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Recently a client of mine was contacted by a search engine placement firm out of California with an offer to get her a guaranteed top spot for search engine placement. My client was curious what they could offer knowing that she already has excellent search engine placement so she allowed them to send her a “report” on how she was doing. Here’s what she found out.

The report said she was not on the first page for the term naturopathic portland. (This wasn’t quite true, but we’ll let that pass for the moment.

My client thought the report which was supposed to tell her how she could do better was rather lame and emailed the marketing consultant to let her know so. Here’s the reply she got that left me an lol state.

“Sorry you are disappointed with the analysis. I did a lot of searches, not just “naturopathic medicine Portland”. That was the only search I did not see you on the first few pages [actually the client has two first page placements for this term, but the author meant "naturopathic Portland"]. I included Portland in the phrase. I agree Naturopathic medicine would be too general and a waste of marketing dollars.

Some people that respond to that email we send out are those that need placement services. Most people are not in the top three spots EVERY time someone searches, so we are able to help them, by placing them there 24/7 . Congratulations for not benefiting from the review.

If I had not responded to your inquiry after seeing you had good placement I would not be doing my job.”

No, I didn’t capitalize all the letters in the word every the author did. Since I am not interested in costing her, her job I am not publishing the name of the company or the marketing consultant, but it does do an SEO heart good to read something like this. Yes, natural search works.