What your unsolicited e-mail tells
the potential client about you
@bignameseocompany.com
No-one get’s unsolicited mail from these guys.
@owndomain.com
Fair chance you actually know something about websites.
Quite probably mention the fact that you are based in India as a selling point.
You know how to “maximise brand effectiveness by leveraging the Web 2.0 Socioshpere” and hope your clients will be too embarrassed to admit they don’t have a clue what you are talking about.
@hyphenated-domain-with-seo-in-it.com
You have a directory submission script you paid $79.99 for and are willing to use to “boost” your clients’ rankings.
Guest book entries & blog comments for just $1 each.
@gmail.com
Won’t actuall say it, but you’re rather hope the client will think your having a Gmail account means that you either work at, or have some kind of insider knowledge of Google.
Client has never heard of anyone you have done work for before.
@yahoo.com
Similar to Gmail, but you also hope the client doesn’t realise no-one’s searching with Yahoo! any more.
@hotmail.com
You use Hotmail because then no-one can trace back your IP to your bedroom office.
I get dozens of these, through my own sites, and even more at work. The best ones have lines like:
“We’ve noticed your website is not ranking for it’s most important keyphrases” When it is!
“Your website is not appearing in the major search engines” Oh really? How did you find it then.
Some are even brave enough to include a url to their own websites. Oddly, none of them ever seem to rank for any word or phrase on their homepage. I wonder why.
