Airevilo Corp

I saw it on CNN.com so it must be true!

I took a screenshot and the only edit I did was to crop this.

Gold up today 67%

As you can see gold was up a whopping 67% and I saw it on a trusted site so it must be true!!!

The reason to bring up this obvious error is that you can not believe everything you see even on a trusted site. Always double check or triple-check before you fall for something. The Internet is full of information, yet not all of it is true. People seem to actually care less about lying on the Internet and figure than can get away with anything.

My brother called me yesterday about a company called 1and1 who he has a couple of domain names with. They advertise heavily in tech magazines and many people have used there services. I won’t say anything about them, but do some searches about 1and1 and collections. My brothers credit card had expired and he was never contacted to update his card. Now with companies I have done domain business with would send an email or 5 before the date arrived and then some after. If you did not update the card they would expire the domain name. That was not the case for my brother. See this guys experience with 1and1.

As I have said before, always check out companies before buying anything or signing a contract. Find out how they have handled customer complaints. How did they treat their customers? Any company that has done business will have someone complain, but how many customers complain about the same thing? Was it ever resolved?

Do your research and keep from being burned.

The promise of the #1 spot on Google or even the first page as stated in this spam below:

If you’re interested in showing up as a first page result for more search terms on google and yahoo, reply back with all addresses you’re looking to promote and the best number to contact you with details.

Sincerely,

Ken Murray

Don’t fall for it!

First, don’t respond to spam emails no matter what, if they are a spammer they probably are a scammer. If you signed up for something and then get their email, that may be a different story.

Second, you can’t always deliver on the promise unless you are willing to go blackhat and use techniques that will get a high position for a time and then when Google finds out your site is banned or delisted completely. If this is your path, you might want to use generic domain names that you can throw away when you are done with it.

We took on the SEO for CDS Publications and did tell them we should have a number of top 10 positions after a month and more after two months. So far this is what they are seeing. Even with an older domain with PR3 and nothing coming up in the top 150, you can’t make a promise. Some of the terms are highly competitive and those take more time, others that are specific or have their business name in should be possible in a short amount of time after optimization and proper linking.

So, to recap, be careful with companies that make you huge promises in the area of SEO! Do some research on their company name to see what kinds of complaints are found, don’t let this dissuade you alone since almost every company will have something negative written about them, but find out how they handled the complaints or how many of the same complaint you find.

Here is another example of SEO Spam:

Dear Website Owner,

65% of people searching the Internet will never find your web site unless you’re ranked on first page of Google, MSN, or Yahoo. If I help you obtain as much as 4 times more WEB traffic to your online business by promoting you to the first page of the search engines would you be interested?

Our company is on the first page when you search on Google for our primary search term “SEO Company.” We would like to do the same for your web site so you can come up for your main keywords as well? All of our processes use the most ethical “white hat” Search Engine Optimization techniques that will not get your website banned or penalized.

This special SEO program includes:
• No upfront fees
• A month-to-month program
• More traffic guaranteed

Please reply to my email and I would be happy to send you a proposal.
______________________________________________________________________
Sincerely,
Deepak LN

501 VERDUGO WAY
WESTLAKE VILLAGE , CA
91362 – USA
______________________________________________________________________
Simply reply with opt out if not interested to hear from us.

That last line is something to warn you about as well. DON’T reply to any spam! That only lets them know it is a good address to send spam to, they won’t remove you, but add you instead and probably add you to the list they sell.

Like the last post about these scams, always do some research. Chances you are reading this because you searched for this company and hopefully you will find your answers before you lose money.

Like most of you we also receive the spam from companies trying to promote their services scams. Here is an example of one such email we have been seeing lately:

I can put your site at the top of a search engines listings. This is no joke and I can show proven results from all our past clients. If this is something you might be interested in, send me a reply with the web addresses you want to promote and the best way to contact you with some options.

Thanks in advance,

Jason Fitzpatrick
Vertical Listings Optimization
3636 Gateway Center
San Diego, CA 92101

As expected the company doesn’t seem to exist at all and the location pulled up nothing related. My bet is that they sucker a payment from the unsuspecting website owner and that is the last they here. So, be careful. Rule of thumb, if you get an email from someone you don’t know (spam) treat it that way. Dump it in the trash.

Not only can you get ripped off from sites who spam by email, there are also companies who spam by phone. Sure, they might actually do something, but usually you will find their services lacking in this area. Even larger companies like YP.com who will say they are partners with Google will not follow through and leave your wallet empty.

Best to always research whoever you are talking to. Never let them sell you on the first call, especially if they say that you have to take their special offer now or it will be their normally outrageous price if you don’t commit with their sales person at that time. This sales practice seems to be top priority with those who don’t have something to back up what they say.

Write back with your personal experiences.

