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SeoGears & The Endurance International Group SEO services

Hired SEOgears to rebuild and update my website and provide SEO services. Before SEO Gears started working on my site, I had first page search rankings and regular leads. SEOgears destroyed that. My site has no leads and almost impossible to find.

Desired outcome: Refund my money and I'll hire a capable firm.

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SeoGears & The Endurance International Group Social media marketing

I am filing a complaint today because I am extremely dissatisfied with the service that SEO Gears has provided me. I am a small company that just recently created a website/blog to go along with it. I chose Bluehost as they are the best option for what I want to do. Upon choosing Bluehost, SEO Gears contacted me and offered me a few different packages, one of them being a package that includes web design and social media marketing and engagement - WP full service package. I was very excited because I knew very little about social media, and I wanted to focus solely on writing content for my website.

This package comes with a price tag of 2000+ USD - quite high, but I figured with everything included, it must be worth it.

It was not.

The issues began at the very beginning during the design process. They claim to build a new site from scratch, but in reality they use Elementor-no problem, I couldn't even build a site with a website builder myself, so I figured it's better than nothing. Plus I'll eventually have to manage the website myself, so of course this is a better option.
The designer took super long and threw something together really quick, so I ended up having to request a new designer. I hated doing that because I really don't like to complain, but I had no other option.
After the change of designer, the site came out beautifully! I was so happy and ready to upload content. But this is when they hit me with some disappointing news - they only use fb and twitter for social media marketing. Hm, ok. Well, I was not told that when I shelled out all this money. I'm in my twenties and my target audience is up to around 50 years old - they don't really use fb or twitter. But wait, it gets better (worse, it actually gets worse) after a few months I see they are posting the same articles I had and not using the new content for my social media posts. Not only that, but everything they posted sounded robotic and had no connection with the tone of my brand. To make matters worse, now months in, they reveal to me they do not engage the audience. Meaning no following other pages or social, no likes - nothing. They simply use an automated system to grab recent content and schedule it out a week in advance.
At this point i'm disgusted and decided to halt the last two payments of my plan. There's got to be a way to work this out, right? Well, wrong. They told me I must pay for the entire package, even though i've asked many times to cancel it.
I did not sign a contract, and i'm definitely not getting what I signed up for. I was told that if I wanted to cancel, I would have to pay three times as much as what io owe - if not I must deal with them and their expensive mediocre service for an additional 3 months.
I called bluehost today to inquire about this, and as usual they were as kind as ever. They explained to me that this was not the first time that they're received a complaint about seo gears, and that it is not true that I would have to pay more to cancel this horrid service. So now i'm livid. I shelled out triple the amount than I should have because they really aren't doing anything to help me or my brand. All the advice that they give me is generic and not personalized as promised and to put the cherry on top of it all, I found the twitter account of the supervisor of my current marketing coordinator. Her twitter states she is, and I quote, "hopeful future seo expert, or trophy wife, whatever comes first. Big fan of sarcasm and puns." she has a little over 230 followers...
Look, I judge no one on their personal life, but aspiring seo expert?! How are you not that already?! And this is the supervisor... I could cry. This cost me over 2k and i'm dealing with people who don't know what they're doing and are using me as a test subject. They don't care to learn anything about me or my company, with the exception of one worker, my previous marketing coordinator whom I didn't get to work with because she got a promotion - honestly, she should work at a better company because seo gears is not it.
I've had to contact legal counsel because not only did they lie about the services they would provide, but they are threatening me with fees and the revocation of my website - something bluehost has told me no less than 20 minutes ago they could not do.
I'm annoyed. I just wanted to write and entertain, but now I have to deal with this.

Desired outcome: Cancellation of last two payments and marketing services

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SeoGears & The Endurance International Group Services to help you build business, drive traffic are not as advertised

In the past six months this company did nothing to increase my business while taking my money. They hold themselves accountable for nothing! They are more than happy just to take your money and do nothing to actually help your online business. Stay away, you will be dissatisfied and out a lot of money, which even though their system does not work they will offer you no credit, no refunds, nothing. Buyer beware!

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Our verdict: SeoGears & The Endurance International Group has achieved a rare feat of perfection in legitimacy, as per the rigorous analysis conducted by Complaints Board. This achievement underscores SeoGears & The Endurance International Group's position as a benchmark of trust and quality within its industry. Users and clients of SeoGears & The Endurance International Group can engage with its offerings, confident in the knowledge that they are dealing with a top-tier, fully legitimized company.

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We found clear and detailed contact information for SeoGears & The Endurance International Group. The company provides a physical address, phone number, and 2 emails, as well as 2 social media accounts. This demonstrates a commitment to customer service and transparency, which is a positive sign for building trust with customers.

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Seogears.com you are considering visiting, which is associated with SeoGears & The Endurance International Group, is very old. Longevity often suggests that a website has consistently provided valuable content, products, or services over the years and has maintained a stable user base and a sustained online presence. This could be an indication of a very positive reputation.

