“But you’re my favourite and you are the one I really favour and the one I see I can monetize the targeted website traffic our linking can deliver. I have your contact info as”” phone no: Is it ok if I give you a call? I have a very simple way to prove that what I do works. Nothing beats seeing the results with your own eyes.
Is it ok if I give you a call? I would love to pursue this further over the phone with you or should I go somewhere else? Sincerely, John Hartley
Director, Persimmon Publishing Ltd

So here we are almost 3 months away from this time last year and I find myself completing a quick bit of research on a company as already stated above, promising the world to one of my clients and low and behold you’ve beaten me too it! I also have to laugh at their site too. Well done on publishing this so that everybody else becomes aware of this scam.

Brad Roberts

Andrew

I was also curious that the tone seemed to be anti adwords, but is this in terms of adwords as an exclusive measure rather than as part of an online marketing strategy?

No. Nail on head Kieran.

Been reading some of your posts recently. You’ve been writing some good stuff. Congrats.

@Frank – these guys are basically offering to sell you links on other sites for a monthly fee. If you stop paying the links stop working. Of course that assumes that these links have any value in the first place, and given that this guy obviously isn’t a pro (he wouldn’t need to spam people if he was) I very much doubt his network has value.

Rgds to both
Richard

I could be wrong though

Just wondering if you could clarify as I was kind of curious.

Cheers,
Frank

Nice post. The bit i find a little off is the reference to competitors. This is a pretty bad example of aggressive selling.

Although to play devils advocate (its always fun). It does bring up an interesting point on these type of services. Being able to seed optimised articles out good PR sites, where the only link on that page is to your site, does work (although as you say, it can be switched off). Dependent on your market, it may be essential that you engage in some type of aggressive links (I am not discussing the service you mentioned above but similar ones that are deemed aggressive). If a business doesn’t, they could very well go under before Google adjusts the playing field accordingly.

I always think it’s best to make a client aware of what their competitors are doing to achieve top spot and then lay all options out on the table, good and bad points.

Sorry, this comment felt a bit rantish. Funny enough, I have just wrote a post on a great link analysis tool that recommends buying links in their reports …

Nice post Richard …

Good on you for exposing this.

I’m sorry to hear you’ve received legal threats for doing it in the past – but it only makes good, clean SEO a tougher market having **** like this being thrown around at our clients.

I have to let a client of mine know at least 2 or 3 times a month that the latest “guarantee you top-notch position on Google” email he just received is simply a scam.

I’m not as brave as you – but I think I’ll start publishing some of these myself.

Good work.

Ricardo