Semalt Reviews 323

TrustScore 2.5 out of 5

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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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  1. SEO Service

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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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2.3

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TrustScore 2.5 out of 5

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Semalt publishes fake reviews on their website using names of people who never used their "products"

Response to semalt:

Aw, did I strike a nerve with you, semalt? Why are you so angry, guys? Of course you wanted to reply pathetically as soon as you got word of a negative review and in your "professional" style attacked the reviewer and denied all claims. Such a surprise! Don't ever think your pathetic company that doesn't even bother to list accurate contact information can call me abusive or "nontolerant" which is not even a word. Your lack of professionalism in all your "responses" to negative reviews is laughable. I have the proof. I have proof of all the lawsuit that you lost and the police report about you using my name and many others to make phony reviews about your site. There are many many reviews online showing the same problem that I have outlined where your company posts fake reviews using names of people who have no connection with your company. Good luck finding all of them and trying to "neutralize" those negative reviews with your defensive and poorly worded personal attacks against each and every one of the thousands of us who have reviewed your "company."

TO EVERYONE READING THIS: contact the FCC and the FTC along with your state attorney general's office and tell them about what semalt really does with your personal information. I have checked and no one else in the world has the same name as me, it does not exist in any other country. It was only shown online in the Equifax hack from a few years ago. It shows how much you love to cooperate with people when you say "it seems you have trumped up the charge against semalt," the friendly wholesome old fashioned data miner LOL. Also, claiming that you have clients around the world doesn't mean that you are excused from data mining in Ukraine and pretending that you can speak English, when YOU are the one responding to me. Your claim is that your company has clients all over the world, how does that have anything to do with the cheap responses YOU make solely from Eastern Europe. I really don't care what something like you thinks of me. I'm not giving you more of my personal information so that you can keep posting reviews with my name. You'll be spending your time in court, from now on, you pathetic trash.

To the russian hacker that changed their cheap response to my review. Why were you so afraid to sign your name to my review but not the others. You like posting other's information, why be such a hypocrite and hide your name. If I were you, I would not take dear leader trump's name in vain, you love that orange clown and look up to him. I emailed you the proof and contacted the police but you are pretty tough hiding behind your computer in the Eastern Bloc and adding phony reviews as soon as a truthful negative one is submitted. It seems pretty tolerant of you to post reviews without someone's permission, right? Nice try attempting to call me a racist or whatever you thought the translation was from russian. Let's see how tolerant your company is of LGBT people or immigrants, since after all you are the experts in tolerance and progressive values. Kinda the pot calling the kettle black. I encourage everyone to contact their state's DOJ to shut their scam down.

Semalt has published "reviews" on their website that come from people who have never heard of their company nor used their "product" whatever their product is supposed to be. They operate in Ukraine, and therefore feel comfortable posting reviews on behalf of people without their knowledge and in a country that has lax laws and no attorney general offices to take them to court for their tactics. If you call their phone number, it is disconnected. If you email them, you will not receive a response, over in Ukraine it may be fine, but in America it is not okay to posts someone's name on a website without their permission and make a phony review praising a company with said associated name. I have noticed on this website that semalt loves to respond to the myriad of negative reviews it has, and in poorly-worded broken English, of course. It's the only time they bother to respond, very customer-service oriented. They use their cheap responses to personally attack the reviewer and deny everything they have been documented actually doing, rethink your optics when you do things like that. Semalt, you are pathetic. You are scum. You can try to type out a crappy response to this with your limited knowledge of English and deny your tactics to boost your company's reputation. But, your day is coming and people are watching your actions. You won't last much longer. Good luck! Dasvidaniya!

4 July 2018
Unprompted review
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Reply from Semalt

Dear Sir/Madam,

Thanks for spending so much time to write the review here.

In fact, Semalt cooperates with the clients from over the world. Not all of them are native English speakers, so your remark according to the poor English language can be considered as abusive and nontolerant.

All of the reviews on our website are provided by our customers. It seems that you have trumped up the charge against Semalt.
Looking forward to seeing the real evidence from you.

Sincerely yours,
Semalt Company

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I started work with Semalt 1 year…

I started work with Semalt 1 year ago... my business connected with traveling and there a lot of compentitors. you should know, that to raise you site up you need a time...but it good investments to your business. Be sure, you will give your money back fast.

2 July 2018
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

It's impeccable

It's impeccable. They will go the extra step and even help you correct issues with any problems with the website. Keep doing good job

30 June 2018
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Generous team at Seamalt

Generous team at Seamalt. To my surprise, the same keywords I had researched as top keywords are the same ones they have selected. They have been a significant aspect in our companies success. We are optimistic about the future and we do recommend Seamalt services to anyone who wants their internet business to thrive!

25 June 2018
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Good

Good, prompt support. I found a little issue afterwards which was solved very quickly. Would definitely work with them again!

24 June 2018
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

The entire Semalt team really put on a…

The entire Semalt team really put on a great job. We initially had issues with our website. The Semalt team helped us out and at their judgement offered us a decision even though we were outside of the trial period. Very professional - thank you!