Seogears.com regularly updates its policies to reflect changes in laws, regulations. These policies are easy to find and understand, and they are written in plain language that is accessible to all customers. This helps customers understand what they are agreeing to and what to expect from SeoGears & The Endurance International Group.

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SeoGears & The Endurance International Group Adwords Consulting / Manager

I was pointed to SEOgears by Homestead when I asked about getting going on organic performance. It was a nightmare. I had at least 4 different people assigned to my account, and it was not clear if I was talking to SEOGears or Homestead. Their "Customer Service", once I started paying their "management" fee for Adwords was horrible. I had to put in a request for an appointment usually 5-7 days away to talk to anyone about anything I needed to change. I was locked out of my own Adwords account so they could ostensibly protect themselves from my activities on my account that would possible impact their "management" fees. The Adwords log shows their only action was a daily adjustment to my adwords bid, that was the basis for my adwords bid and their fees. These people are slicker than snot on a brass door knob, and have no intention to producing viable results, just getting their management fee. I am happy with Homestead and their tools, but cant understand how they can survive their relationship with SEOGears. This organization has the look and feel of a scam organization. DONT GIVE THEM ANY SORT OF ACCOUNT CONTROL... You will regret it!

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SeoGears & The Endurance International Group Everything they sell you is a lie!

As a new business we were in the market to optimize our web-site and get more business. We were contacted by SEO Gears. The sales pitch was wonderful and the things they promised sounded like this was the step we wanted to take. After spending several hundred dollars for add-words and website help we received nothing but one phone call from some wanting a product that we don't offer. Everything we were sold on and promised was a lie. This company claims to pay directly to google to boost your website and and sales and from first hand experience, DO NOT USE THEM! The customer service is awful! The marketing manager Jarrod Kennedy, had the nerve to tell us that the one phone call we did receive came from a dummy because he chose to call us... I personally spoke to that person twice and he was a mentally disabled person. We informed Jarrod of this and he had no remorse...

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SeoGears & The Endurance International Group Seo fraud

We were recommended to seo gears by homestead.com (A website builder) in august 2013. We hired seo gears to handle both our seo content marketing campaign as well as our ppc campaign. Our average monthly spend with seo gears has been about $5000. 00. Seo gears created many backlinks to our website, however we recently discovered that nearly 50% of the backlinks developed by them are bad links, which were not created using google's recommended white hat practices.

We are jewelry company. All of our products are jewelry. For example. One of our product categories is rhinestone sliders. We have discovered that seo gears has created bad links to our website by linking us to automobile sliders, which obviously have nothing to do with jewelry sliders. There are so many low and bad quality links to our website, all of which were created by seo gears, that google severely penalized our website with their latest release of penguin. We contacted our rep (Ryan whitten) at seo gears and alerted him to the fact they created all these bad links and asked that they remove and / or disavow all of them. His answer was no. They would not remove the bad links. Furthermore, we asked them to give us all data collected on our ppc campaign during the past year and surprisingly seo gears again refused to give us the data for which we paid. This company is a fraud. They have no idea of how to implement a quality seo campaign. They are also a complete rip - off. They take your money, produce a half - assed work product, and then effectively steal your money by refusing to give you the data that you already paid for.

Seo gears have put us in the position of having to sue them for the information. Unfortunately, even if they are compelled to give us the data, it will probably be too late for it to be of any use to us. Regardless of the outcome, thieves need to be prosecuted, and we will pursue a legal remedy in court. Beware: seo gears is no different than a thief who robs you in the street. The company has no integrity and is run by crooks. Stay away!

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SeoGears & The Endurance International Group ### customer service

After three months of billing my company for a marketing service that was not provided i tried to cancel my
Account and still could not reach anyone from this company. I am very dissatisfied with the marketing services that they provide and have recently found out that i was farmed out to this company recently by homestead
Who i had for a long that provided these services. I am very satisfied with homestead but beware of this
Seo gears listed as ie hosting support on my credit card statement.

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SeoGears & The Endurance International Group SEO Service complaint

I have been a customer of Homestead, a website hosting company for 14 years. While Homestead is an excellent company, they have been partnering with some less than desirable companies and services. For approx. 2 years, homestead was offering a website SEO program. It was around 100.00 a month. They never really managed to get me in the top 3. I then did some of my own SEO and managed to hold a # 1 or #2 position. In 2013, Google changed the algorithyms. After i noticed my site falling in rank, I called Homestead. They said they apologized for dropping the ball and that SEO GEARS is a whole new concept. They issued me a 300.00 credit to stay with the service and try it. They promised regular phone support. This is what i experienced 1) Either delays of a week or lack of return e-mails with no answers to my calls. 2) A slip in ratings to the point where I was below 100 or more in some keywords. 3) They built more backlinks to foreign websites, etc. when i am small business trying to drive local traffic. After all of this, i read this website and the complaints sounded very familiar. I then canceled my subscription and halted the charges on my credit card. The end result is they wanted to keep working on my SEO, but wanted to manage my pay per click campaign. I offered to consider it only after they showed me some positive results in my SEO, but they did not want to accept the challenge. The bottom line is...Homestead is great, but dont buy into their SEO services they sell !

