The Constant Battle to Fend Off SEO Spammers
Its always an uphill battle and always will be in terms of SEO. I love playing jokes on people that spam my clients and tonight was no different.
I received an email solicitation from an SEO Company in India. I guess they’re bored tonight or their sales team was having a bad day, so they did the ‘auto form spam’. Essentially or most likely, they have a piece of software that crawls websites and will find a form on a website and auto fill it out. Maybe they actually have a sales rep doing it manually.
So I hit their site and did a bit of snooping around. Luckily for me I came across their “Live Chat” and figured I’d have some fun. I’ll let you read the rest for entertainment purposes: (ps. I’m jerry 
)
jerry:
have question
Welcome jerry! Your request has been directed to the Sales department. Please wait for our operator to answer your call.
Call accepted by operator Sales. Currently in room: jerry, Sales.
Sales:
HI..this is Vijay how can I help you?
jerry:
hi vijay how many seo’s do you have at bestseowon?
Sales:
are you asking about how many people work in our company?
jerry:
yes
jerry:
i got an email talking about my site so i’m curious about your company.
Sales:
Ok…right now we have 300+ professionals working here in 3 shifts
Sales:
and my official website is www.auroin.com
jerry:
ok. your site, www.bestseowon.com is a pagerank of zero, why?
Sales:
my website is www.auroin.com
jerry:
then why did the email solicitation say bestseowon.com?
jerry:
and thats where I came to chat with you
Sales:
Ok…that’s only to establish initial contact
Sales:
what is your website?
jerry:
it also gave me a ’seo score’ of 85%. how did you come up with that number?
Sales:
may I know your website?
jerry:
not yet
Sales:
then how do I guide you?
jerry:
well, i find it odd that an ‘seo company‘ would be soliciting for leads when if they ranked their own site in the search engines people would be contacting them. don’t you?
Sales:
If you can tell me your website we can talk
jerry:
what computations did you use for 85%? Surely you guys used something….
Sales:
If you can tell me your website we can talk
jerry:
www.xxxxxxxxxxaaaa.com
jerry:
now tell me how you came up with 85%
Sales:
One sec…let me check your website
Sales:
we check the title, meta description, alt tags etc., and calculate if they are relevent to your business
jerry:
oh ok. why 85% then?
jerry:
does this help? http://www.semrush.com/search.php?q=xxxxxaaaaa.com&x=0&y=0&db=us&stype=domain
jerry:
or this? http://siteanalytics.compete.com/xxxxxxxaaaaaa.com/
Sales:
what are you trying to tell me?
jerry:
Dear Head of Business Development at xxxxxxaaaaa.com, Were you aware that you are paying every time your online marketing advertisement is clicked? It hurts! I know, as many of our clients have shared this frustration when I first talked to them about how to drive more quality prospects to their sites – without having to constantly pay for every click. I thought you might like to know some of the reasons why you are not getting more organic (FREE) search engine traffic for xxxxxxaaaaa.com 1. Your home page rank is 2, this can be improved further. 2. Your SEO score is 85%. This can be improved as implementing on and off-page factors will fetch better results in major search engines. 3. Open directory listing is not available. If you can stomach more bad news about what your site needs, and are curious to know what our working together would involve, then I would be glad to provide you with further detailed analysis in the form of a SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION (SEO) SITE REPORT – FREE OF CHARGE. I would first need to know that you are serious about using our services, as the report would involve several hours of our research. To brief you about the company, we are an ISO 9001 certified team of over 500 SEO specialists in the USA, UK, Australia and India and would like to talk with you about how you should be winning new business from the search engines, without paying advertisers over and over again for it. SEO is not instantaneous, it is not free, but it is the only sensible internet marketing choice. Your return on investment (ROI) after 6 months of SEO will be at least 3 times that of paid advertisements, and many times greater than our cost. In fact, we guarantee that in the first month of our work you will see an improvement in ranking, link popularity and traffic or we’ll work for free until you do! Our clients’ consistently tell us that their customers find them because they are at the top of Google. Being on the top left of Google (#1- #5 Organic positions) is the best thing you can do for your company’s website traffic and online reputation. Ironically, It’s very likely that had you spent your last 6 months of online marketing dollars on SEO instead of paid advertising that you would have 3 times or greater the traffic today and not need the paid advertising at all. Fortunately you can still start today and begin getting that traffic in just a few weeks. We look forward to discussing our SEO plans with you. Sounds interesting? Feel free to email us or alternatively you can provide your best time and phone number to call you. Best Regards Sales Team —————————
Sales:
are you there?
jerry:
im trying to figure out why an ‘seo company‘ is spamming me when my rankings are outstanding.
Sales:
we have also written if you are not interested mention it and we will not send it again
Sales:
just one line could have saved your time as well as mine
jerry:
do you know what this means for seo? “we are an ISO 9001 certified team of over 500 SEO specialists”
Sales:
what are you trying to prove or tell? you don’t want to receive emails from us…correct?
jerry:
you guys are a joke. i can’t wait to post this transcript on my blog. you spammed my client. no wonder SEO is given such a bad name because we have to deal with spammers like you auto filling out web forms.
jerry:
iso 9001 – hilarious
jerry:
good luck spamming people for clients
jerry:
go sell something
Ha ha i got the same email and looked into it and they seemed to have been blacklisted..lol
Really hard to trust SEO companies with so many idiots like that dude.