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In 3 years my SEO guy has never asked for access to my godaddy domain account. Why Now?
Posted by on July 21, 2020 at 8:09 pmThe reason I’m a bit suspicious is because recently he has been showing some poor results and I plan on firing him. I have good reason to believe he senses this.
The other reason is how it came up. When you try to log on to my account is texts me a code right away. After about 2 hours I asked him if he needed the code and then started blowing up my phone why he was trying to gain access. Just gave me a weird feeling.
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Don’t give him access to this, especially if you plan on firing him soon, and don’t really trust him anymore.
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You should be suspicious…there is not one reason he needs it. He is more than likely attempting to take the domain name hostage and try and make you pay him to release it under the guise of work already undertaken.
The best thing you can do is revoke any access to anything he has access to overnight so he doesn’t notice until the morning.
Fire him…he is up to no good.
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Maybe they want to see if your website is hit with Spam. Does your site have HTTPS / security? I had a WordPress site that tanked in traffic b/c it got infiltrated by spam, so I had to go into GoDaddy to see the issue
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Ask him. You’ve employed him for three years. You obviously trust him.
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Sketchy. Unless of course – you pay your ‘SEO guy’ to develop your site, and manage your hosting. Access to domain controls are generally only for DNS access. If they are looking for analytics – those should be external too. So – unless you’ve changed mail hosting, or web hosting, and made said “SEO guy” responsible for that – which would be assinine – there’s no need for it.
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Something wicked your way comes…….
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