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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. trust me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    SEO is like Voodoo in some sense. It's not measurable because there's too many factors outside your control.
    Is there traffic because the SEO is awesome, or is there traffic anyways. No one knows.

    The only thing an SEO can say for sure is that we can make the proper on-site changes. Without ever
    mentioning the word traffic - because that leads to false hopes.

  2. so i got an SEO phone call.... by acedotcom · · Score: 4, Insightful

    she wanted to boast my rank on google. i asked her how she found my business number and then pointed out that someone had to google it....which means my SEO is just fine. she then hung up.

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    they say it is often more relevant then the comment above, all we know is its called the Sig!
    1. Re:so i got an SEO phone call.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I told them that when I needed SEO I would search for it and whichever company ranked highest would get the call.

  3. Re:This page should have more comments by Joce640k · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The real LOL is that the department heads think spammers/scammers "do homework".

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    No sig today...