Case Studies

From the day we launched [removed] in March 2021, the website [removed] has been our biggest competition.  In January 2023, their website was receiving more than 3x the traffic from Google and Bing that our website was receiving.  When the Google Helpful Content Update launched in Sept 2023, both websites lost a lot of traffic, but as you can see, when the August Core Update launched in August of 2024, their website had a short recovery followed by a continued decline, while our website has shown a steady, prolonged, increase and in fact, our traffic is very close to where it was 24 months ago, while their traffic remains down by nearly 90%.

When the Google Helpful Content Update launched in Sept 2023, both websites lost a lot of traffic, but as you can see, when the August Core Update launched in August of 2024, their website had a short recovery followed by a continued decline, while our website has shown a steady, prolonged, increase and in fact, our traffic is very close to where it was 24 months ago, while their traffic remains down by nearly 90%.

The differences are even more stark when you look at the individual charts:

Thanks again for your help!

— Site owner of an events website impacted by the Helpful Content System (Helped by Marie as a pro bono case.)

After our website suffered a steady decline in rankings for several months, I suspected that some black hat SEO link building that we’ve done in the past may have been the cause for this. So I started researching online on how to do a backlink audit. During my research I came across one of Marie’s articles which was very enlightening. I was then also referred to her by a leading SEO expert who said she was the best when it comes to site quality & backlink audits, so I reached out to her right away.

Marie’s team was very responsive and professional. I purchased their link audit and just got their extensive report back. It took them a couple of weeks, and I am highly impressed by the detail and thoroughness of the report. I will be implementing their recommendations ASAP and will be back for a site quality audit in the near future.

Thank you very much!

— Omer Reiner – FL Cash Home Buyers, LLC

First of all – this report was so detailed and informative. It was laid out clearly and contains enough information that even my team members who aren’t familiar with SEO should be able to understand it. That is SO helpful. Thank you!

— The Healthy Place, findyourhealthyplace.com

The work of Marie Haynes Consulting has been key for us to thrive in a post Medic update Google world. There are no shortcuts, but there is a way. MHC’s whitepaper on scientific consensus shows you exactly how.

— Andreas Eenfeldt, MD, Founder and CEO of Diet Doctor

Marie Haynes is top-notch professional in field of all Google algorithm recovery services. We are very honored and thankful to have a chance to work with such an expert. The report you will get from her can hardly be better researched and elaborated. Marie has opened our eyes and helped us make decisions that will bring our business strong results in long term. If you are in any hesitation to start working with Marie, then don’t think any more.

Recommended service, A+!

— Stefan Kalevski, bustmold.com

Marie has a wealth of SEO knowledge and is an authority when it comes to link auditing and best practices. She has helped us grow our website over the past few years and we are so thankful to have worked with her. Do the right thing and read her newsletter. You will absolutely pick up on something each and every issue.

— Chad Kremp, kremp.com

Marie is a rarity in the world of SEO – she actually delivers what she says she is going to deliver! She is extremely knowledgeable, straightforward to deal with, great at communicating and thorough. As a UK ecommerce company, we were looking for the best in the business – and we found her. As a director of a UK ecommerce company, I can recommend her and her team without hesitation – I would recommend her services to anyone in the same situation as us – there is light at the end of the tunnel!

— Manual Penalty Removal Client

Marie is professional, very knowledgeable and prompt in responses. My site was in a “Pure Spam Penalty”. She did take a look at it, found the issues and prescribed the right solution. The process was very fast and the delays mostly were because of me being busy …. My request was approved by Google and few days later, the rankings are improving and have already few keywords showing back up on page 1 again. I am very thankful to have found Marie and asked for her help. I highly recommend her service….

— Pure Spam Penalty Removal

Given my prior experience with SEO companies, I was half expecting some boilerplate recommendations and a heavy dosage of copying and pasting. This was clearly NOT the case! I can tell you put some serious heart, time, and effort into this thing. All the recommendations were unique and personalized. To put it simply, I can tell you gave a f*ck, and it shows in everything you did/wrote.

— Site Improvement & Competitor Research Report for a large eCommerce site

I want to say a huge THANK YOU to Marie for her help at a B2B SaaS company where I was the Search Director. I had done years of off and on site improvements to get out of some kind of manual Google suppression my site was under. We were having trouble ranking for even our branded terms and were about 2 months from killing the domain completely and starting over with a new site. With Marie’s help, we were able to regain almost all of our rankings and organic site traffic went from 300 sessions/day to over 2,300 sessions/day. I can’t say enough about how helpful she has been and very well might have saved our business.

— SEO Consulting

I recently paid 8K for a premium domain, but didn’t do enough research on it beforehand. After I had started publishing content I realized that the site had been very active about 15 years ago and had a massive amount of spammy widget and directory links pointing to it, many with exact match anchor text. It is literally the worst link profile I have ever seen.

Because of this, I decided to hire Marie Haynes and her team to do a full link audit of my site. They were able to find hundreds of domains with tens of thousands of seriously bad links pointing to the site. I have now uploaded the disavow file and I am hoping for the best.

The MHC team was professional, thorough and responsive. I would recommend them for anyone dealing with a bad link problem.

— Kris Gunnars, SearchFacts.com

Marie was the answer to our Google penalty issue.

She’s everything you look for in a contractor: she knows what needs to be done, is goal and milestone oriented, sends regular status updates and works methodically until the job is done.

We put our business in Marie’s hand and she delivered. She’s earned our trust and our respect. Hire her immediately.

— Manual Penalty Removal Client – Large Brand

Just wanted to thank you for the work you did on [site name removed for privacy]. According to Google Analytics the traffic between Oct 23 2014 – Dec 23, 2014 was 108,000 sessions. Compared to the same period last year there were 68,000 sessions. Your work nearly doubled my traffic!!!

— Google Panda Recovery Client

— Manual Penalty Removal Client

When I first launched my website, (removed for privacy reasons) I had no knowledge of SEO so thought the best option was to employ somebody to do onsite and offsite SEO in order to help me rank well in the highly competitive field of wedding photography. My marketing budget wasn’t large but I found a low cost company who seemed to tick the boxes, gains were made and I landed on page 1.

As it turns out the gains were made due to low quality backlinks, directories and article posts. Sure enough google updated penguin and I dropped like a stone to page three. I put my trust in a company but due to their shortcuts I paid the price, losing business in the process.

After a lot of research I discovered Marie Haynes. I knew I had to get the problem solved and I wanted it done properly this time with no messing about or BS. Marie quickly did a site and backlink audit and also gave additional advise on areas to improve my website in the eyes of panda and penguin. Fortunately we had this done just in time for a penguin refresh and my site is currently sitting at number 1 – 3 for several my main search terms. Basically thanks to Marie’s expertise and knowledge my site is clean and back where it deserves to be. The advise was accurate and honest. Marie wasn’t just telling me what I wanted to hear. Without a doubt the best money I have spent on my online marketing.

— Google Penguin Recovery Client