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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

+++++ BLACK HAT SEO +++++ These guys will work wonders for your ranking on Google in the short term, but in the long term when Google's algo realises what your website is doing, it will dissapear from... See more

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Semalt is scraping Facebook and using people's posts and content without their permission. Furthermore; they are posting the content on their website as their own without attribution or permission i... See more

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

I have to write this review because I am annoyed by their marketing tactics.. I monitor my google analytics and these guys or their affiliates use many domains to send traffic.. This happens a... See more

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Thank you Kevin Zack. I have been using semalt since June 2019. After the update google did back then that shook my website, I decided to switch domain name and register the new one with semalt,... See more

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Founded in September 2013, Semalt LLC is a modern, fast-growing IT company. Its HQ is located in Kyiv, Ukraine. As a Full-stack Digital Agency, we provide business owners, webmasters, analysts and marketing experts with new ways to effectively use web tools for any kind of business by offering high-quality SEO promotion, web development, explainer video creation and advanced analytics services.


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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

i use their 0.99$ (even that for free-…

i use their 0.99$ (even that for free- as i said if they show me result then i will buy) within a month my 2000 kws ranked and i also get 2 affiliate sales, this is the reason i am going to buy their auto seo service 1sr for 1 month and then i will try 3 month pack.

August 24, 2020
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Reply from Semalt

Hello Vikas,
Glad to hear from you.
Hope for long-lasting and mutually beneficial cooperation.

Regards,
Semalt team

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Rated 3 out of 5 stars

First impression of the platform was very positive

1) The platform

First impression of the platform was very positive. Looks modern and functionally.

But than it becomes clear that a solution for autoseo campaign is absoulutely useless. Because they publish all links to the main page of the site (not to landings).

It is impossible to point the right urls in AutoSEO strategy, you should buy full seo package for 500$ monthly.

2) The customer focus:
IMHO is a very poor client orientation.
I mentioned about rather big budgets for PPC traffic and that we will be able to pay a lot for SEO, place a lot of projects, keywords and buy FULL-Seo campaigns in the future after a test period.
But my personal manager from semalt was absolutely not interested in cooperation, not offered any personal plans or possibilities.

3) When I found out that the platform is poor - I asked him to stop my 3 subscriptions since next month.
But finally he cancelled all projects immidiately with notifications that I will get full refund and all links will be deleted.
Though I asked for other solution.

Even it was not offered any standard suggestions - like "wait for a 1-3 months", "let's see the dynamics for keywords" and etc.
Just 100% not interested in a client who has paid for 3 projects and was going to place 2 more on the 3rd day after registration

So, my impressions is only for 1 star at this review.

August 7, 2020
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Reply from Semalt

Hi Dmitry,
Thank you for the review.

1. Within AutoSEO our system place backlinks not only to the homepage but other landings as well. Semalt uses AI (artificial intelligence) technologies to identify page relevance in real-time by analyzing the semantic structure of a website. That allows us to trace the relationship between a page and keywords it is ranked for on Google.
For example, Google ranks sitename.com/page1.html for "keyword #1". Our system will then analyze that and place a link with the relevant anchor "keyword #1" to this page.
The Semalt analytics tool tracks 400 million keywords in all languages and niches, so we are able to collect an impressive amount of semantic data. So AutoSEO is also a powerful instrument to improve the link juice.

2. We appreciate your feedback regarding the customer support and we will take your notice into account while training the stuff.

3. Also want to pay attention to the fact that AutoSEO is a standard plan and has a fixed price due to the standard unaltered list of work. In opposite, FullSEO is an individual plan based on customer needs and requirements. Furthermore the price of FullSEO depends on the region of promotion, keywords categories and niche competitiveness level and calculated individually for each project.

As your campaign is still active you will have a chance to estimate your website potential within link building and to evaluate the promotion campaign in general.
Wish you success in your business.

Regards,
Semalt team

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

totally scammers

totally scammers, just they took ur money and showing fake data on their dashboard. it's better you find a good place for use instead

June 10, 2020
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Reply from Semalt

Hello.

Could you please specify your website so that we will be able to check and help to resolve the issue.
Which project do you have with us?
We would be thankful to get the feedback from you and make your experience better.

