{"id":554,"date":"2009-02-01T11:16:50","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T01:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=554"},"modified":"2009-02-12T09:29:09","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T23:29:09","slug":"learning-from-seo-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2009\/02\/learning-from-seo-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning from SEO spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I wrote about <a title=\"be careful of SEO offers in emails\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2009\/01\/seo-offers\/\" target=\"_blank\">SEO offer spam emails<\/a>. Having just received another one of these annoying emails, I thought I&#8217;d give some examples of why I don&#8217;t trust them&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">We can put your site at the top of a search engines listings. If this is something you might be interested in, send me a reply with the web addresses you want to promote and the best way to contact you with some options.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">First Last<\/p>\n<p>So what is wrong with this email?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>no greeting is rude. Even if he didn&#8217;t want to take the time to research my name, he could have said &#8220;Hello&#8221; at the minimum<\/li>\n<li>who is he? There was no other information to help me identify his business or contact him except by reply email<\/li>\n<li>if he doesn&#8217;t know what my website is (so how did you email me then?) how can he be sure he can help my rankings improve? Maybe I&#8217;m already at the top, maybe it&#8217;s a family site I don&#8217;t care about rankings for, maybe a thousand different things that mean his service is not relevant<\/li>\n<li>what does he mean by &#8216;top of a search engine listings&#8217; anyway? Top of page 10 in Google is still top but not something I aspire to! Top for an irrelevant or obscure\u00a0keyword won&#8217;t help me either. By not being clear, he missed an opportunity to show me he knows what he is talking about and starting some trust.<\/li>\n<li>where is he located? Yes, we could deal via email which means his location isn&#8217;t too important, but knowing he is overseas helps understand time differences. Further, I would be more likely to hire an Australian as they understand my market better and I don&#8217;t have to deal with the dollar value.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Whilst I hope you don&#8217;t send out spam to get business, the above tips will hopefully help you avoid answering spam like this and help you write better sales emails.<\/p>\n<p>Use your words wisely!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I wrote about SEO offer spam emails. Having just received another one of these annoying emails, I thought I&#8217;d give some examples of why I don&#8217;t trust them&#8230; We can put your site at the top of a search engines listings. If this is something you might be interested in, send me a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,59,60],"tags":[222,873,583,226,591],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-writing-examples","category-web-content","category-writing","tag-email","tag-seo","tag-spam","tag-tips","tag-trust"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}