SEO Scams from gmail accounts

If you have a website contact form, and a popular website, you will receive daily emails promising high quality and low priced google ranking or SEO. Always unsolicited, here are some examples of the text of the inquiry;

Internet Marketing Services We would like to get your website on first page of Google. All of our processes use the most ethical “white hat” Search Engine Optimization techniques that Will not get your website banned or penalized. Please reply and I would be happy to send you a proposal.
Let us do the tedious SEO work for you. You know your business, we know SEO. Our rates are some of the most competitive in the industry. We will put in writing that everything we do adheres to all ethical Search Engine Optimization guidelines. At a minimum you owe it to yourself and your business to reply to this email so I can send you more information.
SEO Do you wish you could increase your online leads? Getting a GUARANTEED 1ST PAGE GOOGLE RANKING is easier and more cost-effective than you might think. We have helped a lot of businesses thrive in this market and we can help you! Simply hit reply and I’ll share with you the cost and the benefits See you at the top!
Then for the kicker, they want me to respond to a gmail, hotmail or yahoo account. I will never send an email to an unsolicited public account. No phone number to call. For all I know, these emails are just a way to build a mailing list for spam.

What indicates this is a waste of time is that there is never a company behind the message. Legitimate company owners and marketing departments want the name of their company known. There is no phone number. Often the name does not match the email account name.

Reputable SEO companies will meet with, have a phone number, a website and email addresses that match the website. At Web-Atlanta, we can meet face to face and provide references.

If this leads you to a cheap SEO service, Why not try it? Because effective optimization is a careful and cooperative effort. Unskilled or off-shore efforts not only waste your time and money but can hurt your ranking or lead to search engine penalties, or even getting your website banned!