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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I’m going to hazard a guess, but I bet they never actually spent any time researching my company. If they had they would know this is an IT support company that also dabbles in Web design & SEO. I know it’s just a data-mining bot scrubbing the net for company email addresses. I wonder how [...]

I don’t know about you, but as for myself, I would never use a credit card processing company that thinks sending unwanted emails to businesses is a good way to get new clients. Smacks of desperation in my book, and definitely not the way to convince me to become a client. Email Headers Received: from [...]

Yes, another day another SEO Snake Oil Spam email. It’s a SEO Snake Oil Spam fest. Don’t fall for the claims in these emails, and for the sake of your wallet don’t give these scam artists your money. I’m not saying that SEO is not important, because SEO is important. What I am saying is [...]

It is a SEO Snake Oil Spam fest. Yes, these automated Spam emails can easily be stopped by simply telling your email client that this is Junk email. Rank zolltech.com top on the 3 major search engines fast – No cost analysis Get zolltech.com ranked to the very top of the 3 major search engines [...]

Nearly word for word the same exact email as in Even More SEO Snake Oil, just a different mailing address. Rank zolltech.com top in the 3 major search engines / No cost website analysis Hi, Your website zolltech.com is not ranked top on the 3 major search engines but can be easily! Did you know [...]

This is the second email of this type, I have received this week. Do I have stupid stamped on my forehead? That’s a rhetorical question. There are all kinds of scams targeting businesses, the below is just one of many. Business to Business Collections – We Collect or You Pay Nothing. National Business to Business [...]