UPD

Thank you for the provided reference. We have checked and see that you paid for the 2-weeks trial which serves to show how our system works and estimate your website potential within link building. This package doesn't provide internal optimization, only a demo version of the backlinking campaign and rankings tracking.

The data that is shown on our dashboard can be easily verified by checking the position of your site manually in Google (You just need to type the keywords of interest in the specified search engine and you will see the real website positions which you will be able to compare with the one at Semalt system).

Regards,
Semalt team

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

The king seo company

First of all, thank you Kevin.
Thanks to him, I got to know semalt and I liked semalt very much.
I used to be a full seo subscriber. Then I started using auto seo. Thanks to Full seo, my site came to the top of Google in 1 month. Then I continued with auto seo

May 7, 2020
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Reply from Semalt

Hello,

Thank you for sharing your experience on both of our packages.

Regard,
Semalt team

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Semalt is very good for me.

Semalt is very good for me.
I am using the semalt service since two years, and I have great result. My account manager is very attentive.

May 5, 2020
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Dear Diogo,

Thank you for the feedback. We do appreciate our cooperation with you.

Regards,
Semalt team

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Thank you Kevin Zack.

Thank you Kevin Zack.

I have been using semalt since June 2019. After the update google did back then that shook my website, I decided to switch domain name and register the new one with semalt, and since then my website has gotten google visibility very well and my traffic is increasing rapidly.

Thanks to my patient and encouraging manager Kevin Zack. Semalt is good.

April 28, 2020
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Reply from Semalt

Dear Victor,

Thanks for taking the time to share your experience.
Hoping to have mutually beneficial cooperation.

Regards,
Semalt team

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great service under single window

Great service under single window. I need not invest more on employees. Semalt saves from unwanted investment and saving lots of time. I am able to focus on my business and getting better result @ a reasonable charge from this guys. Keep the good service going on. Cheers!

April 22, 2020
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Reply from Semalt

Dear Dane,

Thanks for the feedback. We do our best to match your expectations. Stay with us and meet more new useful technological features that will be available soon on our website.

Regards,
Semalt Team

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Thanks to Elena

I've used Semalt service for about 4 months now.
They provide me with the link building and recommendations which my webmaster implements. From 2d month my website positions started to grow. Very thankful to Elena for a great support. Wish you to keep safe in spite of the complicated situation in the world.

March 30, 2020
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Reply from Semalt

Dear Helen,

Thank you for the feedback. We wish you all the best and hope for future cooperation.

Regards,
Semalt team

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Do not do this... never ever do it... they will steal your clients.

I purchased a Semalt account. Added one of my personal sites and one client site .... today they sent email to both of my site owners soliciting them DIRECTLY for their SEO services.

Do NOT trust these thieves with anything. Run away, run away ... Danger Will Robinson....

*Update* - I have been contacted by Semalt in an effort to resolve this situation. I'm sure part of the challenge is a bit of a language obstacle - I don't think they really wanted to call me a liar, they just did. I received an apology and an assurance they would never do this again. As recompense for my inconvenience (losing a reference client), they offered 1 month of their autoseo service for one website (valued between $0.99 and $99). Not wanting to risk losing another valuable client to a similar error, I have declined their offer.

Caveat emptor!

February 13, 2020
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Reply from Semalt

Dear Jay,

We have investigated the issue and contacted you via email for more details.
Thank you for sharing your experience. Just want to note that you didn't purchase an account.
The registration is free. Only SEO service is paid.

Regards,
Semalt team

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Referrer spams my websites everyday

Referrer spams my websites everyday. Everyone hates you Semalt. If you were any good you wouldn't need to spam the internet.

September 13, 2019
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Reply from Semalt

Mr.Danny,

Thank you for the review.
If you don’t try, you won’t know for sure. If you use our service you will change your mind.

Regards,
Semalt team

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Scam SEO company

Scam SEO company. Fake backlinks in an alleged private network.

Eastern European Scammers delivering nothing

Only a fool will grant this company access to the work online and access there webfiles, you will hijacked and become part of there bot network.

Check out the website and people working for them lol About US page

Sales Staff use Fake names

The Semalt web app will make you believe they are doing something but in actual fact they do 0, you have no way of authenticating backlinks, which are not permanent, they are allegedly creating each and every day.