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SeoGears & The Endurance International Group Failure to Honor Contract/Agreement

On 1/3/14 we signed up with a company called SEO Gears for their Aggressive Marketing Package for our website. It cost $499.00 per month and included five key phrases and 2, 000 links to be entered into the three search engines of Google Yahoo, and Bing. The Marketing Manager that was assigned to us, JOEY BELK, told us, via an e-mail sent to us, that we had to wait 3 to 6 weeks for Google, Yahoo, and Bing to post them.

Towards the end of January 2014, we asked SEO Gears to furnish me with some sort of tangible evidence that indeed SEO Gears was putting up 2, 000 links on the worldwide web. Otherwise, how do we know if SEO Gears is doing ANYTHING? SEO Gears refused to reply to my repeated inquiries, which we sent via e-mail to Joey Belk.

Soon after, we found posted on Google unauthorized meta-descriptions about web pages on my website. We did not know why they were there since we, and Joey Belk via e-mail had previously agreed to the meta-descriptions that were to be used. To make matters worse, the unauthorized meta-descriptions were anti-marketing in nature. These bad meta-descriptions had been taken out of context so they 1) did not tell the visitor what my website was about and 2) won’t lead the visitor to other parts of my website to optimize the chance that the visitor will stay on and return to it for more viewing. For example, on one of the web pages in my website called “How to Fight Back” was posted on Google with the following meta-description of “...happiness is generated within your solar plexus...”

We had an agreement via e-mail with SEO Gears - Joey Belk, Marketing Manager - to post five specific web pages, each with a particular key phrase and meta-description into the three above search engines of Google, Yahoo, and Bing. We had even inserted them into the page settings of my website builder. Instead, We discovered on Google and later on Yahoo and Bing that either five unauthorized web pages with authorized meta-descriptions or five authorized web pages with unauthorized meta-descriptions had been posted and the postings changed daily.

When we asked my Marketing Manager, Joey Belk, what was going on he told me that SEO Gears did not post these bad anti-marketing meta-descriptions, Google did. Then he misled us by instructing us to “re-crawl” the links in Google and told us to wait twenty-four hours for results. We did as he had advised but it did NOT remove the bad anti-marketing unauthorized meta-descriptions nor replace them with the good marketing authorized meta-descriptions that we and Joey Belk, our Marketing Manager, had already previously agreed upon in writing via e-mail to post on these three search engines.

So we contacted our technical support advisor at Homestead, THOMAS DAWSON, for assistance regarding the above. He sent us an e-mail promising that he will take care of it and telling us that it may take up to a week to do so. A week later all three above search engines were still posting either the wrong web pages with the right meta-descriptions or the right web pages with the wrong meta-descriptions. The five key phrases along with their corresponding web pages and correlating meta-descriptions that we had paid $499.00 for were NOT getting posted on Google, Yahoo, or Bing.

During the interim we noticed a new meta-description on Google that we had never ever seen before. It did not even come from any of our web pages on our website. It was flat out libel and slander – false derogatory statements – claiming that my website was worth $0 dollars and had 0 visitors. Our website already has had 50 visits in the one month that it has been operational. It is brand new.

During the last week of January 2014 we went on SEO Gears Website to discover that our website had a ranking of 0. By now we ought to have had some sort or ranking as three weeks had already passed and SEO Gears ought to have done some work on marketing my website. Getting suspicious we went on the Internet and lo and behold we found a lot of other people who were going through the same thing we was with SEO Gears. For them it was even worse. Some of them had spent thousands of dollars and waited many months only to be disappointed with 0 rankings from SEO Gears. All of them were in agreement that SEO Gears is a SCAM OPERATION.

What bothered me the most about SEO Gears is that it was not enough that they steal peoples’ money by not giving any service for the money that they were taking, but SEO Gears is also maliciously and viciously anti-marketing instead of marketing peoples’ websites. Why? Are the people who work for SEO Gears all INSANE! If SEO Gears worships greed all they have to do is be an honest business that adheres to ethical business practices and they will have so many clients they won’t know what to do with all of the money they are making.

I contacted Joey Belk, Marketing Manager, Jeff, Vice President of SEO Gears, Eli, Director of SEO Gears, as well as, Thomas Dawson, Technical Support, and his supervisor RParker regarding my demand for a full refund of $499.00. Eli, Director of SEO Gears rejected my e-mail. It came back to my spam box posted “rejected”. Jeff and RParker ignored my e-mails. Joey Belk sent me a harassing e-mail that accused me of being a bully by assuming that I deliberately typed on my e-mails to him Joey Belch when I had accidentally made a typo. Imagine that. Joey Belk is stealing my money and I am the bully?

