SEO Losers

We received the following email in relation to several of our domain names. It seems particularly smelly to me especially as the company that is supposedly wanting to purchase the domains would have no reason to be interested in our domain names.

Dear CEO,

We are Asiaeu Network Srvice CO.,Ltd, which is the Internet Trademark&domain name register center in China.I have something need to confirm with you.We have received an formal application. An international company named “ROBO GmbH” want to apply “*********” for its own Internet Trademark and CN domain name on the Jun 30, 2008 in china. We need to know your opinion because the Internet Trademark And CN domain name relate to the copyright of you company name on internet. your company do not intervene in it,we will formally consent their register. we would like to get the affirmation of your company, you have any question,please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible!

Best Regards !

kemal Guan

Principal of Checking Department

Overseas Registration Organization

Tel:+(86)731-8187 729

Fax:+(86)731-8187 739

mobile:+(86)731 6735 121

Skype:internetbrand

Msn:asiaeu@live.cn

E-mail:kemal@asiaeu.cn

web:www.asiaeu.cn

A search on Google revealed a blog post and comments that suggests that these people have been at it for a while.

Anyway if you’ve received a similar email and it seems smelly to you then consider making a complaint to ICANN

…the CAN-SPAM Act act is meaningless in Australia so please stop citing it as a reason why your stupid email selling SEO services isn’t spam. I don’t give a rat’s arse and as I keep saying “if it looks like spam, smells like spam, and tastes like spam, then it is spam”.

p.s

Even funnier are the dickheads that cite the non-existant Bill S.1618, section 301. Yes I’m looking at you Mr Munjial from OTS Solutions of India. You’ve just lost yourself a potential client

Under Bill s.1618 Title III passed by the 105th U.S. Congress this mail can not be considered Spam as long as we include contact information.

This letter is so wrong. They really need to find a copywriter who knows english. The idea that they’d even consider to offer copy writing services is disturbing.

Dear Webmaster or Supported Personnel,

As our research suggests, you are doing the specimens e.g. Search engine Optimization, PPC, link building, Content Development & Web-Promotional activities. This really hurts us! As so many individuals have not clearly about the root to which we concern if you will outsource campaigns of any theme, we will definitely put our rhythm right giving 100% effort-making activities. How to draw the attention of the Search engines in major SERPS with targeted traffic as well as quality prospects to their sites - without paying a single penny to Google, Yahoo or MSN like search engines. I know that it’s your business and you want to achieve the key objective incorporated with the initiation of your website. But I have the solution for you to wipe out such worries that are tormenting you on your way to achieve the necessary business success.

Before that I want to let you know about some of the reasons why you are not yet getting organic search engine traffic for your website. Sponsored links has got its own negative impact! You will be surprise with the statement but it’s a fact. Generally a web visitor pays more attention towards the organic results of a search engine result page as compared to your sponsored links. Most of the web visitor’s shared a common notion that any one can achieve the sponsored link by offering few bucks to the search engine. Even they are well aware of the fact that the website name coming in the organic result deals in high-end products and services in its respective category. They even do not care about whether the company’s methodology is good or bad while selecting it for their purpose. On the other hand webmasters only know that how much amount they are paying to the search engine and what amount of worries they are accepting to acquire a place in the sponsored category.

Above mentioned was just a fact, if you can stomach more bad news about what your site needs, and are curious to know what our working together would involve, then I would be glad to provide you with further detailed analysis as a report free of charge. I would first need to know that you are serious about using our services, as the report would involve several hours of our research. It’s not quick, it’s not easy, but it’s the only sensible Internet Marketing choice. Your Return on Investment (ROI) will be multiples of our fees. Our being based in India means you pay a fraction of the cost of local providers in your region. I would be glad to put you in touch with our satisfied long-term clients in USA, UK, Australian and Canada.

These lines may hit you hard, but believe us its true. Our being based in India offers high-end ethical SEO services to all our esteemed clients. It’s a well organized team of SEO professionals sharing the same thought for improvising the business standard of our clients. We are determined to offer you full satisfaction on each assignment.

