SEO Company claiming our results?

[KempRugeLawGroup]

This company http://www.synapseinteractive.com/portfolio/kempnrugelawgroup.php is linking to us, with a bs graphic about how they improved our rankings for some keywords. I have no idea who this company is. Does this happen often? Also, I'm tempted to contact them to take it down, but I really don't need some questionable company getting annoyed and then linking 10,000 spam sites to me. Any thoughts on what to do?

I'm tempted to just do nothing, but for I ignore it, I want to make sure there's insidious about this link that would cause me any problems down the road. No, I haven't got any GWT or BWT messages about it.

Thanks,

Ruben

[onlinechester]

If it was my site I would contact Google and express your worries exactly as you have put it above. I'd also ask Google if you should disavow the link pointing to your site, or if they will automatically not count it anyway.

Looking at the backlink profile of the site (albeit briefly) It's clear that this is probably not a very reputable company, I'd definitely contact Google,

Good luck!

[jesse-landry]

I'm sorry to be the negative-Nancy here, but I sincerely doubt Google will respond to this situation.

If it were me I would just float on and forget about it. The only time I would take action is if a client or potential client was somehow seeing this, which it sounds like they are not. I would definitely take a screenshot of the page and document it (just in case) and probably disavow it with a note in the comments section of the disavow file as to what is happening (as short as possible.)

I'm  convinced that if anything Google reads those comments sections 1% of the time somewhere between 30-300 days from their upload.

In other words, don't take too much action until it's actually affecting you. This kind of shady company will die off.

I recently discovered a "web design firm" who was linking to my company saying they built our website. I personally built our website from scratch so this is clearly not true. We've ignored them.

People are weird.

[DougRoberts]

Another option would be to set-up a redirect based on the referrer and point any traffic from their site to a specific page stating that there is no commercial relationship between the two businesses. Probably not worth the effort. I'd just document it and get on building my own business.

[EGOL]

OMG!  Go to this page and scroll down to bottom and browse the "Related Portfolio".  They are using smiling face photos for three of your staff attorneys.  No kidding...

http://www.synapseinteractive.com/search-engine-optimization-india/1

I think you should sue their pants off...

Problem, they are in India.

[KempRugeLawGroup]

Thanks everyone. I appreciate the insights, and thanks for pointing out the picture portfolio, EGOL. I hadn't noticed that.

Best,

Ruben

[CommT]

Good idea.