I got the email above this morning that I thought I would share. When I first started reading it I felt honored that someone would wnat to write a guest post for me. But as I read on something didn’t feel right.
Why didn’t they use my name, like “Hi Dave” because my name and photo is plastered all over my contact page, and who has professional writers in the real estate market? Also why did they said “Real Estate” and not rentals – my site doesn’t sell houses.
Then I looked at where the email came from – India! So SEO companies are outsourcing guest post now to India. Interesting.
I have no idea what the quality of the post would be or if it would be really unique. If I can’t trust that the person from India’s last name is Smith, how am I going to trust that he is providing unique content?
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Hi Dave…and yes up here in Canada, I’ve had 3 requests for the same type of backlink from India, in one case, I rec’d 6 guest blog posts on SEO, all I needed to do was to choose one…
sigh…wehre do these idiots come from, eh?
Jim
Never know, it’s worth a shot… Just run it thru several plagiarism and dup content filters…
Hi Dave, good job! You were able to evaluate if it’s a genuine email or just a trying to convince you just to advertise their business.
Just came across here and when I read the title of your post i got interested and forced myself to post a comment here.
Hope you won’t mind me posting here.
Phil
Bummer to see that they are now doing this from India. I thought it was a great SEO technique that was very legit.
That being said, I have a vacation rental company in Hawaii and would like to make a guest post on your site if you allow that.
Hey Dave –
I get flooded with these emails . . . most are from India, and a few are from the Philippines. Of course you can do an IP lookup to confirm. I actually laugh when I catch these guys on our site creating fake profiles with all-american names. I’d just rather they be up front about who they are . . . at least you can ignore them knowing they’re being slightly honest in what they are doing.
I myself don’t run a blog like this. But one of my co-workers does. He just got done telling me about one he got from the United Kingdom. Curious as to what to do about it I pointed him at this. See if he reads it or not.