I was actually thinking of throwing something like this together at some point because people will continually get burnt by it time and time again. It's sadly

I was actually thinking of throwing something like this together at some point because people will continually get burnt by it time and time again. It's sadly how I saw a lot of money being made in my consulting experience through clearing up other peoples mess. As I mentioned in the post I am happy to help the guys at JitBit for free to help get them on the right track towards clearing this up because I hate seeing unethical places get away with this kind of crap. As some very basic and high level advice you can do a couple of things to help yourself out. If you want to get a decent feel for someone before engaging them you should ask them to show you examples of clients they have worked on in the past. Take that URL and run it through a tool like Open Site Explorer, MajesticSEO or Ahrefs. If it looks even a little bit spammy I would run the other direction because you are about to pay money to hurt yourself which is the worst of both worlds. If they can't explain to you in a decent amount of detail exactly what they will be doing then you are about to get shafted.