Anonymous
map-marker Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Warning

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SCAM AND FRAUD DONT GIVE THIS COMPANY YOUR TIME OR MONEY!!! The website looked so unprofessional and they were hard to reach in order to change and correct stuff!!! Wrong information about my business on the website and they never changed it!!! No money back for unfinished website either. Website never got completed!!!
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User's recommendation: Find a legit company

Kristi C Hdg

Like a 3rd grader wrote it. Waste of time.

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Highly disappointed. Paid a couple thousand dollars with the promise of quality content to improve SEO. Every single article or video was terrible. Nothing made sense. there was misinformation and false promises throughout. Final straw was when they added this content to our website without permission. Gave 2 stars because our contact, Scarlet, was responsive and understanding. Otherwise, this service was a waste of money and especially time. Just submitted the cancellation form and hopefully they are not liars as well when it comes to their money-back guarantee.
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Pros:
  • Good communication
  • Refund promised
Cons:
  • False promises
  • Low quality content
  • Misinformation uninformed

Preferred solution: Full refund

User's recommendation: Do Not waste the time and energy it will take to try to use this service.

Vinicius D Rrz

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| map-marker Port Orange, Florida

Horrible service all around

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I used Searchberg for a few projects and let me explain the situation with one and why you should NOT work with the company. #1 Your project manager will always be in a meeting when you call, since the time I signed up with them, I have had 3 different project managers and the issue is the same, they will never be readily available when you call, then the receptionist will tell you that they will get a message over to them and they will call back but NO, they wont call back they will send an email.

They keep switching project managers, this says a lot already. #2 I purchased a website, with 1 year of maintenance, they should make it clear before you sign up that maintenance is NOT website edits, it's simply making sure your website is up and running (which doesnt take much time or effort), and any further changes you may need, ex: need product, title change, price change, etc, will come at an extra cost. OK, fine, let's say I was aware of this and was okay with it, when it comes time for me personally to enter the WP backend to make my own changes, I can not access the entire backend because they used a paid theme and kept the credentials for themselves. So pretty much, to enter the backend of the installed theme that they purchased to create the site, I need the credentials for it, I asked them for it considering the website is MINE and I paid for FULL OWNERSHIP of it, they are requesting I pay to get the credentials for the theme backend.

SO now, I am stuck in this circle where they tell me I need to pay for further edits or do the edits myself, then I try to do the edits myself, and OH! I cant because I dont have access to it. What a pickle.

#3 Their communication is extremely poor and email responses take several days.

#4 They do not provide any additional value. They wont provide recommendations on how to make your website better, nothing.

As a matter of fact, they literally do what you tell them and if you are not a website expert they will create a poorly designed site based on your requests when in fact, a trustworthy agency would give pointers as well as provide feedback on why certain things should NOT be done on your site.

#5 They promise mobile-friendly sites and DO NOT produce it. I have requested over several weeks to have my website edited based on what I paid for, MOBILE FRIENDLY, and they ignore my requests.

Do not do business with them.

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Cons:
  • Horrible all around

Preferred solution: Full refund

User's recommendation: STAY FAR AWAY!

Anonymous
map-marker Ashburn, Virginia

Data driven internet marketing plan

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Hi, My team has created a revenue-driven, analytical internet marketing plan for your websitethat will facilitate the growth of your business with a consistent flow of leads. We would like to share that report with you. Can we have a good email address to send you that reportand a contact number to discuss it? We offer free marketing consultation to help businesses succeed during these difficult times.Our wide range of services include web content and blog writing starting at just $18, satisfaction guaranteed. Let me know if you are interested and wellset up a time to chat. Regards, Jay Melendez Account Manager SearchBerg.net 855-444-****
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Orlando H

Horrible experience, they are a 1000% scam

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I paid for their promise to improve my SEO rankings for my website but they on the contrary made my website rankings worse and two of my affiliates programs canceled my accounts because of the way searchberg set up my PPC Ads campaigns
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Loss:
$950
Cons:
  • Scammers
  • Liers

Preferred solution: Full refund

User's recommendation: Run away, do not throw your money away go to Vegas and have a good time instead

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They need to be honest about who they are to start with! Their office in New York is a virtual address and they are a call center based in Pakistan. I don't want to do business with any company that lies the way they do.

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Feel that I was fleeced for $3,000 by promised results next week, next month......h.

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JJuly 6, 2020

SEARCHBERG

Attn: Rick Faultner & Jay Melendez

Consider this letter as notice to cease all social media marketing campaigns on my behalf.

Beginning December 23, 2019 to January 6, 2020, I paid Searchberg $1,675 to rework a website, reformat a 114 page ebook and social media marketing setup / research.

From February 6, 2020 to date, I have paid $800 for a Searchberg social media marketing campaign and $736 in Facebook ads for a Total of $1,536. Five months of Searchbergs social media marketing campaign has resulted in 31 sales for a total of $155!

