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NOTE: Every email I've listed on this page is exactly the way I received it with the following exceptions: The names of the people who sent me these emails, and the names of their companies, have been removed and replaced with "Name Removed", or "Company Name Removed", or if the email referenced a website, it will say "site-removed.com". There are a few exceptions, where the person who wrote the email said that I could use their name. Again, I have no idea if these emails are true or false, though the fact that I've received so many over the years, from all different email addresses, and from all over the country, leads me to believe that they are in the majority, true. But that's just my OPINION. Please add me
to your list. and let us know what's involved in shutting down Traffic Power.
Without going into a long story about our dealings with them, our experiences
are identical with the e-mails I've been reading on your site. 1-p.com almost took me until I found you guys. Add $3000 to your total and keep up the good work. I got screwed
by Traffic Power too. Valerie just called me threatening to "sell my web pages"
to my competition. I yelled "screw you" into the phone and hung up.' I'm a furious right now but calm. I just got off the phone with the traffic power representative that's looking over us and she admitted to the google banning Traffic Power and so forth...their customer service lied to me (3 employees) that you were a competitor, google never banned them, so forth. She is now claiming that traffic power how fulfilled their promises and that our accounts are expiring...that the lawsuit is a joke and there is no lawsuit...that we can't ever get our money back...I told them, "You haven't done a thing!!! Our hits remain steadily the same from last year, nothing has improved..." My father and I will tag team on the phone soon against her again...but we caught Traffic Power lying to me. We actually disputed the charges with Amex and got a refund. They have since threatened a law suit to get paid. We chose to ignore this law suit. About two years ago we were using Traffic Power for SEO and even tried their Mail Power program. We did not see any improvements in our ranks within any search engine. Not long after they complete their initial work on our site we were no longer listed with google.com. I contacted Google several times using different subjects until I finally figured out a way to receive an e-mail from an actual person. We emailed back an forth several times to find out why we were banned from Google. I guess I wore him down enough until he finally asked who was doing the SEO for our site. I replied and told him it was Traffic Power. He was careful not to use their name specifically, but said yes we had been banned because of unethical SEO practices. I then removed all content that Traffic Power created from our sites. I emailed the guy back at Google telling him that all Traffic Power code and pages were removed from our server and with this they placed our sites back into their listings. The bad news is that we had at least top 100 positions with Google for almost every keyword we were interested in and every since this has happened we can not seem to get listed in any relevant keywords to our site other than our company or product names. We have top ten positions on MSN, Yahoo and several others, but are not even in the top several thousand in Google since this happened. Therefore we have had to use the Google AdWords advertising to receive any traffic from Google which costs us about $5000 per month. We since hired another SEO company who has given a sweet deal. We don't pay unless they get us listed in the top ten on Google. They have not been successful at all and are baffled trying to figure out why, but I think I already know that answer. I hope this helps get what we and other deserve from Traffic Power. By the way, can you believe that Mike Tracy with Traffic Power actually had the nerve to call about a month ago trying to get us to allow them to do additional SEO on our sites and more e-mail advertising which does not work? Good luck with your lawsuit, but we got our money back from them by just threatening to go to court. Traffic Power
basically got me kicked off of my main source of traffic - Google. I have been a client of 1P.com for four months and am very dissatisfied with their service. They have done very, very little in the way of getting good search engine position for me. They purchased two domain names for me and used 40 key words. To date I have minor rankings in 3-4 search engines. My website...is not in Google any longer. Feel free to pass this information to the attorneys or to contact me personally by phone if you feel that is necessary. I have complete
information I can fax to you regarding the credit card dispute with American
Express. I lost that dispute due to the fact that they had a phrase in their
contract that says "no refunds apply" I've received no hits from the "promotional" page they created for me. Complete rip off. I tried to fight it through Amex but the agreement they had me sign was the deal breaker. Prior to using TrafficPower, our websites were listed prominently on major
search engines including Google, Yahoo and MSN. We chose TP to help promote 40
targeted keywords relating to our product line, shortly We suffered about $30K in damages due to being banned from google. So it had
an effect on our sales. We did get a refund by our credit card company to our
card. But now traffic-power is threatening to sue us for the money they claim we
owe. I feel pretty good about the fact that I did a little research before signing
continuing on with 1P and didn't get suckered like some more veteran
businessmen. Your site certainly helped! About one year
ago, our company was contacted by traffic-power and after a "negotiation" which
went pretty much the way you describe on your website, we signed a contract with
them. I can't believe I didn't do my homework better. So I'm out $2500 and the portal site appears to be banned by google. It's getting about 4 visits a day! Let me know if there is a class action I can join in or other legal stuff. I'm considering small claims court. Do you know if google is taking any actions against 1p.com clients? You should take donations online for a legal fund. Seriously, a kick ass class action firm could really fix them good. Thanks for you efforts. I just contracted with them 2 weeks ago. I just found all this "STUFF" All BAD of course, about First Place, i.e. Traffic-Power. I don't think they have done anything yet which is damaging to my site, but I fear I will loose my $2401 which I put on my AMEX. I have emailed them telling them they are to stop all work, which at this point was the beginning of the key words to develop the "shadow page" or whatever it is. See I am not savvy in this business, that's why I thought they could help me. It appears they will do more damage than good. If I loose my website positioning, which is not good to begin with, it will destroy my business. Thanks for the warning site. Stopped me from burning $1,500+. Gotta believe you - you have better position than them on Google! Sometimes little guys can outrun the wolves. Just received a
phone call today from "Traffic Power" saying that our contract is "expiring" and
we need to renew. We informed them that we had asked in writing last August to
cancel our contract, so we would not be renewing with them. I read your
complaints about traffic power, and I had to email you to let you know that I am
currently mailing complaints to VISA for refund(s). You see, I didn't get
diddly squat from their SEO services (about $2,100 charged to my card), and then
they upsold me on banner advertising, and also Conversion Consulting. Wow you
must think I'm a sucker. But I was tracking web hits to my site, and still on
average of fifty visitors per day, I was not getting any business. No one was
clicking through my shopping cart and buying my product. In their consulting
contract, they did specify that if I followed their advice, I should realize
sales to exceed 10% of my gross revenue, and if that did not happen they would
give me a full refund. Our company was
taken by them for $3,000.00 and now that I am refusing to pay more since they
did not do what they said, they are threatening to send me to collections. We would like to join the class action law suit. We signed up with Traffic Power a year ago and not one thing has happened with our site, in fact, we have not heard from them since last May...when we try calling, all we get is the run around...and of course, no manager we can speak with. We have lost $4,000 to these people, we are a small company with just myself and my husband working, we have put our sweat and tears in to this website only to not have it go anywhere in over a year. Since November of 2003 I have trusted in traffic power to increase my websites traffic as they promised. Finally after 8 months of continued promises and no results I demanded our companies money back. After 2 months of this, and nothing but empty promises for a refund, I decided to give them a second chance. This time I was in direct contact with a supervisor named Violet who assured me huge results within 6-8 weeks. I even brought this website, and many others like it, to her attention. She said that it was because of a mistake on some clients part that was many years ago and everything was now better. Even though I didn't believe her I decided to give it another shot. Here I am 10 weeks later and still absolutely no increase in my website traffic and $1400.00 in the whole (with interest over 2 years I figure around $2,000). Please share my story with as many people as possible and rest assured my team of attorneys will be hammering at these crooks door! Thanks for spreading the information, i was also robbed $3500.00 dollars and i did not get anything from the work they did for me. I have done what looks like the stupidest internet advertisement ever. I gave traffic power 4 grand for this supposed great advertisement. They promised me that I could pick 20 words 10 of which they "PROMISED" "GUARANTEED" would be in the top 10 of ALL the search engines. I was new to the internet business and wanted a kick start and so I fell for it. Now here it is 7 months later and I have just a couple of my key words placed but they are like 4th maybe 5th page if that but 0 in the top 10. I have called them and heard all the excuses like the words are too general it takes time to get ranking, etc. And they even tried to get more money out of me to change my website to make it "more user friendly". But on the original agreement from the sales guy He said and I quote "It takes 90 days to get the spiders rolling" and the metatags and all that internet jargon. After that that is 3 month then the top 10 placements would begin. I have seen some of the emails from other disgusted people who got "conned" Screwed" whatever. I was wondering is there anyone maybe that would want to try to file a class action lawsuit against or is it even possible. I guess I should talk to an attorney. Thank you. Your page is
very helpful ! i have been reading your page for a while, I am still disputing
with AX regarding to traffic power charge, it was back last July. I am
determined to fight till the end. I have not paid them anything... though the
dispute has been turned back. I will keep sending them in. I hope this is
helpful, especially if there is a class action suit. Very good job
on getting that site up!! I'm so pleased
that I found your website. It's great to see that I'm not the only one pulling
my hair out about Traffic-Power/1P. My name is Shannon Port (you CAN post my name), I WAS a traffic-power.com employee. I know A LOT of the the tricks that were pulled and scams that they used and still use to pull one over on their clients. Mr. Matthew Marlon, the owner hires people to help him come up with these scams. Please contact me back. I think we may be a victim here in New Mexico. We have signed up many months ago and nothing from traffic power. No good placement. I really would like our money back. Problem with Traffic Power. (name Removed) paid 1265 for SEO and was caught in the Google problem in mid 2004. Under the new company they created a new website called www.siteRemoved.net. I have filed a claim with American Express and the Better business Bureau. I have had my attorney in Oregon send them a demand letter requesting a refund. I would do anything I can to get even with this company. If there is a class action lawsuit I would be glad to join. Hi - I've been trying to get a chargeback issued through Amex for the past 8 months... seems to be going nowhere. I had three websites "optimized" by TP and like everyone else was banned from Google until I removed the code etc. Thanks for pursuing this. Please count me
in if I can be included in the suit. I, like so many
others, was ripped off by traffic-power. They had a guy high pressure me into
paying 3000 to get my site listed “guaranteed” they actually re-directed MY
business To MY COMPETITIONS web site by making a mistake and listing re-direct
pages as .com when My site is a .us so all the sub standard work they did
actually directed everyone to a totally different web site. They had plagiarized
“ghost pages” that went to a competitors web site. (I think they were supposed
to link back into MY own site) Can you tell me what lawyer may be considering a class action law suit. I certainly would like to add my $3000 to it. I have been screwed over by Traffic Power. Traffic Power EVEN COST me loosing one of my vendors. I would like to be included in the class action suit. About a year
and a half ago I signed on with Traffic power with a salesman named Dave. I
went through the process, didn't see much results, and basically felt that they
were competent, but dropped the ball with me. (webmaster's note: This one is long, but worth reading) This is my
story, After signing
up with First Place in early November of 2004 (they used the "if you sign up
today and pay for the year you'll get $500 off"). Ok so it sounded like a
pretty sweet deal and I requested a rush to be put on so I could hopefully get
some placement by Christmas for my apparel site www.site-removed.com. I became impatient with how long it took them to
conduct their "keyword analysis" and I threatened after Thanksgiving to cancel
my service and get a refund. Yes I got taken
too by First Place or 1P.com. The apparently operate under several names. Add me to the list of those who have been screwed by Traffic Power. Even after they said they would refund my money they have not. I have heard so many excuses it is pitiful. I am ready to sue. Thanks for taking the time and energy to build trafficpowersucks. Here's my situation with Traffic-Power.com. I sell heating products online. During the 2003-2004 heating season I did very well with TP promoting my web site. Last May I gave them another $1,500.00 to continue. Two weeks ago I called and spoke to a female at TP to ask why I am not getting nearly the hits I was getting a year ago. She asked me if I could prove that with printed reports from TP over the two year period. I could not. However, I went into my web site shopping cart yesterday and found that my sales are a whopping 52% lower compared to one year ago at this time and my web site hits were down 55%! Like most of your emailers, I got the sales pitch from 1P.com. The salesperson talked up a good story and showed me some online reports from recent client campaigns. I operate 30 sites of my own and have written a couple of books on internet marketing for niche audiences, so I keep up with new tactics for getting traffic. I had never heard of the technique 1P claims is so successful. I was seriously considering giving them a try. But I couldn't find any testimonials or endorsements anywhere on their site. There was no clue as to who these people were or what their past clients said of them. Fortunately, I googled 1P / Traffic Power and found your site. You just saved me $5,000 and I hope you get a place in Heaven for your good work. I'm sorry you lost money, but maybe something good will eventually come from the experience. Thanks for
sticking up for us all! I have called my contact at FTC. He asked for copies of all my documentation-and I have it ALL! Am putting it in chronological order to fax to him this afternoon. Am also contacting some other Shop.org members who were used as references by TP. My contact at the FTC has already used info I supplied on other scams to successfully prosecute two phone scams. You're right-BBB is really ineffective. Hopefully we can get somewhere this way. I just found
your site. When I tell my boss about getting suckered, I may lose my job since
I was the one who said we should try it. ...and thanks for saving me $5,500. I was approached by 1P yesterday. Sounded too good to be true. I have a copy of the new website that Traffic Power made for me recently . When I saw what they were doing I told them to take it down off Google. I still think their new system is against Google guidelines. You can have my new website as proof if you want to study their new shenanigans. Just got a
phone call from Steven Kowalski and Peter W. over at 1p.com trying to solicit
their services to me and my company. They were very high pressure and wanted me
to supply a credit card immediately for a 20% discount off their $5000 yearly
fee. It cost me two grand for web placement only to find out I have zero placement with the largest search engine on the planet. Its all or nothing baby. Not only are there sales people rude and offensive but they are a fountain of miss information. When I asked why I had poor placement his reply was I need to spend another two grand and get into there "email" program which sends out advertising emails to millions of people. I will not be part of spam email period!! I would be more than happy to supply you with any info needed to de-rail traffic power. Also, to date, they won't talk to me or reply to email. I was taken for $3400 and am very pissed off. Please add me to the law suit. We are a client of Traffic Power and have been a victim of their fraud. We were pressured into signing with them and pressured even more when they felt we should spend more money with them to help our website become better. They were very nasty and insulting to us when we did not want to spend more money. They told us, "we might as well shut down our website," if we didn't follow what they wanted us to do. We spent a lot of money with them, and they did not do as they promised. We lost valuable time, money, customers, and data from them. Please tell us how we can become part of the class action suit. I was contacted today by 1p.com, and solicited for over an hour by a guy
named Ron from Hawaii... He sold me on their idea, and had faxed me a contract
for 4K for a year. I started getting cold feet right away, and thought that I
should do some research before I plunged ahead. After searching for their domain
info, and seeing that all their info was hidden, I progressed further. I
searched businesses in Nevada under that name, and found the link to
