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I Hate Spam Email from Bad SEO Consultants

Went Hot: December 14, 2007 - 2:30 pm
Posted By: todd 302 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.hubspot.com)
Category: Search Marketing

It's late at night and I'm finishing a presentation for tomorrow, and my email tells me I just got 7 new emails. Four of them are leads from our website (cool!), one is from Brian, one from Dharmesh (we work late at HubSpot [grin]) and one from someone I don't know with the subject "Suggestion re: blog.hubspot.com". I've been meeting a lot of folks through this blog, and figured this was someone with a comment or an idea about a new article. Wrong. It's an SEO consultant pitching me on why I need their help. For your reading pleasure I have placed his email below, with what I was thinking when I read it in italics, and my email reply back to him. Some info has been deleted to protect the guilty. Enjoy.

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from mvolpe70 302 days ago #

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I hope I was not too harsh. But really I am just sick of all these garbage SEO wannabes who give the entire world unrealistic expectations and a bad name to Internet marketing. It hurts the entire industry. Its getting to the point of almost needing a licensing or regulation or something. Yuck!!!!

from nsmseo 302 days ago #

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Hear, hear, mvolpe70.

from toddmintz 302 days ago #

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Dude, you stole my story :.)

http://www.searchengineguide.com/todd-mintz/seo-spam-solicitation-stripped.php

from todd 302 days ago #

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looks like this spammer has a GREAT strategy... email all of the people who are SEO Experts.

from Heddy 302 days ago #

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Spam is better left in HAWAII!!

from incrediblehelp 302 days ago #

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I think i hate IM spam more. I post my IM names on my blog to be helpful and spammers lok a this a opputunity to spam me, booo.

from mvolpe70 301 days ago #

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I really do hate these spammers. Nice story Todd Mintz - I missed that one on your site - yours is much more thorough and less emotional analysis than mine. :) Cheers.

from MiriamEllis 301 days ago #

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What is it about this, honestly? Why spam an SEO company with SEO offers? I get so many of these (my personal favs are the ones warning me that my website contains a FATAL ERROR!). It's like writing to a shoe store and offering to sell them shoes. I just don't get it.

Very funny article!
Miriam