One of the WORST investments and experiences in my 20 years as a business owner. If I could give NEGATIVE stars I would. RUN FAST AND NEVER LOOK BACK! I paid for their most expensive package in May. Since may I have been using their service for 6 months to give them a fair shake. During that time, my website went completely down for an entire month and I was never notified in the beginning, it’s something I had to point out. It took them a month to reactiviate it. They merged my locations on my GBP and lost 30% of my existing reviews in the process. Once my site came up after an entire month of being down, it stayed up for 1 week before google suspended my listing. The first three months HV did not do anything to help my site because they didn’t want to rock the boat during my busy season. Even though I am paying them over $2000 monthly. They NEVER did a clean up of the site and my recent simrush report shows horrible backlinks pointed at my site including porn, Viagra, cialis, pills etc. never was this removed from the get go. I placed a review in September and rather than express their concern and emphasize their strong points, I was literally given a strong arm approach and told to remove the review! This company will take your money without a second glance. They have mouths to feed and someone is lining their pockets. I have had to email and phone conference them daily/weekly and to no prevail. I can’t be the only one this is happening to. People need to speak up. I’ve lost $15,000 in SEO investment with HV, and probably $500,000.00 in revenue easily. 20 years in the business, worst worst worst mistake ever. RIPOFF, SCAM ALERT, BAMBOOZLE!!!
THIS IS STILL my worst nightmare come true. There were days where I didn’t know if there would be a tomorrow. My vision became very narrow and I am holding it together financially by a thread. My whole empire is on the brink of collapse. I placed ALL my trust into their service and I asked for the most aggressive and most effective package and I paid top dollar. I asked repeatedly what is it going to take to get my company where I need it to be. A lot of hot air and no delivery, and I mean absolutely NONE!
I feel sorry for anyone that gets conned into their pitch. I truely do. I know the reviews will continue to come in negative behind mine. You can’t run a business on fraud, it’s going to catch up to you!!!
How is HV loading the positive reviews online? My experience is very real and it doesnt add up. FISHY
I hired Higher Visibility, they took my money and didn't deliver the results they promised. All in all, I am out over 80,000 dollars. I am out of business and family savings. I have had it with companies like Adam's that promise the world, but deliver little to NOTHING. In my case, bankruptcy. I have contacted all three owners and not one responds to me.
I looked back at how it is that I ran into them, sure enough, they were reviewed on two websites. bestseocompanies.com and localseocompanies.com. On both websites they were ranked number one. I did a little more research, one of their ex-employees on Linkedin confided in me and told me that one of their three owners told her that they had been ranking themselves at number one on bestseocompanies.com and localseocompanies.com.
So come to find out, Adam Heitzman of Higher Visibility, an SEO company out of Memphis, TN, has been operating an SEO review website with the interest of ranking themselves as the best SEO company. In the same effect, he has also decided to start another website in the field of local search engine optimization to also rank himself. The website plays itself as a legitimate award website that does research to determine which company is a best seo. The domain bestseocompanies.com purports that the company listed there is one of the best seo companies, but it is actually being run by a shady SEO company HIGHER VISIBILITY and a shady s****.>
If they change the rankings now that this has been released, then look at the timing (date) of when this report came out and the rankings they have had at both websites from Jan 2014 - December 2014.
STOP THE DOMAINS, RESPOND TO MY EMAILS, REFUND MY MONEY, OR, THIS WILL ESCALATE.
Negligent company. After 18 months of Higher Visibility Managing our SEO for our site (April 2013 to October 11, 2014), it got a failure grade by their own SEO analytical tool (Instant SEo Report).
Recently we terminated our contract with Higher Visibility for poor performance. We were loyal customers for 18 months. For 18 months Higher Visibility was managing SEO. Shortly after our relationship terminated, we entered my URL into your own SEO evaluation tool and, the website that Higher was managing for 18 months received a failing grade F. The tool indicated that many things such as title tags needed fixing. There was many things that could have been easily addressed on the backend of our website which were not addressed and which the company made no effort to address during the past year. We know because the password to our website was changed for security reasons early into the 18 month relationship to the website. This was not relayed to Higher Visibility. The company never requested the new password because they never sough to do any work on the backend of our website after the initial work at the beginning of 18 months.
The companies own ranking reports (we have copies) will show that none of the over 100 keywords being targeted ranked 1-3 from April 2014 to October 2014. The drop in performance of the website each time Google had an update indicated that the techniques being used by Higher is not that of which Google approves. Each time the website performance dropped we were the ones calling Higher to inform them and request an explanation. In one instance they took 3 weeks to explain there were some recent Google updates. It is as if no one was monitoring our website. An SEO relationship should be based upon performance and Higher Visibility by its own metrics get an F grade.
