Sun 3 Feb 2008
SEO Company ‘Clueless Numpties’ according to….Google!
Blurb by Shaun AndersonNow anybody with a sense of humour will find this funny. Recently (after a bit of fun me and Tim Nash had with a hapless link-spammer) I highlighted a story I found funny, about outing an ‘apparently’ ‘numpty-like’ seo company. As a result of this, here’s the SERP for ‘clueless numpties‘ in Google;
Google Bomb you say? No, not really, I think it’s more to do with Google using anchor text (clueless numpties, in this case) in inbound links to determine what that particular URL is about because the experts at WebsearchPR.com seem to think, as a search engine optimisation company, it’s cool to block the search engines from their site LOL using, wait for it;
meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"
…which of course leaves Googlebot relying on the anchor text links on other sites to give itself an idea of what that URL is actually about.
WebsearchPR.com - Unless you want bloggers to have some real fun with your site, I’d suggest you look into this quickly 
- The Unethical SEO Company Handbook
- Are Crap SEO Companies Better At Marketing?
- The Crap SEO Company Manfiesto
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And so the fun begins
I am kind of hoping they don’t look into this cause I am definitely feeling like having some fun :). Thanks for the Smiles Shaun.
Shout Out by Martin Bowling — February 3, 2008 @ 11:28 pm
It would appear the numpties are using someone else’s client testimonials: http://web.archive.org/web/20040604210038/http://www.hits4peanuts.net/index.html (from June 4, 2004)
Shout Out by Bob Gladstein — February 4, 2008 @ 12:29 am
LOL Bob that’s too funny….
Shout Out by Shaun Anderson — February 4, 2008 @ 12:45 am
Brilliant! This has made my night
Shout Out by Mike - Twenty Steps — February 4, 2008 @ 2:25 am
Oh and I almost forgot to mention that *********** is also hosted on the same server as ********* - one of the ’satisfied’ customers but I’m sure that’s just a coincidence, right? In the same way that the vast majority of the inbound links all come from the same IP address….
Shout Out by Mike - Twenty Steps — February 4, 2008 @ 2:31 am
Ha Ha thought you might have liked that Mike.
PS For legal reasons I will go with a coincidence 
Shout Out by Shaun Anderson — February 4, 2008 @ 2:42 am
Hey Shaun,
Just fyi - I did my part to help you guys out :). http://seoroi.com/case-studies/rank-ranker-spam/
Keep up the good work
Shout Out by Gab "SEO ROI" Goldenberg — February 4, 2008 @ 7:29 am
Not #1 anymore…the Sphinn submission of this story now is.
Shout Out by Todd Mintz — February 4, 2008 @ 3:05 pm
I swear you Nash and few of us should create an SEO hit team and clean up on some scrapers and clowns in the industry. It’s either us, or their own ignorance that will take them out right? So think of it like this, your protecting the hapless consumers from their outdated and flimsy SEO tactics from 1999 and cleaning up the index a bit for Google. Matt Cutts will love us and we can don a new logo and wear capes to boot. LOL…
Shout Out by SDS — February 4, 2008 @ 4:52 pm
This is a strange coincidence, I got an email today from a company listed on that screenshot of your claiming to “be the best” at seo and promising all these wounder full seo treats.
So I checked the “clueless numpties” in Google UK and they are second on the list lol
Shout Out by Matt Ridout — February 4, 2008 @ 5:11 pm
@ Todd Yeah well I didn’t want to link to them and actually make the situation worse for them and actually this is why I sphunn the story to make sure the company name wasn’t used in the SM scene (changes the article name too)
@ SDS i don’t have any plans to clean up the web I (and probably everybody else) have too many areas I need to improve upon before I go criticizing others. Although I will out clueless numpties and ninja spammers in a heartbeat and enjoy it.
Actually I thought I was helping that company out!
@ Matt LOL It’s time for them to revise that strategy I think…
Shout Out by Shaun Anderson — February 4, 2008 @ 7:33 pm
I got a email from WebsearchPR.com claiming they could help me with my SEO. I hate junk mail.
Shout Out by Mike — February 4, 2008 @ 9:25 pm
I just got someone congratulating me on ranking for seo consultant, then offering me seo services. They’ve outdone themselves this time. And the best part? I have no such rankings :). lol. (I do have, or did anyways, a top 10 spot on seo specialist, but no traffic from it anyways so wtv.)
Shout Out by Gab "SEO ROI" Goldenberg — February 5, 2008 @ 7:53 am
Sadly, having the desire to do something and having the skills to do something do not always go hand in hand.
Shout Out by MRSA Claim — February 5, 2008 @ 5:10 pm
Pingback by links for 2008-02-06 oggin.net — February 6, 2008 @ 2:25 am
unbeleivable..you have to watch some of the “SEO companies” out there
Shout Out by Scot McRae — February 7, 2008 @ 12:49 pm
Seems that this blog has taken over the number one slot…
The irony of seo
Shout Out by discuit — February 8, 2008 @ 1:50 pm
At least I don’t have the term as the Title of my site (according to Google)
Shout Out by Shaun Anderson — February 8, 2008 @ 3:58 pm
Oh dearie me… Seems like WebsearchPR are giving Brighton’s SEOs a bad name.
We got a phone call the other day asking if we are related to these guys, as they operate out of a serviced office block we used to work in. That’s an emphatic NO!
What really sucks is that, to someone with little knowledge of SEO and the web, it can be hard to tell which SEOs are genuine and which belong to the “snake oil” school of thought.
Shout Out by Upstream — February 12, 2008 @ 1:15 pm