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Color me skeptical...

Posted By: Mel. White
Date: Wednesday, January 23, 2008, at 6:13 p.m.(pst)

In Response To: Re: EFG Web Solutions a SCAM???? (john hoffman)

>> In responce to the post "is efg web solutions a scam" I got
>> involved with this company dec 2 07.

After it's been in business for one month, right?

Let's everybody take a look at the home page. Look at the lame and not well constructed RSS feed grab on the first page (right now, it has pages that say they're missing from the web) :
http://efgwebsolutions.com/

And Google maps shows the address is in a housing development. Google photos on the map show a picture of the housing area.

>> figured it was worth a shot I think the initial start up fee was 495 after
>> speaking with one of what they call advertising coach we started the
>> marketing campain I opted to use the payed advertising the co. matched the
>> money i put up as well It took longer than expected but on jan 3 i
>> recieved my first check for over 4000 dollars in one week.

There's a couple of reasons that I don't believe this -- one of the reasons, frankly, is your poor writing skills. It takes a lot of writing skills to develop a good ad (not everyone can do it), and you express yourself poorly. Now, they might have written the ads for you and done the SEO... but they'd have had to completely redo your site as well.

>> the following
>> check on the 10th was a lil less 3600 so far this company has lived up to
>> its promises.the investment for advertising was a lil nerve wrecking but
>> now im glad that i did. This co does almost all the work especially if you
>> pay for advertising.

The amount of income you report from a company who can't even get their own web pages in the top 100 on any given search engine just isn't believable. Even when I search for their name specifically, the FIRST TWO links are our message board.

Any SEO expert worth their money would have had a paid ad at the top of the page when searched for the name AND would have had the home page at the top of the page. They'd have also bought the right hand ad chunks for their affiliates.

No... your story really isn't believable. Not with the ineffective marketing, the totally lame RSS "content" feeds, the swiped code and images in their HTML, the lack of keyword stuffing, the inconsistent description of the site and the reality of the site...

And the home business run from a home...

I take it you're part of the organization?

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