Projected goals were 1000 sales per month.

I have received weekly and monthly reports stating that Searchberg is doing a good job and be patient. I simply cannot afford to be patient any longer.

The bottom line is that I have spent $3,211 with Searchberg and have received $155 as a return on my investment of time and money!

I reviewed the Searchberg website this morning and I must admit is a great website!

It makes great promises and guarantees! It is what got my attention and commitment as a client.

My Searchberg experience has monetarily been dismal and disappointing to say the least with regard to promises and guarantees made on the website and by contact personnel.

Please advise if I am entitled to any recourse and how I go about taking control of my website and ebook.

Sincerely,

George Russell

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Loss:
$3
Cons:
  • Empty promises to do better in the next month

Preferred solution: Let the company propose a solution

Huey W

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Don’t fall for the three month deal at because it don’t exist.

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I was told if I paid for three months up front I would get the fourth free, not true. And the keywords for home health never ranked at all. And when all of my resell Ive sent to leave at the end of the three month deal leaves. I bet the Walter will understand.
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Loss:
$1100
Reason of review:
Not as described/ advertised

Preferred solution: Let the company propose a solution

Al N Nqq

STAY AWAY BY ALL MEANS!

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Stay away by all means! This is a fraud based on supposedly marketing company that promised the moon to their buyers and yet they do not do a crap. They claim to refund in full in the first 30 days if buyers are not satisfied, well good luck with receiving your refund back. The reason for it is because they do not know anything regarding SEO and they make your work period instead lol. I had to email them 100 times in order to receive my funding and I ended up receiving a fake made-up receipt that shows transaction is pending! WOW! I already alerted my bank and Fraud Department of NYC based on their fake advertisement. DO NOT DO IT PERIOD. Thanks
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Loss:
$200
Pros:
  • Fruad
Cons:
  • Fraud
Reason of review:
Return, Exchange or Cancellation Policy

Preferred solution: Full refund

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Guest

Did the bank refund you your money?

Anonymous

Very bad service

very bad service, im pissed off with their service they dont do any of what they promised all their back links are terrible. their content and keywords research are very superficial their response time is very very slow keyword ranking and indexing in 4 months only 2 keywords improved from 45 keywords they are a complete rip off and i dont recommend them to anyone
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Jamal g Tzf
map-marker Bentonville, Arkansas

Refused to refund my money

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They are slow, would not put what I was want on my site, had my money since November,2, hear it's December 24, nothing,they want me to sign off on thier half sloppy work, mis- lable of products, after I sent details clearly, refused to refund my money after numerous emails,staff that seems unqualified, Mark grants of searchberg.com said in so many words I would be making an enemy for requesting a refund.public beware of this outfit,I've filed complaints with new York state office of corporations, the attorney general, the BBB, Federal trade commission, and with my bank, and with Google partner ship program, this people are jerks at search berg.com of New York, I've will file a complaint with criminal div. Of internal revenue section: these joker's won't return my $500., From Jamal Graham of no website because of those jerks:(877)236-****/essences of Jamal.com

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I have the same issue they took my money since October 2019 its June 18, 2020 and still didnt want to give my website to me because thet want me to take off the bad review I gave them which are all true. Do not use this company full of scam.

Fraud... dont waste your money

Jeremy H Zrt

Infected my site with malware

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Updated by user Jul 02, 2018

Send a notarized letter to Pissed Consumer (Consumer Opinion LLC, 1930 Village Center Circle #3-6853, Las Vegas, NV 89134). You must make sure that the notarized letter you are sending includes all the required points: Review #125**** a statement that you are the user...

Updated by user Jun 06, 2018

I just bought the web site That I had searchberg do some SEO work, we ran into all kind of problems from the previous owner. unfortunately we did find some malware and unknowingly thought it came from searchberg. When my developer and I discovered this was coming from...

Updated by user May 24, 2018

This issue has been corrected my site is ok now

Original review May 13, 2018
I paid them $600 and they wrecked my site traffic Jeremy Holmes I want my money back... They gave me some song and dance as to how they were ripping me off.

Seriously My site traffic was 90% reduced since they messed with my site. I also have malware and my site is https. I was totally ripped off, STAY AWAY My hosting offered a better service than these people Rick and Jostue I wish I never tried there services... Was a total waste of money.

I wish I never trusted them with admin access. I was making money with my ads but not anymore.

I don't know how these guys stay in business. Its a total ripoff.
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Loss:
$800
Reason of review:
Bad quality

Preferred solution: Full refund

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Huey W

I was told if I paid for three months up front I would get the fourth free, not true. And the keywords for home health never ranked at all.

And when all of my resell I’ve sent to leave at the end of the three month deal leaves. I bet the Walter will understand.

Robina Hvl
map-marker New York, New York

Searchbergs' guarantee is worth nothing

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I was a customer of Searchberg. Signed on with the guarantee to stop at any time - no questions asked.

