Anyone heard of www.altus.se

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I am changing jobs in Feb and moving to another co. in Japan. I recently heard that they have employed an SEO firm to improve their site ranking. I am a suspicious person, so I asked who it was. The co. is www.altus.se and I was wondering if anyone else had heard of them?



I think they might be dodgy because:



- They say they have been in business since 1998, but the WayBack Machine only shows a site at that URL from 2003.

- Their own site has PR0 on my toolbar.

- site:URL search on Google reveals none of their site pages in the G index.



So I am very very suspicious and warned my new employer, but I was wondering if anyone here had had any experience of them....

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[meoom]

Found this on Matt Cutts' blog. Altus does not look reputable:

Quote:

Nikke Said,



December 19, 2005 @ 6:51 am



Hi Matt,



Since you keep getting back to those black hat SEOs, and I’m in a position where I’m trying to understand our local Swedish varieties of the same kind, I just have to ask you a question.



When a very black hat SEO company dissapeared from Googles index recently, there where many who considered it as a good sign for Swedish SEO. Almost immediately the other large Swedish SEO firms started cleaning up their acts.



When the site emerged again, after just a couple of days, it sends a very strange message to these companies. Sure, they cleaned up their main site, but they are still doing the same ugly things out there on the web. Sneaky redirects, hidden links to link farms, cloaked dooray pages, links from their ususpective client’s sites to link farms…. Like

http://www.google.se/search?q=intitl...se"&filter=0



No. I realise that this is a question I should as through another forum, but I happen to believe that you are te best person to explain the policies behind this.



Best regards,

Nikke

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It seems that Altus is operating a link farm on their clients' sites. (Do their clients even know about this?):



http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q...ltus&FORM=QBNO



Check out the spam text and hidden links (back to Altus), of course, on one of their many client sites:



http://www.peltor.se/



(You need to look at the source to see the spammy text and links that the robot sees.)



What is even worse is that they they are claiming to be "ethical" members of SEMPO and luring in new unsuspecting prospects every day.



[The information in the post was true at the time of writing. I hope Altus decides to clean up their act, in which case at some point in the future what I have written here may no longer be relevant. In the meantime, buyer beware! Check these people out thoroughly - and if they are doing anything like this still, run!]

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