i’m pissed off with keywordspy
I’m pissed off with keywordspy spy!! I thought this is a real deal. I used to get this kind of people contacting me offering this and that, but I normally don’t take it seriously. But when keyword spy who sounded like key web researching contacted me, I was thinking maybe I should try this. Furthermore they do have decent and quite good pagerank and alexa traffic. So I replied their email, put their URL on my blogroll, and waited impatiently to get FULL access to their website.
But, after a few days, nothing happened. I’m kinda disappointed, so I removed their URL from this blogroll and submit this post. Are you receiving this same email??
There are few words from me
- if you’re contacting someone to do something as exchange of your offer, please reply it ASAP. In this case I’ve put your link in blogroll, and I received nothing. Are you hoping during this period Google will notice my link back to you and consider it as valid ‘VOTE’ to you?? If yes, you’re ‘clever’. Trying to get free back link free of charge.
- Even if you’re outsourcing someone to contact each bloggers, make sure you have enough bandwidth to reply. If not, please STOP it. I’m off now!!
Read their nice request. Btw I feel that this post is most suitable to be under SPAM category
Hello Blogjer,
You are being contacted via Blogjer by Kelly. Kelly has provided the following information so you may contact them:
Email: kelly@keywordspy.com
Phone: 1-877-520-8596
Website: http://www.keywordspy.com/
Reason: Other (explain below)Message:
Greetings,It gives us great pleasure to introduce to you KeywordSpy, a search engine tool that generates keywords for ad campaigns in the Internet’s most popular search engine sites. KeywordSpy
It is in this light that we humbly request that KeywordSpy
be included in your lists of sites that could be used for creating
powerful online ad campaigns. It would be interesting to note some of
the features our site has to offer:• The most comprehensive keyword database with over a billion keywords and counting
• Regular updates on keyword databank including search and keywords from our partnership with Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and other reliable data servers
• 99% percent search results accuracy
• Instant downloading capabilities on all search results
• Offers exclusive country keywords (US, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and South Africa) and more to be added soon
• The only keyword tool that displays Ad Rank, Competitor Count and PPC Cost of keywords
• Watch List, Search History Logs and other handy tools for easier keyword researching
• Provides Excellent Support Service
• User friendly search log accessibility through the use of either Keywords or Domain namesWe offer a one month FULL ACCESS for interested web or directory site owners that would want to add KeywordSpy as a link in their site.
Our link is http://www.keywordspy.com/ – Html version; KeywordSpy – keyword research technology .
Simply
respond to this email and ask for the activation of your account. Once
an access is created, rest assured that your site’s email address will
not be bombarded with marketing letters and emails regardless whether
you agree to use our search tool or not. We highly value your privacy.We also have KeywordSpy Affiliate Program where you can earn 25% Commission for every subscription that may originate from your site. More details at http://www.keywordspy.com
also generates information by using keywords in identifying key
competitors that may also be advertising in the same search engine./affiliate.php . If you have any question or may need additional information regarding KeywordSpy please let us hear from you and we will be glad to respond or assist you in your queries.
Thank you very much and best regards.
KeywordSpy.
kelly@keywordspy.com
http://www.keywordspy.comP.S.
This is an advertisement and a promotional mail strictly on the
guidelines of CAN-SPAM act of 2007. We have clearly mentioned the
source mail-id of this mail, also clearly mentioned the subject lines
and they are in no way misleading in any form. We have found your mail
address through our own efforts on the web search and not through any
illegal way.
If you find this mail unsolicited, please reply with
“Remove” in the subject line and we will take care that you do not
receive any further promotional mail.————————–
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IP Address: 59.95.40.246
Time Stamp: Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 at 12:40 pm
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panjangyer… hadei.. really lazy to read it..
but i understand it… i also got the problem to
Wei, ngko pun dapat gak eh. Tipah tertipu, hampeh btul la diorang nie
It gives me the feeling that they are sending it to the mass. (from the content of the letter).
They shouldn’t be so irresponsible.
Hurm.. keywordspy nie ape ek? hehe sowie.. tak tau pape pon.
I am really impressed at all the great information. Please take some time and visit my site and search for what you need.Easy Web Adverting
Hey thanks for posting this. I am sure it will save others from the same trap. Keep up the posting, I have enjoyed your blog.
To spy keyword la, hehe. It is a kind of keyword analysis tool
I received a unsolicited email from keywordspy.com (I never replied) and ever since then I have been getting 6 – 10 hits a day from their site. They must be scanning for emails! Bad practice, also shows desperation.
Anyone knows how to block that?
It depends on your contact form. I got captcha, but still i receive this kind of email quite frequently, until my contact form broken after wordpress 2.5.1 upgrade
Keywordspy Scam Alert!
Firstly I do believe the concept to use such a service is great. Finding out what my competitors are doing is really a good idea. Unfortunately the way KeywordSpy go about it just doesn’t cut it for me.
Firstly what made me signup was the fact that I could see all the keywords my competitors were using. This is great in theory, but after I signed up I found that most of the keywords many of my competitors were using were rubbish. It seems that all my competitors were using keywords that were not working for them. After I signed up I found that over 2/3 of the keywords I received from my competitors were useless.
Secondly I decided to signup was to find the keywords with little competition.
Sure they supply these but out of the few that were actually related to my industry, the analysis was way out of date. All the keywords that Keywordspy said only had 1 competitor really had at least four.
And the final reason for never touching Keywordspy, is they recurring charges. As a merchant I feel it is the customer’s choice weather to stay, this does not apply for Keywordspy. I only wanted to test it for the first month, so three weeks later I logged on to cancel my account. THERE IS NOT AUTOMATED WAY TO DO THIS!
Here is the email I received..
Dear xxxxxx,
We regret to hear that you want to cancel your account with us.
To cancel your subscription, please click the link below and follow the KeywordSpy Subscription Cancellation procedures:
We will process your cancellation upon receipt of the Subscription Cancellation Form. Please note that cancellation request cycle normally takes 3-5 working days to complete.
We wish to join you again in the near future as we continue to include and integrate more features in our system.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any additional questions.
Sincerely,
KeywordSpy Support
I have to fax them a copy of a form which is available on their website. The issue with this, it has to be faxed and can take 2-5 working days. Even if I was to fax my application across I would run out of time and be billed for next month. I am unsure of the law on this but shouldn’t the consumer have the right to email KeywordSpy and ask to have their billing authority revoked?
After all this I declined to fax the form and contacted my bank. They told me to send an email to KeywordSpy stating that they no longer have any authority to bill my card. If they bill me again my bank will create an investigation causing a chargeback to Keywordspy,
I am very disappointed with this and believe that the consumer has the right to choose, not to be forced into a silly scheme intended to cost even more.