Complaint Review: ReputationBoosting.com - Internet

Stay away as the company did not provide anywhere near the level of service or quality that they pitched us on the phone.

Is it a scam? Well let me give you my experience.

The email you might receive from them looks like this:

We are currently working with over 300 contributors that can get you published on:

Huffington Post

USA Today

SEM Rush

Chicago Tribune

Business Insider

Sprout Social

Instapage Blog

The Washington Post

and More

This service comes with a money-back guarantee. It takes 2-3 days to write the story and about 1-2 weeks to publish it.

They will pitch you a very slick and convenient process where their expert writers will write a great article and get your brand articles placed in top tier publications like those listed above within 1 to 2 weeks.

The reality is that they got some low-level writer to write a very poorly written piece about our brand, which I needed to spend hours of my own personal time editing to make it read like anything you would want the public to see.

After that, they tried (and failed) to get our articles placed in any real top tier publications like those listed above. We requested WaPo and Business Insider, and they got us placed on "AskSheWeb.org" which if you look at it, is a low quality SEO link farm blog. They also got us placed on "businesszone.co.uk" which is another very low quality site. Anyone can post on this site, judging by the other posts, which consist of spam for "black magic", "levitra", and other sex enhancement and printer tech support spam. See the screenshot below to see the "Related Posts" that show just below our article. Even after I showed them this and asked for the article to be removed, and for us to be refunded (after all, they offered a money-back guarantee), they responded with:

"The BusinessZone article is on a DA 58. And while DA matters to an extent still in SEO, as you saw with the USA Herald article we were able to get ranked higher than the most authoritative sites in the world by utilizing white-hat promotional tools."

That's right. They gave our USA-Only business a link on a British website. Nice huh? Also:

One look at the article is a dead giveaway that the site is overrun by SEO spammers. In fact, you can go on the site right now and publish whatever you want. We were charged $2000 to publish some spam next to some other spam, that we could have posted ourselves if we wanted such a low quality site.

Keep in mind, they got these poor quality articles placed for us over 2 months after we paid them. If you read their original email you'd see they said it would take 1 to 2 weeks.

They also got an article for us placed on a site called "USA Herald" which we did not ask for, did not want, and they used my by-line without me wanting to be on that site at all.

To sum it up: instead of Washington Post and Business Insider or any publication that anyone has heard of, we got "AskSheWeb.org" and "businesszone.co.uk", and it took them over 2 months.

So stay as far away from ReputationBoosting as you possibly can. The articles they got placed for us are on sites that are so low quality that it will actually HURT our brand and site authority more than if we did nothing at all.