I’m getting lots of spam mails and spam comments lately selling me SEO services promising that I’ll rank at page 1 for my keywords, get more traffic and make more money. Although it’s true that ranking on page 1 in google will get more traffic to my sites, I didn’t like the way I was approached by these SEO marketers. Where did they get my email? Am I interested in the first place? Why should I trust them? Do they even know what I do and write about in this blog?

Here are just some examples of so called SEO proposals that I’ve been getting in my inbox and comments. Try to learn from them and see why they didn’t work on a target like myself.
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I’ve been managing Adcenter PPC campaigns for a while now and getting my skills recognized was the right thing to do. I’ve just taken the Adcenter Accreditation Program test today and here’s the result.

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Webmasters take note. Did you know that Google provides a tool for you to check if your site is safe for browsing? For example, you can view the diagnostic result for this site returned from Google here.

The test result is a good way of telling if your site is safe in the eyes of Google. If your site is reported to contain malicious software or malware, you risk losing traffic from Google and other search engine. It’s also true the other way, if you’ve been losing search engine traffic (due to “Google Panda/Farmer Update” or other reasons), you might want to test your site to see if it’s still safe for browsing.
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