I regularly get spammers trying to sell me SEO services (apparently, they've all tried to find me in google but could not?!) but I got an interesting new morcel of spam yesterday. It goes as follows:

Google is now using business reviews to determine business ranking. People are trashing companies with reviews, Complaint sites and Blogs.

We can help you defend your company by posting positive Reviews, Blogs and creating Websites to take over Search Results and control what people see about your company.

888-411-7579

http://www.posting-good-reviews.com/ for Review Posting Service http://www.Defend-Experts.com for Reviews and Reputation Service

How does posting positive reviews help in your businesses Google ranking?

1. Positive reviews increase your business rank by linking important and relevant websites to your website.

2. A constant stream of positive reviews improves your online reputation.

3. Positive reviews drive traffic to your business.

4. Positive reviews restore a tarnished reputation by pushing down negative reviews and links.

5. Helps protect against competitors or anyone else from attempting to run your ranking.

888-411-7579

http://www.posting-good-reviews.com for Review Posting Service http://www.Defend-Experts.com for Reviews and Reputation Service

Tired of review sites? Hire us to knock them off the front page of Google under your search term.

Our company has been in the business of taking over the first page of google for our clients for 8 years and knocking off complaint sites. We can do the same for your company and review sites.

We will create special websites and blogs and link them to the 15 thousand websites we already have. These websites will knock the review sites away and replace them with content you control.             

IP Address:         81.196.5.160      

 

This particular spam is interesting because it is not focussed on traditional SEO, but rather on Reputation Management and Negative SEO. IE instead of trying to improve your rankings, they offer the service of reducing the rankings of pages that you do not want at the top of google. In theory, if they are happy to downgrade review sites, it is probably the case that they would lose no sleep over downgrading competitor's sites. How likely is this to work? Very unlikely - I would expect that you pay them your money and never hear from them again. there was no name or company name in the online enquiry, the IP address traced back to a Romanian network (even though the phone number if American), and if you google the url domain-experts.com, the first result is from ripoffreports.com which shows them as being prolific spammers.

Looking at their website, it is obvious that it is a quick set up site (the source code of the site even tells you that the layout was copied from a page on www.freecss.info )

Don't waste your money or your time on these scammers. You will end up wasting both.