Thomas Dawson…I had sent to Thomas Dawson and his Supervisor RParker the best letter of commendation that any individual can ever receive from any one. I still have the copy of it. Thomas Dawson had done a great job as my technical support advisor for Homestead. So imagine my surprise when he betrayed me by siding with Joey Belk and SEO Gears corrupt organization against me in a BullC**p e-mail that he sent me letting me know in between the lines that not only was he not going to help me get a refund but he was going to help Joey Belk steal another month’s worth of $499.00 by lying to be that the search engines of Google, Yahoo, and Bing will not make any changes in postings until 2/1/14, which was when my next month’s billing cycle began with SEO Gears. Thereby allowing SEO Gears to steal yet another $499.00 from my wallet. Wow! Like they say no good deed shall go unpunished.

The only settlement we will agree to with SEO Gears is a full refund of the $499.00 that SEO Gears has stolen from us by taking my money but refusing to give us ANY services. We are very happy with Homestead and so we will continue our account with them by paying the $14.99 they charge us per month for their Gold Web Builder Package that we signed up for in the month of December in the Year of 2013. That is, if SEO Gears does not maliciously and viciously retaliate against us for our having the audacity to try and recover the money that it cheated us out of by shutting down our website with Homestead.

We have all the documents proving all of the above. We cannot upload them into your website but we can send them to you via e-mail if you furnish us with your e-mail address.

Sincerely,

Michael Laham and Elana Laham

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Update by Anonymous76576
Mar 23, 2014 12:14 am EDT

“TRYTHEFEDINSTEAD” IS JOEY BELK, SEOGEARS MARKETING PROGRAM MANAGER. HOW DO WE KNOW?

1) “TRYTHEFEDINSTEAD” KNOWS THAT WE ARE IN A DISPUTE WITH SEOGEARS. THEREFORE, HE CAME ONTO THE COMPLAINTS BOARD WHERE OUR COMPLAINT AGAINST SEOGEARS IS AND DUMPED HIS LIBELOUS GIBBERISH ON IT ABOUT OUR WEBSITE. IF HE WERE JUST A VISITOR FROM OUR WEBSITE HE WOULDA, SHOULDA, COULDA NOT KNOW TO COME TO THE COMPLAINTS BOARD TO AIR HIS LIES ON IT ABOUT OUR WEBSITE FOR OUR WEBSITE DOES NOT SAY AND NEVER DID SAY ONE WORD ABOUT OUR DISPUTE WITH SEOGEARS. AND IF HE HAD HIS OWN BAD EXPERIENCE WITH SEOGEARS HE MOST CERTAINLY WOULDA, SHOULDA, COULDA NOT BE ATTACKING OUR WEBSITE. HE WOULDA, SHOULDA, COULDA BE AIRING HIS OWN LEGITIMATE COMPLAINT AGAINST SEOGEARS ON THE COMPLAINTS BOARD OR POSTING A REPLY IN AGREEMENT WITH US ABOUT SEOGEARS INSTEAD.

2) “TRYTHEFEDINSTEAD” KNOWS THAT OUR WEBSITE EXISTS. ACCORDING TO OUR OWN WEBSITE’S WEB STATISTICS COUNTER JOEY BELK -

WHO IS LOCATED IN TEMPE ARIZONA
WHOSE IP ADDRESS IS 63.149.124.133 AND 63.149.124.131
WHOSE INTERNET PROVIDER IS THE ENDURANCE INTERNATIONAL
WHOSE PHONE NUMBER IS [protected]
WHOSE E-MAIL IS JBELK@SEOGEARS.COM,
WHOSE WORK HOURS ARE: MONDAY 7AM TO 3 PM, TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY 10 AM TO 6 PM, FRIDAY 8AM TO 4PM – THIS IS MOUNTAIN STANDARD TIME

- VISITED OUR WEBSITE SIX TIMES AFTER WE CANCELED OUR DEALINGS WITH SEOGEARS.

HE VISITED OUR WEBSITE FOUR TIMES ON 1/31/14
HE VISITED OUR WEBSITE TWO TIMES ON 3/3/14

SO JOEY BELK IS FAMILIAR ENOUGH WITH THE MATERIAL ON OUR WEBSITE TO MISREPRESENT IT BY TAKING IT OUT OF CONTEXT IN ORDER TO BAD MOUTH IT.

