More dodgy SEO spam

December 20th, 2006

Just received another spam ‘SEO services’ email - this time from Websquash.com

If you’re not in the Top100 listings, you don’t exist. If you’re not in the Top 50, you’re probably losing business.

No, no.. no. If you’re not in the top 10 listings, then you don’t exist for 76% of potential customers, and if you’re not number 1 in search results for your key phrase, you are losing business (3.5x more clicks are to result 1 compared to result 2, using AOL data)

I guess if you’re touting for business at $74.99, you can’t really make any real promises. It surprises me how many people do not take their business seriously enough to invest in a professional service - and instead chuck money at ’services’ that we would not consider for a second if they were off-line advertising propositions.