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honestly? I’d love to check out the websites these so-called ‘SEO gurus’ work on. I mean, all of their posts basically says ‘JUST TRUST ME BRO’ like, WTF?
Posted by on November 5, 2025 at 2:09 pmno description needed
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If your business is built on the fact that you can’t share it with others, that’s a pretty crappy business.
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I could get you listed on Google, but what I can’t guarantee is your website appearing on page 1 of Googles results, which is what people want. This is why companies with lots of money pay for Google Adwords.
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But if you share your project here, the post might be flagged as promotional.
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It is a bit of “Just trust me” but anyone reputable will be able to provide Google Search Console exports from other customers and will make sure you know rankings can differ for everyone as well as a proven and clear cut strategy.
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Be careful there. They can point to pretty much any website and say “that’s one of mine.” How they prove that they worked on that is the trick.
You need to find people that have worked with SEO consultants and can vouch for them.
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We just recently encountered this-
Had an “ecomm SEO expert guru” guy with a decent X and LinkedIn following do a post to the tune of: “my former client left me for their PPC agency and now results are tanking…” Lots of nice SEMRush graphics and the like to “prove” his case.
We were the PPC agency.
The reality was:
1. He’d built a ton of spammy blog posts on an ecommerce site (mostly AI generated with little editing). They did provide a momentary lift on rankings/impressions/clicks.
2. He got their site a manual penalty in Dec 2024. Results of course tanked thereafter.
3. He appealed the penalty twice in six months before he got fired, after removing a bunch of the offending blog posts but doing little else.
Client was basically out whatever they’d paid him for a year of work, and were left with a manual penalty.
Of course, his screenshots and claims neglected to mention he was the cause of the massive downfall in results, and also failed to mention the spammy tactics that created the nice, momentary spike in traffic and ranking he was then claiming as his win. They also failed to mention the lazy approach to resolving the manual penalty (which didn’t work).
His posts are all red flags to anyone in the vertical – “How I generated $300k in 30 days for this ecomm brand…” type of stuff. But what shocked me was just how egregious his misrepresentation was. He literally was the cause of wiping out the client organic search for six months, took payment, did little to fix it, and then had the nerve to try and flip it into a positive for himself.
Blech.
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SEO gurus in this sub?
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Most SEO gurus had early success with one or two clients, but then they hit a wall and stagnated. They reinvented themselves as “gurus” and now market to SEO marketers and agencies instead. It is more prestigious because now they go on shows, get speaking gigs, and sell courses. They discovered it pays better to cater to hungry SEO marketers than to grind it out serving actual clients.
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😂 Honestly, same. Half of them talk like they’ve unlocked the SEO matrix but never show a single site or result. I’d kill for one real example instead of another “trust me bro” thread.
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