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My site could use higher placement?!!
Friday, September 28, 2007
According to a SPAM e-mail I received today:
"Your web site could use higher placement on the top directories like Google or Yahoo!
We are offering to review your site for no charge in order to show you how a higher position could improve your web traffic. Email us at sashton@gmail.com today and we will create your free site report. Please include your URL(s) and the best way to contact you with results."
Well, that's amazing! Firstly, I seem to be doing okay without the higher placement - obviously I'm not going to turn down appearing on the first page of Google, but it's not essential. Secondly, a higher placement could improve my traffic, but I think providing useful content is the best method and one I will always advocate - there's no point in being on the front page if people don't like the content of your site.
Then, I do find it worrying that someone is trying to offer higher positions in the Google directory - directories don't have ranking positions, and if you want to be in the Yahoo! directory, there is the small matter of the $299 fee. Perhaps this so-called SEO expert means Google or Yahoo! search engine.
And finally, they did manage to contact me to make the offer so asking for more contact details so they can provide me with a free report...I think not. If you're going to spam someone with an e-mail like this, don't send it to web designers and SEO professionals!
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