Dear Janice Jacobsen,
Thank you for contacting… wait a minute… your email address looks awfully familiar. Where have I seen that before…
I know! It’s the same damn email address that a previous spammer, named Jim Guthrie, used on my blog just 2 months ago. Go ahead everyone, compare the two…
Wow! Jim, or is it Janice now?, either way you are still a dirty spammer that continues to try and peddle your “SEO services” through comment and form spamming. Oh yes, I (again) checked to see if I could find out more about you and again you left a comment and contact trail all across the Internet.
*Tadah* –
Your continued efforts are lack luster, at best. As you continue to spam legitimate SEO sites (which is just stupid) your shady business practices will continue to become more apparent to a wider audience.
My previous post to you, Jim or Janice, has already helped to inform one small business owner of your sticky web of deceit and hopefully this post will continue to raise awareness.
Your continued usage of comment and contact form spam is just as confusing as your gender!
Give it a rest already, stop dragging our industry through the mud and drawing negative sentiment from business owners that would benefit from SEO but are now left with a poor perception of a legitimate marketing tactic. You continue to push buttons and by doing so continue to draw unwanted attention to the parent organization that you are linked with [full details here].
Just cut the bullshit.
GFY,
Matthew Diehl
P.S. I await (on pins and needles) your gender decision, pre-op and post-op photos would be great too!
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It’s true, a truly knowlegeable SEO should have tons of business from natural search traffic alone, no? Spamming? lol
Thanks for this post, it’s great to be able to find info that helps separate out who’s legit and who’s not.
@Jason – Glad I could help! That is exactly what I was hoping would come out of this post and the previous one. These individuals continue to give SEO a bad name by running shady acquisition and business practices. I doubt they will ever stop so the best that us legitimate types can do is educate.
I just rec’d the same spammy email, googled the name and the word “rankings” and found your blog post. Thank you for the heads up – and thumbs down! – on this “perp.”
Good work!
@Laurette – You’re Welcome! Just calling it like I see it and trying to prevent any more businesses from being burnt by false SEOs.
I got this same message and it seemed way too over-the-top to be real. Glad I checked it out. Ran it through SpamCop and reported it to the authorities. Hopefully, if more people jump on these Bandwidth Thieves, we’ll have less crap to worry about in our inboxes.
@Michael Good move for taking the further steps with reporting them to SpamCop. Hopefully, someday we won’t have to deal with these folks spreading their garbage about in the search engine marketing industry.
From: Janice Jacobsen
Subject: Thought regarding your website
Message Body:
I’ve helped hundreds of companies increase their traffic and I’d love to show you what my service can do for you. I don’t promise the world, I’m straight forward and to the point … I deliver rankings. My rates are completely affordable and I don’t want to oversell you either, I start small and have my clients begging for more. I won’t take on your site unless I know I can deliver rankings. Reply to this e-mail if you have the slightest interest … you’ll never see rankings the same way again.
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This mail is sent via contact form on Abod http://abods.com
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get a real job Janice Jacobsen
Janet, using Jims email address, sent me the same message today. Surely she/he must be bored copying & pasting all day long rather than working! Great to find your post about J’s antics.
I got the Janice email and another: Laura Nowacki
Similar message in body. I searched “Janice Jacobsen SEO” (no quotes), your blog is #1.
I do mostly local SEO for sites I build. I would hate it if one of my customers got taken on a Janice or Laura or Jim ride.
I’d like to point our another thing SEO spammers do. Optimize for useless keywords. They are easy to optimize for but useless because no one is using them in searches. Here is an example:
I have a site that is #1 on Google for the term “oil field excavation” (no quotes). I discovered this quite by accident but was pretty pleased with myself when I did. I rushed to the Google Ad Words tool to see how many searches there were for that term…less than ten, Globally! (<10)
Thank you very much for letting us know this. We have just received also this email.
It does make you wonder though what would happen if you mail them back, not that I ever would. I was inclined to do so just to waste their time.
I don’t know what would happen if you responded to their email ad. I would suspect they would try to sell you SEO services. Such as site evaluation and on site optimization, keyword research.
Their integrity is in question because the source of introduction is spam. You have to ask yourself, “how reliable can they be?”
SEO begins with keyword research. If you get that right you have a fighting chance. Then using the keywords properly on site, then inbound links off site.
Of course quality content and a reasonable amount of it. Last but not least, interaction and content updates and addition. Like us leaving comments on this blog. We are SEOing this page by adding to the content. The circle is unbroken because Matthew began with a cleaver idea and good content. The content served us and we respond with interaction.
@Alan People have definitely responded back. That is how we know these emails lead back to certain unethical companies with our industry because not only have they sold the SEO service to unsuspecting business owners, they have screwed over those business owners. Such a shame.
@Tom Thanks for your continued commentary on the post. Your interactions continue to help this post rank highly and drive continued visits from others being emailed by these shiisters. Additionally, the point about their introduction being through either email or comment spam is very valid. 100% of the time these solicitations cannot be trusted!
I just received an offer from Janice Jacobson, googled her name & your post is the first result. Hope this post saved many potential victims.
The mail content matches the text shown word by word. Only her email ID is different. I never respond to site promo offers, for the first time I’ve checked on the net how good/bad are they. Thanks for posting your thoughts.
These are the same spammers that take credit card numbers if you use their services. They are usually from foreign countries and sell your credit card number to thieves that buy up things and mess your credit up
Thanks Janice Jacobsen or Jim Jacobsen or Natahili Gahndi or whoever you are.