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		<title>Undercover Spam: &quot;I visited your website and found&#8230;&quot;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 22:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of people have contacted me to seek advice after receiving an email typically starting with I visited your website and found it did not rank for &#60;insert apparently relevant keywords here&#62;. The email finishes with an offer to get your website ranking in Google. Client&#8217;s initial reactions are that this was a genuine [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A number of people have contacted me to seek advice after receiving an email typically starting with <em>I visited your website and found</em> <em>it did not rank for</em> &lt;insert apparently relevant keywords here&gt;.</p>
<p>The email finishes with an offer to get your website ranking in Google.</p>
<p>Client&#8217;s initial reactions are that this was a genuine pro-active service provided by the sender, and they felt some obligation to contact them and seriously consider their offer.</p>
<p>The harsh reality is that some software found your site, tested it against potentially irrelevant keywords and then composed and sent you that email.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s no caring proactive professional business person behind this; just a spammer using software to try to trick you into contacting them.</p>
<p>Yes, its  spam email masquerading as a proactive service from an allegedly reputable business.</p>
<p>The human(s) responsible are unlikely to actually know of your business; and probably don&#8217;t even know that their software sent it to you until of course you contact them.</p>
<p>Do a Google search and you will find that this spam has even been sent to Google themselves claiming to be able to help them improve ranking for  their website !</p>
<p>I think the <a href="http://www.webwisetalk.com/2008/03/20/i-visited-your-website-and-noticed-that-you-are-not-listed/" target="_blank">WebWise blog</a> best sums this up with a quote from Google:   &#8221;reserve the same skepticism for unsolicited email about search engines as you do for ‘burn fat at night&#8217; diet pills or requests to help transfer funds from deposed dictators.&#8221;</p>
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