Avoid Online Business Fraud

Avoid Online Business Fraud

The internet is a productive place for thieves. Online business scams are being created each day and the thief’s number one priority is to get your money. Online business scams are targeted towards the online business owner. Most will offer tons of advertisements for your website.

With the search engines requiring time and money in creating a perfectly optimized site that will list high in the search results and be ranked high there are many business owners looking for a short cut.

There are many legitimate ways to get results fast but they will give you detailed plans of their strategies and also come with many references from others who have used it (who have actual sites up) and have phone numbers listed for your questions that were not answered in their email or on their site.

Online business scams are geared towards the desperate site owner who needs attention and traffic right away. The desperation creates a block in the mind where common sense usually falls into play. The online business scams may be subtle in some cases, but in normally instances they are flashy and very sales pitchy.

Just because a site looks professional does not mean it is. It is recommended that you first check the Google ranking of the site, you can get the tools to do this from Google. If it is low like a PR0 it may be a new page or has received bad reviews.

The references that are listed on the site as satisfied customers may not be real. Anyone can type up a short review and slap a fake name and state by it. Go with ones that offer real references of sites that are up and running and have information on them to contact the site owner. Do not be afraid to send an email and ask how their experience was with the business.

These are great tips for sniffing out online business scams.

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