The Plague of Seo Offers From the East
Everyone has had it . Either we are in internet marketing ourselves and we get swarmed with outsourcing offers for link building and the like , or we’re in any other market at all and we get a annoying amount of emails offering search engine optimisation with guarantees of page one on Google.
We get both. At first we ignored, then we blocked and marked as spam, now we have started replying. I know this is a stupid thing to do but it’s becoming the only way to vent the irritation .
A lot of these emails begin with how the perpetrator has examined our website and thought that we are in need of some search marketing , explaining what SEO is for us and what it could do in very basic terms. Clearly they haven’t looked at our website, if they had then they would know that our site has not only already undergone these simple, starter SEO work and that we provide these services ourselves so why would we want a service we already have and provide , let alone explain the positives to ourselves .
These generic emails are coming in thick and fast , and they’re coming mainly from the East . A look at our analytics shows that a high percentage of our website traffic is coming from India, from these “Professionals”. I’m sure there are plenty of SEO professionals in India, but I wouldn’t trust one that calls himself Emily and sends me emails that claim we’ve had previous correspondence and uses numerous different domains to send from. Many of these emails claim to be currently working with SEO businesses from the USA and the EU , although none are ever named .
Sometimes, just for a giggle , we check the websites these SEO Pros are working for. I’m becoming less and less surprised each time I see a crappy looking website that doesn’t even contain title tags of relevance let alone anything else.
What does continue to amaze me however is the offers of copywriting services offered via email that have the worst possible use of the English language imaginable . The grammar and spelling of an child would be considerably better than the random spam emails we’ve received. Why on earth would we leave our keyword research to someone who can’t research the correct spelling of words correctly before making a sales pitch to us with them.
It must fool many people , or they would have gone under by now . There must be some level of success for them to continue. My only wonder now is… who is falling for this ??
I suppose if some people will accept that a Prince from Arabia wants their bank details to deposit several million in cash into it for them for a laugh , then it’s understandable that people are believing this hog wash also.
Anyway, it will all turn out well in the end I think . The more people get conned in this way , the more awareness will spread about SEO and how it’s worth looking for good SEO services that get real results, not simply the cheapest.
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