Idiot Spam of the Day

Now we all know about SEO services, correct? The fact that there are companies out there who will offer to improve your websites position on the search engines and thus get you lots more traffic?

Heck, I do work for some of them. However, there are some companies who have a little less nous than others, as in this spam email I got today from:

Best Regards
Patricia Zhang
Assistant Promotions Manager
 

SearchedMedia.com
61 Praed Street
Paddington 
London
W2 1NS
Tel: 0845 0537325
Email For This Promotion: john@searchedmedia.com


Website For This
Promotion:
 www.searchedmedia.com

UK Government Approved Supplier of Interactive
Websites

How, exactly, does one become a UK government approved supplier of interactive websites? Further:

Hello, my name
is Patricia.  Apologies for contacting you unannounced but I
have just visited your website at
 timworstall.typepad.com and have provided you with a
complimentary service related to this website (see
below).

 
Just so you know, you are not on
any list so this is the only email you will receive from
me.
 
For your complimentary service I conducted a link
check for your website.  I searched on Google for
link:http://timworstall.typepad.com and found that you
have 2,220 websites linking to you that are in Google’s
database (try it, this way you can see lists of websites
that link to any other website).
 
As you are probably aware, by getting more links
pointing at your website you can achieve much higher rankings
on Google, Yahoo and MSN (because most search engines consider each
link as a "vote" for your website) and thereby increase your profits by
attracting many more customers
.

Now, as I say, I know what the services on offer are but wouldn’t you be a little wary of a company offering you services when they cannot even do the most basic research? What customers? What profits? This is a blog for God’s sake!

Can we mark down Searchmedia.com as perhaps not the finest of the SEO companies?

7 responses

  1. Tim – If I were you I might be tempted to remove the link to their website from your post, as otherwise they are gaining something from their evil spamming endeavours.

  2. I got that one, too, accompanied by a woeful underestimate of the number of sites that link to me. (I was under the impression that you do make at least some effort to take revenue from your blog, though, Tim, to be fair to them…)

  3. Just got the same email Tim… You would think that trying to win another SEO’s business might be a bit pointless. What idiots!!!

  4. Just returned the compliment – they have ONE site linking back to theirs. Doesn’t exactly inspire confidence!!

  5. They also lack a description tag on their site and have zero PageRank.
    Don’t take out your reference to them, without it I would not have been able to suss them out so quickly. Plus you are gaining some useful traffic from your ranking for their name.
    Giving warnings of scams – you’re providing a public service, keep up the good work.

  6. Yes,,keep up the good work!!

  7. I agree with Chris and Gayle………

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