hurray Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 Hi guys,I was wondering how much risk we run into by letting our SEO expert access our server and back-panel of e-commcerce shop.He/she will have access to our account information, monthly earrings and other private information.Can he/she take undue advantage of it?Has anyone encountered some unpleasant experience with their SEO expert? Or if you are a SEO expert,have you or do you see ways to blackmail and take advantage of your clients?Please share your opinions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razaro Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 Hi First thing to clear out is that you can limit SEO expert access to back office so can hide information that you choose. Check http://doc.prestashop.com/display/PS16/Employee+Profiles and next chapter http://doc.prestashop.com/display/PS16/Profile+permissions. And for unpleasant experiences yeah fried of mine had problem with one "expert" that used black hat methods and also used store to promote other websites, so lot of spam. And that got store removed from Google. After that one other agency, also "experts", tried to repair the damage but they just wasted more time. At the end friend got job onto himself and after lot of work, 7-8 tries and lot of email to Google he got site back and it is working fine now. So choose carefully and my advice is to get someone through someone you know, where you can see work and results done. One last thing, you need to have bit of trust, not all are going to blackmail and take advantage of clients. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurray Posted October 25, 2015 Author Share Posted October 25, 2015 Hi Razaro, Thanks for your reply. Yes trust seems to be the key here. One other thing, you may think I am paranoid, but I was wondering, if a SEO expert could divert payments from sales on the site to his account or someother account somewhere else. I know that a SEO expert will have access to customer table, so he will no doubt try to collect email addresses and may be sell them to online marketing companies. I have heard of SEO experts, delaying work or not being very seious in getting results so that the project would last longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrestaHeroes USA Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 An seo expert should be able to make a list of improvements that you can make yourself. Then they would not need access to shop. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razaro Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 An seo expert should be able to make a list of improvements that you can make yourself. Then they would not need access to shop. El Patron is quite right here. And yes it is possible to do things you mention, not by just SEO but anyone you give access, like some developer. But that is why there are restrictions, so you can do not allow access to customers, orders, carts and also payment modules. Or installing some other modules. What you can just allow is categories, products an SEO&URLs maybe, but like El Patron said you can do all that yourself, SEO expert can give you list based on front office. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurray Posted October 25, 2015 Author Share Posted October 25, 2015 Thanks El Patron and Razaro. My SEO expert work on many apsects of my site so he constantly needs the access to back-office and also on the server. I think I am going to create anew profil for him and restrict many of his access. Thanks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simonas Invertus Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 I think you should consider two things: Seo freelancer vs Seo company. If you hire company it probably will be more expensive but company always cares about its reputation if it wants to stay in for long so less likely to do harmful things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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