101 Articles Scam Schemes
SCAM SCHEMES
Make millions on SEO, great SEO books on how to be millionaire.
If you are a regular internet user you would have come across such kind of schemes in the internet. Most of these one page websites claim to give you ideas on how to make millions by purchasing a produce for just 49$. From our experience, most of these fraud SEO schemes are just useless. They just teach you how to cheat the search engines. Most of these eBook scammers have account with Clickbank, a popular affiliate / payment gateway.
They claim to teach you how to make millions step by step but actually if they are teaching then they cannot be in Business they cannot sell their books. So they just teach you how to waste your time reading such kind of books. I don't like specifics so I am not mentioning any website here.
Adsense SEO scam:
Many people teach you how to make 1000s of dollars from Adsense revenue by doing some spam SEO. These people just want to sell their e-books; they never add any value to you. I have heard many cases that lost lots of money following the bad instruction given on those books.
Money back guarantees SEO scams:
Some SEO companies solely exist on telemarketing I have heard of a company who has 50 people to do SEO but 250 telemarketers who sell SEO. It's just a waste of time since in most cases they will only be spamming the search engines. Some of them even give money back guarantee but the guarantee is only for long or unsearched terms.
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Sample e-mails for Scam schemes |
Example 1
From: Joseph Kent <joekentmarketingmanager@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:10 AM
Subject:Scam Schemes
To: micky@gmail.com
Cc:Raj <raj56@yahoo.co.in>
Hello and Good Day!
I am Joseph Kent, Business Development Manager
I was surfing through your website and realized that despite having a good design; it was not ranking on any of the search engines for most of the keywords pertaining to your domain. I was wondering if you would be interested in getting the SEO done for your website.
There is a simple equation that is applicable to the online world.
Ethical SEO -> Better Traffic -> Higher Sales.
We are an ISO Certified, SEMPO registered Online marketing firm and have over 5 years of working experience. All the techniques used are ethical and proprietary. In case you require any additional information, it shall be our pleasure to furnish the same.
I look forward to your mail.
Yours sincerely,
Joseph Kent
Business Development Manager
ID: joekentmarketingmanager@gmail.com
Example 2
From: Richard <richardtheking@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jun 15, 2010 at 05:10 PM
Subject:Search Engine Optimization
To: sam@gmail.com
Cc:Sourabh <sourabh56@yahoo.co.in>
Hello,
The following is typical spam that your website enquiry form might pick up.
Full Name: *********
Phone Number: 00-0000-000
Email: *****@gmail.com
Enquiry: Search Engine Optimization
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. Please reply and I would be happy to send you a proposal.
Regards.
Richard.
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Examples of scam schemes
This is one of the most popular scam scheme wherein the user is tempted to buy Samsung Galaxy SIII for just 599/- and also like and share their page which in reality is not possible to get a smartphone at such a low cost.
Another popular example is the image below which guarantees 100% refund of money if you do not win Samsung Galaxy Grand. They are also successful in convincing the public to shop without worry as they offer easy refund and cancellation, original products, 100% secure payment and exchange in 20 days. This is an example of money back guarantee SEO scam.
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Graphs and Statistics |
The graph below depicts the trend in SEO scams. It is observed that the maximum level of SEO Scam was recorded in November 2009 and later it gradually started decreasing.
The pie char above shows the various divisions in SEO. It is noted that a one of the major portion is scam SEO which is done by spammers in order to cause damage to the search engines.
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Other sites that refer to the same manipulation tactic are as follows |