5 EASY Ways to tick off another SEO (When you’re claiming to be an SEO yourself)

If I was any other kind of person, I’d let the sillyheads who propose “link exchanges” this way know exactly what they’re doing wrong. In this case, they’re going to have to just read it on my site. Which they clearly don’t do (read SEO blogs/forums) or they wouldn’t have gotten this SO wrong.

Dear Webmaster

I handle online marketing for my client’s site http://www.trinityinsight.com/

As you all know about the Google’s new algorithym and the improtance of oneway linking. I am also looking for triangular linking ( New Virgin of Oneway linking ) to increase the link popularity of my site as well the ranking in major search engines.

Emphasis added is mine.

I will also add your site on to my directory / within24 hours of your positive reply.
please add my site at least page rank(5) page.

I request you to do have a look on to my website and add it on your website and reply me with your site’s details.

Here is my linking details :-

URL : http://www.trinityinsight.com/

Title : ecommerce consulting

Description : Trinity Insight is an ecommerce consulting company that assists online retailers and financial companies.

Link will be added at : http://www.techsinasec.com/links/computerservices.html

You can also paste the code given below :

< p >< b >< a href="http://www.trinityinsight.com/" >ecommerce consulting< /a >< /b > Trinity Insight is an ecommerce consulting company that assists online retailers and financial companies.< /p >

(Spacing to break the code added by me. All other line breaks and spaces in this email were the real ones I got in the original.)

Your link will be added on my site within 24 hours. So if you are interested for link exchange with my site please let me know and we can do a better work for our sites.

Thanks and Regards

Shree

seo.shree@gmail.com

Are you kidding? First of all, “Shree” is contacting another SEO company here. They have to know this, because the page they offered the link back to is a computer-related page, with other SEO links on it.

But allow me to continue on with all the reasons why emails like this tick me off for wasting my time.

• Spelling and grammar. “Improtance” and “New Virgins” – I’m surprised that this email didn’t get flagged as spam for the sexual connotations right there. But the simple fact that someone wrote any kind of email like this (as opposed to an email from a client or colleague) and made misspellings like that just turns me off immediately from whatever it is they have to say to me.
• Lies! Lies! All LIES! Google’s new algorithym? Triangular linking is the “new” form of one-way linking? One-way linking strategies (in this manner, as an attempt to game the SE’s) and triangular linking died around the same time GW was re-elected. Were people still doing it? Sure. Was it doing them any good? Not so much. Fortunately my inbox is breathing a sigh of relief in comparison – I used to get over 100 emails a day like this back then. Heck, I sent over 100 a day like this (but mine made sense, and weren’t so demanding, see my next point).
• Demanding of my activity and time. Not only am I supposed to comply within 24 hours, but I’m supposed to look at the site, put THEIR link on a PR5 page (and get my link on a PR4 page, smooshed in with a ton of other idiots who took them up on this offer) and respond right away.
• Using a GMail address. GMail is great, don’t get me wrong. But WHO ARE YOU? What company do you work for; SEOShree? Trinity Insight? (TI appears to offer SEO and Internet Marketing, so are you pretending to be an outside agency when this is really for yourself?) Keep the GMail for your personal stuff, will you? Or wait, is that because you send out so much crap like this, that you need to keep changing your email address because of the spam and complaints made against you? In any event, if I can’t figure out who you are, you really won’t get anything out of me that you ask for. Nope, not even a little link exchange.
• The bottom line? This stuff just doesn’t work. You should be spending your time either blogging about all the junk you know doesn’t work anymore (like yours truly), or actually doing stuff for your client that does work. I’ve got half a mind to send this to your client myself, and let them know what kind of crap you’re doing for their money. People wonder why SEOs get a bad rap sometimes? THIS, my friends, is it.

So there you have it – I’ve really had it with stuff like this. Oh, and here was my word for word response to them (I don’t normally do this, but on occassion, if it just bites me the wrong way, I will):

You want to be on a PR 5 page, and you’re willing to give a link on a PR 4 page that’s cluttered with other links – and only links – some that are related to my business and some that are not?

Do you realize you contacted an SEO company here?

I’m sorry, but no thank you.

Looking that over, I think even that was too kind.