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Yes, thank you so much, I will. What I'm concerned about is how bad this was in the first place. The way this company markets themselves is completely out of line with with the state of the build and the advice they give my employers. My bosses LOVE these guys because they are supposedly #technology #experts that do national speaking engagements about #success

What I see from them is mostly paid product endorsements, outsourced workforce, and #broisms on social media.

They're fast talking sales people that are delivering a product to people who don't understand what they are getting (or not getting) under the hood.

Ok, so it's TWO companies.

One is the marketing company that provides the website, the other is a local SEO company that created just the www version of our search console.

We own the domain, but the marketing company has the only access to the website files/ hosting. I'm guessing we are on a shared server with their other clients, so we will not get access. They have front end people on the team, but no understanding of SEO whatsoever. When I came on there was no sitemap or robots file submitted to search console, for example.

As far as the Search Console issue, I actually have a friend at that company there that told me their setup is proprietary. We no longer have a relationship with that company, and the owner of our company was also an owner on Search Console. I managed to remove all the reps from this company by unverifying, so that is no longer a problem! Maybe you helped me in spirit. I tried to do this a few times before and didn't find the way, but right after your response I did.

So now at least, the only issue is with the duplicate staging site and the ghost spam. I'd really prefer that the company take the staging files down. My employers paid a to of money for this site and are paying a large monthly retainer. At the very least we should have a clean build. It's over 4,000 duplicate pages, so I think that is going to have to be on them.

As far as ghost spam, I'll read the articles and get er done.

Thank you so much for your thoughtful response.

My company employed a national marketing company to create their site, which was obviously outsourced to the lowest bidder. It looks beautiful, but has a staging site with all duplicate content in the installation. I am not seeing these issues in search console, and have had no luck getting the staging site removed from the files. How much should I be banging the drum on this? We have hundreds of high level crawl errors and over a thousand in midlevel.

Of course I was not around to manage the build. I also do not have ftp access

I'm also dealing with major search console issues.

The account is proprietarily owned by a local SEO company and I can not remove the owner who is there by delegation.

The site prefers the www version and does not read the same traffic for the non www version

We also have something like 90,000 backlinks from 13 sites.

And a shit ton of ghost spam.

Help!