Performance SEO - Don’t believe everything you read
Performance SEO recently sent out an online press release (info on file) claiming some revolutionary new pricing model. “trademarked pricing model consists of a standard 6 month agreement during which payments are broken out evenly. An optional maintenance program is then offered”. I have not looked into the trademark, but it does not seem to new to me.
Peaking my interest, I visited their website. The first thing I noticed was that their Google Page Rank is 0. A quick search on Google, show some 16 pages indexed, meaning the PR 0 was not due to a penalization. A domain whois check showed the domain was only registered in July (3 months ago) – yet the press release claims they have “28 years of combined experience”.
I then browsed through the site, to look at their pricing. They have a page labeled pricing and the whole press release goes on about their pricing model, so I thought I’d take a peak. The page has some text, a graph with representing their work, your results and your costs. At the bottom of a page there was a link to contact them. I understand that special jobs require custom quotes and contracts, but you’d think that after all the hype they would at least put in some basic prices so that one could compare them to the rest – silly me.
That’s three strikes in my book (brand new domain, no Page Rank and no prices where you would expect them). I hope they are not waiting for me to click the contact link at the bottom of that page to contact them, because they will just be waiting in vain.