We sought a partial refund of money paid to Higher Visibility for SEO for its failure to adequately manage our SEO campaign during the six month period from April - September 2014. During this period a total of $2700.00 was paid to Higher. On November 5, 2014 Ericka Milford, Diurector of Client Services stated that she spoke to "senior management" and was told that because we were no longer customers and they did not have access to our metrics. Apparently this IT company does not keep backup of its own files. Negligent management.
We are seeking of refund of moneys paid to Higher Visbility for the period April - October 2014 when the company failed to perform by its own metrics. We do not believe it is acceptable for the company to collect money for SEO over an 18 month period while giving its own work an F Grade! We believe we were Ripped Off. We are willing to share printouts and proof of our claim to anyone upon request.
We hired HigherVisibility in April of 2012. After beating them up on price and the amount of services to be provided, we felt good about the project going in. About 60 days into the process we noticed that we had dropped organic ranking with Google on every single keyword that we had hired them on.
We contacted Google to investigate why we had dropped organically. We have friends within Google that researched it and gave us a report. Turns out that they have been using "BOTS" to randomally create false links and and generating fake back-links.
According to Google, Google penalizes such activity which resulted in us dropping in organic view. We presented the results to HigherVisibility, they did not respond. Instead they sent us another bill even though we disputed their efforts and notified them to stop services.
We hired an outside firm to report the work performed by HigherVisibility, they came back with an alarming report. They notified us that the following services were not performed as per contract, No Sponsored blog posts, No social book marking, No blog consulting, No social book marking icons, No web design, No conversion tracking, No indication of article writing and syndication, They also did not perform on the the number of keywords as per contract. Majority of the backlinks and URLS came out to be dead links/urls.
We contacted our attorneys to demand our money back. They countered with a lawsuit for around $22,000 for the services they did not perform but rather tried to collect on. They had their bank call me which is in bed with this company. We have since taken them to Superior Court of Washington State. I will keep you posted on the progress.
HigherVisibility, LLC. Reviews
One of the WORST investments and experiences in my 20 years as a business owner. If I could give NEGATIVE stars I would. RUN FAST AND NEVER LOOK BACK! I paid for their most expensive package in May. Since may I have been using their service for 6 months to give them a fair shake. During that time, my website went completely down for an entire month and I was never notified in the beginning, it’s something I had to point out. It took them a month to reactiviate it. They merged my locations on my GBP and lost 30% of my existing reviews in the process. Once my site came up after an entire month of being down, it stayed up for 1 week before google suspended my listing. The first three months HV did not do anything to help my site because they didn’t want to rock the boat during my busy season. Even though I am paying them over $2000 monthly. They NEVER did a clean up of the site and my recent simrush report shows horrible backlinks pointed at my site including porn, Viagra, cialis, pills etc. never was this removed from the get go. I placed a review in September and rather than express their concern and emphasize their strong points, I was literally given a strong arm approach and told to remove the review! This company will take your money without a second glance. They have mouths to feed and someone is lining their pockets. I have had to email and phone conference them daily/weekly and to no prevail. I can’t be the only one this is happening to. People need to speak up. I’ve lost $15,000 in SEO investment with HV, and probably $500,000.00 in revenue easily. 20 years in the business, worst worst worst mistake ever. RIPOFF, SCAM ALERT, BAMBOOZLE!!!
THIS IS STILL my worst nightmare come true. There were days where I didn’t know if there would be a tomorrow. My vision became very narrow and I am holding it together financially by a thread. My whole empire is on the brink of collapse. I placed ALL my trust into their service and I asked for the most aggressive and most effective package and I paid top dollar. I asked repeatedly what is it going to take to get my company where I need it to be. A lot of hot air and no delivery, and I mean absolutely NONE!
I feel sorry for anyone that gets conned into their pitch. I truely do. I know the reviews will continue to come in negative behind mine. You can’t run a business on fraud, it’s going to catch up to you!!!
How is HV loading the positive reviews online? My experience is very real and it doesnt add up. FISHY
find another SEO company
Adam Heitzman, you just got busted.
Adam Heitzman, you just got busted.
I hired Higher Visibility, they took my money and didn't deliver the results they promised. All in all, I am out over 80,000 dollars. I am out of business and family savings. I have had it with companies like Adam's that promise the world, but deliver little to NOTHING. In my case, bankruptcy. I have contacted all three owners and not one responds to me.
