Do you ever wonder how many of the emails you send to your newsletter subscribers get caught up in spam filters and junk mail folders? While checking my Gmail today, I was surprised to see how many marketers’ messages – to which I’d subscribed – were in the spam folder. A quick scan down the […]
Your On-Page SEO is Missing a Few Factors
Oh boy, here’s another example of Internet marketing spam / scam that I received as a blog comment… Hello Web Admin, I noticed that your On-Page SEO is is missing a few factors, for one you do not use all three H tags in your post, also I notice that you are not using bold […]
The ‘Noticed something about your WordPress Site’ Scam
That’s a catchy subject line for an email, isn’t it? Can’t blame you if you opened it like I did. I’ve recently received a number of emails coming through contact forms on my various sites, each with a subject along the lines of… “Noticed something about your WordPress Site”. Here is the full text of […]
Anti-Spam Legislation for those with Clients in Canada
You don’t have to be IN Canada to be subject to Canada’s new anti-spam legislation (Bill C28), which is going into effect one month from now, on July 1, 2014. The bill includes a “private right of action that will allow Canadian consumers and businesses to take civil action against those who violate the legislation”.[12] […]
How to Kill Your Reputation with Email
I just received this email from a friend’. Unlike my ‘friend’, I’ve protected the names and email addresses included in this email. The mistake they made is a mistake that I made almost 15 years ago and never made again. After sending out a bunch of unsolicited emails through my hosts server, they shut me […]
Facebook Stalker Spam
Good grief. What’s up with the Facebook Stalker app (and all the idiots that are promoting it)? Folks, it’s just another way that scammers are getting you to give up your Facebook password. Don’t fall for it! First of all, if your Facebook security is good (no telephone numbers, addresses or real birth years), then […]
How NOT to Recruit Affiliate Marketers
One morning back in March, I hit ‘Check Mail’ on my email client and was horrified to see more than 300 emails downloading. When all was said and done, about 20 of those emails were valid. 285 of them however were all the same – see the screenshot below. The email came from an adult […]