Experience with SEO company - should I pay them more?

Dear Sirs,

I run a private taxi company (only me and one car) in Bangalore,
India.

5 months ago I hired a SEO company to make me my very own website on
the Internet, hosted on the reputable and well-known webserver
GeoCities.com. They also promised to make me rank within the Top 10
Google searches for "Apuniralak Chandrasekaran City Taxi".

Now I do not find my Website when searching for "Apuniralak
Chandrasekaran City Taxi" in Google Search Engine.

I paid the Company 1500 USD for a one-page website including Search
Engine Optimization for the phrase "Apuniralak Chandrasekaran City
Taxi". It would be very useful if returning customers who already know
my name, or by word-of-mouth, could search this to find my E-mail
Address and Phone Number.

1500 USD is a lot of money to me. Would it be a good idea to refinance
my home loan to purchase a more expensive and professional service, or
did I pay an OK price?

Best regards,
A. Chandrasekaran

> 1500 USD is a lot of money to me. Would it be a good idea to refinance
> my home loan to purchase a more expensive and professional service, or
> did I pay an OK price?

> Now I do not find my Website when searching for "Apuniralak
> Chandrasekaran City Taxi" in Google Search Engine.

Without knowing prices and how competitive
the above phrase is, I think you should not
invest more money right now.

First tell this group the address of your website.
What does the SEO company say they have done?


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<apuniralak@usa.com> wrote in message
news:1178874486.511790.174990@n59g2000hsh.googlegr oups.com...
> Dear Sirs,
>
> I run a private taxi company (only me and one car) in Bangalore,
> India.
>
> 5 months ago I hired a SEO company to make me my very own website on
> the Internet, hosted on the reputable and well-known webserver
> GeoCities.com. They also promised to make me rank within the Top 10
> Google searches for "Apuniralak Chandrasekaran City Taxi".
>
> Now I do not find my Website when searching for "Apuniralak
> Chandrasekaran City Taxi" in Google Search Engine.

There are no results at all on Google for the search term "Apuniralak
Chandrasekaran City Taxi", let alone a top 10. Getting to #1 on Google would
take no more than adding that text to your title tag and getting one link
from a site already in the Google index. You don't need to pay an SEO to do
this.

On May 11, 2:08 am, apunira...@usa.com wrote:
> Dear Sirs,
>
> I run a private taxi company (only me and one car) in Bangalore,
> India.
>
> 5 months ago I hired a SEO company to make me my very own website on
> the Internet, hosted on the reputable and well-known webserver
> GeoCities.com. They also promised to make me rank within the Top 10
> Google searches for "Apuniralak Chandrasekaran City Taxi".
>
> Now I do not find my Website when searching for "Apuniralak
> Chandrasekaran City Taxi" in Google Search Engine.
>
> I paid the Company 1500 USD for a one-page website including Search
> Engine Optimization for the phrase "Apuniralak Chandrasekaran City
> Taxi". It would be very useful if returning customers who already know
> my name, or by word-of-mouth, could search this to find my E-mail
> Address and Phone Number.
>
> 1500 USD is a lot of money to me. Would it be a good idea to refinance
> my home loan to purchase a more expensive and professional service, or
> did I pay an OK price?
>
> Best regards,
> A. Chandrasekaran

Well chandrasekharan, i am from hyderabad, i know all these seo guys
as i myself am one, let me tell you very frankly dont be upset, u have
been "fleeced" of your money, if you still have the website, give it
to me i will optimise it for FREE! (a one hour effort from me can do
it for that search term) mail me at rajeshchand(at)hotmail.com, feel
sad for you if you have actually paid 1500$, good luck

On 2007-05-11, apuniralak@usa.com wrote:
> Dear Sirs,
>
> I run a private taxi company (only me and one car) in Bangalore,
> India.
>
> 5 months ago I hired a SEO company to make me my very own website on
> the Internet, hosted on the reputable and well-known webserver
> GeoCities.com. They also promised to make me rank within the Top 10
> Google searches for "Apuniralak Chandrasekaran City Taxi".
>
> Now I do not find my Website when searching for "Apuniralak
> Chandrasekaran City Taxi" in Google Search Engine.

If your page is on the web, and has even one good link to it, I
would be very surprised if it didn't show up very high. Right now,
a search for "Chandrasekaran City Taxi" in Google brings up your
post to this newsgroup in second place.

A search on GeoCities for "Chandrasekaran City Taxi" on GeoCities
only brings up a page of chess problems (thanks; I can use that).

If there actually is a page, please post the URL. I (and probably
others in this group) will see that you get indexed within a few
days (maybe a week or two).

However, "Chandrasekaran City Taxi" is not a good search term. What
you want is to appear high on the list for "Bangalore Taxi".
That will be more difficult to boost to the top,

> I paid the Company 1500 USD for a one-page website including Search
> Engine Optimization for the phrase "Apuniralak Chandrasekaran City
> Taxi". It would be very useful if returning customers who already know
> my name, or by word-of-mouth, could search this to find my E-mail
> Address and Phone Number.
>
> 1500 USD is a lot of money to me. Would it be a good idea to refinance
> my home loan to purchase a more expensive and professional service, or
> did I pay an OK price?

You paid far too much. If it gave you a top-ten spot for "Bangalore
Taxi", it might have been worth it.

--
Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>
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Author:
Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)

<apuniralak@usa.com> wrote ...
> 1500 USD is a lot of money to me. Would it be a good idea to refinance
> my home loan to purchase a more expensive and professional service, or
> did I pay an OK price?

This firm did NOTHING for you.

Most Indian companies would have been able to do what you were promised for
USD 100.00

But as indicated, you asked the wrong question.

Even if you were number one - as a taxi firm, do you really believe the
extra business would finance a home loan?

Unless your one taxi is very special, you have been badly advised.

How many of the local taxis get much business off the web?
How many of your potential customers are likely to use the web for taxis?
--

Andrew
Editor
http://www.seo2seo.com/
First things first - but not necessarily in that order.