SEO Company Spam

My inbox is constantly hammered with spam from dubious SEO (search engine optimization) companies.

I've attached a couple of examples below.

The spam typically gets sent from India. If you reply to the spam, a dubious SEO company in the USA replies with a shady offer. It looks like they outsource the actual SEO work back to somewhere in Asia.

I'm mentioning this because I know of at least one hostel company that uses these kinds of SEO services with shady results. The hostel company is basically paying someone to embarrass them using social media.

If you see spam e-mails like this, it's not a good idea to reply:

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Optimization techniques that will not get your website banned or
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In order for us to respond to your request for information, please
include your company’s website address (mandatory) and or phone
number.

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Watch out for any SEO company that offers services like:

• "blog links" (this really means blog spam -- I delete these kinds of spam comments from my blogs every day or two)
• "forum links" (this really means forum spam -- I ban these spammers from HM constantly)
• "article submissions" (typically a waste of time -- put articles/content on your own websites and/or as guest posts on trusted blogs, not on low quality article directories that are filled with spam)
• "free press release submissions" (...when mentioned in the same list as the above items. I delete this kind of spam from my hostel press release form constantly)