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My Morning Spam

April 23rd, 2008

Below is from a predatory email I received this morning - I actually get them often. Not sure what search engines the fellow is talking about - over the last 30 days the top three search engines has generated well over 100,000 page views of navycs.com.

Dear website owner,

I visited your website and noticed that you are not listed in many of the major search engines and directories. If our company can increase your traffic up to 500% by getting you top ranking results on the search engines such as Google would you be interested? We specialize in link building content writing and programming. We have proprietary techniques that work better and are less expensive than any other SEO firm.

Please let me send you a proposal and show you how we can make your website profitable.

____________________________________________________
Sincerely,

Cron

2060 AVENIDA DE LOS ARBOLES, STE D
THOUSAND OAKS,
CA 91362-1361 - USA

Before you select a search engine optimization (SEO) company ensure you do some research! For starters the address in this email is a UPS store and the email came from a gmail account - doesn’t this company have its own web site? Why all the smoke and mirrors?

BTW, Who names their kid “Cron”? Is the name used as an inside joke because “cron job” is a linux module for running tasks automatically at predetermined times like sending a spam email? Is he an alien? Well, he should remain one to you.

An SEO company should at least have their own web site, telephone number, real names of real people and most importantly references you can and do follow up with. Just think about it for a second, you should not have a hard time finding the SEO professional on the internet - if you do find it difficult it should be an indicator! In today’s world a majority, if not all, of the reputable SEOs will have contributed in some way to professional information sharing sites like Sphinn and Gooruze. Most will have a blog dedicated to the business or at the very least participate in forums dedicated to SEO - all this information, screen names they use and sites they frequent should be freely given to you when you ask.

Doing your research will save you time, money and tons of frustration.