MOTIVE? JOEY BELK, WHO WAS OUR MARKETING PROGRAM MANAGER WHO WORKS FOR SEOGEARS, IS TAKING REVENGE ON US FOR REFUSING TO LET HIM SCAM US OUT OF MORE MONEY THAN HE ALREADY HAS BY ANTI MARKETING INSTEAD OF MARKETING OUR WEBSITE. WE CANCELLED OUR DEALINGS WITH SEOGEARS AT THE END OF THE MONTH OF JANUARY, THE YEAR 2014. IT IS ALREADY THE END OF MARCH AND JOEY BELK CONTINUES TO CYBER BULLY US FOR HAVING THE AUDACITY TO NO LONGER BE VICTIMIZED.

Update by Anonymous76576
Mar 22, 2014 5:27 pm EDT

OH AND JOEY BELK ALIAS TRYTHEFEDINSTEAD

THANKS FOR TELLING READERS TO READ THE CONTENTS OF OUR WEBSITE. THIS MEANS THAT WE WILL GET MORE VISITORS AND PEOPLE WILL LEARN THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT BULLYING.

Update by Anonymous76576
Mar 22, 2014 5:26 pm EDT

OH AND THANKS FOR TELLING READERS TO READ THE CONTENTS OF OUR WEBSITE. THIS MEANS THAT WE WILL GET MORE VISITORS AND PEOPLE WILL LEARN THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT BULLYING.

Update by Anonymous76576
Mar 22, 2014 5:10 pm EDT

HI JOEY BELK ALIAS TRYTHEFEDINSTEAD:

WHY DO JOEY BELK’S LINKS ON GOOGLE THAT TAKE A READER TO THE COMPLAINTS BOARD REGARDING OUR LEGITIMATE COMPLAINT AGAINST SEOGEARS KEEP DISAPPEARING? WE FOUND IT ON THE FIRST PAGE. AFTER THAT IT WAS GONE! IS THIS BECAUSE NO ONE IS READING YOUR NONSENSE SO GOOGLE IS GIVING IT A ZERO PAGE RANKING?!

WE FOUND A SECOND LINK ON GOOGLE THAT TAKES THE READER TO A WEB PAGE THAT ONLY HAS YOUR LIBELOUS DRIVEL ON IT REGARDING OUR WEBSITE, WITHOUT PERMITTING THE READER TO VIEW OUR COMMENTS REGARDING YOU AND SEOGEARS. APPARENTLY YOU ARE AFRAID THAT IF PEOPLE READ BOTH SIDES OF THE STORY THEY WON’T BELIEVE YOURS, AS IT IS SO PATHETICALLY AND PITIFULLY ABSURD!

Update by Anonymous76576
Mar 15, 2014 2:14 pm EDT

WOW! JOEY BELK OF SEOGEARS AND THOMAS DAWSON OF HOMESTEAD, WHO DIVULGED TO US THAT HE IS ASPIRING TO WORK FOR SEOGEARS, MUST BE REALLY MAD!

THEY HAVE POSTED AN ADVERTISEMENT THAT THEY ARE CHARGING $14.99 PER YEAR FOR SEO MARKETING THAT THEY CLAIM THEY CAN DO IN DAYS.

HOW PATHETIC AND PITIFUL THAT THEY DROVE ALL OF THEIR CUSTOMERS AWAY WITH THEIR SCAM OPERATION AND SO NOW HAVE TO BEG PEOPLE TO SIGN UP WITH THEM! I WOULDN’T DO BUSINESS WITH THEM EVER AGAIN EVEN IF IT WAS FREE, OR THEY PAID ME!

OBVIOUSLY SEOGEARS HAS NO CLIENTS OTHERWISE IT SHOULD HAVE BETTER THINGS TO DO WITH ITS TIME AND ENERGY THAN HARASS LEGITIMATE COMPLAINERS WITH LIBEL AGAINST THEIR WEBSITES, AND DESPERATE ADVERTISEMENTS ALL POSTED ON THE COMPLAINTS BOARD WHERE THEY DO NOT BELONG.

THEY ARE STILL HIDING LIKE THE BULLY COWARDS THAT THEY ARE HOPING TO GENERATE BUSINESS BY POSTING THEIR AD AS HOSTGATOR.COM. HOWEVER WHEN YOU CLICK ON “HOSTGATOR.COM”, AND THEN CLICK ON THE TEXT “GET STARTED TODAY!” AND THEN SCROLL DOWN TOWARDS THE BOTTOM OF THE RESULTING PAGE YOU WILL FIND SEOGEARS IN IT.

NOTICE HOW SEOGEARS’ AD IS POSTED ON EVERYONE’S COMPLAINT, NOT JUST OURS.

SEOGEARS SURE KNOWS HOW TO REALLY MAKE ITSELF LOOK BAD.

