There are scams and too good to be true offers every day that you will receive. We highly encourage you to ask questions, think about if something is “too good to be true”, and make sure you kick the tires. The guys will give you several examples and ways to kick the tires of offers that want to give you 100s or 1000s of followers on social media, guarantee rankings in Google and Bing, and even go into some offline examples (decks, HVAC, roofing scams).

While we all get many of these a day (and more for each additional domain/website you have) we thought we would highlight a few that came in just days before we pushed this episode live. It seems recently that much of the “offers” I (Dave) has received this week were around videos for my websites.

These are just two quick examples but others that we often see are for 99$ domain renewal emails, 100 links for $10, emails you get from random people about how they found your site (typically very vague and always some random Gmail account with design in the name) claiming top rankings in just days or some other cheap too good to be true offer. A fair number that I (Dave) personally get are through a contact form on one of my sites but the rest are email blasts.

During the show Mat made reference to an example and here it is! It is a great example of email offers for SEO and Social Media that you may want to avoid. You likely get emails very similar to this one and hopefully they are flagged as spam or just end up in your junkmail type folder.

Lastly here is another example recently received that was selling social followers and engagement for Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and even SoundCloud.

If you have any examples or have seen any similar emails please drop describe it a bit in the comments so others can see additional examples.