TrafficPower.com. When I agreed to pay $1500, I dropped all my other efforts to get found on the internet. Suddenly, nothing was happening. I found out that Traffic Power said they were waiting for my OK which I had given them months previously. That period of time was very bad but the time following that was not much better. Paying someone here in Hawaii a much lesser amount of money was giving me much higher traffic. Again, after they said they were working for me, nothing. I have a site that records how many hits I get because of their efforts. It is next to nothing. Can I join your efforts and get to try to get compensated? We are currently disputing a charge with them because they are such a scam. Amex originally denied it but this should clinch the deal.. I am sure we will get our money back now. Thank you so much for doing this. We did 2 sites for $1500 each and I know someone else who did one.. for $2000. What a drag.. they actually slowed my business. I just got off the phone with the sales rep, Marc Bausch and he said they have been carrying our website placement and unless I renewed with them, they would kill our placement on the engines. Was like I was dealing with some extortion tactic. Very hi pressure guy who said all we have to do is "flip the switch" and (implied) your business is over... Unbelievable scare tactics used.. I asked him to put everything in writing - which he declined. We were a previous client of Traffic Power which we had dropped over a year ago, and was just contacted by a rep claiming that unless we renewed with them they would sabotage our positioning on the search engines. How about that for business ethics.. Any advice? Yes, I too have been scammed out of $2000 by "Traffic-powerscam". I am red hot hopping mad. They are liars and thieves and need to be in jail. Thanks for the site warning people about them. I sent an official complaint to the BBB of Nevada. Thanks for that link too. We got F-ed by Traffic-Power also. A little over a year ago we had one of their sales people (Bill Hines) calling us relentlessly. Finally we decided after we had spoke to some other companies that had used them (They hadn't got screwed yet) that we would go forth to try to ease our costs from the pay per clicks. You know the rest. We will be willing to be a part of a class action law suit. I know the way they have their contracts made up it may hinder the thought, but I believe they were misleading to say the least. I think a good attorney would tear them up. I could be wrong- It sounds like you have more knowledge about this situation. Please inform me if you have time. I wish we could all sue the crap out of this M-F'er that is filthy rich because of a result of being a con-man. I sure he's laughing about it. I had my client sign up with them a year and a half ago they quit using them for six months then they resigned up 2 weeks ago. Lucky thing I found your site and got them to do a charge back and that saved them 2 grand per site, a total of 4 grand!! Hi! I was looking at your site. I was a Traffic Power Customer and signed up back in September 2001. I spent $1900 with TP and I really never saw any increase in traffic to my site. Every time I called I always got excuses. After I was to have a campaign in place and had waiting the two months for the results, I was told by another person at TP that the keywords I had supplied were too generic. Why didn't I get told that initially when I submitted them months earlier? I had even talked with Rich Splain one of the owners of TP who refused to help me get the service promised. I feel I was ripped off and deserve a refund like everyone else who was cheated by TP. I would like to be included in any correspondence regarding TP and help with the Law Suit against the company. Please keep me informed of any progress and any information I can supply to help, please let me know. I am in Arizona and ready and willing to participate in a class action. Thanks and wish I would of found you sooner! Thank you for providing what I do not have the time or inclination to do. I am indeed another victim, and they are a worthless organization that should be shut down. Are they long for the business world? I wish I had found your site before we got caught in this. Same thing. Very friendly, high pressure salesman. Talked us in to this. Then they built a godawful looking site, plagiarizing not only out site, but who knows what others. How do we extract ourselves without ruining our reputation? I am interested in being part of a class action against Traffic-Power. They did not perform to their obligation. I own the below sites and have been ripped off by Traffic Power. Do you know if some one has ever just cancelled their credit card payment with them to get their money back ? Also do you know how to get rid of their spam pages that got me banned in the first place. Also count me in on the law suit I am from SC. I lost $50,000 in Revenue last year because of them. The Las Vegas rip off artists cheated me fair and square. I got shunted to some Russian speaking outsourcer who didn't have a clue as to English words that were related to my site's content. I'll be glad to try to do something, but I just look at it as being ripped off. I am a fellow Traffic Power Victim. Luckily I never let them actually touch
my website - just create a SEE page that pulled stuff from my site.... I did
actually get their guarantee in writing because I contacted them 3 months ago
wondering what the hell ever happened to them. They got to me for $6,000.00 plus $4000.00 for their consulting service... Count me in. I have been ripped off. This service has not worked at all. I have been a member since last February and have gotten one order. Then a man named Mark Bausch called and told me he could increase my business by 10%. I was so leary but he made a guarentee that he would return my money by Christmas if that didn't happen. Now they are saying that the contract period is a year. So I was lied to. What kind of recourse do we have. I have paid them $5900 for nothing. Our company is in the middle of being bilked for $5,000 from TrafficPower. Only in America! I'm from Canada...and guess what their 1866 number does not work here. I was told that I would be paying $300/month for the first six months...But instead they charged me $1500 on my credit card. And what they have done is taken Webpage Optimized site.., which I've spent money and lots of time on, and they just ripped it off and put it on their bogus spam site online-creditcard-application.net site. Can you say PLAGIARISM? What A rip-off!!! A rip off from the money they stole from me and a rip off of my website!!! Anybody who gets a call from TrafficPower or 1P.com... JUST SAY NO!! They will rip you off!!! It's a wonderful afternoon thanks to
you and your efforts. Traffic Power has been after our company's marketing
department for 2 months. With time demands being what they are, not a lot of
research had been done on this company. With the high pressure tactics they
use, marketing was on the verge of giving them a try. In fact, the money was to
change hands in two days - $4,000. Add me to your lawsuit updates - I tried contesting my card with American Express, but I lost because I signed a document saying they give no refunds. I'm out $2000. Traffic-Power promised me higher
rankings by using their service. This service was offered to me in May of
2004. By the end of June of 2004, we had been completely deleted from the
Google search engine. At or around June 25th, I contacted Bruce Barnwell and
told him the issue. He told me that it was just a "glitch" and we would be up
within a couple of days. I gave him a week and we were still down. I contacted
him again at or around June 29th and told him of the problem. Again he told me
it would be over the weekend. I verbally gave him until July 5th to have my web
site back up on Google or we would be contesting our credit card. Daryl Novak called my husband today
after I had written two emails and my husband left two messages. He told us that
two men are the ones that has caused all of their grief. They apparently had
shadow pages associated with their websites, and TP didn't know it and thus they
got shut down by google. Anyway, we told him we still want our refund. So far
we haven't heard back. He said he wanted equal time to show us that they are not
the bad guys, my husband said fine, but in the meantime we need all of our money
refunded. I came upon your website last night.
First Place contacted me and on this past Friday, I was suckered in. We didn't
have a clue they use to be traffic power. :-( So they charged me
$6,001.00 for two websites. Thanks for the site. We have been scammed by Traffic Power. We also, JUST want our money back... They keep saying stupid things like their bank wont give us the money, etc... Is there a good attorney in Nevada that wants to take on this case that you know of? We would be willing to give him half of the settlement. Other than that, what steps do you recommend we take? They have admitted fault in their emails, and have even told us that we WILL get our money back, its just a matter of when. Any ideas would be helpful. Thanks Same story you've heard countless
times. I gave TrafficPower $3000. The only result from my investment was being
delisted from Google. We had decent showings on Google prior to this - now we
have none to speak of. ...I was appearing in Yahoo, in the top ten, I meant with my site, and my efforts. With their new doorway pages, I appear at like #88.. non-existent. these guys are over the top. we are about to retain an attorney, got anything in California? They have now hijacked our site, info, logo without permission. Bewarned! I am also a Traffic Power victim. Luckily I had no ranking to lose, and I am not yet banned, but they have locked me into a contract which they have no intention of fulfilling. Sure, I can break it, but then I am out the 3K with nothing to show for it. I can't believe I lost $4.500 and my online business on the same day! Traffic Power and salesman Ron and James should be thrown in jail. Please include me in the class action suit. And please give me updates. God Bless all of you who got ripped off. I want to be in on the complaint list. I have been around and around with the company for refunding my money. I have been banned and not to mention the doorway is hugely as sin. Let me know if I write out my complaint to you or someone else. Your URL says it all. I was duped by trafficpower. They told me that there mouse-over-redirect garbage was search engine friendly. Is there anything we can do to get our money from this fraudulent company? I left the company (Traffic Power) several months ago when it became clear that they were about to initiate a new and very dangerous coding technique that would generate good placement (short term) that could then be resold - in its entireity - to a new client while causing severe damage to the "previous owner" of the coded pages. (I can be more technical if you care to respond and/or call me.) Add another $5k to your "Ometer" for
not doing business with traffic power! We checked them out first. Thanks for
your site and information. They even show off their "great" bbb record under
"First Place".... See I have a small business..,.. I have spoken to them (Traffic Power) about optimizing my website. After reading information on your site, I think I will not use them after all... I offer my thanks to you for posting the information (probably saved me some money and embarrassment) but I need to find out how to optimize my website so it is easier to find using search engines. Do you have any suggestions? I'm willing to do the work myself but I need knowledge and information. Joe Chavez from 1p.com is going to call me on Tue. When I asked him if he used to be trafficpower he said "NO". Should I confront him on this, or should I just ignore His phone calls? Could being nasty to him "backfire"? He wasted about 1 hour of my time. Your site has confirmed my doubts
about Traffic Power (I guess they are going by 1P now days). I received a call
from them the other day. They were very high pressure, offering this and that
with discounts if I signed up immediately. I let them ramble on for a bit...
because I'm the type of passive person who has a hard time hanging up on
people. After about 10 minutes I got off of the phone with them. The next day
the sales person calls again. I was very busy at work, so I just said "thanks,
but not interested" and hung up. The next day she calls again! I did the
same. The next day she calls again! I am sick about traffic-power. They promised to return my money but I have not seen it. Any advice ? We were with Traffic Power for 2 years and they WERE effective......sorry that it was through methods not recognized as legal by the search engines. I guess the gains on the front end were pretty much lost by being banned. I am a victim of Traffic-Power. The sales rep GUARANTEED me a 6 - 7% return after the first month. Well, after the first month, I email this person to ask why was I not seeing the 6 - 7% return? Not only have I not seen a 6 - 7% return, I have seen Zero percent return. My email was not answered. I had over 2000 hits to my site and not ONE sale? How can that be? So I did a little checking and that's how I ran across you. I am out $1500.00. I am just now starting to get my credit card company involved. I really don't have much hope. I am really PO'd about this as you and many others have indicated. Any advice on how to recover my loss? Hello. My company used Traffic Power and because of that was banned by Google and Yahoo. After we understood the problem and too the direction that the SEO people gave through Google, we got our URL turned on by Google with in about 3 weeks.........But that was months ago and YAHOO has still not re-activated our URL and this is costing us lots of money. We are a little company who needs some help with this. I am a law student and have been a
victim of traffic power as well. I am glad to have found your site. An
interesting thing is that I have had many people call my company asking me how
the service of traffic power was. Apparently, TP was using our company as an
example because certain keywords (which were optimized by another company) were
being shown as examples of tp's work! Count me in as having saved $5000
thanks to your site. These guys at trafficpower/ 1p very persistent. BTW, I
heard their pitch in September and when I asked them last month why *their* site
does not show up in top 10 under google, they said those sites which do show up
are their partners/re-sellers (hush hush) and traffic power provides the OEM
technology to their partners..some such bullshit answer. I'm presently working on getting my money back from Traffic Power. In the event I don't, I'd love to be a part of your class-action suit. They mislead me from the beginning. I get a stomach ache thinking about it. If you have any further questions or updates down the road, I'd love to hear them. Thanks for putting up your website. It stopped me from doing something that might not have been in my best interests. Thanks for the info and thanks for your website, based on the comments, it looks like your website has saved some companies from having the problems we have had with trafficpower.com, 1p.com, internetadvertising.com or whatever they call themselves today. They should of given you your money back, it looks like you cost them a lot more than $4000. By the way I have been in business 13 years and never refused a customer a refund.... I just found your web site today. I've been contacted by TP a number of times, but I refuse to do business with the company. Not only due to their spamming of SE's but also their aggressive, rude, impolite sales force. Like many of your readers, I was suckered into trafficpower.com and promised higher listings on the top websites. Needless to say I only received about 100 hits and canceled any future business with them. Today however I received a notice from Internetadvertising.com stating they just put up a portal page. I never heard of them so I called and found out they are really trafficpower.com. Is there any way to block their link to my website? Hi, I am practically out of business thanks to my friends at traffic power. My webmaster just removed their files off my server. What can I do to try and get relisted more quickly? I was duped as well. I have been banned from Yahoo and Google. I'm in the process of getting my site re-listed. I would be happy to join in the lawsuit. The good news is we didn't let them
put any code on our site, so that makes me feel better about the banned part.
They still haven't called me back to discuss my concerns about no traffic from
them (I saw your site after I called them). They are probably creating fake
reports to give me right? I'm not even sure its worth following up with them
since it seems I'll never get my money back. I signed up with Traffic Power last winter. They have really screwed me over. Got dropped from Google of course. Now they have created new web pages on their server...(guess they are 'advertising pages' ) that link to my site. I think this will get me even more banned (if that is possible) What can I do to these guys???? I'm in charge of a site called
site removed.com. We were getting very little traffic via Traffic Power's portal
pages since I signed up in . About three months ago they "upgraded" all of their
promotion pages. They said it would take about 6 weeks and that they would
credit my account for 2 more months. That was over two months ago and still no
traffic (I have good analytics that tell me where people come from). Anyway, I
just called them today to discuss what the hell is going on. They were supposed
to get back to me in 20 minutes and I still haven't heard back. I read your site but looks like I got there a bit too late. Let me tell what happened. First off I was promised results after about 1 month by a sales rep. Then they changed that to 3 months. As of last week my login an pass do not work to see my stats. Kind of weird that it happen one day after I threatened legal action. It has been well over 3 months since they emailed me that my campaign has began. Moreover some tech emailed me saying they took over TrafficPower?? Well I would love to sue these bastards and maybe get together with some other companies and file a class action suit. I was lucky to only pay 1500$ for half a year. Any suggestions? We were eating lunch at the country
club the other day and I was talking to someone about our new web advertising
campaign when someone from the next table heard me mention "Traffic Power". She
broke in and told me her horror story about TP and told me to check out
trafficpowersucks.com. I hired traffic power. Business was doing good until the Google thing went down. My business dropped almost to no sales. I read through your site and found it all to familiar. I spent $1,400.00 to start up, and after a few months they were calling asking for $3,000.00 to make it better. Thank God I told them no. This happened about 3 months or so ago. As of yet, I still have not recovered. Business is dead. How can I get involved in the class action suit? We would like to be included in any lawsuits against Traffic Power. Not only did we loose over $6000, but even after canceling our contract, I cannot get rid of them. They refuse to remove their shadow url's that are linked to our website. They have stolen our keywords and are threatening to go to our competition with the information. In the mean time, all of the shadow url's are full of my information and linked to my website. This has become a complete nightmare. I have been a victim of traffic powers trickery and would like to know if there is anything I can do to get my $1200 back. I had several phone calls from these guys offering a rate of $4000.00 for a year. I am SOO glad i found your site, now .. only to find a company i can trust! Count me in on a lawsuit against Traffic Power. They got $400 from me and got me banned from Google for three months. They refunded $2000 to me for a bogus conversion consulting report that a 5 year old could have written. Unfortunately, the actual salesman that worked with me is a very nice man. I have told him that the company he works for is horrible.. They have created a worthless page for me now with its own domain. I'm just watching, but I would never give them another penny. Your site has lots of info about how
poor Traffic-Power is. We've been a victim, what can we do? I can't even begin to detail the
hassles I've had with Traffic Power. Today was the icing on the cake. After
untold hassles with Traffic Power's miserable list of suggested keyword, today
my set up technician informed me that my advertising pages were ready and gave
me the URL, then signed off his responsibility to my account before I even had a
chance to see or approve it. It is riddled with pornographic and irrelevant
global keywords. It is offensive and insulting, not only to me but my customers
and target market. My site is decidedly NOT an adult or porn site. On the
contrary; it is a religious supply store. I can't even get them to disable the
links to my real site. My requests to speak to a supervisor are ignored, and
the only person who is "allowed" to speak to me at Traffic Power, has told me
that there is nothing he can do. I got burned for 2,000.00. The following is from an email from
traffic-power to us dated today. Are you or anyone else you know interested in
the fact that the following is a threat to extort money from us or they will use
all of our confidential information they had access when promoting our site, and
sell it to the highest bidder? I was considering doing business with
1p.com (formerly traffic power). I had a nagging feeling that something wasn't
adding up with their presentation, so I decided to do a little research and
ended up on your site. Just wanted to update you...Traffic
Power has changed its name AGAIN!!! I have recently submitted a charge
reversal to American Express (the card we had used to pay TP, the first $1500),
and although AmEx denied it and felt the charge was valid after I submitted my
case, we cancelled our "agreement" with TP and "saved" the additional $1500 that
would have been due if we would have continued our agreement with them. So, in
effect, you could add that $1500 to your money saved page on your website. Just wanted to let you know if anyone contacts you that you can get your money back from Traffic-Power even though they say no refunds. I disputed the charge on my credit card because I was still in contract with them until November of this year. I was able to show the contract and other supporting documentation that they did not do what they said they were going to do on the contract. I am about ready to have a f___!
