I recently received an email from and SEO who tried to sell me his services. Within 20 seconds I could tell that he scraped for my email and sent me an automated email. The website he found my email on was one of the very first websites I build. This is back when I did not understand that ranking for keywords no one searches for like “stop car pollution” is worthless. I thought I can use SEO to help the planet, boy was I wrong. You have to give people what they want and rank for things like “remove drm” and “ameriprise complaints” to make any profit. Because I had put so much time and energy into my little www.Carfartz.com site I decided to keep it around and use it to conduct SEO experiments. Never in a million years did I think someone would try to sell me services for such a POS site.

Read on to see his email and why it sucks.

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Craig Hordlow of Red Bricks Media has been working on an interesting idea. He believes that Google search is slowing down as destination sites continue to grow. These destination sites include wikipedia, facebook, myspace, craigslist, yelp, youtube etc. You can read more about his theory on his Mostly SEO Blog . I agree completely with his theory, but I will take it one step further.

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