Hi All, In my 10 years of business, I have had almost no problems with clients not paying. I now have a client that owes a smallish amount (< $1000) for some basic on-page SEO work that was done to his site, which is now 60+ days overdue and he's not responding at all to any attempts to contact. He indicated earlier that he was happy with the work, so I don't think the non-payment is due to dissatisfaction.
I don't host the website, so I can't simply turn off the hosting or use the regular methods for getting people's attention (eg disabling their CMS access or putting a generic error message on the homepage). I have deleted the backup I took of the site before I started the work once the revamped site was live and stable - so I can't simply revert the site to how it was. I can manually undo the changes I made to the site, but this is likely to take a few hours to do, and I'm loathed to spend much more time on this for obvious reasons - however I'm not happy about simply ignoring it and letting him have the work for free. I have just sent him a notice saying he has 7 days to pay or make an arrangement with me, otherwise I will 'remove the site from Google'. I'm hoping this has the desired effect, and he pays his bill. However, if he calls my bluff, I will need to take action of some sort. I'd be interested in everyone's thoughts on how to approach this. There are plenty of ways to remove pages from Google (robots.txt, meta tags, removal request, 404 headers etc), though some of these are semi-permanent. And it just doesn't seem professional to do permanent damage to a client's domain, as well as any legal considerations of doing this. Any thoughts or comments appreciated. Harvey. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