23 June 2018
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great job

Great job! Their team is very responsive with great customer service. Semalt was Amazing from start to …

20 June 2018
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Wonderful company and wonderful people

Wonderful company and wonderful people.

Articles written are very informative and simple to understand and in researching they are always very accurate. This company is one who works hard and always places the customer and employees first and foremost.

14 June 2018
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

GOOGLE NOT SHOW MY WEBSITE AND DETECT EXTRA MONEY

My website was appearing on page 1-5 of Google. Now you can not see anything on Google

And I Already Pay 0.99$ But detect extra money 1.20$

14 June 2018
Unprompted review
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Reply from Semalt

We are very sorry that you have been charged more than you expected, but we have nothing to do with it.
Let us make it clear to you. According to our policy, we charge $0.99 monthly for the services we provide, and not a cent more. The sum that was withheld from your account is your country tax. If you want to get your money back, the only option is to contact the tax service department in your country.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Very impressed with Semalt

Very impressed with Semalt. We started with AutoSEO which worked really well and within 4 months we upgraded to FullSEO. And they did very good result.

9 June 2018
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

If you want close your business go with SEMALT

Hello, All future Clients of SMALT,

I want to share my experience with SEMALT and share sincere suggestions with you guys.

If you want to close your business ( Website), you have two options.
1)Just delete your website and close the hosting account /server
2)Go with SEMALT they will do all necessary things to disappear from Google.

Before giving the contract to them, many of my keywords were ranking from 1 to 3 page of Google, after 10 to 12 days working with SEMALT, it’s vanished from Google.

These guys started some cheap links to my site porn, gambling, drugs what not all the carp from the internet is linked to my website. This caused severe damage to my one revenue generating page. Now I am almost gone from google.

If you have any plans to shut down your business, you are welcomed by SEMALT.
Note: Now look at SEMALT response this wolf will jump into this review start justifications stating,
Possible Example of their justifications will be like this,
“We have increased your SERP ranking; please find the screenshots -- Mostly they attach here )”
“ It is a very low period to judge on SEO “
“We never have linked you to any porn.”

Dear SEMALT,

If you don’t know SEO shut your mouth. Don't argue.

7 June 2018
Unprompted review
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Reply from Semalt

Dear Medha Cloud,

We reviewed your specific case and want to note that your comment doesn’t reflect the actual situation. During our cooperation, your site rankings have grown significantly.
For your information, there is a tendency among Indian businesses to take out the competition by placing links to porn and drug websites. If you are sure that it’s our fault as a SEO agency, but not your competitors’ machinations, we demand concrete proofs from you. Without real facts your accusations are baseless therefore your evaluation of our work has nothing to do with reality.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Good work

Good work! Keep on doing this. I have got Amazon SEO. I am absolutely satisfied with the result. They helped me to use Amazon's marketing efforts to my advantage! Their unique technology of massive backlink building made Google associate Product page with the key phrases I need forcing my store to the Top results.

4 June 2018
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

It's awesome

It's awesome! To just say that Semalt met those expectations would be a severe understatement. They did effective results in the shortest terms possible. They made our website visible for our potential clients. And on top of all that, they sure know how to make our website fully compliant with SEO standards. Thank you so much.

1 June 2018
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great company

Great company to work with! The number of our website visitors has significantly increased and, consequently, the sales have boosted.

31 May 2018
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Quick and professional

Quick and professional. Thanks a lot! We have a lot of site visitors. Our goal was to attract targeted organic traffic and we have achieved it thanks to Semalt.

29 May 2018
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

All my keywords go down in the 3 months of my subcription:

All my keywords go down in the 3 months of my subcription :
12 instead of 15 in top 1
28 instead of 40 in top 3
50 instead of 75 in top 10
125 instead of 150 in 30
200 instead of 235 in top 100

29 May 2018
Unprompted review
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Reply from Semalt

Dear J. Green

Thank you for your review. We have looked into your case, and would like to break it down to provide more information for other users.

First, you have signed up for trial and then started AutoSEO for 3 months. During our partnership, we have mentioned errors that you should fix to make sure they will not prevent your site from getting higher ranking, but they were not fixed. Also we asked you to write SEO content using relevant keywords, but it also didn’t happen. As you can see on the screenshot (http://myprintscreen.com/s/1527595067.02786192.png), we did our work and within three months we have increased the amount of backlinks. Such result is good for your site.

Considering all of these points, we can state that your criticism is highly dubious, as you never followed our instructions and refused to implement the suggested site changes on your own.


We wish you the best of luck. Have a nice day!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Excellent service of great staff and…

Excellent service of great staff and talent. Our company specializes in design engineering of wooden constructions and their installation. We have decided to develop a website in order to boost online sales. For a few years, the website with quality and unique content had poor rankings in Google TOP. The result of their work is the dramatic increase in organic traffic.

27 May 2018
Unprompted review

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