1. Keyword analysis & research:-
a. Keyword/Phrase/word-phrase analysis and implementation
b. Keyword research using, sandbox, word tracker, Overture and Googlesets etc in a systematic way
c. Keyword research through Competitive analysis
d. Extensive Competitive Analysis for better search engine ranking Position
e. Initial position analysis report with a good productivity structure
f. Website Usability Analysis by Usability and copyediting expert
g. Extensive Log files analysis and implementation
h. Personal Report analysis and state some personal comments

2. On page optimization:-
a. Homepage Optimization
b. Replacement of Meta tags
c. Content fixing for description, titles, categories etc.
d. Monthly Manual Update to Optimized Content
e. Fixing the text links or anchor texts
f. Optimized Navigational Structure
g. Site map for better crawling of your site
h. Creation of descriptive site contents
i. Creation of links or resource page
j. Creation of link exchange page or add URL forms page or add site forms page or Comments form page or contact us form page
k. Image Optimization or creation
l. SEO Copywriting
m. Spell Checking (either correct or wrong)
n. Checking of HTML codings Validation
o. Checking reliability and compactness of the Browser
p. Website Load time checking (%value of the quick access time of the website is Taken into consideration)
q. Creation of robots file
r. MOD_Rewrite / rewrite URL for Dynamic sites for better search engine position While Google’s crawler crawling

3. Off-page optimization:-

a. Manual Submission of the sites to all the major search engines

b. Semi-automatic submission in times of necessity
c. Resubmission of sites to certain search engines, if necessary
d. Submission for paid inclusion
e. Yahoo Directory Inclusion or Msn inclusion
f. Submission to Dmoz directory
g. Semi-automatic submission to more than 5000 free inclusion directories
h. Re-optimization of site
i. Link building – By way off 2way, 3way and 4way links
j. Link Popularity through one way links or directory submission
k. To increase the link popularity for the site, in times of need we have to buy the Text links for the purpose of advertisement from other websites
l. Article Submission
m. Newsletter Submission
n. Forum Posting
o. Blog submission
p. Website submission
q. Submission to the comments form

REPORT FORMAT
a. Weekly Report as well as monthly status Report in the form excel-sheet.

b. Status Report to be mailed in the form of Zipped files.

c. If any kind of queries or suggestions made by your Company, then we will response to you promptly without any kind of hesitation.

d. Performance Report made by us regarding the Ranking Reports , Unique Visitors Report , Pre & Post Site analysis Reports , keyword analysis Reports etc. in an ethical manner. We take special care on Spam or Black hat techniques or Cloaking procedures and ensure that these are not going to be followed through out the whole assignment.

MODE OF PAYMENT

We accept payments through paypal payments (http://www.paypal.com/) as well as wired transfers with some other channel like: -
1. http://www.epassporte.com/
2.western union money transfer (http://www.westernunion.com/)

3. Direct payment to Indian Bank Account.

If you find the above information useful and interesting then please reply to this email with your convenient time and contact number so that we can discuss further on how to improve and generate more business for you.

If you are not the concerned person to deal into these matters, please forward this email to the right person.

I look forward to your response.

Kind Regards,

[Company name removed]

Is India becoming the home of bad SEO? It seems to be the source of most of the inappropriate directory submissions and link request emails that we receive. Anyway, the clown below was silly enough to demonstrate the poor quality of his service by trying to submit a link for his own SEO business on to a dating directory.

I wonder what they charge to submit your website to 1000’s of inappropriate directories? People like these should be avoided.

Hello,

The website manualdirectorysubmission.in has been submitted for listing in the American Dating Guide website

manualdirectorysubmission.1n
www.manualdirectorysubmission.1n
Submit your website manually to 1000’s of directory sites at the lowest ever cost. Quality submissions with proof from the pioneers in SEO technology.
Abhilash pillei
info@manualdirectorysubmission.1n

IP: 59.95.30.126

What to do if a link partner changes their site content?

Personally I’m not particularly fond of terms like ‘link partner’ and I can’t see how linking to another persons website somehow implies some sort of ‘partnership’ exists. We much prefer to make links to sites based on their usefulness to our audience rather than react to some out of the blue ‘link partnership’ request.

