SEO Spam to avoid

Details: Thursday, 14 April 2011 18:56; Hits: 364

You know how as a diligent webmaster, intent on all the tasks required in order to successfully run your website you log into your inbox and Voila! There in capitals (there is usually some degree of capitalization involved) is a message the gist of which promises to get your website to the top page of Google (yep, it is usually Google) and drive millions of potential customers (it is always millions) if you just care to reply to this email or click on some unknown link?

Well, I am sick to death of them. Apart from the fact that they fill in my inbox with rubbish they also dirty the SEO market tarring legitimate search engine optimizers with the same brush. Now, I can’t single-handedly clean up SEO Spam but what I can do is post it here so that you see we all get the same worthless messages which should be avoided.

I will date each one so that the freshest are always at the top. If you get something which irks you or one which seems original feel free to send it to me and I will post it here and give you credit for it if you want.

14.03.10 - Ranked on Google's #1 Page

Hello,

Do you want to be ranked #1 on Google, Yahoo, or any other search engine? Click Here to get our FREE information packet.

Thanks,

SEO Tackle Box

Disregarding the 'Hello' intro on this SPAM SEO email, the very name 'SEO Tackle Box' is enough to bring giggles to anyone's lips which means you can't even begin to take them seriously. If you get anything like this avoid clicking anywhere, most of the links from emails like this lead to either online attack or phishing websites.

10.03.10 - UNLEASH GUARANTEED TRAFFIC That Promotes Your Website 24/7 On Auto-Pilot!

1st RULE of Internet Business--Get T.raffic.
You must have visitors to your website to make sales.
We have delivered M.illions of visitors to websites.

Hit this link or copy & paste to your browser
===> XXXXXXXXXXXXXX

A Good T.raffic program needs to do 1 Thing--
1. Get targted, interested EYEBALLS On Your Site--PERIOD!
Made to drive TARGETED visitors to your "biz-op"

Hit this link or copy & paste to your browser
===> XXXXXXXXXX

And It Does Just That... Using KEYWORD Technology.
TARGETED for the h.ome business seeker.
Someone who is interested in earning from home.
We test, we find what works and scale it out.
It's only a dollar a day.

Hit this link or copy & paste to your browser
===> XXXXXXXXXXXXX

Best to you always,
Sara Mccart
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

I am going to, here, forego the fact that someone thought that HelpMySEO.com needed help to get on the first page of any search engine and focus, instead, on the fact that here is a bizarrely formatted email trying to be both hip (see the "biz-op" reference) and still press all the right triggers required to make me want to attract millions of visitors to my website on autopilot (you know this can never happen). The gmail address sets the record straight. If they are that good and that cool they'd have a website, right, and a professional email address. I have deleted the link they had posted because it looked like an active X attack site. If you should receive an email purporting to help your SEO from Sara McCart (notice she has failed to capitalize the second 'c' in her name in the signature above) put it where it desrved: the inbox bin.

04.03.10 - Free Website Analysis Report! Get ranked high in the search engines.

Get Your Website Ranked High in The Search Engines
With a No Cost Website Analysis and Ranking Report !

Did you know that over 80% of website traffic is the result of search engines?
If you want to increase the number of visitors to your website it is crucial that you have a top search engine position.
If you are like most people, you will spend countless hours trying to get traffic to your website.

As you may already know, getting a good search engine ranking is next to impossible
without optimization. Just submitting your website to the search engines will not
get you a top search engine ranking.

At No Cost to You, our search engine optimization experts will run a ranking report showing you exactly where your
website currently stands in all the major search engines. Then we will email you our analysis report
along with the recommendations of how we can increase your ranking, and improve your websites traffic dramatically!

To Get Your No Cost Website Analysis & Ranking Report Today Please click here
USA and Canada Only.

We look forward to running your report,

The Website Results Team

There are a lot of fishy details here. First of all website pagerank (PR) has nothing to do with traffic. The obvious percentages (like 80%) are just so much SEO-sales fodder and the fact that search engine submission is mentioned is indicative of the fact that the service itself is going to be superficial.

09.02.10 - divert 1000s of fresh new visitors daily to Your web site

What if I told you that I'm making thousands of dollars each week and I'm
not paying a dime for advertising ?

Google, Yahoo, MSN and others are sending me hundreds of new customers
every week - at $0 cost! Make Money On Auto-Pilot While You're Sleeping Or
Even On Vacation? STOP Everything You Are Doing and Read This Now!