Break down. I new that after the run around that something was wrong. I gave
them 2K for the freaking promises and still nothing. I insisted that I meet
with them in person The BBB of Nevada stated that they would include my complaint against Traffic Power and try to keep them from taking more money from me and try to get a refund for me. We will see what the BBB is able to do. Also, I closed my American Express. A clerk at American Express told me that the charge would still go through even if I closed my account, but I don't see this happening. How can something be charged when the account is closed? I will be looking on your website for details. Before I was going to stay with Traffic Power with the thought that if I was going to loose $3,000.00 I might as well let them do their new thing. However, with all the evidence you have on your website of others in the same boat as myself, I gained courage and sent all this documentation to American Express to try to get out of payment to Traffic Power of the first payment. I also just sent a threatening letter to Traffic Power warning them that on October 15 they had better not try to put the other part of $1,500.00 on my credit card, that I would get lawyers involved. ...they got me for 750- but I smelled a rip off before the remainder of the money was due , ( 2250) well thanks and keep my name on any pending lawsuits Like you, they lied to me and took the money and ruined the rankings that I had achieved on my own. I have so far, not been able to get back the rankings I once had. Unfortunately, our company was conned by Traffic Power. We invested $1500 of $3000 to have them help us with search engine placement - we just didn't have the time to do it ourselves. 2 months into our campaign, we were declining in traffic and Googling TrafficPower was interesting - they weren't even listed, the 1st page listed was your site - trafficpowersucks.com. Well, I became concerned - especially being the Marketing Manager responsible for choosing them. We stopped our agreement, removed their 'See' pages (which is why Google booted us) and thankfully saved $1500. Good news, we're still #1 on every other search engine.Bad news, we're nowhere to be found on Google, which is the lifeblood of our organization. If anyone sues TrafficPower for lost business, count us in! I'd like to remain anonymous at this time - thanks for your site, it will help others not make the same mistake we did. Sincerely,Traffic-Power Does Suck (BIG TIME)! I'd love to know about any class
action taking place, or any more news about what I can do. I have already emailed you in the past about my experience with Traffic Power. I want to make sure that I am aware of the class action lawsuit because I want to be involved. Let me know by email in case I get busy and am not checking your website like I should. I was off Google for 2 months and spent a tremendous amount of time and effort to get back on Google It was a nightmarish experience. I might be able to not have to pay my American Express the first $1,500.00 because of all the documentation I got off of your site. That helps build a case when you are trying to get out of Traffic Power's no refund policy. Thank you for your efforts. I know how much time and effort you had to go through but maybe this class action lawsuit will help all of us. I am one of the businesses that the
above group has ripped off. It is nice to know that I am right about the lack
of performance they can get away with. You can add my $4000. to the pot! Paid up front by check. After 4 months my site disappeared off google. We now have removed all Traffic-Power content from our ftp site. I got suckered by these guys and while I never finished paying them, they still got roughly 900 bucks. I would like that back as their results never generated any traffic for me, though they did manage to get one or two obscure keywords into the top ten. Even though I ignored all calls from them to pay up they still sent me some site upgrades a while ago so it seems the left hand may not know what the right hand is doing.. I can't afford to lose that much money.. basically I am in the hole making monthly payments to a credit card because of them and their promises. I would love to sue them but I have no idea how without it costing me more money I don't have. Hello, I am interested in filing a class action suit against traffic-power, as I got my father's site involved and now we are banned from google. Please contact me. (From another SEO) We get calls
weekly from people complaining they got scammed by Traffic Power and their site
is banned. I just found out yesterday that I've been had too. I paid traffic power $3000 and have seen hardly any results. They were able to get one keyword (my least desired) ranked fairly high for a limited period and that is all. All their promises have fallen short. I heard about this today.. been on T-P for 8 months. Am cancelling today, have removed their pages and links. Was costing me $3,000/yr, so I guess that brings your total up. Thank you for the site. Traffic Power just about ruined our internet business. I would like to know if there is any class action lawsuit going against them. Since I am still off Google after two
months, www.preferred-seating.com
I am convinced that I was banned off Google because of Traffic Powers
techniques. I am tying to get my money back by disputing the charge on my
credit card. In the meantime, I would like to join any lawsuit going on against
Traffic Power I am furious at the loss of buisness we are experiencing because
of loosing our ranking on Google. Not to mention the time and energy I have had
to expend to read up about the problems Traffic Power has created for its
customers, reeducating myself about the do and don'ts of website optimization,
emailing back and forth to Traffic Power, waiting for the new promises of a new
"promotional page" the emotional anguish of realizing what being off Google
meant to our small struggling, new buiness and also having to create another
website, (which has been accepted onto Google) and the time it will take for
this website to climb up through Google. A prominent architect called and told
us that our name and website used to be everywhere on the internet and now he
could barely find us, what happened? Hello unnamed Traffic-Power
opposition leader! We, too have been victimized by this company. Our domain site removed.com has been banned from google. Of course they offer no recourse other than the idiotic proposal of hosting some funky redirect pages. Please keep me informed of any class action law suits in the Phoenix area. Thanks for the info I was almost ready to go with there company the only thing that held me back besides this was the salespeople when I said I was unsure about doing there deal they gave me an attitude this was from 2 different people the 3rd salesman was pretty nice an almost had me convinced. also I was weary about the placement of there own site like you stated again thanks for the info it was very helpful and probably saved me at least $2000. ...we have an E-commerce site that
was doing pretty good before traffic power on rankings. traffic power came at
the suggestion of one of the employees of our E-commerce branch, and
unfortunately, hit me at the precise time that i was looking for an SEO firm as
my workload was increasing 10 fold outside of the site, and needed someone to
run things. I unfortunately turned it over to them. a little background...
before traffic power, our site was doing roughly 125 - 150k per month in
business... had 9 full time employees, and a shipping dept. when TP came on
board, our sales went up a little, but after 3 months, we were banned from
EVERYWHERE... not just google. yahoo... msn.. aol... AltaVista... all of the
major search engines. our sales went immediately from 160k to less than 1k. 1
thousand in sales per month doesn't pay 1 persons salary.. much less the 15 that
were currently working. If there is a class-action lawsuit, please include us. We have been a scammed just like many. However, since there has been a lot of evidence to prove a scam, my credit card company did refund my card. I'm sorry you hold such a grudge but I have nothing bad to say about them, they generate my business 25,000 a month. sorry. You have saved us. TP called today
and email me a bunch of info. Thanks for your help. Our matter with the BBB was reopened
with our response as of today. Our complaint took 2-3 weeks to get a response. Sounds like everyone that signed up with Traffic Power got screwed! I can unfortunately be included in this elite company. Same story..no work, lost revenue and dropped from Google. They wanted to charge my client $2500
and the salesman FREAKED when I told him I was going to do due diligence on his
co. He told me the offer was only good for 2 more hours....(I was on the road
driving) They suck, I agree with you 200%. We just about signed up for their SEO
re-seller program with a 40% commission - too good to be true? Well, we found
you. I am one of the former Traffic Power clients; we have been badly burned by them and have lost about 70% of our incoming leads from being de-listed by Google. I just got off the phone with
TrafficPower. After consistently calling me everyday, two to three times a day
for almost 6 months, they hung up on me. I mentioned the BBB, banned on Google,
plagiarism, and money back guarantees- They hung upon me as I am speaking. TrafficPower was scheduled to call me
back in one hour to help me promote my website. In that hour time frame, I came
across your website. I checked the BBB report before and was not planning on
checking again. They did have a satisfactory report. As of August, they have
20 complaints. Nice. I haven't laughed so hard in
weeks. I am a current Traffic-Power customer, and I have a feeling I've been taken for a ride. We are a small business, so when we were offered a low price SEO we jumped. Unfortunately I did not do my homework first. Their tech support is almost non existent. We have lost almost all of our traffic, and are now worse off than when we started with them. Our company signed up for a year and we still have six months left on the deal. Losing the money hurts, but losing the traffic hurts even more. I am in the process of finding a new SEO company (a few have already contacted me) and I would definitely recommend anyone and everyone away from Traffic-Power. In my opinion their company practices are borderline illegal, and if not they are at least a poor service company. We were also screwed for $2000, and are now banned from Google. Thanks for you site. I was contacted by Traffic-power about 2 months ago, and within a couple of weeks after they worked on my site, my site was completely banned from Google and my sales dropped to 1/2 as a result. I took off all their work and contacted Google and have since been put back up on Google. However, I paid $3000 to Traffic power and I have tried to contact them about 10 times and have received zero response. Luckily my credit card company says they will get my credit card refunded, but it hasn't gone through yet, so I'm still out $3000, plus about 3 weeks of 50% sales due to their work which equals about $2400 lost in sales. Please included me in the lawsuit as I believe they deserve to be sued. Well done! I actually rejected another company with the same approach, but your website contributed to the research process in the rejection. I guess you can add $1500 to your total if you count similar companies. You saved me and my client $5000 a piece. I should mention this so you can add it to your website. I have several attorneys who are close friends both in Idaho and in Utah. I'd love to nail these bastards (Traffic Power) to the wall. We have six sites that are being torn down piece by piece and we sell advertising on all of them so our pocket book is being effected by the whole thing. Would you like me to inquire with my attorney friends to see what they say about a possible class action suit? I am a small business owner who finally came to my senses about a month ago and demanded a full refund from Traffic Power. I was with them for about 4 months, and I lost my placement completely in Google. I had no idea they were scam artists until yesterday when I spoke to a legitimate SEO guy and he filled me in on why I might not be in Google any more. I received a phone call from a Traffic Power employee who wanted me to do a $6,000 a year campaign. It sounded alright what he was saying so I decided to do a search for their company on google. To my surprise, I found a website called trafficpowersucks. After reading it for a couple of minutes with the employee on hold, I picked up the phone and told him I was not interested. He inquired to why and I informed him of your website. He obviously knew of your website because he went into this whole spill about how it is a bunch of bull. Well, I just wanted to say thanks for the website. We had two sites kicked out of google. It took two weeks of e-mails to google before they were listed again. One they only listed again after removing the traffic-power pages from our site. 90% of our business comes from our sites. Our sales were cut in half during these two weeks. When I contacted Traffic-Power requesting a refund I was told "Your contract does not state that you will receive a refund if we get you kicked out of google. You are still listed in many other directories, so what's the problem?" I got sucked into Traffic Power up until the point of having them email me an agreement. Right before I signed, I voice in my head said to do a google search about the company. I found your site and lots of other complaints about the company...needless to say I will not be signing any agreement. Thanks for saving me $3500 and lots of headaches!!! I have some legal
insiders offering advice at various levels. Here is a recent communication...
