In addition, we’ve wrapped up the new site launch for the official “Denver SEO, LLC” which can be found at Sean Hakes.com or our sister company denverseoinc.com.

It’s been just over a year and a half since David Mintz hired my prior SEO business to help his dwindling website that had just been smacked with enough SEO penalties from his prior SEO companies spam which quickly led to literally zero viability.

At first glance the reasons were obvious. Disgusting keyword stuffing (worst I’ve seen since the early 2000′s), cloaking, text color matching background colors, hidden links etc… Something had to be done…

We created a new website based on the Law Firm’s vision… We implemented WordPress as the CMS of choice. We then compiled a list of the negative SEO strategies and created a letter to Google identifying these strategies that the prior SEO firm did and that they no longer existed.

Soon after the website, 4injury.net was re-included into Google’s index – that’s when the link development kicked in.

Within several months we had 4injury.net ranked #3 for Colorado Personal Injury among various other keywords.. Some 400 calls and a few months later we were let go for reasons that I’ll go into at another time…

Before we knew it the website was transferred from our server to another and we were locked out which was fine, we we no longer performing SEO work. Their loss not ours, we’re one of the best out there and have a tremendous reputation for our work – the law firm… Was suckered into the ‘I’m in SEO because it’s a popular word,’ not because anyone actually knew what they were doing.

Earlier today I found out about someone from the Law Firm badmouthing my company to a potential client claiming we sabotaged their website. First, if you’re any ‘SEO Expert,’ you know you cannot sabotage a websites rankings with absolutely no access to the FTP, CMS or mySQL DB. Sure you could try to build a bunch of spam links but even that wouldn’t result in getting pulled out from Google.

The bottom line is this. It took me about 5 seconds to figure out what their problem is and it’s a problem that the new web developer/seo person has created.

The moral of this story is this. Everyone claims to know SEO. Sure, basic SEO is easy but when try to dig too deep into something you really know nothing about – this is the result. If someone really does know SEO then you’ll find a lot of information about them on the web. Check references, check rankings and if you do not do your diligence the only person you can blame is yourself.

Check out FSCO online at http://freightshippingco.com.

Here’s some additional info about me:

• Sean Hakes @ Westword.com
• Sean Hakes @ SearchEngineLand.com
• Sean Hakes @ Search Engine Watch.com
• Sean Hakes @ SEM Showdown.com
• Sean Hakes @ Twitter

In 2009 we were a small voice and in 2011 we’re getting down and dirty with the SEM and SEO Industry in its entirety. In addition to reviews based on customer feedback we’re going in undercover and talking to employees, vendors and setting up our own consumer report websites to gather both positive and constructive feedback on the businesses we review and it’s all in moderation… or moderation?

I’m not going to say who’s on the hit list this year quite yet but we are starting off with one of my once favorite local internet marketing companies – Yodle with Yodle Reviews.net. Check it out there, post a review and visit SEM Showdown.com for more of the dirty and good.

Any good feedback would be appreciated, and thanks for visiting my blog! I’m SEO Sean!

I have a few random blogs out there but this is officially my new home. You can catch a few words from me right here at seosean.net or on our Denver SEO Company blog.

Typically I will try to stay on topic and that topic tends to be about search engine optimization, local marketing and social media. From time to time you might catch me in a rant or going on about something that may or may not be of interest to you. If it isn’t a particular subject of interest feel free to ex out of the website.

Thanks again for stopping by – more juice and seo gossip to come in the very near future.

Sean