Like many of you we receive the spam emails stating how our site does not rank well in the search engines and how their company can get you top placement. The funniest thing about these SEO spammers is how they find your site in, of all places, on search engines. Typically these emails will state how 75% of businesses like yours don’t rank for their search terms, etc.. The percentage will vary per email as if it is just computer generated.

What really gets me is that they will con people into their services. Most likely the payer will not recieve any benefit from their little con game. So be careful when choosing a “SEO expert” to work on your site.  If this company actually does anything, most likely it will be by means that Google will ban for either now or in the future. Just think – these companies are spamming you to get your business, do you think they care how they treat you when they get your money?

If an SEO company is good at what they do, you should be able to search for a title from their own website on Google and find them at least in the top 10 pages and if they are really good, the top 10 results. SEO companies are all trying to rank using their skills for certain terms related to SEO. Of all areas of search these could be considered the most competitive.

Buyer beware – do your research, ask for some sample results and make sure they give you search terms that get searched for.

Sulumits Retsambew Update

Search Google for sulumits retsambew and it says it has 25,000 web pages indexed yet it will only show me up to 400. Yes I skipped many pages but page 40 was the last it would show. Not only is it lame to show such a large number but not show them all, but many of the sites towards that end were just as lame…

One site I noticed add a set a links at the bottom of the page – much like a miniature directory page. Another site the content was taking so long to finish loading I left. All I saw there was the navigation and ads…. LAME. Some of these sites are actual attempts at the SEO contest and others appear to just be where someone bought or put a link. I keep thinking that someday Google and the other search engines will eventual weed out this garbage completely – or is that what people call a pipe dream?

Some of the entrants for the “sulumits retsambew” SEO contest chose to use the power of WordPress.com and Web 2.0 to get high ranking for the contest, but now their pages are empty at WordPress. From what I have been told Wordpress has something in the TOS against contests. I didn’t even find the word contest on the TOS, but I did see SPAM. My guess – they see it as spam. Many bloggers have issue with those who do SEO and see all SEO as bad.

What I don’t know is whether Will at www.Netbuilders.org will allow the site to win even if no content is displayed on the page. What do you think? (Please post your thoughts.) My guess is that the banned pages will lose their spots in Google as others build links and content. 

Not a lot of change has been happening on the first 2 pages of SERPS with Google, not sure about the pages after that. I have seen more movement on Yahoo.com and Live.com than that of Google.com. I can’t imagine being an “SEO expert” with pages in this contest that are after the 3rd page of results, those “experts” would have to be frustrated.

Since I am talking about “SEO experts” can I rant just a bit? Don’t fall for the line that they will guarantee you top position!! If you are working with a real (by real I mean a competitive search term people actually search for) search term, (you don’t want to rank for sulumits retsambew do you?) then it can take some time and effort to get to the first page of results. The other way they can do this is by a hijacker program. They will ask you to download a program which then allows them to show a website or change the first three results when you are on Google, Yahoo, or MSN. Scams like this have been running for at least 6 years with names like Realname, etc… (DON”T FALL FOR IT.)

Webmaster – retsambeW

Seeing that www.webmasterstimulus.org has climbed quite quickly in the serps had me questioning if Google can recognize a variation of the word even if it was completely backwards?

Maybe Google recognized the association between the words because of the sites that the words are mentioned on? Most of the sites with “sulumits retsambew” also have “webmaster stimulus” in them, such as this blog discussing the SEO contest.  To see what might come up on a search I tried “snru noitamerc” which is “cremation urns” backwards. I used quotes after getting what looked like another language and one site came up. That site was elgoog – which is Google spelled backwards! That test failed with flying bruises, since the whole page was reversed along with the title, etc…

Sulumits – stimuluS

Retsambew – webmasteR

By adding these words within the same content, will the big G start to put the two together? When you search for “retsambew” will Google recommend “webmaster”? I am betting it will soon enough. Will semantic search add those variations to the results? Don’t get me started on the semantic search business now………

Just making a quick post and update on the top 10 of the sulumits retsambew contest results on Google.com.

Continuing at #1 is:

Sulumits Retsambew is entry by Evil Science for NetBuilders seo contest.

Followed at #2 by a newer page/site:

SULUMITS RETSAMBEW – All About SEO Contest And Updated SEO Strategies

This new player added “no” to the keywords to create a keyword domain. Google gives so much weight to keyword rich domain name s.

Keep watching for other updates.

Second full day and here are the first page results on google:

As you can see there are quite the variety of sites ranking in the top 10, but still heavy weight has been given to the domain name followed by incoming links, from our research of the results.  There were about 90 results around the time of this search, so we expect a lot more in the next week as those who are attempting to rank using old methods or non-seo savy type s of pages.

Web 2.0 sites took a lead in the beginning, but they seem to drop considerably as those pages that have more SEO options implemented gain rank. With all the linking going on right now we would expect these results to change quite a bit in the next week.

Stay tuned for more sulumits activity amongst the retsambew!