"..also some more info you and the others might not have considered. Traffic
Power accepted payments over the Internet therefore (fraud) took place
electronically, which falls under the laws that govern wire fraud. I have a small site that I started up a few years ago. I received a call from Traffic Power around a year ago and was sucked into trying their service. As of early last month, my site disappeared of google.com, my traffic has dropped, and sales have gone down even further thanks to their shoddy practices. Thanks for your web site. I used to work in SEO, and am very wary of anyone who guarantees results. There are legitimate professionals in this field, but I'm sad to say they (Traffic Power) are the exception not the rule. I've been ripped off!!!! $2000! They promised me things and did not deliver. They got me banned from Google and now my the host of my domain is also threatening to shut down my site because of the "spammy" techniques!!! I would love to join in on the lawsuit!! Thanks, you just saved me $3000 us $4300 Canadian. I am a current client, or shall I say "victim" of Traffic-Power (over 2mos) and still waiting for my website to be listed with any search engine! So far I have not received any info. that my site has been banned by Google....but I'm not listed anywhere either. Traffic Power states in their contract that they will achieve top 10 listings for at least 8 of the 20 keywords I signed up for within 90 days. Actually, their salesman verbally promised me that they would have me on the first page of the major search engines within 3 weeks....and after the 3 weeks I could cancel my "pay-per-click" advertising with Google and Overture. So...here it is...2 months gone...and I paid them $1700 and I not only do not have any first page placement.....I don't have any placement at all! I also have to keep paying for Google Adwords and Overture to get any business at all. I have no doubt that I have been seriously damaged by traffic-power.com since my site was de-listed by google about six weeks ago. I have requested that traffic-power disable the SEE page redirect to my site and am ready to turn the matter over to an attorney. This is Name
Removed at the now defunct SiteWitheld.com (Thanks to Traffic Power). I just
got a phone call from my new account rep at Traffic Power. Apparently she wasn't
given any information about me. She called to introduce herself and ask if there
was anything she could do for me. I gave her an earful and asked how long she
had been with the company. She said since February. I suggested that if she had
any sort of a conscience she should quit. I got taken for $5,000. I have some decent emails to back up my story, but the credit card company won't act based on emails so my disputes were also denied. I even tried to stop the second charge from going before it went through, but they processed it anyway. Ok, you can add
another $3,000 to the total amount of money prevented from getting sucked away
by Traffic Power. Talked to them a bit ago and they are removing all the links and refundingmy money but its not over yet. Thanks for telling the truth about Traffic Power. I signed up with them approx 3 months ago before the Google flap broke and had my sites pulled down etc. etc. Since then I've removed all their code and everything is back to normal except that I'm out $5,000. I signed a contract in which the second half($1500) was due June 4, and was clearly stated as contingent upon customer satisfaction. Traffic Power ran the charge May 14, after I had told the Salesperson over the phone that I was not at all satisfied. We have been a victim of this company and we just got confirmation from Google in writing that we got dropped because of them, we are interested in the law suite and we will be looking into filing independently against them, these guys are not going to get away with it, they have hurt us very badly, our traffic from Google dropped from 50K hits a week to 8K in the month of July and the sad thing is we signed up the 3 week in June and a week later got pulled from Google. I signed up with them 3 months ago and have not had one piece of traffic from their work. My credit card has now been charged and I am out $1500. Not a happy person. I received a call
from traffic power today, they wanted $5K for their services. I was recently contacted and I was very interested until I heard the cost and felt the pressure to sign up right away. I know when a salesman tries to sign you up immediately, there's something wrong. I told him I had to think about it. When I decided the cost was too high, he called me back and told me they would "work with me on the cost." In the meantime, I did my on research on Google, found your web site and now have to thank you for saving me $3,900.00!! Please add my total to your list, because I will not in any way ever let them have that money. Your resources have saved my company from Traffic-Power in the amount of approx. $6,000.00. Thank you! I am a small business that has used Traffic Power's services for 2 years. I am not showing up on Google or Yahoo. This is virtual suicide for my business! They assured me that what they did was legitimate, I would not be banned due to their methods. What's worse, they encouraged me to promote their services knowing that I would be banned. I have emailed them and called, they don't respond either way. I don't have any money to contribute to a lawsuit but I would like to be added to the list of victims. I read your article on Traffic-Power. I am one of the victims also. I have been in business since 1996 and our sales have continued to grow. We have over 500 web pages that are associated with our web site and it was never hard to see us out there somewhere on a search engine. I have always submitted my site and have never had any problems. Traffic-Power contacted me last September and I thought it might be nice to let someone else do the work. Since January our business has steadily lost $10,000 a month and visitors have noticeable gone away. I wasn't sure what was happening until I received a phone call from a company that said I had been banned from the internet. Sure enough I did a search on the major search engines and didn't see one of our web pages out there. I contacted Traffic-Power and was told that Google periodically does a reshuffle so their content is always changing - give it a few weeks and it will come back. I was told there is no such thing as being banned from the internet. Business is the worst it has ever been. We had more business the first day we got exposure on the net than we do right now. If reading the articles I've seen about Traffic-Power is true, Traffic-Power killed us. I would like to
thank you for your valuable information on Traffic Power. I have been approached
by them. I have been burned before so I decided to search for more information
on them and stumbled on the consortiums web site. Traffic Power will be calling
me back on Monday or Tuesday and I plan on asking a lot of questions. I would like to be
involved in the traffic-power class action suit. We used them about a year ago
and have since been banned from Google. I had three of my websites with them and paid them over $12,000. I ended up getting black balled from google as a result of their work. We signed up with
Traffic-Power the end of March 04. Our SEE pages went up the end of April
04. In reviewing our web stats, our web traffic went down by nearly 50% from
April to May. When I contacted Traffic-Power, they said we needed to wait for
6-8 weeks before we would be able to see any results. By the end of June, our
web traffic dropped another 30%. Paid them $1500.00 and got nothing, luckily I was pre-warned about the being banned (from a competitor) and cancelled them. Also had my webmaster remove whatever they did to my site which appears to have been just in time. Our company got
BURNED to the cost of $3,000. I had documentation via printed e-mails from
their own technical people acknowledging their own problems on getting our site
up on GOOGLE. They NEVER ... in the entire year got us listed on GOOGLE. I
actually got a few e-mails from them while I was trying to get a refund, however
I ended up like you. NO REFUND. The bad thing is that the behind the scenes text
that they wrote, did get our company BLOCKED from Google. I am currently working
with people at GOOGLE to get un-blocked, and they are being as helpful as they
can, but have told me it may take quite a while, because there are SO MANY
companies like ours trying to get re-instated. I'm a Traffic-Power loser that has been defrauded out of $2000.00. I've been a customer since Feb, 04 and nothing is working for me. Traffic-Power has stopped helping me.. What can I do they are still taking my money? I am out $4000.00, banned by Google, and down to 3 hits a day!! I recently allowed myself to be pressured into buying the traffic-power service same-day as sales call to receive discount. After some research and the help of your site, I'm now trying to get our money back. I signed with Traffic-power..after having checked many referrals - all good. Immediately after, the bad news started coming in. I spoke with the agent that I signed with, he assured me that this was just a very disgruntled customer who had started a fuss. To reassure me, they were going to move me to the front of the line. Well, just as I was reaching my 8-12 weeks, I get an email saying they've extended my contract by 12 weeks. They've made improvements! Is there anything that you can advise. I think I've just been suckered in a huge way! ..we have contacted
our credit card company with which we paid for their services. They have filed
a dispute against TP which will be pursued on our part to show malpractice and
fraud. It might be good to encourage other companies who do this to try the
same approach. Our concerns are
similar to others mentioned on your website. I am interested in being a part of the lawsuit against Traffic-power.com. I have totally lost all my placement with traffic-power and am now losing tons of Sales which is my business. I signed up with Traffic Power a couple of months ago and my site has been banned from google and yahoo. My site only pops up because I am paying to be a sponsored link....my site no longer shows up under keywords that traffic power tried to help out with. I was sooo mad because last week they were trying to push another proposal on me for more service (at that time I didn't know about what had happened) And thank goodness I didn't give them my credit card #. They basically had the nerve to call me, not disclose ANY thing about the site being banned, and tried to take me for a fool. After searching on the web, I realized there were lots of companies that got screwed by them. What can we do? What do you suggest? I appreciate your
work on exposing the contract. (thought I knew how to read) There's a sucker
like me born every minute. For 8 months, I thought I was doing fine...They did
keep their word. . . Nothing but bad news about traffic power they did some work for me and took my money. They created pages and domains and (we got) absolutely nothing. My web site is a great site and I thought I could benefit from them only no results. They took my money. When I originally signed up with them we selected keywords which would account for some 800,000 hits a month guess what it did not happen. They are still calling me repeatedly for money which I refused to pay based on the total lack of professionalism as well as poor results. I am looking for someone to help me optimize my site. If you know anyone have them contact me. (From Trafficpowersucks.com: I have been asked almost every day for recommendations for a good SEO company, and I have NEVER given a recommendation. Traffic Power claims that my site, and others like it, are their competition trying to make them look bad. I am NOT an SEO, and I refuse to make recommendations, so please do not ask.) For your
entertainment:
Thanks for the
enlightening documents - my partners & I were laughing hysterically at your
company's lame attempt to cover up your fraudulent activity. I at least applaud
the great lengths your company will go to to pretend to be legitimate - I wish I
could lose my 22 years in the industry and be stupid enough for just a moment to
believe your crap. But, as the saying goes: "If it walks like a duck, acts like
a duck, and quacks like a duck - it's a duck." Hello, I've been
reading your site and the postings on JimWorld about Traffic power. I'm glad
there is information like this out there. We have paid them $2,000 but we
haven't implemented their "techniques" yet... I'm afraid that if we do, we'll
get back listed just like so many others. I'm about to call them and question
them on their tactics, I'm going to tell them about your site and the thread on
Jim World. Any advice on how to deal with them? In any event, thanks for the
site, and the information... Gotta love your
website. Can I forward it to the 25 plus people I know who had sites banned? I
saved many companies money too by posting on Jim's World - can I forward to them
too??? Hi, love the site! I almost signed up with Traffic Power about a year ago, but I was warned about them by my brother's company. I told the salesperson, a Rick Cordova, that I wanted a guarantee in writing or no deal. When he wouldn't give me one, I told him I would go elsewhere. Here is the email he sent back to me:
Name Removed, Name Removed Traffic-Power is evil and must be stopped! Name Removed I like you site. We signed up with Traffic Power over a year ago, they are very rude. My webmaster checked the pages they sent us to upload to our site, and told us that he would quit if we uploaded them, they were that bad. He said we would be banned from the search engines he had worked years to get listed on. Traffic Power wouldn't even talk to us about a refund. Now we see on your site that they probably stole the pages anyway. What a scam! Name Removed Thanks for the info, I was about to sign up and read your site at the last minute. Add another $2000.00 to your Total Saved! Thank you! I wanted to drop a
quick note about these people even though I didn't sign up with them. I did
however hang up and surf the net a bit and came across the thread on Jimworld
and then to your site as well. I just read your site
and was wondering if you found a good company for promoting your web site? I was
contacted by traffic-power, but wanted to do some research before handing out
$3000.00. All the referrals they provided me, gave a great review of the
company, but after reading your site I will decline the offer from
traffic-power. We are currently having issues with TP as well. Have you had any luck with a refund? Also, have you filed a complaint with the BBB? We plan on seeking a refund so any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Good job with the site. Between the two of us plus Name Removed and Name Removed, I bet we've stopped at least $100,000 of business from going TP's way. My (company) was going
to use them - they had called us many times. I guess I would have forked out $4000 like my buddy who is now banned from Google. I had talked to TP about three times - they called me. We were interested because my buddy which is (Company Name) was bringing us tons of work after using TP. Now he will be struggling. He had over 400 attraction pages. I found through the page you sent me that one of the affected businesses is (Company Name). This is a public company with over 5000 employees. I sent them the following email. I suggest you do the same. They have some clout and may be able to put pressure on these guys. I just paid traffic power $2000 in last of March. So far I haven't been removed from GOOGLE. I'm debating what I should do next. Tell them to stop doing what they are doing and pull down their URL's which refer people to me? I'll tell you, this
has been the week from h*%#! I am trying to join the class action lawsuit. My site SiteWitheld.com was recently banned from google because of trafficpower.com... I called them and complained.. and they said "You are not banned by google.. they are actively re-inexing (globally as well).. they gave me ridiculous bull-shit email. I just wanted to inform you that I'm a former Traffic-Power employee and I too have complaints... I used to work for traffic power. I can give you all the information you need to put the company away. I know all the secrets. If you need help I can help. I'm the latest victim. site removed.com had thousands of links on Google. We signed up with TP a month ago and last week, we went down. We've never been kicked out of Google. I want to be part of any class action lawsuit. I'm not happy that
there are so many people out there that have been screwed by TP, but I'm a
little comforted that I'm not alone and there are actually people out there
taking up the fight. Hello, Unfortunately I didn't know about your site before i signed up with this company Traffic Power. My website NameRemoved.com just got banned from Google, coincidentally 2 weeks after my campaign with traffic power officially started. Anyway, I basically got screwed by them and since that date my hits have gone down over 20% and you can only imagine what it has done to my sales. I would love to be a part of a class action lawsuit if there is one, i would like some details. thanks alot! We are a current customer of Traffic power and yes, we have been blacklisted! It didnt take long either. I sure wish I had recorded our phone conversations becasue I asked about some of their practices and was assured that they were all legitimate... Your site rocks, please let me know what else I can do to help you! I have information, Inside information on traffic power and would like to share it with you. Like Employee cell numbers including the so called owner Matt as well as others and there new forms and programs that they use. Let me know if you are interested I have and can get inside information I don't like the company and they lie and cheat their customers which I have proof of. Count us in. I'm glad someone forwarded me information this morning about Traffic-Power and the wipe out Google put on them, as well as the class action lawsuit. I actually recommended these idiots to a few clients, but luckily none of them bought into it. Whew! I would have looked like a major a-hole if they did! I know one of the sales people on a friendly basis. Unfortunately I don't even think he realizes that the product he is trying to sell is a sham. I hope I can set him straight, because he's a really good guy just trying to make a living. However, no one has the right to make a living by stealing customers money with a business based on practices that have knowingly been banned and targeted by the major search engines. I will be speaking against Traffic Power, regularly in the local business community of Las Vegas. I got off the phone
with them, and I had argued about SEOing sites, and I thought their "attraction
pages" with "mouseover" was total bulls!!!. I did some more research. They
said JimWorld were liars out to get them, and JimWorld was just trying to make
money by stealing clients. I came across your site, and now I'm convinced.
They are very, very evil. We just signed up with TP last month - and, dammit, I should have trusted my gut instinct with this one. But our company needed a shot in the arm with our web presence, and I thought TP could help us. Apparently that was not the case. I have since pulled all the code from our site and put it back into a "before TP" state (I have saved the original TP files on my computer, and changed our FTP password), disputed the charges on our credit card, and documented as many things as I can regarding them and our relationship with them. So far I think our site is fine with Google, but I just hope it's not too late as they have cached pages of the TP stuff. I have just recently purchased Traffic-Power services (10 days ago)... after reading the information on your site... I'm wondering what my next step should be. If I do a charge back... what should my reason be since enough time has not lapsed to say they didn't provide the services. I would appreciate any advice you can give me as I'm scared to death that I made a very bad decision to the tune of $xxxx.00. I have fallen victim to Traffic Power.com. I am out over $6000 and my business revenue has dropped to almost 0. I am hurting from this and would like to join the class action lawsuit. Please let me know if you company is handling this. We have received several phone calls from Traffic-Power.com and their very aggressive sales people are pushing us to spend $5,000 on their service. My due diligence search has led me to your web link. Are they to be trusted or should I "cut-and-run" before finding myself out a bunch of money without any return on it. I am sure you know
that google dropped all sites that are using traffic power. I will tell you as I
am sure that you know... I'm writing to congratulate you on your site. It's great that you're trying to help out other people who are getting scammed. Which brings me to my next subject. I'm in the middle of a one year program with Traffic Power and the first few months it did work pretty well. Last two months or so the results seem to be falling off a little bit, but the biggest concern I have is having my company's website blacklisted because of what these freaks are doing with their illegitimate techniques which they specifically told me that they do NOT do, because that's what "OTHER" SEO companies do (figures.....). Anyway, I wanted to contact you to see what information you have on this class-action lawsuit which seems to be forming and how I can get involved, and also if you have any other tips for how I can prevent anything bad from happening to my website or my company because of Traffic Power. Look forward to your reply. ..Traffic Power is using deceptive business practices. I have been dropped from Google and can show the loss in sales. I came upon this subject in the Webpro.com newsletter and was very interested. Last June I launched a website to promote my business that I had started a couple of years before. Soon after, I was called by someone from traffic power that gave me all the hype about getting top rankings on all the major search engines, especially Google. After several calls from the same guy ( which was beginning to seem like borderline harassment ), I said "OK, so what's the bottom line?" He told me $4000.00 payable up front. I told him I could not afford that much. Maybe some type of payment plan if your service is so great. He said it had to be paid in full before any service was rendered. At that point I Told him I was not interested, To which he replied (this is not a direct quote, but it's pretty darn close) " I'm sorry that have decided not to use our service and you will probably be sorry too." Kinda sounds like a threat to me. My name is Name
Witheld and I own an on-line company called NameRemoved.com. I used traffic
power. Everything you said is true. I'm a victim of them. When I questioned some
of the things they were doing I was told that they were doing nothing against
Google fair use policies and that they were in good standing with them. I never
received top ten placement. When I questioned why, they said my search terms
were too general and popular and that if I kept them it might take many more
months to get good placement. I said I didn't need them to get good placement on
obscure search terms that nobody used, I hired them to get good placement on the
terms my competition and everybody else was using to find candy sites. They said
they would redo the site and make it better. Nothing happened. I should have
known better, I screwed myself. I got banned and will probably shut down my
site. It's just too much work to rebuild what I've lost. I run a medium size company that receives all of its sale leads from the internet. I fell for 5000 dollars to these scam artists and now been booted from Google like everyone else. Of course I will also have to pay all of the labor costs associated with fixing the problems to get re-indexed with Google. This problem is already causing serious loss of revenue. Please contact me as soon as possible with any information you can so I can join the lawsuit. I WORKED for traffic
power about 2 years ago. In that endeavor, I sat at a rickety old desk making
$10 an hour. I never understood for the first week or so, why I continuously got
clients downright angry and upset by what I was giving them. The end all be all
was that the salesmen were just selling (on a commission basis) this service to
sites that were technically not even placeable websites with the search
engines. They were either 1) 100% flash sites or 2) Had poor layout with tones
of Java or sliced Photoshop images. Because of that, I was the one doing the
analysis in hopes to help them. No one told them that when they got on with
Traffic-Power that they were going to have to redesign their site to get even
some "minor" results from the software used. I am a recent client
of Traffic-power. The first and only two sites they have worked on
NameRemoved.com and NameRemoved.com have recently been banned by Google. Since
this company assured me that they only use ethical practices to gain placement I
am prepared to help in this lawsuit by giving any information you need. Their telemarketers are downright rude as well, and would not stop calling me after I asked them not to! That was the tip-off for me - how could such a great service require such high-pressure-used-car salespersons? I am glad I didn't listen to them BUT keep up the good work on your site, there are plenty of small businesses like us that don't need to be screwed by these guys! Thanks for the info...I just closed my online store. It just pisses me off that people like traffic power get away with what they do. My store wasn't my main income, it was just very good side income and I don't have the time or the drive to rebuild anymore. I'm taking a long break. Good Luck and please notify me about the lawsuit. We enjoyed top 10
Google placement on 30 prime keyword phrases for about 3 months before being
removed from Google. Based on what I've read, we decided to remove any traces of
TP code from our website and re-applied to Google. It's a sad day for me since
the US$2700 I've paid to TP resulted in my site being blacklisted on the search
engine that typically generated 50% of our business. I joined on with Traffic Power and now my site is also banned from Google after paying them $2800 for the year. Please forward me any information you can regarding the class-action lawsuit. I would be very interested.
