Ever had a coworker that just seems to have it out for you? They do not talk to you as much as they may have in the past, yet other coworkers let you know that your name was in their conversation. Somethings up right? Well…with all that said, I will tell you about an email I received at 6:56 AM from the President of the company I work for.

In this email, a coworker of mine was basically describing to my boss, the President, how they searched for a specific keyword phrase on Google and our main website didn’t show up in the search results…at all…not even in the first 10 pages, yet our competitor was on the first page.

WOW!

Well not only do I own a Web Design & SEO firm, but I’m also the Director of Business Development for a company in Michigan as well. This entails me being in charge of all marketing campaigns, web projects, and developing new business for the company. So basically…if our websites aren’t doing good, then it falls on me. This coworker knows that, so I can only believe that they were attempting to make me look bad to my boss….El Presidente!

WHY? I’ve done nothing but my job, and honestly…I’ve done it well! I researched this information and couldn’t believe my eyes. Not only was the keyword phrase, this coworker supposedly searched for, have our website on the 1st page of the Google results, but we don’t even use the those keywords combinations for our company.

This coworker has nothing to do with my department…so how could they possibly even know what to search for?

Well I handled the situation with the boss and gave him assurance that my marketing team was still dominating our online competition with facts and examples. Not sure what will happen next, but I know one thing…THIS MEANS WAR!