SEO are spammers – Some of Them.
February 13, 2008 by Pablo Palatnik
Like every industry, or almost every industry, you have some sort of spam hitting your inbox. I’ve blogged about the SEO industry several times since the whole Shoemoney thing happened about disliking 95% of SEOs.
So, how or why are SEO spammers? I’m not even talking about the actual optimizing, I’m talking about hitting people up or companies for work.
Take at this email I got for example:
“I am trying to contact Pablo Palatnik.
Anyway I specialize in getting sites
listed at the top of Google in organic listings.
Since you already do some type of advertising in MSN, I know you need to get more placement in Google. I was wondering
if you could get back with me as soon as possible.
I look forward to working with your site.
In today’s Internet Economy everything is about
performance. I know I can help drive traffic to
your site.
After the first month, it is only $300 month.
That’s all there is to it.
I hope that sounds good to you.
I look forward to hearing some kind of response.â€
My response:
“Hi ———-,
Can you gurantee any results for $300 a month in organic placement?â€
His Response:
Hi Pablo. Give me a call. 1888-359—–
I just emailed you. We can guarantee top page placement.
What a load of crap…never guarantee anything, one of the first rules of SEO. Anyway, more and more people are using this tactic. Hungry for business and being unethical with potential customers won’t get you too far.
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I love it when I buy a new domain, and become a lead for some “SEO company.” When they call (every single time), I coax them into deeper and deeper conversations, then end it with, “hey, do you think you could look at another site of mine and tell me what we can do? Yeah? OK it’s http://www.seo-factor.com.” There is always a long pause. Then they usually understand what’s going on and let me go. Weeee!!!!