SEO Scams aren’t a new thing. This particular one has been around since 2009.
A client of mine received the following email today and emailed asking if they would receive any benefit’s from the services offered by the person sending the email or if I could provide the same services.
The first thing that stood out for me was that the email didn’t appear to have been written by an English speaker and many things in the email were not relevant to the website. After a quick Google search I found that this exact email has been doing the rounds since 2009.
This got me reading an article from an American company called Vital. https://vtldesign.com/digital-marketing/search-engine-optimization/seo-email-scam/ The article goes in depth about how to spot a scam and why it’s not in your best interests to take them up on the offer.
At Gray Media Limited we are by no means SEO experts, but we can help you make a good solid start with your SEO and if needed help you get in touch with someone who knows more about it than us. Don’t just trust some random person on the internet with a gmail address.
The email is below for your entertainment.
Subject: General Enquiry
Name: Moris Harbert
Email: [email protected]
Hello,
How are you? Hope you are fine.
I have been checking your website quite often. It has seen that the main keywords are still not in top 10 rank. You know things of working; I mean the procedure of working has changed a lot.
So I would like to have opportunity to work for you and this time we will bring the keywords to the top 10 spot with guaranteed period.
There is no wondering that it is possible now cause, I have found out that there are few things need to be done for better performances (Some we Discuss, in this email). Let me tell you some of them –
2. Meta Tag Optimization (Description, keyword and etc)
3. Heading Tags Optimization
4. Targeted keywords are not placed into tags
5. Alt / Image tags Optimization
6. Google Publisher is missing
7. Custom 404 Page is missing
8. The Products are not following Structured markup data
9. Word-Press is not installed properly, in the blogs
10. Website Speed Development (Both Mobile and Desktop) Please check via Google Developer – https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/
11. Favicon needs to be changed too.
12. Off –Page SEO work
Lots are pending……………..
You can see these are the things that need to be done properly to make the keywords others to get into the top 10 spot in Google Search & your sales Increase.
Also there is one more thing to mention that you did thousands of links that time for your website, which are considered as spam after Google roll outs several updates of Panda and penguin. We need to remove them too.
Sir/Madam, please give us a chance to fix these errors and we will give you rank on these keywords.
Please let me know if you encounter any problems or if there is anything you need. If this email has reached you by mistake or if you do not wish to take advantage of this free advertising opportunity, please accept my apology for any inconvenience caused and rest assured that you will not be contacted again.
Many thanks for your time and consideration,
Looking forward
Regards
Moris Harbert
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Several of my clients are getting this email word for word with different names. This post is from 2 years ago and they are using the same message. Its coming through contact forms. Its so annoying…..