Update by Anonymous76576
Mar 08, 2014 5:33 pm EST

THERE GOES JOEY BELK, SO CALLED MARKETING MANAGER AT SEOGEARS, AND THOMAS DAWSON, SO CALLED TECHNICAL SUPPORT AT HOMESTEAD, HARASSING THE LAHAMS AGAIN, UNDER THE DISGUISE OF THE NAME "TRYTHEFEDINSTEAD", AND BEING TOO BULLY COWARDLY TO COME OUT AND SAY WHO THEY REALLY ARE. HOW PROFESSIONAL! AND HOW PROFESSIONAL OF SEOGEARS AND HOMESTEAD TO EMPLOY SUCH BULLY COWARDS! THESE TWO MUST HAVE ABSOLUTELY PERFECT LIVES WHERE NOTHING EVER HAPPENS TO THEM, SO THEY GO AROUND DECLARING AS CRAZY ANYBODY WHO REPORTS ANY SUFFERING.

Update by Anonymous76576
Mar 02, 2014 12:58 am EST

There goes Joey Belk, so-called marketing manager at SEOGears, and Thomas Dawson, so-called Technical Support at Homestead, harassing the Lahams again, under the disguise of the name "Trythefedinstead", and being too bully-cowardly to come out and say who they REALLY are. How professional ! And how professional of SEOGears and Homestead to employ such bully cowards ! These two must have absolutely perfect lives where nothing ever happens to them, so they go around declaring as crazy anybody who reports any suffering.

Update by Anonymous76576
Feb 28, 2014 6:36 pm EST

ON 2/28/14 THE LAHAMS REINSERTED ALL OF THE MISSING HYPERLINKS ON THEIR WEBSITE CALLED WWW.BULLCRAPBUSTERS.COM.

SO PUBLIC FEEL FREE TO SEE THEM. THE TRUTH IS STILL OUT THERE ABOUT BULLYING!

THE LAHAMS WILL BE KEEPING A WATCHFUL EYE ON THEIR HYPERLINKS TO MAKE SURE THAT NO ONE DISAPPEARS THEM AGAIN.

Update by Anonymous76576
Feb 28, 2014 5:28 pm EST

ON 2/28/14 THE LAHAMS REINSERTED ALL OF THE MISSING HYPERLINKS ON THEIR WEBSITE CALLED WWW.BULLCRAPBUSTERS.COM.

SO PUBLIC FEEL FREE TO SEE THEM. THE TRUTH IS STILL OUT THERE ABOUT BULLYING!

THE LAHAMS WILL BE KEEPING A WATCHFUL EYE ON THEIR HYPERLINKS TO MAKE SURE THAT NO ONE DISAPPEARS THEM AGAIN.

Update by Anonymous76576
Feb 28, 2014 5:23 pm EST

AS OF 2/28/14 THE LAHAMS HAVE REINSERTED ALL OF THE MISSING HYPERLINKS IN THEIR WWW.BULLCRAPBUSTERS.COM WEBSITE.

SO PUBLIC FEEL FREE TO SEE THEM FOR YOURSELVES. THE TRUTH IS STILL OUT THERE ABOUT BULLYING!

THE LAHAMS WILL BE KEEPING A WATCHFUL EYE TO BE SURE NO ONE DISAPPEARS THEIR HYPERLINKS AGAIN!

Update by Anonymous76576
Feb 27, 2014 11:38 pm EST

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC:

HOMESTEAD/SEOGEARS IS MAKING ALL OF THE HYPERLINKS ON THE LAHAMS WEBSITE CALLED WWW.BULLCRAPBUSTERS.COM DISAPPEAR! THESE HYPERLINKS CONTAIN THE DOCUMENTS THAT PROVE THAT WHAT THE LAHAMS ARE SAYING IN THEIR WEBSITE IS THE TRUTH.

HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT FOR BULLYING THE LAHAMS AND DEPRIVING THE PUBLIC OF WHAT THEY DESERVE - THE TRUTH ABOUT BULLYING!

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Jan 31, 2014 11:43 am EST

On 1/3/14 I signed up with a company called SEOGears for their Aggressive Marketing Package for my website. It cost $499.00 per month and included five key phrases and 2, 000 links to be entered into the three search engines of Google Yahoo, and Bing. The Marketing Manager that was assigned to me, JOEY BELK, told me, via an e-mail sent to me, thatIe had to wait 3 to 6 weeks for Google, Yahoo, and Bing to post them.

Towards the end of January 2014, I asked SEOGears to furnish me with some sort of tangible evidence that indeed SEOgears was putting up 2, 000 links on the worldwide web. Otherwise, how do I know if SEOGears is doing ANYTHING? SEOGears refused to reply to my repeated inquiries, which I sent via e-mail to Joey Belk.

Soon after, I found posted on Google unauthorized meta-descriptions about web pages on my website. I did not know why they were there since I, and Joey Belk via e-mail had previously agreed to the meta-descriptions that were to be used. To make matters worse, the unauthorized meta-descriptions were anti-marketing in nature. These bad meta-descriptions had been taken out of context so they 1) did not tell the visitor what my website was about and 2) won’t lead the visitor to other parts of my website to optimize the chance that the visitor will stay on and return to it for more viewing. For example, on one of the web pages in my website called “How to Fight Back” was posted on Google with the following meta-description of “...happiness is generated within your solar plexus...”