Your Emails Note: I'm going to stop adding emails to this page. For every email you see here, I have at least 5 more saying the same thing, enough emails for you to read all day, so I'll leave this page as is. Please add me
to your list. and let us know what's involved in shutting down Traffic Power.
Without going into a long story about our dealings with them, our experiences
are identical with the e-mails I've been reading on your site. 1-p.com almost took me until I found you guys. Add $3000 to your total and keep up the good work. I got screwed
by Traffic Power too. Valerie just called me threatening to "sell my web pages"
to my competition. I yelled "screw you" into the phone and hung up.' I'm a furious right now but calm. I just got off the phone with the traffic power representative that's looking over us and she admitted to the google banning Traffic Power and so forth...their customer service lied to me (3 employees) that you were a competitor, google never banned them, so forth. She is now claiming that traffic power how fulfilled their promises and that our accounts are expiring...that the lawsuit is a joke and there is no lawsuit...that we can't ever get our money back...I told them, "You haven't done a thing!!! Our hits remain steadily the same from last year, nothing has improved..." My father and I will tag team on the phone soon against her again...but we caught Traffic Power lying to me. We actually disputed the charges with Amex and got a refund. They have since threatened a law suit to get paid. We chose to ignore this law suit. About two years ago we were using Traffic Power for SEO and even tried their Mail Power program. We did not see any improvements in our ranks within any search engine. Not long after they complete their initial work on our site we were no longer listed with google.com. I contacted Google several times using different subjects until I finally figured out a way to receive an e-mail from an actual person. We emailed back an forth several times to find out why we were banned from Google. I guess I wore him down enough until he finally asked who was doing the SEO for our site. I replied and told him it was Traffic Power. He was careful not to use their name specifically, but said yes we had been banned because of unethical SEO practices. I then removed all content that Traffic Power created from our sites. I emailed the guy back at Google telling him that all Traffic Power code and pages were removed from our server and with this they placed our sites back into their listings. The bad news is that we had at least top 100 positions with Google for almost every keyword we were interested in and every since this has happened we can not seem to get listed in any relevant keywords to our site other than our company or product names. We have top ten positions on MSN, Yahoo and several others, but are not even in the top several thousand in Google since this happened. Therefore we have had to use the Google AdWords advertising to receive any traffic from Google which costs us about $5000 per month. We since hired another SEO company who has given a sweet deal. We don't pay unless they get us listed in the top ten on Google. They have not been successful at all and are baffled trying to figure out why, but I think I already know that answer. I hope this helps get what we and other deserve from Traffic Power. By the way, can you believe that Mike Tracy with Traffic Power actually had the nerve to call about a month ago trying to get us to allow them to do additional SEO on our sites and more e-mail advertising which does not work? Good luck with your lawsuit, but we got our money back from them by just threatening to go to court. Traffic Power
basically got me kicked off of my main source of traffic - Google. I have been a client of 1P.com for four months and am very dissatisfied with their service. They have done very, very little in the way of getting good search engine position for me. They purchased two domain names for me and used 40 key words. To date I have minor rankings in 3-4 search engines. My website...is not in Google any longer. Feel free to pass this information to the attorneys or to contact me personally by phone if you feel that is necessary. I have complete
information I can fax to you regarding the credit card dispute with American
Express. I lost that dispute due to the fact that they had a phrase in their
contract that says "no refunds apply" I've received no hits from the "promotional" page they created for me. Complete rip off. I tried to fight it through Amex but the agreement they had me sign was the deal breaker. Prior to using TrafficPower, our websites were listed prominently on major
search engines including Google, Yahoo and MSN. We chose TP to help promote 40
targeted keywords relating to our product line, shortly We suffered about $30K in damages due to being banned from google. So it had
an effect on our sales. We did get a refund by our credit card company to our
card. But now traffic-power is threatening to sue us for the money they claim we
owe. I feel pretty good about the fact that I did a little research before signing
continuing on with 1P and didn't get suckered like some more veteran
businessmen. Your site certainly helped! About one year
ago, our company was contacted by traffic-power and after a "negotiation" which
went pretty much the way you describe on your website, we signed a contract with
them. I can't believe I didn't do my homework better. So I'm out $2500 and the portal site appears to be banned by google. It's getting about 4 visits a day! Let me know if there is a class action I can join in or other legal stuff. I'm considering small claims court. Do you know if google is taking any actions against 1p.com clients? You should take donations online for a legal fund. Seriously, a kick ass class action firm could really fix them good. Thanks for you efforts. I just contracted with them 2 weeks ago. I just found all this "STUFF" All BAD of course, about First Place, i.e. Traffic-Power. I don't think they have done anything yet which is damaging to my site, but I fear I will loose my $2401 which I put on my AMEX. I have emailed them telling them they are to stop all work, which at this point was the beginning of the key words to develop the "shadow page" or whatever it is. See I am not savvy in this business, that's why I thought they could help me. It appears they will do more damage than good. If I loose my website positioning, which is not good to begin with, it will destroy my business. Thanks for the warning site. Stopped me from burning $1,500+. Gotta believe you - you have better position than them on Google! Sometimes little guys can outrun the wolves. Just received a
phone call today from "Traffic Power" saying that our contract is "expiring" and
we need to renew. We informed them that we had asked in writing last August to
cancel our contract, so we would not be renewing with them. I read your
complaints about traffic power, and I had to email you to let you know that I am
currently mailing complaints to VISA for refund(s). You see, I didn't get
diddly squat from their SEO services (about $2,100 charged to my card), and then
they upsold me on banner advertising, and also Conversion Consulting. Wow you
must think I'm a sucker. But I was tracking web hits to my site, and still on
average of fifty visitors per day, I was not getting any business. No one was
clicking through my shopping cart and buying my product. In their consulting
contract, they did specify that if I followed their advice, I should realize
sales to exceed 10% of my gross revenue, and if that did not happen they would
give me a full refund. Our company was
taken by them for $3,000.00 and now that I am refusing to pay more since they
did not do what they said, they are threatening to send me to collections. We would like to join the class action law suit. We signed up with Traffic Power a year ago and not one thing has happened with our site, in fact, we have not heard from them since last May...when we try calling, all we get is the run around...and of course, no manager we can speak with. We have lost $4,000 to these people, we are a small company with just myself and my husband working, we have put our sweat and tears in to this website only to not have it go anywhere in over a year. Since November of 2003 I have trusted in traffic power to increase my websites traffic as they promised. Finally after 8 months of continued promises and no results I demanded our companies money back. After 2 months of this, and nothing but empty promises for a refund, I decided to give them a second chance. This time I was in direct contact with a supervisor named Violet who assured me huge results within 6-8 weeks. I even brought this website, and many others like it, to her attention. She said that it was because of a mistake on some clients part that was many years ago and everything was now better. Even though I didn't believe her I decided to give it another shot. Here I am 10 weeks later and still absolutely no increase in my website traffic and $1400.00 in the whole (with interest over 2 years I figure around $2,000). Please share my story with as many people as possible and rest assured my team of attorneys will be hammering at these crooks door! Thanks for spreading the information, i was also robbed $3500.00 dollars and i did not get anything from the work they did for me. I have done what looks like the stupidest internet advertisement ever. I gave traffic power 4 grand for this supposed great advertisement. They promised me that I could pick 20 words 10 of which they "PROMISED" "GUARANTEED" would be in the top 10 of ALL the search engines. I was new to the internet business and wanted a kick start and so I fell for it. Now here it is 7 months later and I have just a couple of my key words placed but they are like 4th maybe 5th page if that but 0 in the top 10. I have called them and heard all the excuses like the words are too general it takes time to get ranking, etc. And they even tried to get more money out of me to change my website to make it "more user friendly". But on the original agreement from the sales guy He said and I quote "It takes 90 days to get the spiders rolling" and the metatags and all that internet jargon. After that that is 3 month then the top 10 placements would begin. I have seen some of the emails from other disgusted people who got "conned" Screwed" whatever. I was wondering is there anyone maybe that would want to try to file a class action lawsuit against or is it even possible. I guess I should talk to an attorney. Thank you. Your page is
very helpful ! i have been reading your page for a while, I am still disputing
with AX regarding to traffic power charge, it was back last July. I am
determined to fight till the end. I have not paid them anything... though the
dispute has been turned back. I will keep sending them in. I hope this is
helpful, especially if there is a class action suit. Very good job
on getting that site up!! I'm so pleased
that I found your website. It's great to see that I'm not the only one pulling
my hair out about Traffic-Power/1P. My name is Shannon Port (you CAN post my name), I WAS a traffic-power.com employee. I know A LOT of the the tricks that were pulled and scams that they used and still use to pull one over on their clients. Mr. Matthew Marlon, the owner hires people to help him come up with these scams. Please contact me back. I think we may be a victim here in New Mexico. We have signed up many months ago and nothing from traffic power. No good placement. I really would like our money back. Problem with Traffic Power. (name Removed) paid 1265 for SEO and was caught in the Google problem in mid 2004. Under the new company they created a new website called www.siteRemoved.net. I have filed a claim with American Express and the Better business Bureau. I have had my attorney in Oregon send them a demand letter requesting a refund. I would do anything I can to get even with this company. If there is a class action lawsuit I would be glad to join. Hi - I've been trying to get a chargeback issued through Amex for the past 8 months... seems to be going nowhere. I had three websites "optimized" by TP and like everyone else was banned from Google until I removed the code etc. Thanks for pursuing this. Please count me
in if I can be included in the suit. I, like so many
others, was ripped off by traffic-power. They had a guy high pressure me into
paying 3000 to get my site listed “guaranteed” they actually re-directed MY
business To MY COMPETITIONS web site by making a mistake and listing re-direct
pages as .com when My site is a .us so all the sub standard work they did
actually directed everyone to a totally different web site. They had plagiarized
“ghost pages” that went to a competitors web site. (I think they were supposed
to link back into MY own site) Can you tell me what lawyer may be considering a class action law suit. I certainly would like to add my $3000 to it. I have been screwed over by Traffic Power. Traffic Power EVEN COST me loosing one of my vendors. I would like to be included in the class action suit. About a year
and a half ago I signed on with Traffic power with a salesman named Dave. I
went through the process, didn't see much results, and basically felt that they
were competent, but dropped the ball with me. (webmaster's note: This one is long, but worth reading) This is my
story, After signing
up with First Place in early November of 2004 (they used the "if you sign up
today and pay for the year you'll get $500 off"). Ok so it sounded like a
pretty sweet deal and I requested a rush to be put on so I could hopefully get
some placement by Christmas for my apparel site
www.site-removed.com. I became impatient with how long it took them to
conduct their "keyword analysis" and I threatened after Thanksgiving to cancel
my service and get a refund. Yes I got taken
too by First Place or 1P.com. The apparently operate under several names. Add me to the list of those who have been screwed by Traffic Power. Even after they said they would refund my money they have not. I have heard so many excuses it is pitiful. I am ready to sue. Thanks for taking the time and energy to build trafficpowersucks. Here's my situation with Traffic-Power.com. I sell heating products online. During the 2003-2004 heating season I did very well with TP promoting my web site. Last May I gave them another $1,500.00 to continue. Two weeks ago I called and spoke to a female at TP to ask why I am not getting nearly the hits I was getting a year ago. She asked me if I could prove that with printed reports from TP over the two year period. I could not. However, I went into my web site shopping cart yesterday and found that my sales are a whopping 52% lower compared to one year ago at this time and my web site hits were down 55%! Like most of your emailers, I got the sales pitch from 1P.com. The salesperson talked up a good story and showed me some online reports from recent client campaigns. I operate 30 sites of my own and have written a couple of books on internet marketing for niche audiences, so I keep up with new tactics for getting traffic. I had never heard of the technique 1P claims is so successful. I was seriously considering giving them a try. But I couldn't find any testimonials or endorsements anywhere on their site. There was no clue as to who these people were or what their past clients said of them. Fortunately, I googled 1P / Traffic Power and found your site. You just saved me $5,000 and I hope you get a place in Heaven for your good work. I'm sorry you lost money, but maybe something good will eventually come from the experience. Thanks for
sticking up for us all! I have called my contact at FTC. He asked for copies of all my documentation-and I have it ALL! Am putting it in chronological order to fax to him this afternoon. Am also contacting some other Shop.org members who were used as references by TP. My contact at the FTC has already used info I supplied on other scams to successfully prosecute two phone scams. You're right-BBB is really ineffective. Hopefully we can get somewhere this way. I just found
your site. When I tell my boss about getting suckered, I may lose my job since
I was the one who said we should try it. ...and thanks for saving me $5,500. I was approached by 1P yesterday. Sounded too good to be true. I have a copy of the new website that Traffic Power made for me recently . When I saw what they were doing I told them to take it down off Google. I still think their new system is against Google guidelines. You can have my new website as proof if you want to study their new shenanigans. Just got a
phone call from Steven Kowalski and Peter W. over at 1p.com trying to solicit
their services to me and my company. They were very high pressure and wanted me
to supply a credit card immediately for a 20% discount off their $5000 yearly
fee. It cost me two grand for web placement only to find out I have zero placement with the largest search engine on the planet. Its all or nothing baby. Not only are there sales people rude and offensive but they are a fountain of miss information. When I asked why I had poor placement his reply was I need to spend another two grand and get into there "email" program which sends out advertising emails to millions of people. I will not be part of spam email period!! I would be more than happy to supply you with any info needed to de-rail traffic power. Also, to date, they won't talk to me or reply to email. I was taken for $3400 and am very pissed off. Please add me to the law suit. We are a client of Traffic Power and have been a victim of their fraud. We were pressured into signing with them and pressured even more when they felt we should spend more money with them to help our website become better. They were very nasty and insulting to us when we did not want to spend more money. They told us, "we might as well shut down our website," if we didn't follow what they wanted us to do. We spent a lot of money with them, and they did not do as they promised. We lost valuable time, money, customers, and data from them. Please tell us how we can become part of the class action suit. I was contacted today by 1p.com, and solicited for over an hour by a guy
named Ron from Hawaii... He sold me on their idea, and had faxed me a contract
for 4K for a year. I started getting cold feet right away, and thought that I
should do some research before I plunged ahead. After searching for their domain
info, and seeing that all their info was hidden, I progressed further. I
searched businesses in Nevada under that name, and found the link to
