Pay Google for Organic spot on first page?

[Trevor Smith]

Hi all,

I tried to search if a post of this question existed but I did not find any; I was called by Google offering me an organic position on the first page for 10 keyword phrases for $1,200 a year. This does not include click costs because it is organic. My result will be under all of the PPC ads. But first page is guaranteed, and among the spots on the first page, the customers, myself included, are shuffled among the spots so we all have top spot evenly. 

What is the catch here?? How could anyone possibly ever rank on the first page naturally through SEO, if people can pay $1,200 to beat them? $1,200 for a year!? It sounds too good to be true. 

It just doesn't make sense. I have heard of people paying $5,000 a month to SEO experts to make their SEO good enough for the first page. 

Does anyone know what is the deal with this? 

Thank you!

[Dan Barrett]

@Trevor Smith WARNING - WARNING - THIS IS NOT LEGIT!

First of all, Google does not auction off organic rankings - organic rankings are, by definition, unpaid.

This is a marketing company pretending to be Google, which is  HUGE red flag. 

Secondly, no legitimate marketing company will guarantee you any particular ranking. All rankings fluctuate and vary depending on time of day, competition, market, etc.

Thirdly, there is no way to "shuffle you among the spots" day to day - no marketing company can control this.

You are absolutely right to assume this is too good to be true and should run, not walk, away from this as fast as possible.

That said, here's what I think is actually going on here - some company may be trying to rank sites within your market, then sell the leads from that site. So, they rank a site, then on Tuesday you get the leads from it, then Wednesday someone else does, etc.

In any case, this company is being INCREDIBLY disingenuous. It's a straight up scam!

Please let me know if you have any questions - I would be 100% happy to talk this over with you or look over anything they send you. But please, do not give these people any money. :-)