The Outreach Spam Hall of Fame

If you’ve run a semi popular site with a visible email or contact form then you’ve likely seen your fair share of spam. For years now my contact form has been getting assaulted by fellow SEOs, sometimes trying the latest tactics they cobbled together from their favorite SEO blogs.

You could say my blog is a sort of honey pot for these messages. In the past I would just laugh at them, even once and a great while maybe have an idea sparked, but mostly I’d ignore them. That’s up until now, now I had the great idea to post the best ones here so we can all laugh at them together!

Here they are in their raw beauty, I have categorized them:

Sponsored posts and link buys

Advertising Enquiry jacobking.com

Hello,

I was wondering if you have any Sponsored posts options available on jacobking.com

If yes, can you please get back to me with the prices and the details for the same.

Do let me know

Ash

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Advertisement Offer For jacobking.com

Hello,

Hope you are doing well. My name is Daniel Bailey, I really love to read every bit of your blog . I am planning to do a sponsor post in your blog. jacobking.com I was hoping if we could make the deal.

The way you have been maintaining your website, really appreciated. I can assure you that the article would be insightful and professionally written. I believe that your targeted audience will be interested in our content.

I would like to hear from you.

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ads https://www.jacobking.com/

Hi! Do you accept sponsored posts?! And if so, what is your absolute minimum for a quality and relevant post written by us?

Guest posting

Love your content! (and a proposal)

Hey,

Hope you are doing well! As an avid reader of your blog, I was thinking your readers might like to read something about “SEO and Security: Why it Matters”.

Your content on “The Black Hat SEO Community for Real Badasses” is awesome, but I think it would be cool to tie it all together with a piece about “Why You Need a VPN for SEO” or maybe “How to Protect Yourself While Building Links”.

If you’re too busy to blog about it, I’d love to write it for you – I’m a blogger for www.securethoughts.com with tons of experience. I just had a post featured on http://www.jeffbullas.com/2015/11/03/7-fundamental-security-errors-bloggers-must-stop-making/ and http://colorlabsproject.com/blog/surfing-through-your-smartphone-is-it-safe/.

Let me know if you are interested. I already know your blogging style, plus I understand what your readers love as I am one ;-)

Looking forward to hearing from you,

Cassie
Secure Thoughts

—And another, she sure is persistent

re: Love your content! (and a proposal)

Hey,
Just checking in to see if you’re interested in an article for your site?

I sent you an email a few days ago with some guest post ideas and haven’t heard back so I thought I’d check in.

I assure you that the content is great and free! (A Win-Win for you!)

If you’d like a guest post on something fun your readers would enjoy, just let me know and I’ll be happy to send one through. If you are not interested no problem, I will stop bothering you.

Thanks either way. All the best with your site.

Cassie

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Contributing to jacobking.com

Hi,

I was checking out jacobking.com today and found a guest post you published.

Great article!

I’d love to be your next guest author.
Here are some topics that I think would do really well with jacobking.com readers:

Topic #1: Seven Tips to Ignite Your Mobile Marketing In 2016
Topic #2: Does Your Company Need A Mobile APP or Mobile Website
Topic #3: Why Your Company Should Double Down On Mobile

Let me know what you think :D

Cheers,

Sophorn Chhay

Expert Roundups

Roundup

Hi Jacob,

I’m doing a roundup about RSS feeds and I think many people would love to know your answer to this question:

Which tool(s) do you use to read RSS feeds from your favorite blogs (and please explain why you picked that tool(s))?

Your answer can vary. From desktop software to a web service, to a mobile app or even to browser extensions. All your answers are welcome!

Of course, I’ll include a link back to your site.

Thanks in advance!

Kind regards,

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Hey Jacob,

How’s it going – it’s been a while!

I’m working on a monster ecommerce SEO post for my blog, Bootstrapping Ecommerce, and was wondering if you would like to provide a quote. I will link to your site and social profile, of course.

The question is: “What is an unconventional way you come up with keywords?”

Any length is fine, and you can send it over anytime this week.

Thank you!

Expert roundup participation

Hey Jacob,
I’m emailing you today because I’m putting together an expert roundup “Proven Tips to get more twitter followers that work in 2015”.

The question I’m asking is:
“What are the most effective methods of getting new Twitter followers for you?”.

I know you are busy so a response of 100 or so words is more than enough. The post will be at Temi.co.uk blog.

Thanks in advance!

Cheers,

Straight Up Asking for Links

An Essential SEO Guide For Your Tool Box

Hi Jacob,

I hope you are well.

I wanted to share with you a guide that we have recently launched here at AccuRanker. The guide looks at how to audit and analyse your competitors online content and what to do with your findings; it can be viewed here if you so wish – https://www.accuranker.com/seo-resources/competitor-benchmarking-guide/

It would be great to hear your thoughts on the guide and see if it something that could be of interest to your readers.

Thank you in advance,

Sebastian

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A friendly suggestion for your roundup

Hi, Jacob.

Not to be too forward (although I probably kind of am, LOL), but I thought you might like my piece for your SEO roundup.