This works for any product, website or affiliate website!

In other words…. Now You Can Have Years of Research, Testing, and
Experience At Your Fingertips.

For Full Details please read the attached .html file

This is a variation of the probably malicious code executable file attached as an .html file with a message. All the mouth-watering SEO ingredients are there: thousands of visitors now, zero cost, marketing secret, auto-pilot money-making scheme. Dead give away. If you receive one press delete.

03.02.10 - Discover My Strategy For Monster Google Traffic....**
http://www.fasturl.co.za/339

Greetings,

I've found a new course on creating zero cost traffic.

If you can use a keyboard, you can do this.

This has absolutely NOTHING to do with advertising, SEO, Adwords,
Adsense or PPC ... you can take it from me that you WILL NOT have
to pay a penny in advertising and that you have not heard or seen of
this before; you can 100% trust me when I say that NO ONE ELSE
has a system even remotely like this!

Starting right now YOU can use this very same strategy to
substantially boost traffic to your website, any website,
affiliate links, articles, you name it!

This is a zero cost Traffic Strategy that will drive a
super-highway of traffic predominantly from Google ... Yes,
Google!

Any one can do this.

Click Over here: http://www.fasturl.co.za/339

Regards
NAME

P.S. Right now you're at a business crossroads. You can do nothing and watch your email marketing efforts slowly lose their effectiveness to spam filters, whitelisting, and declining delivery rates. Six months from now your business will probably be doing the same as it is now.

This is spam at its worst and I have left the URL intact but non-active so it cannot be followed. You will notice that the idiot, yes, idiot! Who sent this forgot to fill in or activate the field titled NAME at the end of the spam message and left it as NAME. You notice the pathetic attempt at scaremongering at the PS. stage – he knows your business is at a crossroads. His crystal ball told him this morning when he took it out of the cereal pack.

03.02.10 - Your Google Ranking and Website Traffic

Increase Google Rank + 5 Million Website Visitors
-----------------------------------

To take advantage of this and for more details:
XXXXXXXX [deleted]

2010 - Corporate Traffic Promotion Includes:

1. 5,000,000 Website Visitors to your website ($999 value)
2. G00gle & Yahoo Sitemap ($350 Value)
3. 100,000 Banner Impressions on our High traffic banner network ($75
Va|ue)
4. 5,000 PERMANENT backlinks on the eMedia White Hat Proprietary Link
network ($ price.|ess)
5. One National Press Release Distributed to the our Media Network
of over 80,000 strong. ($299 Va|ue)

Our web marketing solution delivers quality visitors directly to your
site.

We do not have any long-term contracts. Our work is done on a month
to month basis. Let me know if you have any questions or if you would
like to take advantage of this and for more details:

I have deleted, here. The website mentioned. It’s worth noting that the moment someone charges you for traffic and guarantees it they have an automated hit generator which sends bots to your site (they count as visitors). The result is that then you get hits but no real visitors and while you may have paid the $999 requested for 5 million visitors it is highly unlikely that you will have made a single sale.

01.02.10 – Have your own website traffic generator

No Matter what you are selling - Hit-Booster will send targeted visitors to
your website!

Within 15 minutes you will have your own website
traffic generator that will bring in an ever increasing
amount of hits to your websites! Automatically

This software is perfect for bringing real traffic to
your site... even if... it's an affiliate link where you
have no control over the website content!

For Full Details please read the attached .html file

Opening .html attachments which are part of messages seems to be in fashion at them moment. Opening .html attachments can potentially execute malicious code on your computer and should be avoided. One dead give away is that messages like this have an obvious ‘noreply’ address. This one, for instance came from: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Note than ampage.org seems to be a legit site active in music amplification equipment and has nothing to do with SEO and may well have been hijacked.

28.01.10 - you'll get 1000's of Highly Targeted visitors to your web site or affiliate web site overnight

What if I told you that I'm making thousands of dollars each week and I'm
not paying a dime for advertising ?

Google, Yahoo, MSN and others are sending me hundreds of new customers
every week - at $0 cost! Make Money On Auto-Pilot While You're Sleeping Or
Even On Vacation? STOP Everything You Are Doing and Read This Now!

This works for any product, website or affiliate website!

In other words…. Now You Can Have Years of Research, Testing, and
Experience At Your Fingertips.

For Full Details please read the attached .html file

You should never open any attached file on these messages under any circumstances. No SEO engineer worth their salt is ever going to send you an .html attachment in a message.