Create another website on a different domain . If one website is good, then two or three must be better, right? I hate vendors who do this, and even some big companies do. Why bother working on the main website when you can do it on a website you control, right? It is even worse when they use a call tracking number instead of the actual number and also hijack
Google My Business listings. I had the worst headaches after a few companies did this and then went through a service like Yext that locked NAP listings for the following year. Canonical tags . I've seen so many shady things with canonical tags it's another site without fax number list changing the canonical, or I saw the canonical set as the web design company. Some of tI've even had companies funnel an entire website to a different website when it was handed
over, thinking it wouldn't be noticed or to boost one of their other clients, Content reuse . I see this with many niche SEO providers. Service pages and blogs will be used on thousands and sometimes tens of thousands of websites. I guess there are only so many ways to write about the same thing, so they didn't even bother. The worst I saw was a dentist whose service