thecompu-doctor
Member
- Reaction score
- 13
- Location
- Richmond Va
Hey technibble gang, i have a problem i could use your help with. My company The Computer Doctor of Richmond along with several of my local competitors (at least 20) were recently attacked by one of our local competitors. I discovered this about a week ago when just checking up on my local reviews and found that suddenly i have several negative reviews that didn't exist about a month ago. I knew something was up when two of them only had 1 star, but no content and all three of them were within a couple of days of each other. So I clicked on all of their names to see what other reviews they've left and instantly a pattern of abuse emerges. All three have left negative reviews for many other competitors. However, all three have also left 5 star positive reviews for "Richmond Geeks."
I flagged all of mine and many others as "inappropriate" for spam, but research since then has determined this likely wont do anything. However, i have also since found out that below the review where google asks "was this review helpful?" and then saying no by many people can prove effective.
Aaron's PC support (a fellow technibbler) also was attacked and his lawyer sent a cease and desist letter to Richmond Geeks. Aaron told me that the owner of Richmond Geeks, Muhammad Salman told him that this is the results of an independent SEO contractor (Hussam Al Taher, altaherhussam@yahoo.com) and that he will correct this and terminate the services of this SEO contractor. I don't know if there is truth to this claim about an SEO contractor gone rogue or not, but I do know that as of today 6/12/11, the negative reviews for Aarons PC support are still there (page 2)
While I haven't sent a cease and desist yet, my negative reviews are still there too (page 1 and 3) . One by a user called Marcos, sheriii and geeks shadow
I've already contacted many of my fellow victims, that's how Aaron and I got in contact. Many of them were somewhat concerned, some of them didn't seem to care and only a couple were really ****** like me. I work very hard to maintain happy customers and if I had earned a poor review then i would take it on the chin, and do better next time. But none of us earned these.
So right now you're probably asking, "how can i help?" Well, thank you for asking and volunteering your assistance. I really do appreciate that. If you have a few minutes that you can click on each of the names below and where google asks "was this review helpful?" please select no. There are many more than just these few google id's, but i just don't have time to list them all. I'll also be posting this over at podnutz, so you might see this posting there too.
Marcos
sheriii
geeks shadow
sam
elton
i hate techno
ALB tech's list of 10 bogus reviews
Also, if you haven't taken a look at your google, yahoo or bing reviews in a while, you probably should.
Thanks again
I flagged all of mine and many others as "inappropriate" for spam, but research since then has determined this likely wont do anything. However, i have also since found out that below the review where google asks "was this review helpful?" and then saying no by many people can prove effective.
Aaron's PC support (a fellow technibbler) also was attacked and his lawyer sent a cease and desist letter to Richmond Geeks. Aaron told me that the owner of Richmond Geeks, Muhammad Salman told him that this is the results of an independent SEO contractor (Hussam Al Taher, altaherhussam@yahoo.com) and that he will correct this and terminate the services of this SEO contractor. I don't know if there is truth to this claim about an SEO contractor gone rogue or not, but I do know that as of today 6/12/11, the negative reviews for Aarons PC support are still there (page 2)
While I haven't sent a cease and desist yet, my negative reviews are still there too (page 1 and 3) . One by a user called Marcos, sheriii and geeks shadow
I've already contacted many of my fellow victims, that's how Aaron and I got in contact. Many of them were somewhat concerned, some of them didn't seem to care and only a couple were really ****** like me. I work very hard to maintain happy customers and if I had earned a poor review then i would take it on the chin, and do better next time. But none of us earned these.
So right now you're probably asking, "how can i help?" Well, thank you for asking and volunteering your assistance. I really do appreciate that. If you have a few minutes that you can click on each of the names below and where google asks "was this review helpful?" please select no. There are many more than just these few google id's, but i just don't have time to list them all. I'll also be posting this over at podnutz, so you might see this posting there too.
Marcos
sheriii
geeks shadow
sam
elton
i hate techno
ALB tech's list of 10 bogus reviews
Also, if you haven't taken a look at your google, yahoo or bing reviews in a while, you probably should.
Thanks again
