SEO services, what scum.
That said, if you need a website redesign, I know a company. (/s)
Haven’t you read all those concerned emails? OP’s web design is great! 😂
I made it myself with no experience, and after two bottles of wine
I can assure you, sir or madam, it is utter fucking shite
And that’s the better kind of shite.
Technical shite.
Yeah, we can thank those assholes for searches being less useful than they could be.
They should all be sued into oblivion for false advertising. They’re not optimizing search engines. They’re shitting the up.
I get these all the time, so I feel your pain.
And then you get the follow-up… “I wanted to make sure you didn’t ignore the last three emails I sent…” blah, blah, blah. Go swallow glass!
I took my phone number off my Google profile and the spam calls dropped off immediately. I do custom work and only locally so I don’t want to cast a wide net.
I wrote my number on a piece of paper and took a picture of it and uploaded that. A low tech captcha.
I’m lucky enough to have laws against spam calling, so it’s just emails
If you’re looking for a way to cut down on these, you might want to try using a contact form on your website to conceal your email address. It’ll still forward submissions to your email but without revealing your address. Most decent web hosts with site editor tools will provide that kind of functionality without requiring any coding/development knowledge. That said, your existing address is pretty much toast at this point so you’ll need a new one regardless.
If these messages are being sent to a domain contact via public registration info, well, there’s your problem. Those contacts should either be burner email addresses or be hidden behind private domain registration.
I don’t even own a business, and I get that all the time. I just have a custom domain for my email.
If you have admin portal access to write transport rules, I recommend writing a rule that has the server reply with a 550 5.7.1 Delivery Refused error. Trigger it based on the keyphrases “top of Google search” and “affordable SEO” to start with.
Pffffffffftt I was barely able to make a website without actually accidentally uploading a picture of my balls mate 😂
Pretty sure that’s desert terrain.
If you want, you could use GMail filters to delete those emails automatically. Here’s how:
- click the engine button (settings), then “see all settings”, then “filters and blocked addresses”.
- click “create a new filter”. Add “top of Google search” to the field “has the words”, leave other fields blank.
- click “create filter”, then check the “delete it” box, then “create filter” again.
- repeat steps 2-3 for other shit that SEO spam is likely to mention.
Important: never use as a filter anything that legitimate users might reasonably say. Only things that you’re fairly certain to come from a spammer.
EDIT: I repeated two steps without noticing it. My bad.
OP I highly recommend following these steps to create your custom filter to clear your inbox! There are also plugins that you can use to do this. It is not required but maybe less intimidating to use.
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One of them led with “dear” though. Are you sure it’s not just your grandma just trying to help you?
Aye if my granny was Nigerian!
Are you sure you don’t need a website redesign? My company can get you on the right track!
Ugh, yes. The joys of small businesses, alongside the rare spam call about “funding.” Thankfully these emails all go to my spam filter now! But it is super annoying.
even if it’s the top result
I feel like being the top result is the primary reason you get this spam.
Hi! I was checking your website.
Yes hello, I’d like to buy your 2 million dollar business for 10 bucks.
You forgot to add ‘kindly’ peppered in so much that it seems hostile
Do the needful
I occasionally get acquisition emails for a Roku channel I develop/maintain that are of a similar ilk. They always brag about how many channels they’ve acquired, which I’ve never understood.
I have access to the email of a rescue I work for, like dogs and cats. The amount of these we get is ridiculous. We don’t want to be the top of google! We already get 7 million emails asking us to take animals or idiots looking for a free puppy for christmas!
I’m not alone. Thank you.
