Chalk this up to the lighter side of website ownership…
While marking some spam e-mail for deletion, curiosity led me to open up a message that started out “I was looking at websites under the keyword Oak Ridge office phone systems and came across your site http://ellensmith.org. I see that you’re ranked 84 on page 9 in google.” (Who knew that anyone would visit this website for information about that topic?)
Later the message says “Your keyword: Oak Ridge office phone systems Is NOT competitive…” (That stands to reason, since that’s not even vaguely related to the purpose of the website.) Not to worry, though, as my correspondent says “I now have a large team to allow me to serve smaller businesses such as yours… You too can enjoy the fruit’s of Top 10 rankings in google for your target keywords.”
Could this guy be trying to tell me it’s time to change careers?
“Could this guy be trying to tell me it’s time to change careers?”
I wouldn’t accept the offer. With today’s economy everyone is looking to make a $2 off anyone for something only worth $1.
I would tell him no Thanks, but thank you for recognizing the 84th ranking.
Not to worry, Ray. I’ve already deleted his spam e-mail. But merely because I posted about this piece of silliness, this site now ranks #4 for the spammer’s search term.
Congrats’ Ellen! I have been hit with the E-”Garbage” Mail also. It bother’s me less now. I really don’t like it in my snail mailbox though. Not much we can do about that except recycle it.
Sounds like run of the mill spam. It is not to hard to get that sort of information with a bot, and e-mail addresses can be obtained from a DNS lookup.