[Hidden-tech] 'SEO Marketing sales pitches': scams or what?

Robert Heller heller at deepsoft.com
Sat Aug 23 10:43:30 EDT 2014


I've been getting sales pitches from SEO Marketing companies, both via
telephone (Robot calls mostly) and via E-Mail (and via my contact page on my
website). All with more or less the same basic pitch: "We can place you the
first page of Google searches..." or some variation on that theme.

These companies charge something like $300-$500 / month (which is way outside 
what I could afford).

What *exactly* are these companies really doing (other than looking to pocket
a pile of *my* cash)?  Some claim to be using a propriatory system -- whatever
that means.

Note if I do a search for "Linux Administration North Quabbin" *my* website
shows up as the first and second results (at least with duckduckgo), so my
website can't be that bad as it is. I do get some business, maybe not vast
amounts, but I am not sure I could handle vast amounts of work anyway -- I am 
a one-man operation and there are only so many hours in the day.  I would need 
to get more work than I could handle to cover the $300-$500 / month anyway -- 
that is I would end up becoming a cash cow *for the SEO Marketing company* and 
my net income would not be much more than it currently is!  What would be the 
point of that?

Most of the pitches say that my website is not findable, but somehow these SEO
Marketing companies have found my website (is it a chicken or an egg?). What
are they doing: doing a search and then working backwards from the *last* page
of results? Or are they really finding my site easily enough and thinking
'this might be an easy mark', since I might not be at the top of all of the 
search results (or the search results for the searches they are doing).  I 
wonder: maybe my website is really good in that it looks like a bigger company 
than I really am?

Is this some sort of scam or what?  It has all of the look and feel of a scam, 
much like the credit card robot calls, which start with "This is your final 
wanring about your credit card..." (and I *don't* have a credit card!).

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