Client Review on Sprout Media Lab

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Unfortunately working with Sprout Media Labs was a colossal waste of $23,000. I started working with Sprint media labs in September of 2012. The project manager Christina was very helpful and always such a pleasure to work with. They did help create a nice website and for a time they were making a lot of progress in improving my rankings. The trouble began because of the Tactics the used to improve my rankings. They used a backlink strategy which was subsequently heavily penalized by Google. Almost overnight my rankings felt by 50 position points on all major words. Sprout Media Lab kept reassuring me that this was all normal and that they would get me to a respectable ranking. They never did. They kept on claiming that for my business, which is home cleaning, the search terms were hyper competitive and would take months to improve the rankings. I finally got fed up after spending 23,000 dollars and decided to go with another one person company in Feb of 2015. My new service providet started off by analyzing the website. He did make a lot of comments on how archaic setup was as well as the strategies employed. At first I thought he was just trying to toot his own horn. However within 3 months, he updated my website and started a very intense search engine optimization campaign. After 3 months of this effort, I am happy to say that I rank in the first page on 20 different terms. it seems the Sprout media labs really did not understand how to do search engine optimization. Not only did they spend $23,000 with him, I lost a whole bunch of revenue because my page was always rent somewhere on the 5th or 6th page of Google.