Complaint Review: Matt Watson SEO Guru SCAM - Newbury Park California

Matt Watson is a self centered spammer who finds no problem at all spamming private sites with his bogus and imitation marketing. He seems to be stuck somehow in a dated age of spam marketing that is no longer effective or acceptable. I found hundreds of (horribly) duplicated articles throughout our entire network of sites. He doesn't even use a good spinner to replicate his pathetic spam. 

I contacted him directly in an attempt to simply call him out in it and let him know he got caught and his link net reported.  I also mentioned (halfheartedly at the time) that the mass spam was not welcomed and that we would make his link spamming a public topic.  He responded by saying " I'm one of the most legitimate providers on all of Elance.  If someone is negative seoing me then I'd like to know what you are talking about so that I can prevent rather than talking about being a poser which is silly considering what I've accomplished.  Don't threaten me, think instead.  I have several hundred clients, so I don't give a give a crap about your personal network."

He says this when you can search the term:

Matt Watson SEO Guru

and find thousands of entries, many in Asian splog sites that he spams. So, obviously, his entire defense that he doesn't spam people is blatantly BS. I searched just now and found several spam articles he published in the last few hours.  All spun duplicates and destroying the sites they are spamming.  So, again, I called him out.

I told him he was a fake spamming jerk and reported his botnet to Google and was going to file a ripoff report. I let him know that if he weren't patting himself on the back so much then I wouldn't be pointing out the painfully obvious.

He responded with "Cut me a little slack that I fired back.  As far as patting myself on the back, I was creating legitimacy in your eyes so that you knew I was a real company with employees, an office, etc. I'm hardly a cheese ball on Elance, and if you did your homework you'd know that.  "

Having the most sales on a dump site known for spamming is nothing to brag about.  Especially when you are an "SEO Guru" and you actual main site is a pathetic and unfinished shell.  The main reason why he refuses to attempt to use his spam techniques on his own site is because Google would spank his butt for such obvious spam attacks.  Instead, he damages elance's reputation by spamming them with inbound, crap links (ones they are being made aware of as well).  If he were to use these same tactics for your business, Google will have you in the dumpster of the internet. 

Bragging about how much money one has duped clients out of is not evidence of good work, only of a good haul.  Bernie Madoff took a grand haul from his victims, that didn't make him reputable. 

In short, avoid any SEO who takes himself this seriously while refusing to own up to his disreputable methods.  He is a spammer, nothing more.  Too many legitimate companies get duped into giving money to these dinosaurs of marketing, and you shouldn't be his next victim.