I looked back at how it is that I ran into them, sure enough, they were reviewed on two websites. bestseocompanies.com and localseocompanies.com. On both websites they were ranked number one. I did a little more research, one of their ex-employees on Linkedin confided in me and told me that one of their three owners told her that they had been ranking themselves at number one on bestseocompanies.com and localseocompanies.com.
So come to find out, Adam Heitzman of Higher Visibility, an SEO company out of Memphis, TN, has been operating an SEO review website with the interest of ranking themselves as the best SEO company. In the same effect, he has also decided to start another website in the field of local search engine optimization to also rank himself. The website plays itself as a legitimate award website that does research to determine which company is a best seo. The domain bestseocompanies.com purports that the company listed there is one of the best seo companies, but it is actually being run by a shady SEO company HIGHER VISIBILITY and a shady s****.>
If they change the rankings now that this has been released, then look at the timing (date) of when this report came out and the rankings they have had at both websites from Jan 2014 - December 2014.
STOP THE DOMAINS, RESPOND TO MY EMAILS, REFUND MY MONEY, OR, THIS WILL ESCALATE.
Negligent company. After 18 months of Higher Visibility Managing our SEO for our site (April 2013 to October 11, 2014), it got a failure grade by their own SEO analytical tool (Instant SEo Report).
Recently we terminated our contract with Higher Visibility for poor performance. We were loyal customers for 18 months. For 18 months Higher Visibility was managing SEO. Shortly after our relationship terminated, we entered my URL into your own SEO evaluation tool and, the website that Higher was managing for 18 months received a failing grade F. The tool indicated that many things such as title tags needed fixing. There was many things that could have been easily addressed on the backend of our website which were not addressed and which the company made no effort to address during the past year. We know because the password to our website was changed for security reasons early into the 18 month relationship to the website. This was not relayed to Higher Visibility. The company never requested the new password because they never sough to do any work on the backend of our website after the initial work at the beginning of 18 months.
The companies own ranking reports (we have copies) will show that none of the over 100 keywords being targeted ranked 1-3 from April 2014 to October 2014. The drop in performance of the website each time Google had an update indicated that the techniques being used by Higher is not that of which Google approves. Each time the website performance dropped we were the ones calling Higher to inform them and request an explanation. In one instance they took 3 weeks to explain there were some recent Google updates. It is as if no one was monitoring our website. An SEO relationship should be based upon performance and Higher Visibility by its own metrics get an F grade.
We sought a partial refund of money paid to Higher Visibility for SEO for its failure to adequately manage our SEO campaign during the six month period from April - September 2014. During this period a total of $2700.00 was paid to Higher. On November 5, 2014 Ericka Milford, Diurector of Client Services stated that she spoke to "senior management" and was told that because we were no longer customers and they did not have access to our metrics. Apparently this IT company does not keep backup of its own files. Negligent management.
We are seeking of refund of moneys paid to Higher Visbility for the period April - October 2014 when the company failed to perform by its own metrics. We do not believe it is acceptable for the company to collect money for SEO over an 18 month period while giving its own work an F Grade! We believe we were Ripped Off. We are willing to share printouts and proof of our claim to anyone upon request.
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We hired HigherVisibility in April of 2012. After beating them up on price and the amount of services to be provided, we felt good about the project going in. About 60 days into the process we noticed that we had dropped organic ranking with Google on every single keyword that we had hired them on.
We contacted Google to investigate why we had dropped organically. We have friends within Google that researched it and gave us a report. Turns out that they have been using "BOTS" to randomally create false links and and generating fake back-links.
According to Google, Google penalizes such activity which resulted in us dropping in organic view. We presented the results to HigherVisibility, they did not respond. Instead they sent us another bill even though we disputed their efforts and notified them to stop services.
We hired an outside firm to report the work performed by HigherVisibility, they came back with an alarming report. They notified us that the following services were not performed as per contract, No Sponsored blog posts, No social book marking, No blog consulting, No social book marking icons, No web design, No conversion tracking, No indication of article writing and syndication, They also did not perform on the the number of keywords as per contract. Majority of the backlinks and URLS came out to be dead links/urls.
We contacted our attorneys to demand our money back. They countered with a lawsuit for around $22,000 for the services they did not perform but rather tried to collect on. They had their bank call me which is in bed with this company. We have since taken them to Superior Court of Washington State. I will keep you posted on the progress.