Absolute Reviews

I can only echo the previous horry story Under no circumstances should anyone use this company Having spent 18000 in 4 months with them I ve now got a website that has seen its rankings absolutely pardon the pun tank This has also hurt my daily takings and as a result Absolute has decided to undo all the structural changes to the site and is hoping that Google will start to rank the site again I cannot stress enough just how anybody considering working with these people should avoid them like the plague Remember I ve spend 18000 in 4 months and seen my site tank

Have had no results on my website and found that the back links they created were paid for not organic and were spammy low quality rubbish They will call and be absolutely lovely but not actually telling you of their lack of care and consideration for your business They just want your money and do literally nothing for your site AVOID I raised my concerns and they threw their initial contract at me and said that yes we ve done what we were supposed to which is wildly inaccurate My website is worse off than before and it is going to cost a fair bit to undo the damage

I am not a client of Absolute but I am a company who is having to clean up the mess they have made on a previous clients site I will give their my client the courtesy of anonymity As previous reviewers have pointed out the backlinks they obtain are VERY dubious and outright offensive in some cases I have confirmed that they were paid for by making contact with several of the site owners and asking for paid links - i very quickly got responses that confirm that suspicion As a professional in this industry i can tell you with absolute certainty that this company is ripping you off and you should run from them like the clappers They will do irreparable harm to your website and rinse you for as much cash as possible in the process Metal Potato

Another scam company who write their own reviews This company scams customers their work is shockingly bad so bad that they get their own content writers to write positive reviews using fake accounts The way they treat their staff is beyond shocking bullying intimidation minimum wage salaries unpaid overtime At the first sign of difficulties within the business they just fire 80 of the staff the face-fits employees are always safe shock no furlough no redundancy as they d have to pay for that they just fire them with immediate affect If they were a solid legitimate company they would be robust enough to ride out any economic downturn but no the CEO has to keep up his self indulgent lifestyle so bye bye staff Clients are conned out of thousands of pounds for work that s never delivered Clients that they claim to of done work for on their website are fake the CEO gets their designer to mock up fake websites so it looks like they have a real client base As I mentioned their positive reviews on platforms such as Glassdoor Google etc are written by themselves so stay well away there are thousands of legitimate marketing companies out there who work tirelessly to provide good and honest work for their clients

A Joke of a company thieves who steal money and don t do the work See the reviews on Google Glassdoor etc they write their own 5 star reviews which the CEO forces employees to do he actually dictates them The wording and the language is the same if you look closely They have a massively high staff turnover so they are black listed by recruiters they pay below minimum wage fake clients advertised on their website Con artists who will threaten and intimidate clients who end up out of pocket The CEO illegally sets up fake businesses websites to try and tempt clients to sign up but none of them are real he s been caught out so many times and just rebrands the company to shake off his awful reputation This is a total Del-boy operation full of the CEO s get-rich-quick schemes none of which are legal Do not invest your money or your business with these people

I am wondering after my experience with absolute as a jock of a company they absolutely do nothing and absolutely taking your money if all this 5 starts are legitimate I would leave it as a open question

I Cant tell anything about their work But what I can say is that they are pretty rude on the phone I called to ask something and they just hung up while I was speaking I wont call u back and find another agency

Used this company to set up and run the SEO for my business website I saw they had a lot of mixed reviews online but I decided to give them a chance The guy I initially spoke to Sam Bonner were initially very helpful Responded to emails fast and explained what their plans were upfront After a few weeks this stopped and the company weren t interested in doing anything Spent over 2000 in costs within a few short months Plus all the plug in feature costs I had to buy for the website which were over 100 eachNothing was ever done and no changes were made yet I was charged a fee every month for the work My website kept crashing and being slow due to the add ons and then I was told I would have to pay more to sort that out too I ve since used another company to help with my website and I ve seen a huge difference They even said that the SEO done previously was a joke They didn t take the time to understand my business but were just happy taking my money Also terrible customer service The lady I spoke to Daisy was very rude and dismissive many times and that s when you actually can get through

We were looking for a company to manage our PPC marketing and look to expand this further to social media SEO and grow our business We had been doing this ourselves but soon found the campaigns were getting less cost effective and needed help We approached Absolute as the services they offer cover our current and future requirements and so we spoke to the CEO He assured us the team will look after us despite my reservations of us being a small company and not get the right attention he said they have the knowledge will be proactive and basically shouldn t need to worry too much He advised us a monthly Google budget of 2 5K- 3K to spend to see results After the first 2 months May June we had concerns and so we flag this to the CEO We move to weekly meetings to start trying different things The CEO asked Head of Paid Media to look into this for us Firstly they reviewed our website making suggestions for some quick changes and used heat-map data to show where we are losing our customer on mobile We agree on the changes to improve customer conversion and they made the relevant changes to our website July revenue is half of June In August we had no revenue from PPC and Absolute suggested it was because we had a holiday banner about our two week holiday Another suggestion from Absolute was to offer free delivery as we had already seen this with our competitors So to test the theory we gave Absolute a free delivery promo code We couldn t see this promo code anywhere on Google despite them sending us screenshots to show it is live Yes we did go incognito when checking No one used the promo code and it was live for two months We asked Head of Paid Media to give us a forecast so we can work towards KPIs to market average He gave us a forecast revenue for October November December The revenue stays flat as per September about 10K revenue total costs to pay Google Absolute 3K There were no growth in the plan So if we stayed on we would see the same flat performance - even as we approach the golden quarter of Christmas Trading This is where we just said it s time for us to part We can only go with the facts at the time For 5 months with Absolute we spend 10K with Google paid Absolute 5K to generate a revenue of 24K Not enough to cover our costs where the average revenue is 5K per month and after we pay Google and Absolute around 3K then net off VAT we end with around 1 6K Disappointing part is Absolute still insisted on the notice period even though the results were poor The Finance Director does not acknowledge the performance as being poor or good and she only says they generated a return and there are no guarantees We know there are no guarantees but the performance was not good and they wouldn t acknowledge it We flagged our concerns in July so that s enough notice The revenue didn t improve much after that If they had been honest that performance was not good then we could have agreed to part ways sooner If they were happy that they just generate some revenue then why have Head of Paid Media look into it why have weekly meetings instead of monthly They must have thought it could perform better but it didn t work out then just say so and admit it The Finance Director was only willing to waiver the notice period if we don t write a review This shouldn t be the basis We wanted to understand why it didn t work and from their perspective as an award winning company to give us some insight We wanted to share our experience so other small businesses alike to please take care Maybe the expertise weren t there to understand our business maybe they didn t have the time to spend on our account We won t know We are an online business and you don t need to be a Finance Director to know that if you generate an average 1 6k revenue net Marketing costs and VAT is not good

keep sending spam and email even though we never subscribed to them in the first place THank god we didnt deal with them looking at the reviews