TrafficPower.com. When I agreed to pay $1500, I dropped all my other efforts to get found on the internet. Suddenly, nothing was happening. I found out that Traffic Power said they were waiting for my OK which I had given them months previously. That period of time was very bad but the time following that was not much better. Paying someone here in Hawaii a much lesser amount of money was giving me much higher traffic. Again, after they said they were working for me, nothing. I have a site that records how many hits I get because of their efforts. It is next to nothing. Can I join your efforts and get to try to get compensated? We are currently disputing a charge with them because they are such a scam. Amex originally denied it but this should clinch the deal.. I am sure we will get our money back now. Thank you so much for doing this. We did 2 sites for $1500 each and I know someone else who did one.. for $2000. What a drag.. they actually slowed my business. I just got off the phone with the sales rep, Marc Bausch and he said they have been carrying our website placement and unless I renewed with them, they would kill our placement on the engines. Was like I was dealing with some extortion tactic. Very hi pressure guy who said all we have to do is "flip the switch" and (implied) your business is over... Unbelievable scare tactics used.. I asked him to put everything in writing - which he declined. We were a previous client of Traffic Power which we had dropped over a year ago, and was just contacted by a rep claiming that unless we renewed with them they would sabotage our positioning on the search engines. How about that for business ethics.. Any advice? Yes, I too have been scammed out of $2000 by "Traffic-powerscam". I am red hot hopping mad. They are liars and thieves and need to be in jail. Thanks for the site warning people about them. I sent an official complaint to the BBB of Nevada. Thanks for that link too. We got F-ed by Traffic-Power also. A little over a year ago we had one of their sales people (Bill Hines) calling us relentlessly. Finally we decided after we had spoke to some other companies that had used them (They hadn't got screwed yet) that we would go forth to try to ease our costs from the pay per clicks. You know the rest. We will be willing to be a part of a class action law suit. I know the way they have their contracts made up it may hinder the thought, but I believe they were misleading to say the least. I think a good attorney would tear them up. I could be wrong- It sounds like you have more knowledge about this situation. Please inform me if you have time. I wish we could all sue the crap out of this M-F'er that is filthy rich because of a result of being a con-man. I sure he's laughing about it. I had my client sign up with them a year and a half ago they quit using them for six months then they resigned up 2 weeks ago. Lucky thing I found your site and got them to do a charge back and that saved them 2 grand per site, a total of 4 grand!! Hi! I was looking at your site. I was a Traffic Power Customer and signed up back in September 2001. I spent $1900 with TP and I really never saw any increase in traffic to my site. Every time I called I always got excuses. After I was to have a campaign in place and had waiting the two months for the results, I was told by another person at TP that the keywords I had supplied were too generic. Why didn't I get told that initially when I submitted them months earlier? I had even talked with Rich Splain one of the owners of TP who refused to help me get the service promised. I feel I was ripped off and deserve a refund like everyone else who was cheated by TP. I would like to be included in any correspondence regarding TP and help with the Law Suit against the company. Please keep me informed of any progress and any information I can supply to help, please let me know. I am in Arizona and ready and willing to participate in a class action. Thanks and wish I would of found you sooner! Thank you for providing what I do not have the time or inclination to do. I am indeed another victim, and they are a worthless organization that should be shut down. Are they long for the business world? I wish I had found your site before we got caught in this. Same thing. Very friendly, high pressure salesman. Talked us in to this. Then they built a godawful looking site, plagiarizing not only out site, but who knows what others. How do we extract ourselves without ruining our reputation? I am interested in being part of a class action against Traffic-Power. They did not perform to their obligation. I own the below sites and have been ripped off by Traffic Power. Do you know if some one has ever just cancelled their credit card payment with them to get their money back ? Also do you know how to get rid of their spam pages that got me banned in the first place. Also count me in on the law suit I am from SC. I lost $50,000 in Revenue last year because of them. The Las Vegas rip off artists cheated me fair and square. I got shunted to some Russian speaking outsourcer who didn't have a clue as to English words that were related to my site's content. I'll be glad to try to do something, but I just look at it as being ripped off. I am a fellow Traffic Power Victim. Luckily I never let them actually touch
my website - just create a SEE page that pulled stuff from my site.... I did
actually get their guarantee in writing because I contacted them 3 months ago
wondering what the hell ever happened to them. They got to me for $6,000.00 plus $4000.00 for their consulting service... Count me in. I have been ripped off. This service has not worked at all. I have been a member since last February and have gotten one order. Then a man named Mark Bausch called and told me he could increase my business by 10%. I was so leary but he made a guarentee that he would return my money by Christmas if that didn't happen. Now they are saying that the contract period is a year. So I was lied to. What kind of recourse do we have. I have paid them $5900 for nothing. Our company is in the middle of being bilked for $5,000 from TrafficPower. Only in America! I'm from Canada...and guess what their 1866 number does not work here. I was told that I would be paying $300/month for the first six months...But instead they charged me $1500 on my credit card. And what they have done is taken Webpage Optimized site.., which I've spent money and lots of time on, and they just ripped it off and put it on their bogus spam site online-creditcard-application.net site. Can you say PLAGIARISM? What A rip-off!!! A rip off from the money they stole from me and a rip off of my website!!! Anybody who gets a call from TrafficPower or 1P.com... JUST SAY NO!! They will rip you off!!! It's a wonderful afternoon thanks to
you and your efforts. Traffic Power has been after our company's marketing
department for 2 months. With time demands being what they are, not a lot of
research had been done on this company. With the high pressure tactics they
use, marketing was on the verge of giving them a try. In fact, the money was to
change hands in two days - $4,000. Add me to your lawsuit updates - I tried contesting my card with American Express, but I lost because I signed a document saying they give no refunds. I'm out $2000. Traffic-Power promised me higher
rankings by using their service. This service was offered to me in May of
2004. By the end of June of 2004, we had been completely deleted from the
Google search engine. At or around June 25th, I contacted Bruce Barnwell and
told him the issue. He told me that it was just a "glitch" and we would be up
within a couple of days. I gave him a week and we were still down. I contacted
him again at or around June 29th and told him of the problem. Again he told me
it would be over the weekend. I verbally gave him until July 5th to have my web
site back up on Google or we would be contesting our credit card. Daryl Novak called my husband today
after I had written two emails and my husband left two messages. He told us that
two men are the ones that has caused all of their grief. They apparently had
shadow pages associated with their websites, and TP didn't know it and thus they
got shut down by google. Anyway, we told him we still want our refund. So far
we haven't heard back. He said he wanted equal time to show us that they are not
the bad guys, my husband said fine, but in the meantime we need all of our money
refunded. I came upon your website last night.
First Place contacted me and on this past Friday, I was suckered in. We didn't
have a clue they use to be traffic power. :-( So they charged me
$6,001.00 for two websites. Thanks for the site. We have been scammed by Traffic Power. We also, JUST want our money back... They keep saying stupid things like their bank wont give us the money, etc... Is there a good attorney in Nevada that wants to take on this case that you know of? We would be willing to give him half of the settlement. Other than that, what steps do you recommend we take? They have admitted fault in their emails, and have even told us that we WILL get our money back, its just a matter of when. Any ideas would be helpful. Thanks Same story you've heard countless
times. I gave TrafficPower $3000. The only result from my investment was being
delisted from Google. We had decent showings on Google prior to this - now we
have none to speak of. ...I was appearing in Yahoo, in the top ten, I meant with my site, and my efforts. With their new doorway pages, I appear at like #88.. non-existent. these guys are over the top. we are about to retain an attorney, got anything in California? They have now hijacked our site, info, logo without permission. Bewarned! I am also a Traffic Power victim. Luckily I had no ranking to lose, and I am not yet banned, but they have locked me into a contract which they have no intention of fulfilling. Sure, I can break it, but then I am out the 3K with nothing to show for it. I can't believe I lost $4.500 and my online business on the same day! Traffic Power and salesman Ron and James should be thrown in jail. Please include me in the class action suit. And please give me updates. God Bless all of you who got ripped off. I want to be in on the complaint list. I have been around and around with the company for refunding my money. I have been banned and not to mention the doorway is hugely as sin. Let me know if I write out my complaint to you or someone else. Your URL says it all. I was duped by trafficpower. They told me that there mouse-over-redirect garbage was search engine friendly. Is there anything we can do to get our money from this fraudulent company? I left the company (Traffic Power) several months ago when it became clear that they were about to initiate a new and very dangerous coding technique that would generate good placement (short term) that could then be resold - in its entireity - to a new client while causing severe damage to the "previous owner" of the coded pages. (I can be more technical if you care to respond and/or call me.) Add another $5k to your "Ometer" for
not doing business with traffic power! We checked them out first. Thanks for
your site and information. They even show off their "great" bbb record under
"First Place".... See I have a small business..,.. I have spoken to them (Traffic Power) about optimizing my website. After reading information on your site, I think I will not use them after all... I offer my thanks to you for posting the information (probably saved me some money and embarrassment) but I need to find out how to optimize my website so it is easier to find using search engines. Do you have any suggestions? I'm willing to do the work myself but I need knowledge and information. Joe Chavez from 1p.com is going to call me on Tue. When I asked him if he used to be trafficpower he said "NO". Should I confront him on this, or should I just ignore His phone calls? Could being nasty to him "backfire"? He wasted about 1 hour of my time. Your site has confirmed my doubts
about Traffic Power (I guess they are going by 1P now days). I received a call
from them the other day. They were very high pressure, offering this and that
with discounts if I signed up immediately. I let them ramble on for a bit...
because I'm the type of passive person who has a hard time hanging up on
people. After about 10 minutes I got off of the phone with them. The next day
the sales person calls again. I was very busy at work, so I just said "thanks,
but not interested" and hung up. The next day she calls again! I did the
same. The next day she calls again! I am sick about traffic-power. They promised to return my money but I have not seen it. Any advice ? We were with Traffic Power for 2 years and they WERE effective......sorry that it was through methods not recognized as legal by the search engines. I guess the gains on the front end were pretty much lost by being banned. I am a victim of Traffic-Power. The sales rep GUARANTEED me a 6 - 7% return after the first month. Well, after the first month, I email this person to ask why was I not seeing the 6 - 7% return? Not only have I not seen a 6 - 7% return, I have seen Zero percent return. My email was not answered. I had over 2000 hits to my site and not ONE sale? How can that be? So I did a little checking and that's how I ran across you. I am out $1500.00. I am just now starting to get my credit card company involved. I really don't have much hope. I am really PO'd about this as you and many others have indicated. Any advice on how to recover my loss? Hello. My company used Traffic Power and because of that was banned by Google and Yahoo. After we understood the problem and too the direction that the SEO people gave through Google, we got our URL turned on by Google with in about 3 weeks.........But that was months ago and YAHOO has still not re-activated our URL and this is costing us lots of money. We are a little company who needs some help with this. I am a law student and have been a
victim of traffic power as well. I am glad to have found your site. An
interesting thing is that I have had many people call my company asking me how
the service of traffic power was. Apparently, TP was using our company as an
example because certain keywords (which were optimized by another company) were
being shown as examples of tp's work! Count me in as having saved $5000
thanks to your site. These guys at trafficpower/ 1p very persistent. BTW, I
heard their pitch in September and when I asked them last month why *their* site
does not show up in top 10 under google, they said those sites which do show up
are their partners/re-sellers (hush hush) and traffic power provides the OEM
technology to their partners..some such bullshit answer. I'm presently working on getting my money back from Traffic Power. In the event I don't, I'd love to be a part of your class-action suit. They mislead me from the beginning. I get a stomach ache thinking about it. If you have any further questions or updates down the road, I'd love to hear them. Thanks for putting up your website. It stopped me from doing something that might not have been in my best interests. Thanks for the info and thanks for your website, based on the comments, it looks like your website has saved some companies from having the problems we have had with trafficpower.com, 1p.com, internetadvertising.com or whatever they call themselves today. They should of given you your money back, it looks like you cost them a lot more than $4000. By the way I have been in business 13 years and never refused a customer a refund.... I just found your web site today. I've been contacted by TP a number of times, but I refuse to do business with the company. Not only due to their spamming of SE's but also their aggressive, rude, impolite sales force. Like many of your readers, I was suckered into trafficpower.com and promised higher listings on the top websites. Needless to say I only received about 100 hits and canceled any future business with them. Today however I received a notice from Internetadvertising.com stating they just put up a portal page. I never heard of them so I called and found out they are really trafficpower.com. Is there any way to block their link to my website? Hi, I am practically out of business thanks to my friends at traffic power. My webmaster just removed their files off my server. What can I do to try and get relisted more quickly? I was duped as well. I have been banned from Yahoo and Google. I'm in the process of getting my site re-listed. I would be happy to join in the lawsuit. The good news is we didn't let them
put any code on our site, so that makes me feel better about the banned part.
They still haven't called me back to discuss my concerns about no traffic from
them (I saw your site after I called them). They are probably creating fake
reports to give me right? I'm not even sure its worth following up with them
since it seems I'll never get my money back. I signed up with Traffic Power last winter. They have really screwed me over. Got dropped from Google of course. Now they have created new web pages on their server...(guess they are 'advertising pages' ) that link to my site. I think this will get me even more banned (if that is possible) What can I do to these guys???? I'm in charge of a site called
site removed.com. We were getting very little traffic via Traffic Power's portal
pages since I signed up in . About three months ago they "upgraded" all of their
promotion pages. They said it would take about 6 weeks and that they would
credit my account for 2 more months. That was over two months ago and still no
traffic (I have good analytics that tell me where people come from). Anyway, I
just called them today to discuss what the hell is going on. They were supposed
to get back to me in 20 minutes and I still haven't heard back. I read your site but looks like I got there a bit too late. Let me tell what happened. First off I was promised results after about 1 month by a sales rep. Then they changed that to 3 months. As of last week my login an pass do not work to see my stats. Kind of weird that it happen one day after I threatened legal action. It has been well over 3 months since they emailed me that my campaign has began. Moreover some tech emailed me saying they took over TrafficPower?? Well I would love to sue these bastards and maybe get together with some other companies and file a class action suit. I was lucky to only pay 1500$ for half a year. Any suggestions? We were eating lunch at the country
club the other day and I was talking to someone about our new web advertising
campaign when someone from the next table heard me mention "Traffic Power". She
broke in and told me her horror story about TP and told me to check out
trafficpowersucks.com. I hired traffic power. Business was doing good until the Google thing went down. My business dropped almost to no sales. I read through your site and found it all to familiar. I spent $1,400.00 to start up, and after a few months they were calling asking for $3,000.00 to make it better. Thank God I told them no. This happened about 3 months or so ago. As of yet, I still have not recovered. Business is dead. How can I get involved in the class action suit? We would like to be included in any lawsuits against Traffic Power. Not only did we loose over $6000, but even after canceling our contract, I cannot get rid of them. They refuse to remove their shadow url's that are linked to our website. They have stolen our keywords and are threatening to go to our competition with the information. In the mean time, all of the shadow url's are full of my information and linked to my website. This has become a complete nightmare. I have been a victim of traffic powers trickery and would like to know if there is anything I can do to get my $1200 back. I had several phone calls from these guys offering a rate of $4000.00 for a year. I am SOO glad i found your site, now .. only to find a company i can trust! Count me in on a lawsuit against Traffic Power. They got $400 from me and got me banned from Google for three months. They refunded $2000 to me for a bogus conversion consulting report that a 5 year old could have written. Unfortunately, the actual salesman that worked with me is a very nice man. I have told him that the company he works for is horrible.. They have created a worthless page for me now with its own domain. I'm just watching, but I would never give them another penny. Your site has lots of info about how
poor Traffic-Power is. We've been a victim, what can we do? I can't even begin to detail the
hassles I've had with Traffic Power. Today was the icing on the cake. After
untold hassles with Traffic Power's miserable list of suggested keyword, today
my set up technician informed me that my advertising pages were ready and gave
me the URL, then signed off his responsibility to my account before I even had a
chance to see or approve it. It is riddled with pornographic and irrelevant
global keywords. It is offensive and insulting, not only to me but my customers
and target market. My site is decidedly NOT an adult or porn site. On the
contrary; it is a religious supply store. I can't even get them to disable the
links to my real site. My requests to speak to a supervisor are ignored, and
the only person who is "allowed" to speak to me at Traffic Power, has told me
that there is nothing he can do. I got burned for 2,000.00. The following is from an email from
traffic-power to us dated today. Are you or anyone else you know interested in
the fact that the following is a threat to extort money from us or they will use
all of our confidential information they had access when promoting our site, and
sell it to the highest bidder? I was considering doing business with
1p.com (formerly traffic power). I had a nagging feeling that something wasn't
adding up with their presentation, so I decided to do a little research and
ended up on your site. Just wanted to update you...Traffic
Power has changed its name AGAIN!!! I have recently submitted a charge
reversal to American Express (the card we had used to pay TP, the first $1500),
and although AmEx denied it and felt the charge was valid after I submitted my
case, we cancelled our "agreement" with TP and "saved" the additional $1500 that
would have been due if we would have continued our agreement with them. So, in
effect, you could add that $1500 to your money saved page on your website. Just wanted to let you know if anyone contacts you that you can get your money back from Traffic-Power even though they say no refunds. I disputed the charge on my credit card because I was still in contract with them until November of this year. I was able to show the contract and other supporting documentation that they did not do what they said they were going to do on the contract. I am about ready to have a f___!