It’s actually a roundup itself of the most entertaining (but still edifying) blogs in SEO. Just a way of showing people out there that what we do isn’t totally boring. :)

It’s here: https://www.leapfroggr.com/10-most-entertaining-seo-blogs/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+leapfroggr+(Leapfroggr+Search+Engine+Marketing+Blog)

Anyway, just thought it might be a good fit. Thanks either way. :)

Dennis

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Awesome Addition to Your “jacobking.Com”

Hey Jacob King,

I was searching for Free Online Webmaster Tools today and I came across this page : https://www.jacobking.com/free-seo-tools

I noticed that you linked to one of my favorite tool– https://httpstatus.io/

Just wanted to give you a heads up that I created a similar tool but more thorough and up to date: http://www.toolsiseek.com/status-code-checker/.

Might be worth a mention on your page.

Either way, keep up the awesome work!

Cheers,
Michele Smarty

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Useful post on your site

Hi Jacob,

It’s George again. I just read another post on your site about On-page SEO at https://www.jacobking.com/on-page-seo and I completely agree with you that title is a crucial component of our on-page success.

I’m getting in touch with you today because we have released a free detailed online guide on entering the online world and dedicated a chapter where we covered SEO and content promotion.

Please check it out here: http://firstsiteguide.com/promote-content/

I would really appreciate if you could consider including our Chapter page within your post, as an additional source of help for your readers?

Best regards,

George Dragojevic
george@firstsiteguide.com

—this guy really doens’t quit

Post on your site

Hi Jacob,

Did you receive any of my previous emails? Maybe those gone in spam and you missed them.

I would appreciate it if you would be so kind and let me know.

Thank you!

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The Complete List of Local SEO Tools

Hi Jacob ,

I was searching for some articles about Local SEO Tools and I came across your page.

Just wanted to give a heads up that I run a post on Local SEO Tools that you would love to read. It’s a post where we have collected a list of 90+ (free + paid) Local SEO Tools.

Post URL: http://www.e2msolutions.com/blog/the-complete-list-of-local-seo-tools/

Hope you read it! If you deem it worthy, would you mind it sharing with your networks?

Thanks in advance!

Sincerely,
Vivek

Asking for Links But not Upfront

An exeriment about digital marketing.

Hello, Jacob.

My name is Igor Rudnyk. I found your blog on the web and I was impressed with amount of high-quality information on it, that’s why I decided to write you.

I represent the company brandcitations.com – a service for natural link building and increasing brand awareness.

A baseline of our strategy is Crowd Marketing: a communication with target audience on forums, blog, etc.

How do you think, according to your experience: does brand marketing really work? I suppose the visitors of jacobking.com would be interested to know about crowd marketing and that’s why –

Would you like to engage in the peculiar experiment?

Have a good day and I look forward to hearing back from you soon.

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Quick Suggestion for “Why Your Tiered Links Won’t Rank Shit”

Hi Jacob,

I’ll keep this short because I know you get a ton of emails from people looking for your feedback.

I came across your site today and really enjoyed “Why Your Tiered Links Won’t Rank Shit”. Excellent work on putting this together!

I was going through the resources you mentioned and noticed Matthew Woodward’s “The Ultimate Guide To Tiered Link Building Part 1” on the page.

I also really appreciated that resource as well!

In fact, it was one that inspired me to create a more thorough and up to date version.

I’d love to share it with you if you’re interested, do you mind if I send you the link?

Cheers,
Matt Banner

–this guy might be confused, quite a few from him lol, nice subject line

matt@onblastblog.com

Hello,

I was doing some research today because I’m looking for top link building resources and strategies.

I came across JACOB KING. Incredible work! I really enjoy your refreshing perspective.

I actually just finished the final touches on an infographic covering strategies on how to build links like the pros. (My infographics have been featured on Huffington Post and other top publications).

Since your site is an excellent resource, I thought you’d find some use out of it :)

Let me know if you want to check it out. I’d love to send it your way.

Cheers,
Matt Banner

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You’re starting to piss me off

… Nah, not really.

But Im gonna be brown nosing a bit here and tell you that i really find your / your companys blog a great read. It’s time for a update Jacob! Kings take on social signals or footprints regarding whois info would be bound be a great blogpost.

Best regards,

Olle

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Do you agree with my customer service tips?

Hi there,

I’m developing a list of customer service best practices and I’d love to hear your thoughts. I am a huge fan of https://www.jacobking.com/ and your expert feedback would be invaluable.

Would you have a chance to provide some quick feedback if I send you the link?

Looking forward to connecting!

Thanks,
David Campbell

Broken Link building

Problem with your site

Hi there,

I was checking out your website today and noticed that a few links weren’t working on this page:

jacobking.com/broken-tiered-link-building

If you need replacement links for these broken URLs, i got awesome suggestions!

Should i send you ?

Cheers!

Affiliate Spam

Facebook Marketing

Hi,

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Thanks
Darwin Crawn

Well there you have it, some funny and some that you might be able to use. And from now on I will only add the best ones that I see come in. One final tip to leave you with when it comes to outreach. Put yourself in the persons shoes you’re emailing. Do you have anything for them? Or are you just totally wasting their time and asking for something?

You see with “broken link building” you’re at least helping the person fix some shit on their site. It’s an exchange. The trick is to find other clever ways to create this at scale and you’ve likely got yourself a winning horse. And maybe you’ll think twice about dropping a blast of blanket outreach spam as it might wind up here in the hall of fame!