A week rarely goes by that doesn’t send several SEO (search engine optimization) offers to my email inbox. It would be almost laughable if real businesses weren’t falling victim to many of the scams out there. I see so-called SEO services that offer to get you on the first page of Google in weeks for a fee, sometimes even a monthly fee. It takes about two minutes of work to see most of these sites aren’t even indexed in Google themselves. Others are indexed but are buried so far in the mix with their keywords you couldn’t find them if you spent hours searching. If you could they wouldn’t need to spam you with their crazy ads. If they can’t take care of their own SEO, why would we trust them with our business?

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