Break down. I new that after the run around that something was wrong. I gave
them 2K for the freaking promises and still nothing. I insisted that I meet
with them in person The BBB of Nevada stated that they would include my complaint against Traffic Power and try to keep them from taking more money from me and try to get a refund for me. We will see what the BBB is able to do. Also, I closed my American Express. A clerk at American Express told me that the charge would still go through even if I closed my account, but I don't see this happening. How can something be charged when the account is closed? I will be looking on your website for details. Before I was going to stay with Traffic Power with the thought that if I was going to loose $3,000.00 I might as well let them do their new thing. However, with all the evidence you have on your website of others in the same boat as myself, I gained courage and sent all this documentation to American Express to try to get out of payment to Traffic Power of the first payment. I also just sent a threatening letter to Traffic Power warning them that on October 15 they had better not try to put the other part of $1,500.00 on my credit card, that I would get lawyers involved. ...they got me for 750- but I smelled a rip off before the remainder of the money was due , ( 2250) well thanks and keep my name on any pending lawsuits Like you, they lied to me and took the money and ruined the rankings that I had achieved on my own. I have so far, not been able to get back the rankings I once had. Unfortunately, our company was conned by Traffic Power. We invested $1500 of $3000 to have them help us with search engine placement - we just didn't have the time to do it ourselves. 2 months into our campaign, we were declining in traffic and Googling TrafficPower was interesting - they weren't even listed, the 1st page listed was your site - trafficpowersucks.com. Well, I became concerned - especially being the Marketing Manager responsible for choosing them. We stopped our agreement, removed their 'See' pages (which is why Google booted us) and thankfully saved $1500. Good news, we're still #1 on every other search engine.Bad news, we're nowhere to be found on Google, which is the lifeblood of our organization. If anyone sues TrafficPower for lost business, count us in! I'd like to remain anonymous at this time - thanks for your site, it will help others not make the same mistake we did. Sincerely,Traffic-Power Does Suck (BIG TIME)! I'd love to know about any class
action taking place, or any more news about what I can do. I have already emailed you in the past about my experience with Traffic Power. I want to make sure that I am aware of the class action lawsuit because I want to be involved. Let me know by email in case I get busy and am not checking your website like I should. I was off Google for 2 months and spent a tremendous amount of time and effort to get back on Google It was a nightmarish experience. I might be able to not have to pay my American Express the first $1,500.00 because of all the documentation I got off of your site. That helps build a case when you are trying to get out of Traffic Power's no refund policy. Thank you for your efforts. I know how much time and effort you had to go through but maybe this class action lawsuit will help all of us. I am one of the businesses that the
above group has ripped off. It is nice to know that I am right about the lack
of performance they can get away with. You can add my $4000. to the pot! Paid up front by check. After 4 months my site disappeared off google. We now have removed all Traffic-Power content from our ftp site. I got suckered by these guys and while I never finished paying them, they still got roughly 900 bucks. I would like that back as their results never generated any traffic for me, though they did manage to get one or two obscure keywords into the top ten. Even though I ignored all calls from them to pay up they still sent me some site upgrades a while ago so it seems the left hand may not know what the right hand is doing.. I can't afford to lose that much money.. basically I am in the hole making monthly payments to a credit card because of them and their promises. I would love to sue them but I have no idea how without it costing me more money I don't have. Hello, I am interested in filing a class action suit against traffic-power, as I got my father's site involved and now we are banned from google. Please contact me. (From another SEO) We get calls
weekly from people complaining they got scammed by Traffic Power and their site
is banned. I just found out yesterday that I've been had too. I paid traffic power $3000 and have seen hardly any results. They were able to get one keyword (my least desired) ranked fairly high for a limited period and that is all. All their promises have fallen short. I heard about this today.. been on T-P for 8 months. Am cancelling today, have removed their pages and links. Was costing me $3,000/yr, so I guess that brings your total up. Thank you for the site. Traffic Power just about ruined our internet business. I would like to know if there is any class action lawsuit going against them. Since I am still off Google after two
months, www.preferred-seating.com
I am convinced that I was banned off Google because of Traffic Powers
techniques. I am tying to get my money back by disputing the charge on my
credit card. In the meantime, I would like to join any lawsuit going on against
Traffic Power I am furious at the loss of buisness we are experiencing because
of loosing our ranking on Google. Not to mention the time and energy I have had
to expend to read up about the problems Traffic Power has created for its
customers, reeducating myself about the do and don'ts of website optimization,
emailing back and forth to Traffic Power, waiting for the new promises of a new
"promotional page" the emotional anguish of realizing what being off Google
meant to our small struggling, new buiness and also having to create another
website, (which has been accepted onto Google) and the time it will take for
this website to climb up through Google. A prominent architect called and told
us that our name and website used to be everywhere on the internet and now he
could barely find us, what happened? Hello unnamed Traffic-Power
opposition leader! We, too have been victimized by this company. Our domain site removed.com has been banned from google. Of course they offer no recourse other than the idiotic proposal of hosting some funky redirect pages. Please keep me informed of any class action law suits in the Phoenix area. Thanks for the info I was almost ready to go with there company the only thing that held me back besides this was the salespeople when I said I was unsure about doing there deal they gave me an attitude this was from 2 different people the 3rd salesman was pretty nice an almost had me convinced. also I was weary about the placement of there own site like you stated again thanks for the info it was very helpful and probably saved me at least $2000. ...we have an E-commerce site that
was doing pretty good before traffic power on rankings. traffic power came at
the suggestion of one of the employees of our E-commerce branch, and
unfortunately, hit me at the precise time that i was looking for an SEO firm as
my workload was increasing 10 fold outside of the site, and needed someone to
run things. I unfortunately turned it over to them. a little background...
before traffic power, our site was doing roughly 125 - 150k per month in
business... had 9 full time employees, and a shipping dept. when TP came on
board, our sales went up a little, but after 3 months, we were banned from
EVERYWHERE... not just google. yahoo... msn.. aol... AltaVista... all of the
major search engines. our sales went immediately from 160k to less than 1k. 1
thousand in sales per month doesn't pay 1 persons salary.. much less the 15 that
were currently working. If there is a class-action lawsuit, please include us. We have been a scammed just like many. However, since there has been a lot of evidence to prove a scam, my credit card company did refund my card. I'm sorry you hold such a grudge but I have nothing bad to say about them, they generate my business 25,000 a month. sorry. You have saved us. TP called today
and email me a bunch of info. Thanks for your help. Our matter with the BBB was reopened
with our response as of today. Our complaint took 2-3 weeks to get a response. Sounds like everyone that signed up with Traffic Power got screwed! I can unfortunately be included in this elite company. Same story..no work, lost revenue and dropped from Google. They wanted to charge my client $2500
and the salesman FREAKED when I told him I was going to do due diligence on his
co. He told me the offer was only good for 2 more hours....(I was on the road
driving) They suck, I agree with you 200%. We just about signed up for their SEO
re-seller program with a 40% commission - too good to be true? Well, we found
you. I am one of the former Traffic Power clients; we have been badly burned by them and have lost about 70% of our incoming leads from being de-listed by Google. I just got off the phone with
TrafficPower. After consistently calling me everyday, two to three times a day
for almost 6 months, they hung up on me. I mentioned the BBB, banned on Google,
plagiarism, and money back guarantees- They hung upon me as I am speaking. TrafficPower was scheduled to call me
back in one hour to help me promote my website. In that hour time frame, I came
across your website. I checked the BBB report before and was not planning on
checking again. They did have a satisfactory report. As of August, they have
20 complaints. Nice. I haven't laughed so hard in
weeks. I am a current Traffic-Power customer, and I have a feeling I've been taken for a ride. We are a small business, so when we were offered a low price SEO we jumped. Unfortunately I did not do my homework first. Their tech support is almost non existent. We have lost almost all of our traffic, and are now worse off than when we started with them. Our company signed up for a year and we still have six months left on the deal. Losing the money hurts, but losing the traffic hurts even more. I am in the process of finding a new SEO company (a few have already contacted me) and I would definitely recommend anyone and everyone away from Traffic-Power. In my opinion their company practices are borderline illegal, and if not they are at least a poor service company. We were also screwed for $2000, and are now banned from Google. Thanks for you site. I was contacted by Traffic-power about 2 months ago, and within a couple of weeks after they worked on my site, my site was completely banned from Google and my sales dropped to 1/2 as a result. I took off all their work and contacted Google and have since been put back up on Google. However, I paid $3000 to Traffic power and I have tried to contact them about 10 times and have received zero response. Luckily my credit card company says they will get my credit card refunded, but it hasn't gone through yet, so I'm still out $3000, plus about 3 weeks of 50% sales due to their work which equals about $2400 lost in sales. Please included me in the lawsuit as I believe they deserve to be sued. Well done! I actually rejected another company with the same approach, but your website contributed to the research process in the rejection. I guess you can add $1500 to your total if you count similar companies. You saved me and my client $5000 a piece. I should mention this so you can add it to your website. I have several attorneys who are close friends both in Idaho and in Utah. I'd love to nail these bastards (Traffic Power) to the wall. We have six sites that are being torn down piece by piece and we sell advertising on all of them so our pocket book is being effected by the whole thing. Would you like me to inquire with my attorney friends to see what they say about a possible class action suit? I am a small business owner who finally came to my senses about a month ago and demanded a full refund from Traffic Power. I was with them for about 4 months, and I lost my placement completely in Google. I had no idea they were scam artists until yesterday when I spoke to a legitimate SEO guy and he filled me in on why I might not be in Google any more. I received a phone call from a Traffic Power employee who wanted me to do a $6,000 a year campaign. It sounded alright what he was saying so I decided to do a search for their company on google. To my surprise, I found a website called trafficpowersucks. After reading it for a couple of minutes with the employee on hold, I picked up the phone and told him I was not interested. He inquired to why and I informed him of your website. He obviously knew of your website because he went into this whole spill about how it is a bunch of bull. Well, I just wanted to say thanks for the website. We had two sites kicked out of google. It took two weeks of e-mails to google before they were listed again. One they only listed again after removing the traffic-power pages from our site. 90% of our business comes from our sites. Our sales were cut in half during these two weeks. When I contacted Traffic-Power requesting a refund I was told "Your contract does not state that you will receive a refund if we get you kicked out of google. You are still listed in many other directories, so what's the problem?" I got sucked into Traffic Power up until the point of having them email me an agreement. Right before I signed, I voice in my head said to do a google search about the company. I found your site and lots of other complaints about the company...needless to say I will not be signing any agreement. Thanks for saving me $3500 and lots of headaches!!! I have some legal
insiders offering advice at various levels. Here is a recent communication...
