Semalt Reviews 323

My website's hit counter is artificially inflated because of Semalt scrapers. Ridiculous !

It uses up my company's resources and provides no benefit to me. Selfish !

Hardcore Spammers that are notorious for theft, email spam and even Google Analytics spam. Beware.

EDIT: They have not reached out to me at all. They are lying, as they always do. Nice fake positive reviews too.

This must be a joke. They literally stole my content from a facebook group multiple times, gave no accredidation, CHANGED MY NAME and everyone else involved in the conversation, and claimed it all happened on their website. Just scam, spam, no transparency or credit.

Like many others I found proof that this “company” is a scam. They scrape info from Facebook groups and pretend it is their own. They need to be taken down.

They steal content from others and mess it’s my Analytics with that spam visits. Avoid.

Semalt was recently discovered to be posting content on their site that was scraped from private groups.

Also, if you Google "semalt spam" you will find a lot of articles about the nuisance received by thousands of other companies around the world.

Reply to SEMalt reply below: I run one of the groups you targetted. I found private conversations from our group on your website. People "trying to ruin your reputation" do not have access to post on your website

Semalt is copying content from a facebook group that they have no right to use as they do.
Quick edit, they now started spamming my website with auto-seo-service.org. referrals. Stay away from Semalt

This company are stealing other people’s content.

This company copied information and conversations from private Facebook group and used it as content on their website.

They did this to try to increase authority and improve their online presence for financial gain.

Online information is protected by GDPR and this practise is not allowed. If you Google the company name you will see more unacceptable practises they have taken part of.

Do not trust this company.

UPDATE TO SEMALTS RESPONSE.

Firstly, anyone who wants an independent review of Semalt should just google the words "semalt spam" and read the results for yourself.

This review was not left on this page by mistake as I have confirmed to Trustpilot by return email when they contacted me. I have provided Trustpilot with full details which this review pertains to.

Semalt have not made any unsuccessful attempts to contact me to figure out the issue. They have redirected the Url's of the five stolen facebook posts relating to me from private facebook groups and now those links open their main blog page. I have screenshots from a facebook messenger conversation with them (to view click on my profile image) when I first contacted them to complain in which they replied only once to say;

"Hello! We are exclude your name. Find out the reason for which we have this post"
5th July 2018 at 08.52 GMT

which proves they not only knowingly published my private content on their website but then changed the names in an attempt to cover it up.

I further messaged them but I got no response.

I was never an intentional client of Semalt but they created a personally terrible "Service Experience" for me when they stole my content from facebook and published it for their own seo promotion purposes.

The reason this review has not been removed is because it is factual and true which I showed to Trustpilot when they contacted me. It looks to me like there are many fake reviews for Semalt on here, but this one and the hundreds of other genuine reviews of Semalt and their policy of stealing other peoples facebook content, which Semalt are trying to get Trustpilot to remove, are not the fake ones, they unfortunately are the truth.

ORIGINAL REVIEW

I googled my name to check my Skype username and found a Semalt website blog post consisting of a facebook post that I had originally created in a closed private facebook group for web designers.
To my shock the private post was publicly published on the Semalt website pretending it was a discussion forum of their own.
I contacted them through Facebook and got the reply "Hello! We are exclude your name. Find out the reason for which we have this post"
So once I notified them they changed everyones name in the discussion thread but left the thread up. It is still live even though I asked them to take it down.
This is the blog post of the stolen facebook post.
semalt . com / de / qa / 156398-warning
Update:
I have since found four other posts I created or contributed to in different private Facebook groups that are also published on the Semalt website without permission.

Copied content from a Facebook group which include secure data which is confined to that group. But, Semalt had disclosed our data publicly on their website without any permission.

Content from private Facebook groups appeared publicly on Semalt's website. Completely unacceptable behaviour as the content was posted privately, in confidence, between members. The names of users had been changed / re-generated, but any user that had quoted another user - left a name fully indexable.

When I googled my name, I found half a dozen posts that contained my name - that were publicly visible. It's not acceptable for a company to be publicly displaying comments that I have made privately, when they do not have the authority to do this.

I'm a member of multiple Facebook groups where users have had a similar experience. Carrying out a few Google searches showed hundreds, if not thousands of results from these groups - all with private comments now being publicly indexed.

This type of business practice is not acceptable. I feel sorry for anyone that decides to spend money with them as if their client work is treated in a similar way to their approach to taking content that doesn’t belong to them, one would hope that your money isn’t sprayed up a toilet wall.

Edit: Semalt have since "removed" the content from their website, but this should never have happened in the first place. It's difficult to believe that you weren't aware of thousands of pieces of content being added to your website.

Edit 2: Dear Semalt, in answer to your bizarre response. I'm not a competitor of yours, I have no interest in competing with the market that you target. If one goes to your QA page right now and types in a search query such as "innovator" - you can see pages of content appear, from the private Facebook group "WP Innovator". These were all added to your site around March 2018, without the permission of anyone in the group. You've set a re-direct from the actual posts back to your main QA page - but the content still exists on your website. Likewise, the same search can be performed in Google as "site:semalt.com innovator". Perhaps you want to get your house in order, before you accuse people incorrectly of wanting to be malicious. My review here exists because someone in your team did something that was not right, and it's still actually visible in the search engines - and your website.

Stole copyrighted content from 2 Facebook groups that I am in and most likely others. Avoid this site.

This company is using the content from Facebook Groups they don't manage and publishing it on their website as their own content. I'm a member of a private Facebook group and they published several threads from our group, changing only the names of the people (i found my name on their website forum but i never wrote a letter on their site, so it is a very bad behaviour), on their site here: semalt . com / de / qa / 156398-warning.

This company has been stealing from Closed facebook groups and posting it on their website as publicly available content to boost their own SEO.

This is:

1. Copyright infringment
2. Breach of privacy.

Edit: Semalt removed the content upon our request. They informed me that they had been hacked. They failed to provide any evidence of this. I am happy it was removed but still feel violated.

This shady company is scraping threads from Facebook groups and passing them off as their own content. Shameful.

Much of the content on Semalt's site is stolen from Facebook groups. If they're happy to do that with their own brand, I shudder to think the corners they'll cut on client work.

Remember - you'll be the one getting sued, not them, if they pull this on your job!

*UPDATE *

This was just reported by Semalt for the following reasons:
*****
This comment relates to spam facebook bots from our competitors, as such amount of similar negative comments was posted in a one day. The whole review does not contain any truthful information and posted to ruin our reputation
*****

It claims the review contains no truthful information, which is outright LIES, and very provable