Scam SEO Emails

Maybe scam is too harsh but spam isn’t. Do you get these SEO emails all the time? I do. In addition to my SEO business with Marketing on the Web; shameless plug,  that you can read more about here, I also have a e-commerce business. Every couple of days I get a solicitation letter telling me why I need SEO. First off, any email I get from a gmail, aol, yahoo, etc etc account goes in to the trash. I wouldn’t do business with a company that solicits business without their own url email account; something jsut smells a little fishy. My favorite thing about these emails is that they always tell me I’m not ranking on page one for my important keywords. Hemmm, I beg to disagree. My e-commerce business get about $25,000 worth of SEO services every year from yours truly. Last look, the company was on page one for most important terms. If it’s not on page one it’s because it’s hard to bump Amazon, Wal-Mart, and others like that off.

If you receive something like the following, ignore it!

Hi Buskerdoo Team,

I thought you might like to know some of the reasons why you are not getting enough organic & social media traffic on your website.

Let me tell you that your website still does not organically rank on Google’s first page for most of the popular keywords, which means people searching for your products are not able to find you and you are losing traffic. Your loss is your competitors’ gain i.e. the traffic which could have generated quality sales, goes to your competitors as they rank well in the Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs) organically.