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I recently wrote an article detailing how and why The Hoth is such a scam. Here are some excerpts:
There’s also a murky underground of SEO companies designed to help companies rank higher.
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Here’s how we got defrauded by a company that promises to boost their clients’ SEO. Simply stated, The Hoth is a company getting SEO results through some seriously questionable means. Specifically by piggybacking on high-ranking sites without their permission.
I was alerted of this through a partner of ours in early January. Accordingly, it turns out that we were being listed on The Hoth for link placement. The links were being offered for $810 apiece. This is when I began my investigation.
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This was a massive issue as it could mean one of two things:
(1) That there is a serious security issue and/or breach within our site; or
(2) a contributor of DMN had gotten paid secretly to place links without our knowledge.
So, The Hoth was either hacking into DMN or exploiting some secret deal to sneak links onto our site. The result is that the site was being robbed, clients were being sold a fraudulent product, and the validity and trust of our content contributors was put into question.
Oh, and all those crappy links will lower the score of a high-ranking site like ours.
I immediately reached out to The Hoth. Maybe this was all a simple mistake. Perhaps I’d registered DMN and not remembered. Unfortunately, it quickly became apparent that this was not the case.
The Hoth’s representative dodged and evaded even the simplest of questions. Questions like: ‘why are we listed on your site?’ and ‘who signed us up to be on your site?’
They proceeded to give me a stream of inconsistent information that all added up to one clear conclusion: The Hoth was defrauding us — and most likely, other sites as well
The story gets deeper but here is the article if you want to read it:
digitalmusicnews.com/2018/03/26/scam-alert-the-hoth-steal-seo/
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UPDATE
AUTHOR: Noah - (United States)
SUBMITTED: Monday, September 24, 2018
This site does not let me remove previous comments or reports so I am leaving this update to inform people that The Hoth has corrected this.
They are no longer offering the services that I questioned and they have taken full accountability for the program that I had a problem with.
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