Where your site ranks positively for keywords expect to lose rankings but be told its all part of long term strategy.

Apply tax to invoices where they have no jurisdiction to collect taxes, its a computer error.

Lots of computer errors happen in there organisation when you question them.

Sales staff trained to avoid answering questions.

This outfit like 99.9% of SEO companies out there will deliver you zero.

September 4, 2019
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

they are spamming our website with fake…

they are spamming our website with fake visits to get their domain known. anyone who operates so underhandedly in my opinion should not be trusted.

July 19, 2019
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Reply from Semalt

Dear Jeff,

We don't spam websites.
We have a platform for rankings monitoring provided by the crawler (the same as any other analytical tool and services have which just grabs positions data for statistics purpose only).

Regards,
Semalt team

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

really bad seo company

really bad seo company, DONT USE THEM, they only do black hat stuff that negatively affects your site on the long run.

June 19, 2019
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Reply from Semalt

Dear Nic,

Thank you for the feedback. We are sorry to hear that you are not satisfied.
Unfortunately, you didn't specify your website and we couldn't identify you in the clients database.
But we would be glad to analyze your project if you provide more details (website, the period of promotion etc).
As for your statement regarding "Black hat stuff" - we should argue cause our work is transparent and we provide each client with the report of what was done within the promotion campaign.
In every project, the list of errors fixing as well as SEO content is confirmed with the client before the implementation.

Regards,
Semalt team

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

My opinion about Semalt SEO

What i have to mention for Semalt company and a specially for Aiden, i feel him part of my company even in a late at night he answer to our questions...I have to say thank you guys for the excellent and professional work!!!!

June 5, 2019
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

i am a co worker from jokerman…

i am a co worker from jokerman electronics and i review his comments and i feel that on this matter that semalt didnt live up to there promises and they tryed to scam mr lewis out of more money that didnt need to be done semalt does not know anything about website building and web pages they use other platforms so nothing they do is original

May 27, 2019
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Reply from Semalt

Dear Jeff,

We have carefully studied the issue, already provided all the details via emails and calls and also replied to Jason below.
Al this time the personal manager was in touch with Jason by phone and communicating via emails.
The company provided full service to the client and even more:
- developed the website according to the client's requirements and needs;
- restored the website after the client had broken the setup of the website while trying to experiment;
- gave the client a testing platform that our team could recover asking him to practice there;
- provided the manual on how to use the WordPress system and WooCommerce;
- constantly reminded to update the availability and descriptions of the product.
Finally, Jason agreed that the website is very good but after some time "rolled back" to his old site.
So this is the same as having a haircut and ask for a refund after several months when the hair grew up again.

Regards,
Semalt team

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Hi I'm the business Owner jokerman…

