Thus saidĀ friend.seocompany@gmail.com, who wants me to post their blog in exchange for a token payment.
Apparently, I didn’t respond to them within 2 minutes, so they had to follow up.
So I was curious what sort of spam they engage in.
Googling that email address (you should use your domain, not a freemail address, by the way, if you want to be treated seriously), we find:
Looks like “Anna” is buying and selling links on her site:
And doing this with a lot of folks:
Notice the keyword stuffing in the blog sections and tags.
Anyone who has to cold-call to drive business doesn’t have enough to keep them busy.
It means they can’t keep clients or care more about growth than quality.
Be an inbound marketer, not a desperate pitchman.
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