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We wanted to let you know about a domain scam. There is yet another scam going around trying to get some of our clients to pay to “renew” their domain. Please don’t click on any links in this email. The scammers aren’t even emailing you. What they’re doing is using the contact form on your…
Website hosting & domain name renewal scams There are numerous website hosting and domain name renewal scams or deceptive advertisings circulating today. We were even recently target with this “invoice” only to discover it was a deceptive way to try to host our website. We host our own website along with about 99% of our…
Business owners are constantly bombarded with marketing messages from companies in our industry: “#1 Google Rankings Guaranteed!”“5000 Facebook Followers in a Week!”“Get Rid of Negative Reviews!” Yelp released a PSA to their business owners warning of reputation management companies who claim to work with Yelp to perform services such as removing negative reviews, boost ratings,…
Since everyone is up in arms because Brian got “killed off” Family Guy (come on people, Stewie has a time machine!) I’m going to take this opportunity to tell you what really grinds my gears. Sure, I know it’s the eve before Thanksgiving and I’m supposed to be spending the whole month of November posting…
Every day I receive spam in my inbox that some spambot sent about how they can help me build a better website at a cheaper price, get me on the 1st page of Google, help me with my AdWords, build a better email template, shopping cart, social media strategy, blah blah blah blah blah…. I…
Price arbitrage was again brought to the forefront when Facebook recently changed their policies to prevent the practice within their advertising network. This practice involves ad agencies buying large chunks of web advertising inventory, and then reselling it to their clients at a premium price. That allows the ad agency to make profit from managing…
Every so often we see a rash of “domain renewal services” notices that come to our clients so we have to do a PSA. This is our latest. These notices typically arrive by snail mail or fax. They probably come by email too. At first glance they look very official. At first glance they also…
Beware of “URGENT Brand Confirmation” Emails I receive about one call or email a month from one of our clients who see this scam email and worry that it may be legitimate. I received an email this morning from a client and just happened to have one of these sitting in my spam folder too…
Increasing Rankings Not Allowed TripAdvisor just sent an email notification to their customers that a company has been contacting TripAdvisor customers and offering to “boost their TripAdvisor ranking”. This is against TripAdvisor’s business model and they are apparently taking steps to prevent this from occurring. The email message is below as well as a screenshot…
Facebook (Scams) for Business I received an email from a client earlier this week who received a strange call from a young woman in Kentucky. She called to ask about the free beach towels their company was giving away for “liking” their Facebook page. Come again?? Turns out a scammer created a fake Facebook page…