SEO spam - personal yet vague …with a high conversion rate!
June 30, 2009 – 11:11 amA friend/customer recently forwarded an email he received from an SEO company. The company sent a personalized form letter appeared to specifically created for the customer's site. It pointed to specifics and generated some concern and fear..... I'm sure the response rate for these emails is high. Here's the short email conversation where he asks about some specifics that this SEO company pointed out. ----------My Response--------- Sure, no problem. First of all, this email was, most likely, not written by hand and it was not created after someone reviewed our site manually. It's just specific enough to be personal and seem relevant. This is really good spam. I assume you already know this. ....My partner firm uses this tactic and it works well for them. Point 2: One question... relevant to what? This depends on the search term, the content of the page and ...