!!! SCAM ALERT !!! Emails with the subject of Please Give Me This Little Chance To Explain Myself Advanced Fee, from Mrs. Maria M.A.Victor are a scam. Recipients are advised to DELETE the email immediately upon receipt. Do NOT click on any links contained in the email. Do NOT provide your personal information to the [...]

What’s up with these purveyors of snake oil… err, I mean “online marketing consultants” out of India? Actually, I do know why small businesses, with web sites, are constantly targeted by these so called SEO experts. It’s money. They wouldn’t be targeting “mom & pop” operations, if there wasn’t a significant amount of money to [...]

!!! SCAM ALERT !!! Emails with the subject of CAN I TRUST YOU ON THIS CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS DEAL, are a scam. Recipients are advised to DELETE the email immediately upon receipt. Do NOT click on any links contained in the email. Do NOT provide your personal information to the senders of this email scam. If [...]

I’ve gotten behind writing about the various “SEO Expert” claims that they can get my site ranked #1 on major search engines. That’s a mighty big claim. They are pretty confident the the “SEO Snake Oil” that they are selling will work. Yes, it will work. Work to make money for them and do absolutely [...]

You can tell when it’s the first and last week of the month. Seems that all the spammers crank up the spam bots, and flood inboxes with spam. Yes, my inbox is filling up with spam emails. There was a time I would just simply mark the email as spam, and let my spam filters [...]

More SEO spam emails. What’s up with all these SEO firms out of India? That’s a rhetorical question, I don’t really expect anyone to answer. If I want to hire someone to do all my SEO it certainly won’t be some SEO Snake Oil marketing firm from India. Seriously, sending unsolicited emails is not the [...]

First it’s Abhay, now it’s Shane. Guess they figured that an English or American name would catch more suckers, er I mean clients. No, I meant suckers. You can employ the services of these snake oil salesmen; as for me, not going to happen. SEO is a deliberate, methodical process that is meant to drive [...]

!!! SCAM ALERT !!! Emails with the subject of Mrs Sandra Emily, are a scam. Recipients are advised to DELETE the email immediately upon receipt. Do NOT click on any links contained in the email. Do NOT provide your personal information to the senders of this email scam. If you are a victim of such [...]

First it’s Varun, now it’s Martin offering online SEO consultanting services. Except for the name it’s word for word the exact email message as Varun’s, you can read it at this blog post: SEO and Online Promotion Services Snake Oil Spam Email, responding to unsolicited emails, offering web design and SEO services, is never a [...]

Another SEO Snake Oil salesman from India. What is it with these fly by night SEO firms? Just a quick read of the below email, makes it clear that they really don’t understand what SEO is really all about. Everything they are talking about, blog submissions, directory listings, link building, and article writing will do [...]