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How Not To Be a SEO Spammer

Posted by samzenpus on from the it's-up-to-you-whether-or-not-you-want-to-just-do-the-bare-minimum dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The head of Google's webspam team, Matt Cutts, has blogged about one of his colleagues receiving an email offering SEO services to help the web site www.google.com. The irony wasn't lost on Matt, who has blogged about these emails before. As this article points out, if ever there was evidence that the people who send many of these emails haven't done their homework, this is it."

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  1. This page should have more comments by spoot · · Score: 5, Funny

    It would make it rank higher organically with search engines.

    1. Re:This page should have more comments by cold+fjord · · Score: 4, Funny

      I will send you my bill for this comment.

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  2. News for nerds, stuff that matters by Swampash · · Score: 4, Funny

    Next up: Slashdot reveals that some of those billionaire Nigerian princes aren't actually real!

  3. Props, though. by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 5, Funny

    The spammer managed to get ahold of a real human inside Google. No small feat.

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    1. Re:Props, though. by Samantha+Wright · · Score: 4, Funny

      The machine learning researcher in me feels this comment is overly presumptuous and possibly discriminatory.

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  4. well this is coincidence by bitt3n · · Score: 3, Funny

    so google gets an offer for SEO, and shortly thereafter google just happens to appear on slashdot?

    I guess they opted for the budget package.

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