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I have a small website that can get a surprising amount of traffic. Every other day I get an email from some "SEO expert" wanting to redesign my site or offer s
by david422 6y ago
I have a small website that can get a surprising amount of traffic. Every other day I get an email from some "SEO expert" wanting to redesign my site or offer some partnership so I get more traffic.
Which is slightly amusing because I must be getting enough traffic for them to want to find me.
- Debug_Overload 6y agoAlmost every SEO "guru" and "expert" is a glorified snake oil salesman. I look at that whole industry the same way I look at the traditional woo-woo peddlers.
- cutemonster 6y agoMakes me wonder what are the snake oily things they do?
- mprev 6y agoPrivate blog networks, guest post spam, paid back links. Seems to be about 80% of the dodgy side of SEO.
- wyclif 6y agoBottom line is that they ruin the quality of search and create a tremendous amount of churn that requires search engines to constantly refine their algo.
- cutemonster 6y agoIs snake oil the right word -- if it actually works? (Well at least until the search engines get better at detecting gray? hat SEO) However, it's a tragedy of the commons failure? (Is there any short word for that)
- captn3m0 6y agoI linked the Instagram handle of a friend on one of my posts, and now I even get posts about promoting and marketing my Instagram handle with “real likes and comments”. Just one link.
- buzer 6y agoI get those even without a website at the domain. They just spam everyone who can be found from whois data (lists of non-expired domains they probably just buy from somewhere).