SEO is technically still considered as a rather new niche market. This has resulted in many scammers trying their hardest to pocket as much cash as they can while SEO is still crawling its way through infancy. Unfortunately, because it`s quite a young market, the public are largely unaware that it exists, let alone what it can do for websites. Its relative youth and inexperience also make it difficult to determine which agency`s promises are actually reasonable, or at least believable.

Josh Garner, a practicing SEO professional, explains some of the most common SEO scams that are on the market today, and clarifies why SEO “requires a lot of experience, research, and patience to effectively get a website to rank highly.” The SEO scam artists are spoiling it for the industry by making promises to clients that they then fail to deliver, because they are either quick fixes, outright thumb sucks, or just plain sneaky and impractical.