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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: mark_roberts on August 15, 2013, 08:42:16 pm

Title: Free Seo Offer
Post by: mark_roberts on August 15, 2013, 08:42:16 pm
Just had an email out of the blue from someone who says hes a recent graduate specialising in SEO wanting to start up his own business.

Hes looking to do FREE SEO  to build up his portfolio.  Says he has references.  Gives his name, address and phone number so it dosent sound like the usual con men type emails.

SO if I give him the password to my wordpress site whats the worst that could happen??

Worth the punt or stay well clear??

THanks
Mark
Title: Re: Free Seo Offer
Post by: Nick Attwood on August 15, 2013, 08:43:34 pm
Answered on Truckmounters  ;)
Title: Re: Free Seo Offer
Post by: Angelo on August 15, 2013, 09:01:39 pm
be careful with that , could well be some one paid by one of your competitors to destroy your website .
Title: Re: Free Seo Offer
Post by: peter maybury on August 15, 2013, 09:43:04 pm
Have had same email.

Peter
www.carpetcleanercardiff.comhttp://
Title: Re: Free Seo Offer
Post by: peter maybury on August 15, 2013, 09:45:00 pm
had same email
peter
www.carpetcleanercardiff.comhttp://
Title: Re: Free Seo Offer
Post by: garry22 on August 16, 2013, 06:00:15 pm
Mark, in Wordpress you can hide parts of the admin area but I would imagine you cannot allow access for this without giving out the master login details.

The guy is probably just offering free stuff hoping that you will upgrade to some paid service later.

The only problem with a degree in SEO is that two years and ten months of it will probably be obsolete.

If you do get involved, make sure you keep a back up of your whole site (including mysql database) in case something goes wrong. You can always re install it again.
Title: Re: Free Seo Offer
Post by: steve prince on August 16, 2013, 06:14:38 pm
be careful with that , could well be some one paid by one of your competitors to destroy your website .

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I very much doubt that
Title: Re: Free Seo Offer
Post by: Mike Halliday on August 16, 2013, 06:17:48 pm
I would ask him to do a report on your website and give a list of improvements he would make  if you gave him access to your site. Or does he need to see the actual programming  ?

Title: Re: Free Seo Offer
Post by: Nick Attwood on August 16, 2013, 07:57:35 pm
As I said on the other channel and as Garry said if you go for it keep a backup including msql database! Nothing to loose and an easy reinstall!
Title: Re: Free Seo Offer
Post by: garry22 on August 16, 2013, 08:01:52 pm
We can learn a lot about potential cleaning customers here as the shoe is on the other foot..

The lad is probably all above board but a lot of people are wary.

Maybe cleaning customers have the same doubts about cleaning companies?

How do we tackle those reservations?
Title: Re: Free Seo Offer
Post by: wynne jones on August 16, 2013, 08:57:13 pm
We can learn a lot about potential cleaning customers here as the shoe is on the other foot..

The lad is probably all above board but a lot of people are wary.

Maybe cleaning customers have the same doubts about cleaning companies?

How do we tackle those reservations?

Don't advertise and be so remarkable you just work off referral. ;)