We had an agreement via e-mail with SEOGears - Joey Belk, Marketing Manager - to post five specific web pages, each with a particular key phrase and meta description into the three above search engines of Google, Yahoo, and Bing. I had even inserted them into the page settings of my website builder. Instead, I discovered on Google and later on Yahoo and Bing that either five unauthorized web pages with authorized meta-descriptions or five authorized web pages with unauthorized meta-descriptions had been posted and the postings changed daily.

When I asked my Marketing Manager, Joey Belk, what was going on he told me that SEOGears did not post these bad anti-marketing meta-descriptions, Google did. Then he misled me by instructing me to “re-crawl” the links in Google and told me to wait twenty-four hours for results. I did as he had advised but it did NOT remove the bad anti-marketing unauthorized meta-descriptions nor replace them with the good marketing authorized meta-descriptions that we and Joey Belk, our Marketing Manager, had already previously agreed upon in writing via e-mail to post on these three search engines.

So I contacted my technical support advisor at Homestead, THOMAS DAWSON, for assistance regarding the above. He sent me an e-mail promising that he will take care of it and telling me that it may take up to a week to do so. A week later all three above search engines were still posting either the wrong web pages with the right meta-descriptions or the right web pages with the wrong meta-descriptions. The five key phrases along with their corresponding web pages and correlating meta-descriptions that we had paid $499.00 for were NOT getting posted on Google, Yahoo, or Bing.

During the interim I noticed a new meta-description on Google that I had never ever seen before. It did not even come from any of our web pages on my website. It was flat out libel and slander – false derogatory statements – claiming that my website was worth $0 dollars and had 0 visitors. MY website already has had 50 visits in the one month that it has been operational. It is brand new.

During the last week of January 2014 I went on SEOGears Website to discover that my website had a ranking of 0. By now I ought to have had some sort or ranking as three weeks had already passed and SEOGears ought to have done some work on marketing my website. Getting suspicious I went on the Internet and lo and behold I found a lot of other people who were going through the same thing I was with SEOGears. For them it was even worse. Some of them had spent thousands of dollars and waited many months only to be disappointed with 0 rankings from SEOGears. All of them were in agreement that SEOGears is a SCAM OPERATION.

What bothered me the most about SEOGears is that it was not enough that they steal peoples’ money by not giving any service for the money that they were taking, but SEOGears is also maliciously and viciously anti-marketing instead of marketing peoples’ websites. Why? Are the people who work for SEOGears all INSANE! If SEOGears worships greed all they have to do is be an honest business that adheres to ethical business practices and they will have so many clients they won’t know what to do with all of the money they are making.

I contacted Joey Belk, Marketing Manager, Jeff, Vice President of SEOGears, Eli, Director of SEOGears, as well as, Thomas Dawson, Technical Support, and his supervisor RParker regarding my demand for a full refund of $499.00. Eli, Director of SEOGears rejected my e-mail. It came back to my spam box posted “rejected”. Jeff and RParker ignored my e-mails. Joey Belk sent me a harassing e-mail that accused me of being a bully by assuming that I deliberately typed on my e-mails to him Joey Belch when I had accidentally made a typo. Imagine that. Joey Belk is stealing my money and I am the bully?

Thomas Dawson…I had sent to Thomas Dawson and his Supervisor RParker the best letter of commendation that any individual can ever receive from any one. I still have the copy of it. Thomas Dawson had done a great job as my technical support advisor for Homestead. So imagine my surprise when he betrayed me by siding with Joey Belk and SEOGears corrupt organization against me in a BullC**p e-mail that he sent me letting me know in between the lines that not only was he not going to help me get a refund but he was going to help Joey Belk steal another month’s worth of $499.00 by lying to be that the search engines of Google, Yahoo, and Bing will not make any changes in postings until 2/1/14, which was when my next month’s billing cycle began with SEOGears. Thereby allowing SEOGears to steal yet another $499.00 from my wallet. Wow! Like they say no good deed shall go unpunished.

The only settlement I will agree to with SEOGears is a full refund of the $499.00 that SEOGears has stolen from me by taking my money but refusing to give me ANY services. I am very happy with Homestead and so I will continue my account with them by paying the $14.99 they charge me per month for their Gold Web Builder Package that I signed up for in the month of November in the Year of 2013. That is, if SEOGears does not maliciously and viciously retaliate against me for my having the audacity to try and recover the money that it cheated me out of by shutting down my website with Homestead.

Please intervene on my behalf. I very much appreciate any assistance you can offer me, and thank you for your interest. Also let me know if you need or want any of the artifacts that I have proving all of the above. I cannot upload them into your website but I can send them to you via e-mail if you furnish me with your e-mail address.

