The former CEO of Traffic Power, Matt Marlon, was jailed recently for allegedly running a housing foreclosure scam. He was said to be providing services to help homeowners on the brink of foreclosure, but instead constructed a scam which ultimately resulted in his imprisonment.

Traffic Power was the first SEO Company that Google ever declared having been given a penalty; it didn’t just have an impact on Traffic Powers own domain, but all client domains managed by them.

Google alleged, at the time, that the techniques employed by the company were “black hat” and were totally against their webmaster guidelines.