Is TOPSEOs legit?

[ProsperoDigital]

My Company has received a #1 Ranking for best Link Building company and #7 Best PPC Management company in South Africa. This sounds great but I'm not really sure that we earned these rankings. I'm the only person that does internet marketing (SEO, SMM and PPC) at my company and I am still working on our processes but these processes are no where close to perfect yet. So my question is, is this www.topseos.co.za a legit company and are the rankings that we achieved on this site actually worth anything? Regards, Shaun

[AnthonyMangia]

TopSEOs is a scam at worst, and a waste of time and money at best.  It's the modern day version of those "Who's Who" books - you can pay to get in, so the rankings are essentially meaningless.

Aaron Wall took the company to task a few years back: TopSEOs.com: A Review of the Top SEOs Paid Rating Service

And if you want the official SEOmoz opinion, here's a tweet of Rand's endorsement of the abovementioned blog post.

[AlanBleiweiss]

Just to add Anthonys response, I wrote an entire series of expose' articles on them last year, and lots of discussion took place on Sphinn throughout last summer.  While they did make several major changes to how they operate after I exposed them in a detailed manner, the core of their business has not changed.  Bottom line, any company that either pays them for the right to display an "award" badge, and any company that displays an "award" badge even if it's not paid for, is a tainted company.

Companies like TopSEOs are pathetic marketing ripoffs.

[ProsperoDigital]

Thanks for the help guys! It is sad that you still get companies out there like this one...

Have a good one!
Shaun