Hi I'm the business Owner jokerman electronics
I will very pleasurable with working with them I ask simple things before I am have them built me a website I'd never would do this I sent them $850 to build me a website a set me clips of the website but they never showed me inside the website is things Jack I was very fair with him They don't know how to build a website Instead they take Y $1700 Still it .!!!. I tried so hard working with them it's taken them 2 years the figure out what they want to do I asked for a full refund I'm the customer I told them it's not what they want for me it's what I want from them and I expect from them they can not give me a built website from them they used go daddy which I told them not to do NA used the platform inside go daddy so you have to call go daddy it's very difficult I tried be friendly with them no response they want to argue with you over the . Phone respectively email him asking returning my money I told him I'm the customer all I want is my money returned because as effective Li did not build the Web site like I wanted they built it how they wanted very difficultly so they say stole my money not return my money I give them 10 days To finish what they had to do I tried respectively and honor what they wanted and they want me to give them 500 products So they can get put the shipping up themself they don't know how to put a shipping cart for live shipping rates do not use them they are fraud though not very honestly I'll take your money and run go away from this place don't do business it really hurt my business really bed because I was very excited about doing business with them because they told me the they would never do this to me. I looked all over everywhere before I try to do business with anybody and they told me they are gonna give me all seasons I have everything right now documentation with Jack that's who I worked with hes the manager there he in knorr's the situation any once the are you with you over the phone he don't try to work the solution now he gives me. False statements telling me all they need to do though put in their for me I said to them I can't work this go daddy it's not what I want is not what I paid for I explained that to him and the beginning I do not want a really hard website so when a customer calls me and ask me about a product or their the order number it's very difficult I can't do a search in there it's too much stuff it's all Clara up not very good to use I explained to them that that is not the kind of Web site I wanted I wanted the easy website and that's the only reason why that went with them they told me they can do that for me Jack said he would be able to do that for me I told my do not want to use go daddy in the beginning I explained that all over the phone with him I have everything documented in the e-mails of these people though not truthfully there false criminals they go around and telling people lies I thought they were a good people have thought Jack was a good person but when he lies to a customer and I am the customer and I what what I want not what he wants and they cannot build the website how you wanted and then they tell you they're not going to give you back your money because of I've had paid him all up for $1700 Which means I paid him $850 to show me half of it which he did Not do show me only parts of it which I should never do that ever again I didn't show me the inside of the website is and I told that to him I do not want a difficult website people like this goes around claiming them they can feel a website for the customer and then the customers that happy you need to return the money. Not still the Customers money and not get the solution result is taking them 2 years Yeah I let it go because I was trying to be nice I'm done being nice it would have been 6 mouths but I give $850 they 1 of the rest money but they would never show me the whole website because of they wanted the whole money now I'm out with $1700 Yeah it was stupid me but you know what I learn from my mistakes the are internatonal so beware of that as well it may cost me money in the long run to get all my money back but they're gonna be going to Jail pretty soon For stealing from my company I was looking forward of a website that was performing right yeah they do great outside of the website look really nice but the inside he do not know how to make the website for the customer easy and happy and ask the customer how you think that everything went out if the customer didn't like it they should a descent I'll pay you half of it back Or I'll give you back all your money They don't know how to build a website they use everybody else as platforms which is not their self . See I want to somebody else in the elusory built a website from scratch But they want a lot more money they do buy pages in I have a lot of pages But they made a deal with me that they would do the everything else for me and the Allied the are crooks not recommended at all I tried so hard to be nice I've called Jack supple tines left emails several times as I was upset over the phone speaking with the guy doesn't try to solve the problem now this is gonna be a problem B where B where B where they will take your money and Claiming that they can build U website and never would happen after 2 years fighting with them trying to work with them it's still never what happened not the way I wanted to go this route I try to be friends with Jack and I try to be good with everybody else I am a very good person I don't go out there and still or thevet anybody I'm not raise this way or I will never take anybody else money I gave him every opportunity to try the return my money I'm not happy because they did not build a website the way I wanted . Did it give me live shipping rates so I lost a lots of money when they put my website backup and running I do not want the website I or I do not want anything the philly what the website I want to return my money so I can go find somebody else to it now while the half down before AM seen anything else the Website has to to keep pleaded before I pay out the whole thing and never do business with anybody less they show you the whole website IN and outs I learned my lesson now I'm going to have to go to court and put the crooks and jail they think because they're Internatonal. Everybody will be going to jail. All they had to do is return my money a year and every option in Jack never try to solve the issue I in or the issue I emailed in yesterday which is this month never got back to be because I was mad I hang up the phone on them last week because he won the 5000 pages so he could put the shipping thing up up up their himself rather given that to me is they don't know how to use R do the shipping the live shippy rates into my new website the shopping cart added into the website even I love the website on the outside but I did not want them to use anything used go daddy I hated them because I try to mount before and anything you have with go daddy it's the worst website ever do I ever do anything with go daddy they're the hardest and the worst out there Enough about everything I had to get a lawyer now or I need you take my trip up to them and then see The Cops up there in have them arrested that's what I gotta do that's what they gotta do thank you for reading this review I had to post it I don't tell lies it's been over 2 years and I get the fight or with my wife about this and she was right all along I tried And I try to work with them and I got stolen $1700 Karma will come back to them trust me This is Jason From jokerman electronics

This is No fake Reviews this is the truth I only write the truth they will take your money and run with it . They do not build a website a use other people's platforms they catch you in a lie in a long run took him 2 years to build me a website and never got completing correctly . So before you do you shopping make sure you stay show you inside the website. These people are bunch of corrupts their the worst company I ever Went with beware beware No fake reviews here got stolen from this company. Every hue is from somebody else and they tell the truth so please don't get taken in by this company they will steal your money and they won't use their own website the build one they will use other people's websites and build off of it Before I am asked them they were supposed to Build their own website but they don't do that they take your $1700 and still a and has a completed never never again these guys are traders This was my hard working money that I put up their . Thank you guys Reading this are view and they are not false reviews everyone in here is telling the truth have a nice day Do not do business with this company as they give False statements

May 17, 2019
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Dear Jason,

We need to clarify some points regarding your testimonial.

