We give training courses in English. Do we really want to encourage enquiries that bring us sales leads for Lua, Ruby or Python courses that would have to be presented in Chinese, German, Spanish or Japanese? No, we don't - it is a dis-service to everyone concerned if we appear to offer something we cannot deliver.
So the unsolicited commercial emails that I receive from "Dr Marc Schneider" with monotonous regularity, suggesting that we use his services to promote our sites in non-English searches, are selling me a service that would actually be very bad for our business. Dr Schneider is correct in stating that we don't come out very well in non-English searches - he's very correct - that's by design!
It seems that we're not the only ones to be bugged by Dr Marc - he's bulk emailing, so he's (by my definition) a spammer. And when you read what others have written, you'll find there's more than meets the eye there.
Bill Hartzer writes and
Brian at "seonj" writes for example, as well as
earlier comments I made.
I have placed samples of his emails
here,
here and
here so that you can compare the text (and also to help people who are researching him via searches).
I find it very interesting too that his own sites have a very low ranking ... search for "Marc Schneider" and you get all sorts of other people who share his name - only when you add "spam" does he come up prominently.
I wouldn't order a smart suit from a man dressed in rags, nor a high quality restaurant meal from someone eating pot noodles, so why on earth should I buy search engine placement from Marc Schneider of Multilingual Search Engine Optimization Inc - or is it March Schneider of optimization? (written 2009-07-10)
Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles
G909 - Well House Consultants - Spam, Spamming and Spammers [259] Responding to spam - (2005-03-27)
[268] Information request forms, cleaning up spam - (2005-04-05)
[276] An apology to Mr Boneparte - (2005-04-11)
[338] OO techniques are hard to teach - (2005-06-06)
[347] Frightening and from-friend viruses and spams - (2005-06-14)
[417] Telephone Preference Service - we're registered - (2005-08-17)
[495] More spam - a success story - (2005-11-13)
[872] Email metrics - (2006-09-20)
[1037] Impact Engineering and Backscatter - (2007-01-16)
[1115] Unexpected visitors to our site - (2007-03-22)
[1523] Ive just received an email from myself. Should I be worried? - (2008-01-29)
[1532] Comment spam blocked. Please comment via Forums - (2008-02-05)
[1763] Co-operating to save, yet we dont - (2008-08-21)
[1817] Marc Schneider is still having email trouble - (2008-09-30)
[1978] From spam to mod_alias - finding resources - (2009-01-05)
[2019] Baby Caleb and Fortune City in your web logs? - (2009-01-31)
[2177] Preventing forum spam - checks at sign up - (2009-05-12)
[2179] Offers that I can refuse - (2009-05-12)
[2398] Websitemediasolution and a goldfish called Carl Johnson - (2009-09-06)
[2697] Email metrics and filtering - (2010-03-28)
[2884] Hotlinked images onto adult material sites - (2010-07-23)
[3016] The legal considerations of your web presence - revisited - (2010-10-26)
[3166] Well house is strong - confirmed? - (2011-02-11)
[3190] What do the following web sites have in common? - (2011-03-03)
[3316] Twitter Phishing Trips ... and a great new alert service - (2011-06-04)
[3352] World Trade Register - Certainly NOT worth 2985 Euros. - (2011-07-09)
[3506] Cold call contacts - preference services and turning off spam sales approaches - (2011-11-03)
[3661] Keeping forum and blog comments clean - (2012-03-19)
[3910] Identifying your real customers and keeping them well informed fast - (2012-11-02)
[3912] Sand to Arabia, Coals to Newcastle or Woodburners to Russia - (2012-11-04)
[3946] Moving from a warning system to a control system - PHP, forum spammers - (2012-12-07)
[4135] Introducing your product to Well House Consultants - single, personally tuned email please - (2013-07-08)
[4315] Welcoming genuine forum posters quickly - but turning away off topic advertisers - (2014-11-16)
[4520] No cold sales calls please - but delighted to hear from others! - (2015-09-29)
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