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Originally Posted by JesseQuinn
see, this is a bit difficult to believe. I've never experienced or observed peeps in adult (or any field) not share recs of others they've worked with. specific project details/plans/etc, sure, but an NDA where you can't even say you worked for them? I call shenanigans
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I can honestly see this happening even in my line of work for a few reasons.
For starters if you're a large company you don't want your competitor to snatch up your golden goose who in my case created tons of traffic. Even amongst themselves they don't talk about hiring high profile SEO people instead say inhouse which implies less than average (I'm not saying that but have been told)
Secondly - SEO and other fields are competitive and it's easy to see that if you're hungry you'll contact a company promising everything especially undercutting on price for services. I saw this recently with two website brokers who dropped their commissions quickly to compete with one another.
Third again being a large or mid sized company or site you'd like to brag that it was your content that increased your traffic or your amazing skills in getting things right. Great at trade shows and everyone is impressed but you know better
Fourth - those larger sites that offer others to buy traffic or trade traffic may not get a good deal or even have a deal broken if the other side knows you have a SEO person or even if you buy traffic. Means it may not be quality and qualified users and brokers know full well = many before selling their website suddenly buy or do SEO to raise their traffic to show on paper to potential clients - as soon as the deal goes through - SEO guy is let go - traffic buying or trading stops and the purchaser is left watching their once high traffic volume of millions turn into a few hundred.
I may share stats but without the sites/companies name there. That's generally okay.
oh and Fifth - the worst is that there are those on GFY and in the industry who dislike someone strong enough that they launch a campaign against them even to the point of contacting their clients to attempt ruining their reputation or block your efforts. Yes there are evil assholes out there who just want revenge and a "get you back for what you said about me on the boards" attitude. Case in point - look at all the false threads made about people attempting to ruin their reputation by claiming they are scammers. That happens off the board too.
so there is logic behind it