Dan Stalfire owns SEO One, Inc. He appears to be very friendly and helpful with your website design issues, and SEO desires. But what he doesn't tell the candidate is that he doesn't know very much much about SEO work at all.
When I first started working with Dan I wanted to know what he was doing for my site. He said that he was going to be hooking up a linking pattern on the site, clean up my site, and work on the meta tags that I had already established. All sounded good and I hired him to help me with the SEO work on my website.
After a month no one called me to find out what the passwords were for my current server. He had never been into my website nor had any of his employees. All he wanted was a check for that months work. Being a little concerned I started to hound Dan about the work that was suppose to be done on my site to improve the SEO ratings.
When I started with SEO One, I had 36 keywords listed on various search engines. As his staff started to work on my site I noticed that they would make an adjustment that screwed up the dimensions of my site. The lettering was all screwed up and there were misspelled words on my site. It looked terrible and I started to get dropped from websites. With alarm I called his office to find out what was up.
Dan told me he had never heard of W3 schools or to validate a site. This is simple SEO work and something that every does that works on site. Since he had no knowledge it further became apparent that Dan didn't know very much about SEO. Since I had been doing the SEO work for my site for 5 years I knew pretty well what the rules were. I hired Dan to take some of the work load off of myself. But now I was having to pay his company and do the work.
The following month I dropped further off of the search engines. When I asked Dan about it he wanted to know how I knew I was falling. I told him that I had SEO software to track the progress and knew that he wasn't doing anything on my site but mess it up. H argued with me and wanted a copy of the report. Hence, I sent him the copy of the report thinking... He owns a SEO company and doesn't even have the SEO software to follow the progress!!!
The next month I further dropped off the search engine radar. I was now down to 12 key words and not placing very high at that. The site had CSS errors, spelling errors, grammer errors, and other things that would of been easy for a knowledgeable SEO company to fix.instead, he allowed his employee to make the "global" changes to my site without even seeing if the changes were good for my site. They were not and I would spend all weekend fixing what Michelle had done to my site.
That was it! I told Dan that I would do it myself and was not going to work with his company. My website is a website business and missing out on valuable SEO coverage was costing my company hundreds of dollars every day. It was a necessity to get back listed and make the changes to the site to get me in the higher rankings that Dan was unaware of.
Since I discontinued my relationship with Dan he is now trying to bill me for a years worth of work even though he never did the job. It is my firm belief that he is a simple web designer, with some knowledge of his server and trying to pass himself off as a SEO manager in order to get money thinking that the business wouldn't know any better.
Beware of this company. Unless of course you enjoy spending your money on a shabby job and false promises. Currently, Dan has one of his staff harassing me for money and threatening to send me to collections. I think every should know before engaging in any type of business deals with this company so they can make a sound judgment if they too would like to end up in this predicament.
Anyone thinking of hiring someone for SEO work it is my advise to learn it yourself. Google makes it really easy and frowns upon companies like this that has butcher tactics.
Karen
Keys, Florida
U.S.A.
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