Some of the spam comes with the solicitation in SEO area

As any other company we receive piles of junk mail. There is nothing new about it except for one peculiar thing. Some of the spam comes with the solicitation in SEO area.

Our organization has great reputation as a seasoned web analytics and SEO company, yet the solicitations from different countries come for the same services that we provide. This just shows me that the spammers just are doing blast after blast from their compiled e-mail list and don't care who is getting the letter. The promises to build a company to the top range from simple search engine submission to link building campaigns, seo web design, on site optimization and the like. There is even one weird company that sends us weekly letters about monitoring our web servers.

There are also blog spammers, of course, who try to do the link and keyword stuffing into this working blog. I am really flattered but we don't need their "comments" either. Their IP addresses are visible and the abundance of information who they are can be resolved by any good systems analyst.

I am not really judging anybody. But the question still bugs me, though. Do they think that they will get any kind of work through their e-mail blasts? Is there any fool who would look at one of those letters and would want to sign with them risking to breach the security of his company, open his code and, possibly, get penalized by leading search engines? I wish we could have some stats on these issues.

Recently, I read a lot of online discussions on the lack of qualified people in our field. So it saddens me, that good beginnings and positive steps in SEO are being diluted by the spammers, who taint our efforts in this field. We would not want any business owner fall into this trap due to his trusting nature.