainstreet site on many of my pages. I had two website designers try to help me remove the links, but they both said the links were protected somehow and could not be removed. Mainstreet failed to respond to my requests for assistance in removing the links. The un-movable links to Mainstreet were a big part of my decision to re-design my website, which was just completed.

In summary, I feel like a dupe for wasting my time with Mainstreet for so long.

I filed a complaint with the BBB and after doing research, I find they are nothing but smoke and mirrors. They assure you they will optimize your web site but they simply take advantage optimizing one or two pages. They should be honest and up front with you from the onset, not screwing you.

Bottom line: if you are considering hiring a company for SEO, try to find a positive referral from someone you know in real life who has had a good experience. Reach out to your network – also, if you are considering spending what is a lot of money (to you), consider reading a book on SEO first, there are many. It will at least help you to evaluate potential consultants. Once you get the fundamentals I think you will find in most cases that no one can do SEO better for you than YOU without potentially spending a lot of $$ on how your site is built, marketed and strategic content creation.

At that time the promotion wa $49.95. They did a good job getting me better rankings ut it took a while. Once I gave them my trust and worked with them and did what the optimization department suggested I started seeing results.

I know we live in a free country and have free speech but to slander someone because you thought $10 would get you on the top page of Google is ridiculous.

Give the company a break and listen to whatthey have to say. If they were a fraud they would have been shut down. The rankings with the BBB is very good. They have thousands of customers. It seems like there area few disgruntled people that probily did not want to invest in their optimzation packages and are crying about 10 dollars.

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Thats not bad for anyone that understands our industry in a short period of time. No one got scammed here.