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Re: A Lesson to Deadbeat Clients: Why you should never, never rip off an SEO

skinner — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:53:54 -0000

Hi. More time?

Re: A Lesson to Deadbeat Clients: Why you should never, never rip off an SEO

Train Amsterdam — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:03:29 -0000

Hi Patricia, do you have some more time?

Re: A Lesson to Deadbeat Clients: Why you should never, never rip off an SEO

skinner — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:04:47 -0000

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Patricia Skinner
Wellwrittenwords SEO Buzz for Your Business
http://www.wellwrittenwords.com
skinner@wellwrittenwords.com
Tel: 009627-5317827

Re: A Lesson to Deadbeat Clients: Why you should never, never rip off an SEO

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Re: Google Analytics and WordPress

Portland Catering — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 04:31:11 -0000

It's quite easy to use Google Analytics. Just copy the Java Script code and paste it into you page before first </body> tag and upload it. Yes you have discovered a great thing and just keep posting about it.

Re: Google Analytics and WordPress

Nathan — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:51:54 -0000

Wow. Awesome! Thanks for the great information.

Re: Google Analytics and WordPress

seonate08 — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:55:05 -0000

Thanks. I'd try to take your advice.

Re: This Blog is Moving | SEO Blog, Marketmou

skinner — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:36:06 -0000

Are you on twitter Will? If not I'm wellwrittenwords7 on yahoo and skinnerwriter just about everywhere else. :) Gotta consult with you in this case. Thanks so much.

Re: This Blog is Moving | SEO Blog, Marketmou

w2scott — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:14:11 -0000

Hi Patricia, there are a couple ways one can go. If the page names match 100% you can simply redirect the top-level domain and the new pages (from your database import) will be picked up just fine.

If there's a difference in every page you'll have to address it by 301 redirects in your htacess file. If the change is something like http://www.blog.marketmou.com/[page-name] = http://www.wellwrittenwords.com/[page-name] that's pretty easy too.

At this point it looks like wellwrittenwords.com is using a non-search engine friendly permalink structure so you'll want to fix that. Do feel free to hit me by IM if you want me to dig a little deeper I'll be happy to give you a quick implementation guide.

Best,
Will

Re: This Blog is Moving | SEO Blog, Marketmou

skinner — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:11:50 -0000

Thanks for your support Will. Hope you'll visit me at http://www.wellwrittenwords.com. :)
200 page 301 redirect? I was hoping to import the database. :( Please someone tell me I can do that.

Re: This Blog is Moving | SEO Blog, Marketmou

w2scott — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:12:58 -0000

I'm with you. I love "Well Written Words". It's evocative and powerful.

And, there's little more fun than a 200 page 301 redirect project :)

Good luck!

Re: A Lesson to Deadbeat Clients: Why you should never, never rip off an SEO

Todd — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:48:13 -0000

If Karma doesn't get them, put them on www.uradeadbeat.com. Not only do they get posted for everyone to see, but if you have their email and mailing address, they receive a post card in the mail, along with an email verification welcoming them to the deadbeat list!

Re: A Lesson to Deadbeat Clients: Why you should never, never rip off an SEO

skinner — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:14:43 -0000

Well my concern would be that the client could then sue you because you're preventing her from having access to her website, which is probably worth considerably more than the money she owes you. It's not fair I admit, but that's most likely the case. You'd have to ask legal advice on that one though. Anyone else any thoughts? I think the small claims courts are your best option, as others have mentioned.

Re: A Lesson to Deadbeat Clients: Why you should never, never rip off an SEO

BostonSEO — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:37:36 -0000

I have a customer who's trying to stiff me. Sure it's small potatoes for a small job ($300), but it's the principal: I did the work, she loved the work, hasn't paid in four months.

Thing is, I still have access to her hosting account and PPC accounts. I'm contemplating changing the password on the hosting account and yanking down the site until she pays me.

Any thoughts?

Re: A Lesson to Deadbeat Clients: Why you should never, never rip off an SEO

skinner — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:28:43 -0000

Well Jaan it's nice to know that I'm in good company, lol. There do seem to be a lot of companies about that don't mind ripping people off. Perhaps we should start an SEOers Revenge club, eh?

Re: A Lesson to Deadbeat Clients: Why you should never, never rip off an SEO

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:05:08 -0000

I had a piece of garbage agency in Chicago that shall rename nameless that simply dissolved so they didnt have to pay me or other people they owed. They opened up a few months later under a new names. Garbage.

Re: Time for a WordPress Blog Theme Change?

croakingtoad — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:10:11 -0000

Disqus is so freakin awesome. I love it! Been using it myself for several months on multiple blogs. I love the social feel it brings into the site.

Re: A Lesson to Deadbeat Clients: Why you should never, never rip off an SEO

croakingtoad — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:08:07 -0000

I always always try to get payment up front, but sometimes it just doesn't work out that way so I find that taking some sort of collateral works good too, but make sure it's something you wouldn't mind keeping if they don't pay or would be easy to sell. In-kind exchanges are nice too. Maybe your rug people can't pay you, but you could give out custom rugs for the holidays? :o) Try to work with these people, do they have something of value to you? Cash is always best but sometimes customers do have legitimate cash flow problems (granted, they shouldn't be contracting with you unless they can pay, but somehow you've got to get value out of the deal). That was a long ramble but good luck, it can be frustrating but take your friends' advice and save your own reputation by keeping it at the rant-level. :)

Re: A Lesson to Deadbeat Clients: Why you should never, never rip off an SEO

mark rushworth — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:12:53 -0000

a-l-w-a-y-s take a deposit! and never do favours!

Re: A Lesson to Deadbeat Clients: Why you should never, never rip off an SEO

skinner — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:59:50 -0000

Yes, well we've all learned that now Lening. :) Good idea to show him the draft too. Very conducive to good behavious, lol.

Re: A Lesson to Deadbeat Clients: Why you should never, never rip off an SEO

Lening — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 12:39:05 -0000

I've had some problems with a client to. Didn't want to pay me for my services and no contract was signed. So, I had nothing. I wanted to expose him as a fraud, but my friends told me it was better to show him the draft. He didn't like it and he paid me the day after.

One thing I've learned, never work with someone you don't know, without a contract.

Re: A Lesson to Deadbeat Clients: Why you should never, never rip off an SEO

skinner — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:53:21 -0000

Thanks for commenting Brett. You are quite right--but I became a little too relaxed about my own payment methods. No more. :)

Re: A Lesson to Deadbeat Clients: Why you should never, never rip off an SEO

Brett Borders — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:56:06 -0000

Glad to hear you decided against 'exposing' people online. I'm not saying that tactic is never justified, but it's pretty heavy territory to be walking. As yea digitally sow, so shall ye reap - or something like that. I've seen some online reputation "counter-revenge" cases that would absolutely shock you.

My suggestion: try to bill in advance and don't begin work until payment is received - and then make darn sure you deliver high-quality work on time (or else you could be the victim of someone wanting to post their frustrations about you online - justified or not).

Doing collections is too stressful, in addition to intensive demands of internet marketing.

Good luck and thanks for reaching out!

Re: A Lesson to Deadbeat Clients: Why you should never, never rip off an SEO

skinner — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:45:04 -0000

Thanks Kim, this is food for thought. I might do that. I am going to take down links I set up for them and take a few other steps myself that will have subtle repercussions. They deserve it.

Re: A Lesson to Deadbeat Clients: Why you should never, never rip off an SEO

skinner — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:43:30 -0000

Well, if I'd followed my initial instincts, there'd be a small group of online businesses looking for reputation management services right now, lol.