One problem we’ve found is that the life of many websites can be fairly short and what was a good “quality content” site this week could easily become a spammy ad filled holding page next week. There are plenty of people who would love to try to monetize your domain. All it takes is for you to loose interest in the site and let the domain renewal lapse. Many domain registrars immediately try to take advantage of this by placing your lapsed domain on their own holding page till the renewal holding period has expired. Then if the domain has potential it will be snapped up by one of the many people who trade in used domain names. The luckier domains find themselves on new content rich sites, however many unfortunate domain are forced to spend their remaining lives as spammy auto-generated links pages.

Nothing get my hackles up like receiving an email like this.

You are in trademark violation by using our trade mark, ******** in your search links. Google has already removed all references and sent and email to our attorney confirming this. Please cease and desist from using our trademark as links to your website.

Now besides the overall offensive tone of this email, the sender completely fails to identify the pages from the website that infringe on the trademark. Not only that, a quick search reveals that though they’ve submitted a trademark application, it hasn’t yet been approved. Also, as far as I can tell, Google hasn’t removed any links to the pages in question.

So is someone spinning a porky or are they just being a little bit flexible with the truth?

As an alternative approach you could try a letter like this.

Dear Webmaster,

we have recently submitted a trademark application for the words ******. A search on Google shows that your webpage http://****** contains content that may infringe on our trademark. Please be advised that unauthorised use of our trademark is an offense under [insert relevant law here] and may result in legal action if you continue to use our trademark in this way,

regards

Mr Anally Retentive Litigious Website Owner

Please, please, please try to get the recipient’s name correct when requesting a link exchange. Especially if you’re going to include the letters SEO in your job title.

Hello Orders,

I’ve visited ******* today, and really like it. I run a site similar to yours, and I was wondering if you would like to trade links with me? You can see my site at **********

I will give your site a prominent listing on my page at ***********
, if you link back to my site.

Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.

Best regards,

*******
****** ***** - SEO
********

Sensis is a search engine owned by the Australian telco Telstra. As far as I can tell it was meant to be a Google killer for the Australian market. However, after an initial burst of traffic, I’m now seeing referrers from sensis.com.au trickling down to virtually nothing. Here is an example from one of our sites. The site has about 2000 unique visits per day and ranks well in the Sensis SERPS for our main keywords.

The other main Australian search engine, Web wombat, doesn’t fair much better. As much as I’d like to support the local search engines, I currently can’t see my businesses getting any real benefits from these search engines.

Recently received the following email to one of our support email address.

******** just sent you this link:

https://namesdatabase.c*m/1l.pl?c1=**********

Instructions

1. Click on your link above to activate it.

2. Complete your info to enter the Web site.

****** selected you for this on 07-04-2006 05:50 ET.

I think there is a good argument to be made for “Tell a friend” scripts and viral networking sites to filter email address that are obviously not personal addresses. For a start your could at least eliminate:-

root
webmaster
support
sales
admin
mail
ticket
billing
accounts
enquiry
membership
subscriptions
majordomo
lists

and there are heaps more.

I’ve just had the best idea. It is so original. No one has ever done it before.

You see what I’m going to do is create a really lame directory site on some lame .info or .biz domain (’cause all the best .coms are taken).

Then I’m going to add people to my directory and email to tell them to tell them that I’ve linked to them. That will publicise the site without it being spam and if I’m lucky they will link back to me.

Wow this is such a great idea. I’m such a genius.

Dear webmaster,

I’m the <insert lame job title> at <insert lame .info or .biz domain name>

I’ve collected quality links to other website that related on the Internet on my links page.

I came across your site and feel that it’d perfectly fit in my collection of quality links about <insert field your lame business specialises>.

I’ve already placed a link to your web site along with a description at <insert lame .info or .biz domain name>/<insert vaguely relivent category>.

I’d appreciate if you’d place a link back to my site using the following link and description:
Title : <insert lame of your lame website>
URL Address : <insert lame .info or .biz domain name>
Description : <insert lame decription of your lame website>

If you’d like the description of your site modified or if you have any other cross-promotion ideas just drop me a line.

<insert lame apology>

Best regards,

<insert made up name>
<insert lame job title>