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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.

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.

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.)

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!

It hasn’t even been one full day and Google shows 69 results for Sulumits Retsambew. It cracks me up to see the junk sites that are involved. They may rank, but those sites are the ones you hate getting on. Filled with blinking banners and pop-ups (ha ha – blocked!) I think of the amateur builders from the 90’s.

Those attempting to rank for “sulumits retsambew” without using popular social media sites are not as highly listed as those who are. Mike Dammann used digg to get a head start, but was taken over by the .org site showing that Google still gives more weight to the domain name having the keywords in it. Mike’s site Firetown is showing #9 right now for this Sulumits Retsambew page.

 The .net owner thought he could get creative and claim that it is his name on a comment sent to this blog. I am guessing he wanted a link and try to stir up link bait by controversy. It might have worked if he applied for a name change…

Of course these domain name were taken very quickly:

www.sulumitsretsambew.com
www.sulumitsretsambew.net
www.sulumitsretsambew.org
www.sulumitsretsambew.biz

If you are still interested in joining the contest get over to www.netbuilders.org (see previous post for more info.)