1. The original discussion of your website was in April of 2016 and we have developed a design of your website for free. You have asked for coupon features etc. You have approved the layouts and then disappeared.
2. Later, in December 2016 you have confirmed that you want it and promised to pay ASAP. We agreed that you will pay half on start and a half on the finish.
3. The first payment was received on Feb 6th, 2017 and Semalt development team made a website and you have asked for additional changes in the website layout that were made with no extra cost. This was the initial sync of all the products you sell, tech specialists made a good job cleaning up all the issues with tag indexing and canonicalization.
4. On June 1st, 2017 we have finished our work, provided you test access and asked you to give us your hosting details and make a payment for the remaining half of the price.
5. Since then you promised to make a final payment each time and after 13 months, on July 5th, 2018 you finally made a payment and received another request from us to provide the hosting details to publish your website. There was also a recommendation of which package to choose with the pricing explanation. This is when our specialists made sync of all products listed on your old website. No extra charge for you.
6. On Dec 27th, 2018 you have finally purchased the hosting package, unfortunately, the wrong one and we have recommended contacting “hosting provider” to switch to a better package for the less price. We have even found and sent you a coupon for 30% off for that.
7. On Jan 10th, 2019 we have given you the access credentials of your new website with all products transferred, a payment system set up etc and provided the manual on how to use the WordPress system and WooCommerce.
8. On Jan 11th, 2019 you have claimed that the website is too hard for you to understand (WordPress with WooCommerce) even with the detailed manual, that you don’t want to pay for the hosting annually and you want your money back.
9. On Apr 12th you have broken the setup of the website while trying to experiment and we have restored everything and gave you a testing platform that we could recover asking you to practice there.
10. On Apr 18th we have asked you to once more review the list of the products you serve and mark if there are products you don’t ship but they were listed on the website. You agreed that the website is very good and told that you will check the list of products ASAP and send it to Semalt. It took you 6 weeks to review the products you sell but you never returned the file that you had to mark available/not available. It takes about 2 hours to mark +/- and you are trying to make your laziness our responsibility.
11. Within the period you haven’t made it to check the availability of your products, you have broken the website twice. We have restored and provided you access to an “easy-to-restore” copy of your website to learn and practice WordPress and WooCommerce to avoid any harm made to the live website.
Starting May 17th you started posting fake reviews of Semalt on Trustpilot.

Sorry for such a detailed explanation, but it was needed for a better understanding of the case. To summarize the above mentioned. During the process of cooperation with the client, we keep the highest standards of what we do and how we do it. You have received a custom product that was edited on your behalf with no extra charges made. You have missed all the agreed payment terms and claim for a refund because you cannot understand how it works even with the manual.

PS. WordPress has a 32% share of the websites to be a platform for blogging, e-commerce and other kinds of websites. Over 60 mln of users found it easy to use for their business and hobby

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Semalt remove all of their links when you stop paying!

The backlinks Semalt create will be removed when you stop using their services. This happened to our website and our traffic has taken a hit as a result.

The links created when paying for Semalt should be left alone, it is wrong to remove them later. Evidence was even supplied by Semalt to show what they have done.

Avoid!

Shame on Google for making this kind of problem. SEO is the wild west, completely unregulated and a minefield for people to get taken for a lot of money. There are a lot of peoiple out there trying the make an honest living and Google is making it very diffilcult.

May 15, 2019
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Reply from Semalt

Dear Trevor,

Thanks for the feedback.
Replying to your concern we should admit that according to Semalt subscription terms after the cancelation we stop maintaining the link juice provided before. We don't sell backlinks - but we provide a complex SEO promotion campaign that includes both internal and external optimization. And we inform every client about our terms which also are available on our website.
The goal of SEO is to make the website fully compliant with the latest Google requirements.
Google tends to show only the best websites in the TOP and every webmaster should maintain and improve the website continuously.

Semalt team

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