A great post today from Chris Brogan – Stop adding me to your email newsletter.
He has a very valid point – just because I’ve swapped emails with you DOESN’T mean you’ve been given my permission to add me to your newsletter list.
By all means, send me an email asking me if I WANT to be added, even send me a sample, but don’t just add me without my permission – it’s unprofessional, it’s underhand and it’s downright spammy.
We get a lot of emails asking us if we offer link building campaigns.
We get even more offering us the chance to outsource our link building activities. Mainly from AOL or Gmail addresses, with no website to back up any claims, and at very low prices.
We also help a lot of clients who have been bitten by these cheap link building campaigns and are penalised in Google, or worse, have been banned. Client who suddenly find that they have unwanted links uploaded to their own sites, and links to their sites from unsavoury places. Clients who don’t even realise anything is wrong until we point it out to them.
I received the following request this morning:
I am looking to start a blog that is free (or very cheap) to run, is easy to edit and write on and add photos etc.I want this blog to be fully search engine optimised, so it comes up close to the top of google for all relevant search terms as well. I also want some ad space on the site so I can start earning straight away.
I know, I know, I’ve posted about this before – but it rears its ugly head all the time and it really really bugs me.
This time someone on a forum I participate in tells how they received a sales call from a company purporting to be called ‘Chrome’, who are allegedly a ’subsidiary of Google’ and can offer GUARANTEED front page Google listings for a tiny amount per month (about £125, small money for the business he’s in). Apparently this is a ‘one off offer’ and ‘only being offered to one company’.
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