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Name: Steven Bradley
Location: Boulder, Colorado
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I think they're trying to scare you more than anything. I'm assuming they no longer have access to the files and can't change anything on the site. If they can access the files they can do things. Even without access they can do some things though it's difficult and they would need to be extremely knowledgeable and have a lot of time to spend. I really think it was mostly a scare tactic since I've seen other people post similar things on other forums.
However you should know that neither of the searches you mentioned will work like you think. Google never shows all the backlinks it knows about. It typically only shows a very small number of links and those are just random. It's possible the links supplied by the seo have been picked up by Google. You can try the search in Yahoo since they show many more backlinks. It's the same search, but you need to include the http://
The site: search is only meant for the general domain so if you want to see if linpage is in the index just try site: www.site.com and check to the results to see if it's there. It can take time though for your site to be indexed regardless of what your seo did. In fact getting many of your pages indexed will mostly depend on how your site was built. Your site needed to be built in a way that allows spiders to crawl it. I don't know if your seo was responsible for that ot not. Your forum signatiure will be enough to get your home page indexed assuming your links point to your home page.
They company in question may have supplied useless inbound links, but without knowing more it's really impossible to know. |
Can they do anything to knock our website out of the Google index?
