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Peter MacLaurin
Head of Online at Sportingindex

02 July 2007 11:53am

Sporting Index signed Sticky Eyes circa a month ago, we reviewed at number of providers but Sticky Eyes had clearly research our business and had a number of ideas that set them apart from the other agencies we met. During implementation I have also found Sticky Eyes to be courteous and professional and completing all work on time. The SEO program launches in the next month and should make a dramatic difference to our business.
Pete

On 14:19:55 30 June 2007 JamesBurgess wrote:
>If you have not yet found an SEO, the following are on the
>other hand fantastic. Based in India but the time
>difference is no issue, they courteous, responsive and get
>you results fast. We have had far better results in just
>a few weeks with this company than a year with Backbone
>Solutions Ltd. Their url is:
>
>www.convonix.com
>
>Tell them that I sent you,
>
>Regards,
>
>James
>www.pad-a-terre.com
>On 11:29:51 4 June 2007 EmmanuelGad wrote:
>>Thanks for your feedback. No, I didn't use them. I
>had an
>>uncomfortable feeling about them.
>>
>>
>>On 11:20:12 4 June 2007 JamesBurgess wrote:
>>>On 16:04:27 20 October 2006 EmmanuelGad wrote:
>>>>Has anyone heard of, or had an experience
>with, a
>>>company
>>>>called Back Bone Solutions
>>(backbonesolutions.com)?
>>>>
>>>>Many thanks
>>>
>>>Hi, Yes, I have had a lot of experience of this
>SEO
>>and in
>>>short, they have completely ripped us off. We are
>>5000
>>>Pounds out of pocket, have no results (of course
>they
>>are
>>>not guaranteed) and the company twice has taken
>>>unauthorised charges from our card. In short they
>are
>>>cowboys, do not touch them with barge pole. We
>are
>>>currently taking about to take them to court. I
>hope
>>you
>>>in the end did not use them.
Rob Wright
Technical at Villas and Cottages

21 November 2007 12:27pm

I have used www.weblinx.biz for the past 2 years and found them to be excellent throughout. I am on the top 5 for most of my search terms and especially my most competitive like "portugal Villas". My contact is a guy Called Darren Horsham who i have found to be very quick to respond to all my mails.

You dont get harrased to spend spend spend with extra products either which proves SEO is key.

Rob

On 16:04:40 17 October 2006 karendavis1 wrote:

Hi

I was wondering if anyone had had a good experience with any SEO agencies. I have been given some names - Spannerworks, Guava and Clickthrough Marketing but would be open to other companies too.

We're a publishing company with a large amount of keywords that need reviewing and potentially managing. I had a bad experience a few years ago and want to ensure that this time I get someone professional and commercial.

Any recommendations much appreciated.

Karen
Rob Wright
Technical at Villas and Cottages

21 November 2007 12:29pm

I have used www.weblinx.biz for the past 2 years and found them to be excellent throughout. I am on the top 5 for most of my search terms and especially my most competitive like "portugal Villas". My contact is a guy Called Darren Horsham who i have found to be very quick to respond to all my mails.
You dont get harrased to spend spend spend with extra products either which proves SEO is key.
Rob
On 16:04:27 20 October 2006 EmmanuelGad wrote:

Has anyone heard of, or had an experience with, a company called Back Bone Solutions (backbonesolutions.com)?

Many thanks
Branden Faulls
Managing Director at Clockwork Robot

22 November 2007 09:54am

We worked with Barracuda Digital (http://www.barracuda-digital.co.uk/) when I was working with a FTSE 250 insurance provider. The Barracuda team added a great deal of value and were extremely proactive about driving best practice within our development team, on top of their tactical deliverables.
The team is knowledgable and highly credible; the Director, David Reilly, conducts SEO training for e-consultancy.
Whoever you select, make sure you're dedicating as much resource and time to your organic search campaigns as you are to your paid search marketing. With a significant portion of your traffic likely coming from search, you should avoid thinking of your SEO activity as an inexpensive "nice-to-have". Any good SEO consultancy will be able to track and measure SEO success with the same rigor as SEM marketers.
Good luck with your selection process.
Branden
Milind Mody
CEO at eBrandz

24 November 2007 09:37am

Hi Karen,
We have worked with many publishers and one of the most important SEO success factor for publishers is the Content Management System they use.
I agree with Justine that your sites should be SEO friendly and there needs to be an internal policy. For SEO, you might want someone to evaluate your current CMS and give you suggestions whether the CMS can be tweaked. If not, then change your CMS. There are quite a few open source CMS which can be tweaked and made SEO friendly. Your server platform will also play an important role in selecting a CMS.
The second most important SEO success factor (for publishers) is to train your Editors in basics of SEO. This will help them write SEO friendly content and Titles (which can then be reviewed by your SEO vendor).
As for Adwords management, whoever you select, make sure they understand your goals and can provide you with a project manager who is accessible and qualified to handle your campaign. Also ensure the vendor has a tool to monitor click fraud.
Hope you find a vendor who fits your needs.
Stephen Roberts
Head of Marketing at Colebrook Bosson Saunders

11 September 2008 16:13pm

I would strongly reccomend these guys, I know them from my Guardian days and they are very very good. http://www.4psmarketing.com/

Contact is Matthew Phelan.
Matthew Phelan Gold
Director and Co-Founder at 4Ps Marketing

06 August 2009 13:05pm


The answer to this can be found in your analytics if you have set it up and understand the data that it produces. Unfortunately this means there is no straight answer to this question other than “it is different for every client”.

Check your analytics and if you still don’t know feel free to drop me a line.
Stewart Spencer
chairman at Dischromatics Ltd

21 October 2010 12:16pm

I too have looked at Backbone and received a quotation but was sceptical so didn't proceed.

I have seen that Roger Harrison of a comapny called Chandlery has recommended them, I am again sceptical becasue there does not seem to be any company like this. I wonder if this is Spam from Backbone?
Anonymous
23 October 2010 12:47pm

Don't touch Backbone Solutions! We took them to court and won. Backbone Solutions claimed poverty and asked if they could pay in monthly instalments over a year. We said they could and they have paid 1 instalment over the last 7 months! If you miss a monthly payment to Backbone Solutions, all hell breaks loose. So now, equiped with my court order, I am going to take more drastic action and this time I don't have to worry about losing. :)

Watch this space...
Stewart Spencer
chairman at Dischromatics Ltd

23 October 2010 15:54pm

Hi Anonymous

Thanks for your comments which at least makes me feel my instincts are correct.

So who did you use that you were satisfied with?