"..also some more info you and the others might not have considered. Traffic
Power accepted payments over the Internet therefore (fraud) took place
electronically, which falls under the laws that govern wire fraud. I have a small site that I started up a few years ago. I received a call from Traffic Power around a year ago and was sucked into trying their service. As of early last month, my site disappeared of google.com, my traffic has dropped, and sales have gone down even further thanks to their shoddy practices. Thanks for your web site. I used to work in SEO, and am very wary of anyone who guarantees results. There are legitimate professionals in this field, but I'm sad to say they (Traffic Power) are the exception not the rule. I've been ripped off!!!! $2000! They promised me things and did not deliver. They got me banned from Google and now my the host of my domain is also threatening to shut down my site because of the "spammy" techniques!!! I would love to join in on the lawsuit!! Thanks, you just saved me $3000 us $4300 Canadian. I am a current client, or shall I say "victim" of Traffic-Power (over 2mos) and still waiting for my website to be listed with any search engine! So far I have not received any info. that my site has been banned by Google....but I'm not listed anywhere either. Traffic Power states in their contract that they will achieve top 10 listings for at least 8 of the 20 keywords I signed up for within 90 days. Actually, their salesman verbally promised me that they would have me on the first page of the major search engines within 3 weeks....and after the 3 weeks I could cancel my "pay-per-click" advertising with Google and Overture. So...here it is...2 months gone...and I paid them $1700 and I not only do not have any first page placement.....I don't have any placement at all! I also have to keep paying for Google Adwords and Overture to get any business at all. I have no doubt that I have been seriously damaged by traffic-power.com since my site was de-listed by google about six weeks ago. I have requested that traffic-power disable the SEE page redirect to my site and am ready to turn the matter over to an attorney. This is Name
Removed at the now defunct SiteWitheld.com (Thanks to Traffic Power). I just
got a phone call from my new account rep at Traffic Power. Apparently she wasn't
given any information about me. She called to introduce herself and ask if there
was anything she could do for me. I gave her an earful and asked how long she
had been with the company. She said since February. I suggested that if she had
any sort of a conscience she should quit. I got taken for $5,000. I have some decent emails to back up my story, but the credit card company won't act based on emails so my disputes were also denied. I even tried to stop the second charge from going before it went through, but they processed it anyway. Ok, you can add
another $3,000 to the total amount of money prevented from getting sucked away
by Traffic Power. Talked to them a bit ago and they are removing all the links and refundingmy money but its not over yet. Thanks for telling the truth about Traffic Power. I signed up with them approx 3 months ago before the Google flap broke and had my sites pulled down etc. etc. Since then I've removed all their code and everything is back to normal except that I'm out $5,000. I signed a contract in which the second half($1500) was due June 4, and was clearly stated as contingent upon customer satisfaction. Traffic Power ran the charge May 14, after I had told the Salesperson over the phone that I was not at all satisfied. We have been a victim of this company and we just got confirmation from Google in writing that we got dropped because of them, we are interested in the law suite and we will be looking into filing independently against them, these guys are not going to get away with it, they have hurt us very badly, our traffic from Google dropped from 50K hits a week to 8K in the month of July and the sad thing is we signed up the 3 week in June and a week later got pulled from Google. I signed up with them 3 months ago and have not had one piece of traffic from their work. My credit card has now been charged and I am out $1500. Not a happy person. I received a call
from traffic power today, they wanted $5K for their services. I was recently contacted and I was very interested until I heard the cost and felt the pressure to sign up right away. I know when a salesman tries to sign you up immediately, there's something wrong. I told him I had to think about it. When I decided the cost was too high, he called me back and told me they would "work with me on the cost." In the meantime, I did my on research on Google, found your web site and now have to thank you for saving me $3,900.00!! Please add my total to your list, because I will not in any way ever let them have that money. Your resources have saved my company from Traffic-Power in the amount of approx. $6,000.00. Thank you! I am a small business that has used Traffic Power's services for 2 years. I am not showing up on Google or Yahoo. This is virtual suicide for my business! They assured me that what they did was legitimate, I would not be banned due to their methods. What's worse, they encouraged me to promote their services knowing that I would be banned. I have emailed them and called, they don't respond either way. I don't have any money to contribute to a lawsuit but I would like to be added to the list of victims. I read your article on Traffic-Power. I am one of the victims also. I have been in business since 1996 and our sales have continued to grow. We have over 500 web pages that are associated with our web site and it was never hard to see us out there somewhere on a search engine. I have always submitted my site and have never had any problems. Traffic-Power contacted me last September and I thought it might be nice to let someone else do the work. Since January our business has steadily lost $10,000 a month and visitors have noticeable gone away. I wasn't sure what was happening until I received a phone call from a company that said I had been banned from the internet. Sure enough I did a search on the major search engines and didn't see one of our web pages out there. I contacted Traffic-Power and was told that Google periodically does a reshuffle so their content is always changing - give it a few weeks and it will come back. I was told there is no such thing as being banned from the internet. Business is the worst it has ever been. We had more business the first day we got exposure on the net than we do right now. If reading the articles I've seen about Traffic-Power is true, Traffic-Power killed us. I would like to
thank you for your valuable information on Traffic Power. I have been approached
by them. I have been burned before so I decided to search for more information
on them and stumbled on the consortiums web site. Traffic Power will be calling
me back on Monday or Tuesday and I plan on asking a lot of questions. I would like to be
involved in the traffic-power class action suit. We used them about a year ago
and have since been banned from Google. I had three of my websites with them and paid them over $12,000. I ended up getting black balled from google as a result of their work. We signed up with
Traffic-Power the end of March 04. Our SEE pages went up the end of April
04. In reviewing our web stats, our web traffic went down by nearly 50% from
April to May. When I contacted Traffic-Power, they said we needed to wait for
6-8 weeks before we would be able to see any results. By the end of June, our
web traffic dropped another 30%. Paid them $1500.00 and got nothing, luckily I was pre-warned about the being banned (from a competitor) and cancelled them. Also had my webmaster remove whatever they did to my site which appears to have been just in time. Our company got
BURNED to the cost of $3,000. I had documentation via printed e-mails from
their own technical people acknowledging their own problems on getting our site
up on GOOGLE. They NEVER ... in the entire year got us listed on GOOGLE. I
actually got a few e-mails from them while I was trying to get a refund, however
I ended up like you. NO REFUND. The bad thing is that the behind the scenes text
that they wrote, did get our company BLOCKED from Google. I am currently working
with people at GOOGLE to get un-blocked, and they are being as helpful as they
can, but have told me it may take quite a while, because there are SO MANY
companies like ours trying to get re-instated. I'm a Traffic-Power loser that has been defrauded out of $2000.00. I've been a customer since Feb, 04 and nothing is working for me. Traffic-Power has stopped helping me.. What can I do they are still taking my money? I am out $4000.00, banned by Google, and down to 3 hits a day!! I recently allowed myself to be pressured into buying the traffic-power service same-day as sales call to receive discount. After some research and the help of your site, I'm now trying to get our money back. I signed with Traffic-power..after having checked many referrals - all good. Immediately after, the bad news started coming in. I spoke with the agent that I signed with, he assured me that this was just a very disgruntled customer who had started a fuss. To reassure me, they were going to move me to the front of the line. Well, just as I was reaching my 8-12 weeks, I get an email saying they've extended my contract by 12 weeks. They've made improvements! Is there anything that you can advise. I think I've just been suckered in a huge way! ..we have contacted
our credit card company with which we paid for their services. They have filed
a dispute against TP which will be pursued on our part to show malpractice and
fraud. It might be good to encourage other companies who do this to try the
same approach. Our concerns are
similar to others mentioned on your website. I am interested in being a part of the lawsuit against Traffic-power.com. I have totally lost all my placement with traffic-power and am now losing tons of Sales which is my business. I signed up with Traffic Power a couple of months ago and my site has been banned from google and yahoo. My site only pops up because I am paying to be a sponsored link....my site no longer shows up under keywords that traffic power tried to help out with. I was sooo mad because last week they were trying to push another proposal on me for more service (at that time I didn't know about what had happened) And thank goodness I didn't give them my credit card #. They basically had the nerve to call me, not disclose ANY thing about the site being banned, and tried to take me for a fool. After searching on the web, I realized there were lots of companies that got screwed by them. What can we do? What do you suggest? I appreciate your
work on exposing the contract. (thought I knew how to read) There's a sucker
like me born every minute. For 8 months, I thought I was doing fine...They did
keep their word. . . Nothing but bad news about traffic power they did some work for me and took my money. They created pages and domains and (we got) absolutely nothing. My web site is a great site and I thought I could benefit from them only no results. They took my money. When I originally signed up with them we selected keywords which would account for some 800,000 hits a month guess what it did not happen. They are still calling me repeatedly for money which I refused to pay based on the total lack of professionalism as well as poor results. I am looking for someone to help me optimize my site. If you know anyone have them contact me. (From Trafficpowersucks.com: I have been asked almost every day for recommendations for a good SEO company, and I have NEVER given a recommendation. Traffic Power claims that my site, and others like it, are their competition trying to make them look bad. I am NOT an SEO, and I refuse to make recommendations, so please do not ask.) For your
entertainment:
Thanks for the
enlightening documents - my partners & I were laughing hysterically at your
company's lame attempt to cover up your fraudulent activity. I at least applaud
the great lengths your company will go to to pretend to be legitimate - I wish I
could lose my 22 years in the industry and be stupid enough for just a moment to
believe your crap. But, as the saying goes: "If it walks like a duck, acts like
a duck, and quacks like a duck - it's a duck." Hello, I've been
reading your site and the postings on JimWorld about Traffic power. I'm glad
there is information like this out there. We have paid them $2,000 but we
haven't implemented their "techniques" yet... I'm afraid that if we do, we'll
get back listed just like so many others. I'm about to call them and question
them on their tactics, I'm going to tell them about your site and the thread on
Jim World. Any advice on how to deal with them? In any event, thanks for the
site, and the information... Gotta love your
website. Can I forward it to the 25 plus people I know who had sites banned? I
saved many companies money too by posting on Jim's World - can I forward to them
too??? Hi, love the site! I almost signed up with Traffic Power about a year ago, but I was warned about them by my brother's company. I told the salesperson, a Rick Cordova, that I wanted a guarantee in writing or no deal. When he wouldn't give me one, I told him I would go elsewhere. Here is the email he sent back to me:
Name Removed, Name Removed Traffic-Power is evil and must be stopped! Name Removed I like you site. We signed up with Traffic Power over a year ago, they are very rude. My webmaster checked the pages they sent us to upload to our site, and told us that he would quit if we uploaded them, they were that bad. He said we would be banned from the search engines he had worked years to get listed on. Traffic Power wouldn't even talk to us about a refund. Now we see on your site that they probably stole the pages anyway. What a scam! Name Removed Thanks for the info, I was about to sign up and read your site at the last minute. Add another $2000.00 to your Total Saved! Thank you! I wanted to drop a
quick note about these people even though I didn't sign up with them. I did
however hang up and surf the net a bit and came across the thread on Jimworld
and then to your site as well. I just read your site
and was wondering if you found a good company for promoting your web site? I was
contacted by traffic-power, but wanted to do some research before handing out
$3000.00. All the referrals they provided me, gave a great review of the
company, but after reading your site I will decline the offer from
traffic-power. We are currently having issues with TP as well. Have you had any luck with a refund? Also, have you filed a complaint with the BBB? We plan on seeking a refund so any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Good job with the site. Between the two of us plus Name Removed and Name Removed, I bet we've stopped at least $100,000 of business from going TP's way. My (company) was going
to use them - they had called us many times. I guess I would have forked out $4000 like my buddy who is now banned from Google. I had talked to TP about three times - they called me. We were interested because my buddy which is (Company Name) was bringing us tons of work after using TP. Now he will be struggling. He had over 400 attraction pages. I found through the page you sent me that one of the affected businesses is (Company Name). This is a public company with over 5000 employees. I sent them the following email. I suggest you do the same. They have some clout and may be able to put pressure on these guys. I just paid traffic power $2000 in last of March. So far I haven't been removed from GOOGLE. I'm debating what I should do next. Tell them to stop doing what they are doing and pull down their URL's which refer people to me? I'll tell you, this
has been the week from h*%#! I am trying to join the class action lawsuit. My site site removed.com was recently banned from google because of trafficpower.com... I called them and complained.. and they said "You are not banned by google.. they are actively re-inexing (globally as well).. they gave me ridiculous bull-shit email. I just wanted to inform you that I'm a former Traffic-Power employee and I too have complaints... I used to work for traffic power. I can give you all the information you need to put the company away. I know all the secrets. If you need help I can help. I'm the latest victim. site removed.com had thousands of links on Google. We signed up with TP a month ago and last week, we went down. We've never been kicked out of Google. I want to be part of any class action lawsuit. I'm not happy that
there are so many people out there that have been screwed by TP, but I'm a
little comforted that I'm not alone and there are actually people out there
taking up the fight. Hello, Unfortunately I didn't know about your site before i signed up with this company Traffic Power. My website NameRemoved.com just got banned from Google, coincidentally 2 weeks after my campaign with traffic power officially started. Anyway, I basically got screwed by them and since that date my hits have gone down over 20% and you can only imagine what it has done to my sales. I would love to be a part of a class action lawsuit if there is one, i would like some details. thanks alot! We are a current customer of Traffic power and yes, we have been blacklisted! It didnt take long either. I sure wish I had recorded our phone conversations becasue I asked about some of their practices and was assured that they were all legitimate... Your site rocks, please let me know what else I can do to help you! I have information, Inside information on traffic power and would like to share it with you. Like Employee cell numbers including the so called owner Matt as well as others and there new forms and programs that they use. Let me know if you are interested I have and can get inside information I don't like the company and they lie and cheat their customers which I have proof of. Count us in. I'm glad someone forwarded me information this morning about Traffic-Power and the wipe out Google put on them, as well as the class action lawsuit. I actually recommended these idiots to a few clients, but luckily none of them bought into it. Whew! I would have looked like a major a-hole if they did! I know one of the sales people on a friendly basis. Unfortunately I don't even think he realizes that the product he is trying to sell is a sham. I hope I can set him straight, because he's a really good guy just trying to make a living. However, no one has the right to make a living by stealing customers money with a business based on practices that have knowingly been banned and targeted by the major search engines. I will be speaking against Traffic Power, regularly in the local business community of Las Vegas. I got off the phone
with them, and I had argued about SEOing sites, and I thought their "attraction
pages" with "mouseover" was total bulls!!!. I did some more research. They
said JimWorld were liars out to get them, and JimWorld was just trying to make
money by stealing clients. I came across your site, and now I'm convinced.
They are very, very evil. We just signed up with TP last month - and, dammit, I should have trusted my gut instinct with this one. But our company needed a shot in the arm with our web presence, and I thought TP could help us. Apparently that was not the case. I have since pulled all the code from our site and put it back into a "before TP" state (I have saved the original TP files on my computer, and changed our FTP password), disputed the charges on our credit card, and documented as many things as I can regarding them and our relationship with them. So far I think our site is fine with Google, but I just hope it's not too late as they have cached pages of the TP stuff. I have just recently purchased Traffic-Power services (10 days ago)... after reading the information on your site... I'm wondering what my next step should be. If I do a charge back... what should my reason be since enough time has not lapsed to say they didn't provide the services. I would appreciate any advice you can give me as I'm scared to death that I made a very bad decision to the tune of $xxxx.00. I have fallen victim to Traffic Power.com. I am out over $6000 and my business revenue has dropped to almost 0. I am hurting from this and would like to join the class action lawsuit. Please let me know if you company is handling this. We have received several phone calls from Traffic-Power.com and their very aggressive sales people are pushing us to spend $5,000 on their service. My due diligence search has led me to your web link. Are they to be trusted or should I "cut-and-run" before finding myself out a bunch of money without any return on it. I am sure you know
that google dropped all sites that are using traffic power. I will tell you as I
am sure that you know... I'm writing to congratulate you on your site. It's great that you're trying to help out other people who are getting scammed. Which brings me to my next subject. I'm in the middle of a one year program with Traffic Power and the first few months it did work pretty well. Last two months or so the results seem to be falling off a little bit, but the biggest concern I have is having my company's website blacklisted because of what these freaks are doing with their illegitimate techniques which they specifically told me that they do NOT do, because that's what "OTHER" SEO companies do (figures.....). Anyway, I wanted to contact you to see what information you have on this class-action lawsuit which seems to be forming and how I can get involved, and also if you have any other tips for how I can prevent anything bad from happening to my website or my company because of Traffic Power. Look forward to your reply. ..Traffic Power is using deceptive business practices. I have been dropped from Google and can show the loss in sales. I came upon this subject in the Webpro.com newsletter and was very interested. Last June I launched a website to promote my business that I had started a couple of years before. Soon after, I was called by someone from traffic power that gave me all the hype about getting top rankings on all the major search engines, especially Google. After several calls from the same guy ( which was beginning to seem like borderline harassment ), I said "OK, so what's the bottom line?" He told me $4000.00 payable up front. I told him I could not afford that much. Maybe some type of payment plan if your service is so great. He said it had to be paid in full before any service was rendered. At that point I Told him I was not interested, To which he replied (this is not a direct quote, but it's pretty darn close) " I'm sorry that have decided not to use our service and you will probably be sorry too." Kinda sounds like a threat to me. My name is Name
Witheld and I own an on-line company called NameRemoved.com. I used traffic
power. Everything you said is true. I'm a victim of them. When I questioned some
of the things they were doing I was told that they were doing nothing against
Google fair use policies and that they were in good standing with them. I never
received top ten placement. When I questioned why, they said my search terms
were too general and popular and that if I kept them it might take many more
months to get good placement. I said I didn't need them to get good placement on
obscure search terms that nobody used, I hired them to get good placement on the
terms my competition and everybody else was using to find candy sites. They said
they would redo the site and make it better. Nothing happened. I should have
known better, I screwed myself. I got banned and will probably shut down my
site. It's just too much work to rebuild what I've lost. I run a medium size company that receives all of its sale leads from the internet. I fell for 5000 dollars to these scam artists and now been booted from Google like everyone else. Of course I will also have to pay all of the labor costs associated with fixing the problems to get re-indexed with Google. This problem is already causing serious loss of revenue. Please contact me as soon as possible with any information you can so I can join the lawsuit. I WORKED for traffic
power about 2 years ago. In that endeavor, I sat at a rickety old desk making
$10 an hour. I never understood for the first week or so, why I continuously got
clients downright angry and upset by what I was giving them. The end all be all
was that the salesmen were just selling (on a commission basis) this service to
sites that were technically not even placeable websites with the search
engines. They were either 1) 100% flash sites or 2) Had poor layout with tones
of Java or sliced Photoshop images. Because of that, I was the one doing the
analysis in hopes to help them. No one told them that when they got on with
Traffic-Power that they were going to have to redesign their site to get even
some "minor" results from the software used. I am a recent client
of Traffic-power. The first and only two sites they have worked on
NameRemoved.com and NameRemoved.com have recently been banned by Google. Since
this company assured me that they only use ethical practices to gain placement I
am prepared to help in this lawsuit by giving any information you need. Their telemarketers are downright rude as well, and would not stop calling me after I asked them not to! That was the tip-off for me - how could such a great service require such high-pressure-used-car salespersons? I am glad I didn't listen to them BUT keep up the good work on your site, there are plenty of small businesses like us that don't need to be screwed by these guys! Thanks for the info...I just closed my online store. It just pisses me off that people like traffic power get away with what they do. My store wasn't my main income, it was just very good side income and I don't have the time or the drive to rebuild anymore. I'm taking a long break. Good Luck and please notify me about the lawsuit. We enjoyed top 10
Google placement on 30 prime keyword phrases for about 3 months before being
removed from Google. Based on what I've read, we decided to remove any traces of
TP code from our website and re-applied to Google. It's a sad day for me since
the US$2700 I've paid to TP resulted in my site being blacklisted on the search
engine that typically generated 50% of our business. I joined on with Traffic Power and now my site is also banned from Google after paying them $2800 for the year. Please forward me any information you can regarding the class-action lawsuit. I would be very interested.
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