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As an owner of websites, I regularly get email like this: Hi, I am Maria, Business Development Manager. I went to your website: “www.techdc.com” and saw that you are an online service provider. Would you be interested in outsourcing Link Building Services to us? We will be happy to deliver one way thematic links for …
Continue reading “Bogus Search Engine Optimization Services”
I just got a spammy marketing email from NationalPositions Marketing telling me how they could improve the Google search rankings for techdc.com. We’ve written before about how such services are sleazy and can even lead to being banned by Google. This particular spam message is interesting because they provided what they saw as my top …
Poor Search Results So you’ve made your shiny new website but you’re not getting any visitors. That’s probably because you haven’t worked on your search engine optimization (SEO). The primary way for most sites to get visitors is through coming up in the web search results when people are looking for whatever you offer. If …
Continue reading “Google SEO and Other Search Engine Results Performance Suggestions”
As always, I recommend to ignore spam emails suggesting that someone will improve your search rank by performing Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Google knows about the tactics that SEO Consultants use. And if Google notices that you are artificially trying to improve your rank, they can penalize or ban your site from their search. Instead, the best …
Most people who have websites are regularly emailed to join or place links on their site to be part of link farms. These are bogus links (links unrelated to the site’s content) that have the goal of tricking Google into improving the site’s search rank. Horrible SEO (Search Engine Optimization) companies sell this sleazy service. …