Silly Billing
Sorry if you came for a laugh on Silly Saturday. Nothing struck me funny this week, especially the payment demand received by snailmail from a company which shall remain nameless (because I don't want to inadvertently send them any business by mistake). This NAMELESS.NET company purports to be a "domain listing service". The bill uncannily resembles the monthly statement from my water company. It purports to cover: "DOMAIN NAME SUBMISSION TO 25 MAJOR SEARCH ENGINESWe were neither amused nor impressed at the audacity of these people to bill a website design firm for such simple SEO activities that would actually harm a website's search engine placement.
EIGHT KEYWORD/PHRASE LISTINGS
QUARTERLY SEARCH ENGINE SUBMISSIONS"
The kicker is this phrase from the payment instructions: "Submission instructions will be sent to you when payment is processed." I can tell you how to submit a website to Google, MSN and Yahoo, which is all you need to know! And only do it once or risk your website being delisted for the nuisance factor.
Labels: websites
posted by Georganna Hancock M.S. | 9:12 AM
3 Comments:
Thanks for this tip, Georganna. Here's another type of junk mail to filter through, along with magazine and credit card offers.
Great new look to your blog!
Another one to watch for - what looks like a bill for domain renewal, including the date the domain expires. Problem is, it's from a different registrar wanting you to transfer the domain to them. Recently I e-mailed one of my clients that I renewed her domain, and she said she had already done it from the bill she got in the mail. She finally got her money back - and the domain never transferred because I put a transfer lock on all domains I register - but it was a time-consuming hassle. My church got the same kind of "bill," but the treasurer sent it to me to approve before he paid it. The people who are taken in by this are usually like my clients - their Webmaster maintains their site and they have no idea what registrar they use. They know they have to pay for renewal, so they get what looks a bill in the mail and write a check.
Yes, Beth, they come at us from all sides now!
Lillie--didn't know you are a web mistress too! I insist my clients own their domains so that they know who are their registrars. If I obtain the domains for others, I transfer them to the clients so that they have "email trails" for documentation (in addition to all the information I inundate them with after the website is up and debugged.)
Six of one, half-dozen of the other, I guess.
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