So apparently SEO moz will get us de-indexed according to a SEO company!

[GarethEJones]

Each and every day i get called up from an SEO company who promises to get me top spots in Google rankings if i quickly get on their special offer they have today normally i would say "no thanks and put the phone down" but i had a bit of spare time so i indulged the guy and we got talking.

After the introductions and speal about his company he was showing me what his company does and how they go about it to get me top ranks (they don't get me ranks but create a website they own which then passes leads to me- kinda clever since they could then start charging me per lead or my competitors)

We continued to talk and i mentioned i used SEOmoz to check my rankings and back links etc and he told me that Google are cracking down and anyone using these types of software/websites will get their websites de indexed.

This struck me as BS but i wanted to get your thoughts on the matter,  i personally don't believe Google would ever do such a thing as this since it would be so easy to get your competitors websites taken down (i.e. negative seo) but its certainly a talking point.

[Marcus_Miller]

Hmm, it sounds very fishy eh. They won't build equity into your site, they want to build a site they control, they are spreading disinformation about ranking tools.

To me, this is a just a small step away from:

Give me your lunch money or I will beat you up!

Not cool.

Marcus

[randfish]

All of these software products offer rankings and/or backlinks data:

• SEOmoz
• Hubspot (which Google Ventures has invested in)
• Ginza Metrics (which Matt Cutts is an investor in through YCombinator)
• Brightedge
• RankAbove
• SearchMetrics
• Conductor
• AuthorityLabs
• Majestic SEO

It's hard for me to imagine that anyone who uses any of these products would suffer a penalty or de-indexing from Google. The only time we've ever seen anything like that in the SEO world has been with paid link building services, where sites using a network or a product to articificially inflate their links have been put on notice or sometimes penalized/banned. SEOmoz has never offered a product like that, and won't in the future. I'd chalk it up to bad information (or possibly a complete lie to get business, but I hope that's not it).

[SebastianCowie]

I was going to write a long post about the lack of ethics and how they're basically creating competiting sites and you're paying them for the privilege but I think "Horse Shit" pretty much sums everything they've said.

[EGOL]

I don't have any worries about occasionally checking my rankings with SEOmoz tools.

(they don't get me ranks but create a website they own which then passes leads to me- kinda clever since they could then start charging me per lead or my competitors)

This is like paying someone to compete against you.  You better not stop paying.

Look for programs that will build equity on your own properties not theirs.

[donford]

Some, but very little credence in what he said. Using blackhat seo services has a very high probability of eventually getting you dinged by Google.

He is a salesman first and foremost, he may appear to know something about SEO (as a salesman you need to appear to know about what you're selling) but actually not know anything more then some seo services will get you dinged, in his sales mind he just put 1 and 1 together and said using SEOmoz will get you dinged. Sure why not, may help him get a sale.

In the end it is rubbish. SEOMoz is one of the top SEO sites on the web and search engines specifically Google has said over the years they appreciate legitimate efforts put forth by companies such as these because it makes their job crawling sites that much easier.

Hope that helps,