They were very nice and convincing. After we started it turned out that searchbergs' offer was very expensive and I wanted to stop within the first 30 days. I found that out because I mentioned the price in a google seminar and the other attendees were shocked. So I wanted to stop and have my money back - referring to the guarantee.

Then the trouble started. They twisted everything around and tried to keep me in. Endless telephone calls led to nothing. All money back?

No way.

So, the guarantee is only a sales argument. When it comes down to it, they try everything not to give you all your money back.

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Reason of review:
Return, Exchange or Cancellation Policy

Preferred solution: Full refund

Anonymous
map-marker New York, New York

Save your money and time

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Do't trust them , they charged me $ 2500 and no result , they are a big scam and they will never refund your money . I filed a complaint with bbb but they never responded ,they don't exist in the us . They scammed people running business in the us and never pay taxes .. I filed a note complaint with FTC and waiting for the result. Simply take your money somewhere else and don't do business with those crooks. They keep telling next month you will see a result , month after month nothing happened, too many execuses. Those people are abroad somewhere in the overseas , but that girl scarlet whatever she is from an answering service and she is the one is giving false promises.
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Anonymous

Name of the Pakistani company owns Searchberg

Here is the company that owns SearchBerg. http://logicose.com/. The domain was previously registered in the name of the CEO of the company that is Rahim Tejani. The company also owns another content creator site named "ContentDevelopmentPros.com. The company basically cons its customers while milking their employees by having them work unimaginable hours for as little as $2-5/day. The story is all the same: Here is the story of the company who is the owner of Logicose defrauding people with fake degrees. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/11/world/asia/pakistan-axact-degree-scam.html This is nothing new for companies from India and Pakistan, where this is modus operandi and pretty normal. Call centers calling seniors to scare them into paying million of dollars, or cheating men with slick looking women calling to get them to buy stuff on their credit cards. BEWARE, BE VERY AWARE!
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Loss:
$4000
Reason of review:
Bad quality

Preferred solution: Full refund

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True

Jamira Mgc
map-marker New York, New York

Never trust and SEO company from Pakistan

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Updated by user Feb 26, 2016

After posting this review I received a call from the company saying that it was essentially my fault that they couldn't do their work and suggested investing (sinking) more money in the venture. What a bunch of crooks.

Original review Feb 07, 2016
I hired these guys and they put me on automatic plan for payment. It has been two months and they have charged me twice but nothing concrete has been delivered yet.

Yet every week they send me a report that my rankings are this high and that high, but nothing to show for in traffic and sales.

To top it off they hire their own goons to leave favorable reviews to mask the reviews by real customers.


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Cons:
  • Misrepresentation of being based in the us
  • Poor results in improving my sites traffic
  • Shoddy content
Reason of review:
Problem with delivery
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Anonymous
map-marker New York, New York

They are located in Pakistan and not the US

Listen to the lady on the phone promising you the world in highly accented English and then get screwed royally in the process. If you do not believe me go and see the content samples on their site and read it for yourself. It sounds like some guy sitting in a hut in backwaters of Pakistan or something writing 'em. The content they produced for me was full of spelling errors grammatical errors and completely rewritten from someone else's stuff. I have a clothing site and they were writing content like they were on a completely different planet altogether. LVP CASE ID 16-V0015 On September 26, 2016, Complainant submitted a complaint in accordance with the Legitimacy Verification Program (“LVP”). The complaint alleged, in part, that posts 785603, 762342, 774973, 785582, 857953, 865014, and 899677 (the “Posts”) contained statements in violation of Pissed Consumer’s Terms of Use. The Posts’ authors (“Posters”) were offered an opportunity to respond to the complaint, as provided in LVP Rule 9, but each failed to do so. Thus, the Posts and the supplemental information provided by Complainant constitute the LVP Record. Having considered the LVP Record, the Third Party Neutral finds as follows: • Posts 758603 and 865014 should be removed and the review title regenerated to remove reference to the Complainant and related company. It is more likely than not that the statements in each of these posts are untruthful and inaccurate and, therefore, violate Pissed Consumer’s Terms of Use. • Posts 774973 and 785582 should remain. • Post 762342’s title should be redacted and that the first paragraph removed. The second and third paragraphs should remain. It is more likely than not that the title and the first paragraph are untruthful and inaccurate and, therefore, violate Pissed Consumer’s Terms of Use. • Post 857953’s title should be redacted and two statements in the post should be removed. It is more likely than not that the title and statements at issue are untruthful and inaccurate and, therefore, violate Pissed Consumer’s Terms of Use. • Post 899677 should be redacted to remove the last four paragraphs. It is more likely than not that the last four paragraphs are untruthful and inaccurate and, therefore, violate Pissed Consumer’s Terms of Use. Dated: November 21, 2016
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Reason of review:
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