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 [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

!!! SCAM ALERT !!! Emails with the subject of Payment Notice!!!!! from the Reserve Bank Of India, 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 [...]

!!! SCAM ALERT !!! Emails with the subject of COCA COLA AWARD PROMOTION 2012, 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 [...]

So, this morning I go into my office turn on my computer, go make a fresh pot of coffee, come back and open my email client. Pretty much the same routine every morning. Collect my thoughts, do a few things, go get a cup of coffee. Sit back down check my email. Right off this [...]