Thus said 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. Want to read more by Dennis Yu? For more content follow him here: http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/author/dennis https://www.facebook.com/dennisyu https://twitter.com/dennisyu