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 09:58:57)

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