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Recently, started receiving emails (automated one’s) with different website url’s that belongs to me and offering $4800/month with email subject - I have visited your website *url* - I do not want to tell about that company (.ca) and give free advertisement - but they will send your URL and say it has good traffic rank and link popularity.

Other is, a person named, D L (I am not specifying the complete last name) -sends an Interesting Business offer, that too as a reminder mail.

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Hi,

I hope you are well and remember me from my last email. If not, allow me to remind you. After coming across your site yourwebsiteurl.com while doing some browsing on Google, I found it somewhat related to the subject of my sites. That is why I offered to buy spot for text-links on your site.

Do come back to me on this if you would like to hear more.
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We should not forget there might be legitimate offers, most of them will be spam (new trend)

How do they do that?

1. Collect emailid from the whois registrar of the domain name and spam it.
2. Collect from your own website if its specified in some url.
3. Gather data (search data) - perform query in Google/MSN/YAHOO and then collect the url’s for those keywords, then follow step 1.
4. With the collected data, they have automated emails generated by an executable that plugs in the appropriate urls and sends the mail out.

What do they benefit:
1. Free traffic
2. New business
3. Quick way of forming links
4. Collect email of people who replies and sell that CD’s
5. Again spam them with marketing emails.

If you read carefully, you will definitely get to know, whether is it a normal correspondence and remember if its too good to be true, then it is. That said, there are good websites for checking link price calculator online - you can check your url and make sure how much you could ask for, it is based on popularity, traffic and other factors such as PageRank, SERP’s etc.,

Update on April 25

: The person that I mentioned D L, seems to be legitimate unlike others. I am not sure about his business or marketing strategies, but he is a real person rather an automated spam machine.

The number of spams that I have to control has increased and the awstats reports for my website shows more unidentified crawlers and my email is flooded with more spams. And I am not grunting about it, it does prove oneway, if not exponentially - but the site is growing.

More number of adult, medicine, financial (loans), download videos, and just junks - all sorts of junkyjunk related spams. Some of them are very smart spams - general messages on comments, “good web styile (style)”, “great post”, “you have a nice blog going”, “I found very useful information - let me know if I could link yor (your) site” and more. These are all not one time messages and as a visitor just be careful and check your blog comments as well - I guess you know what I am talking, don’t you?.

Even in this site, you can check the comments and find that not many people use their names rather use the comment to market their website with seo keywords (I am aware and I am okay so far and I myself had given that clue (remember, these were used to spamdex Inktomi through guestbooks long back and lots of their site got banned too later), but if its used too much it becomes a blackhat technique :)).

Unidentified robots/crawlers and these spams are all inter-connected. They mostly visit to gather email address and then their primary job is to send junk out to email address and/or to reply to comments in an automated process. Though this topic may not directly related to Identity theft, will talk about that too in the next post - and that if I could think - its 1:30am EST now. Good night!

Cheers,
Shiva

Edited on Aug 6th: Removed certain black-listed words from this post. It is tiring to check on every single detail, but as how a doc had to be careful on his patient - same applies to any business one does. I totally forgot about the concept of black listed words - as how can I not mention when trying to write about spam? But then search engines punish it - and that is a proof that there is a long way to go for optimizing search engines itself!

Beware of job ads such as SEO Analysts, SEO Manager, Director of Search Engine Marketing Manager etc., in any of popular websites. Many start-up companies just post ads to grab attention of real SEO’s as well big employers. It is an easy advertisement for small SEO companies. I did talked with couple of companies which posted in job sites and when I called up - they mentioned there will be no recruitment or no job vacancies in near future. And they keep posting the same job ads weekly once.

Few SEO companies, write on their own blog site that there are plenty of opening, don’t fall for it.

I am talking about few companies that does this. There are lot of legitimate companies that has real SEO jobs, the best way to find them out is to follow the below.

1) Look for which employer is posting that advertisement.
2) Do you see the same job requirement in all states (posted multiple times) and company confidential? - don’t waste time.
3) Google yourself for seo/sem jobs, then visit the company’s website directly. Look for career section and then apply.
4) Sign up in Linked In
5) Search for jobs in Blog Search as well, people from organization might write about job openings in their personal blog.

Cheers,
Shiva

When you search for SEO in google, you get “Stora Enso Oyj” as first link and then there are few links that point to “Sponsors for Educational Opportunity” and the rest 93 pages is related to “Search Engine Optimization” websites.

There is nothing like Suffering Engine Optimization or Seek Engine Optimal used anywhere in the net so far for SEO. Search engine algorithm tends not to avoid/ignore other topics. Below is a list of acronym for what SEO Stands for:

Search Engine Optimization
Search Engine Optimizer
Student Employment Office (SEO Harvard)
Southeast Ohio Library (SEO Library)
Sponsors for Educational Opportunity
Special Equipment Option
Synthetic Engine Oil
Senior Executive Officer
Seasoned Equity Offering
South Eastern Ohio
Special Equipment Operator
Society of Education Officers (UK)
Security Engineering Officer
State Engineers Office
Software Engineering Organization
Software Executive Official
Survivability Enhancement Options
Synchronous Equatorial Orbiter
Systems Evaluation Office
Source Election Official
Science and Education Outreach
Systems Engineering Office/Officer
Symbol-Error Outage

My concern is that, whether computer field or at least “search engine” least of all - is overshadowing other fields and areas?. To what I believe it already started damaging - just see for yourself the above scenerio. Now in future, people when they search for apple - it will go to ipod, mac etc., orange - orange county, searching “search” will lead to search engines and not to inner search to oneself or any such topics - all entity problems. But when we have more problems in plate - much better technologies are going to evolve to rule the future.

I guess after this article is posted, I am going to see lots of different spam acronym for SEO in search engine optimization websites. Nothing wrong, more work to google guys.

Updated again on 10/13/07: I am cleaning up old articles for possible mistakes or risks that I had taken to try different things. Ofcourse, I have learnt a lot and its time to modify for betterment.