Silly Spammers

[pecunium]

I got a piece of stupid spam today. Not the usual make this larger, or that smaller sort.

No, this was an SEO Company, offering to increase my website traffic.


Hi,

Would it be OK if I send you my company's pricing & trial proposal? I work with other attorneys and have nearly tripled their website traffic and helped them gain new business mainly through top Google positioning.

Let me know. Thanks.

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XXXX XXXXXX
Marketing Manager
QualifiedImpressions.com

1: I'm not an attorney.

2: Tripling my website traffic? Whoo-hoo. If she could tell me how much actual business that tripling actually generated (and maybe offer some baselines. Were they getting 30 hits a day, or 3,000, tripled.

3: I went to the website. In really big letters it tells me all of 250 customers have completed the trial program.

4: Google might not be the happiest to see that, "150 clients on the front page of Google, and counting.

5: This is coming to me from the marketing manager? Are they so small that the marketing manager needs to spam people? Perhaps they just call all the sales reps "marketing managers" to make it look as if someone high in the food chain is personally interested in me?

Sadly, I am sure it works well enough to get some people to sign on, but all it does for me is annoy me enough to write web-posts about how much they managed to look stupid to me.

Comments

[goldjadeocean.livejournal.com]

Actually, Google loves SEOs. My brother works for one, and the last time he was down in California Google was more than happy to see him, not to mention Google bigwigs take his boss's calls.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

Google likes SEOs that play fair. They punish with atomic fire those who are merely trying to cheat the system... and their wrath is not to be lightly faced. But they do like folks who help make web sites better parsed by their spiders and more readily found by searchers.

-- Steve contracted with Microsoft's small business web tools division for a few years, and picked up some SEO techniques by osmosis as a result.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

That's the impression I get. Since they (google) have to work to keep the system gamed, I figure they aren't fond of those who are gaming it.