Sincerely,

Michael Laham and Elana Laham

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The following reply is what we received after we posted our legitimate complaint against SEOGEARS: "These people are certifiably insane. Read the contents of the website (bullcrapbusters.com) they are "marketing". Nearly every week they bully some innocent person working at one of the businesses they decide to attack (which is any business that has the misfortune of these people walking through their door). They bully and intimidate people who are just trying to do their job and then write about their encounters in this insane rambling blog about how they are striking back against bullying by being the bullys themselves. They advocate small-claims litigation as the primary weapon. What is truly entertaining, however, is that they end up most often losing the cases they write about because their claims always have zero merit and the judges see right into their crazy. Most hilarious is that they react by accusing a judge of taking a bribe for ruling against them in a $2, 000 small claims case. They take the crazy all the way to writing letters to Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder. Spoiler alert: they haven't received an answer from them yet. It gets worse though: Apparently triggered by somebody looking at them funny one day in 2012 while washing their car and moments later a neighbor casually saying they thought they did drugs (hint: people think that obviously crazy people might be on drugs, HOW WEIRD??), the Lahams decided it was no longer safe to live in apartments or houses due to the fact the police in California and Washington had coordinated a multi-state violence campaign against them. Now they move from hotel to hotel with their bankroll from the years of successful extortion bully work as professional small claims litigators." NOTICE HOW HE OR SHE ATTACKS US AND OUR WEBSITE BUT OFFERS NO REPLY ABOUT OUR CONCERN REGARDING SEOGEARS. HOW WEIRD!!! The following is our reply: Obviously you are a classified lunatic and you are a cyber bully coward as well who is committing libel (falsehood). Otherwise you woulda, shoulda, coulda tell the public who you are. The Lahams are not afraid to let the whole wide world know who they are since they are telling the truth as they have nothing to hide, like you do. Are you the reason why the marketing campaign that SEOGEARS was supposed to do for the Laham’s website was an anti-marketing campaign that the Lahams spent $500.00 for? Clearly you did not even read the Lahams website www.bullcrapbusters.com. Or you are so stupid that you do not even know that you are stupid, and so do not comprehend, understand, or know what the Lahams website is talking about. Otherwise for example you woulda, shoulda, coulda already know that the Lahams did not lose any of their lawsuits since they won their lawsuits by doing what is called “The Alamo”. Don’t you read comments by the general public who are in touch with reality and so happen to know that some judges do take bribes? Doing “The Alamo” overrides this type of corruption. For further details read the Lahams www.bullcrapbusters.com website. And otherwise you woulda, shoulda, coulda already know that if a business breaks Federal Law, then President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder are the ones who enforce this type of law and that is why the Lahams wrote to them. You say the Lahams are the bully who is victimizing the businesses. How do you know??? You were not even there!!! Where are your proofs, such as what the Lahams have in their hyperlinks on their website showing that they are telling the truth??? Let the documents speak for themselves!!! You accuse the Lahams of making an income by threatening people to pay the Lahams money or the Lahams will do something bad to them. HOW WEIRD!!! First of all, Mr. Laham is an engineer and Mrs. Laham is a retired teacher. That is where their income comes from. Second of all, the courts will not let anyone by a professional litigator in their small claims divisions. The small claims division is for ordinary people to present their legal cases. So next time you open your ugly, pathetic, pitiful hateful, violent bully coward mouth, check the FACTS instead of spewing your FICTION. Dear public don’t let this or any other bully coward intimidate or manipulate you by doing your thinking and feeling for you. Read the Lahams’ website called the www.bullcrapbusters.com and look at the hyperlinks of proof it provides. Then decide for yourself.

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These people are certifiably insane. Read the contents of the website (bullcrapbusters.com) they are "marketing". Nearly every week they bully some innocent person working at one of the businesses they decide to attack (which is any business that has the misfortune of these people walking through their door). They bully and intimidate people who are just trying to do their job and then write about their encounters in this insane rambling blog about how they are striking back against bullying by being the bullys themselves. They advocate small-claims litigation as the primary weapon. What is truly entertaining, however, is that they end up most often losing the cases they write about because their claims always have zero merit and the judges see right into their crazy. Most hilarious is that they react by accusing a judge of taking a bribe for ruling against them in a $2, 000 small claims case. They take the crazy all the way to writing letters to Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder. Spoiler alert: they haven't received an answer from them yet. It gets worse though: Apparently triggered by somebody looking at them funny one day in 2012 while washing their car and moments later a neighbor casually saying they thought they did drugs (hint: people think that obviously crazy people might be on drugs, HOW WEIRD?), the Lahams decided it was no longer safe to live in apartments or houses due to the fact the police in California and Washington had coordinated a multi-state violence campaign against them. Now they move from hotel to hotel with their bankroll from the years of successful extortion bully work as professional small claims litigators.

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