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

[Neal Priestly]

Most of the ones I get look to be scumbag scammers.

I'm not checking them out too deeply, but I'm not in the market for SEO and
I'm not selling via the web so it's not worth me checking them out.

It's entirely possible that you are getting different folks than I am, but
the ones that wind up in my professional inbox all seem to have read the
same book(s) on social engineering.

-Neal


On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:

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> 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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