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Just had a link spammer leave a comment on my site - normally I just delete them but I was curious as to who Brian Atwood Sales were so I went to their site and they had a chat function - I couldnt resist!

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3711 enters the chatroom.

3711 13:48:06
Hello Simon Cox, my name is 3711, how may I help you?

Simon Cox 13:48:23
thats a strange name - whats your real name?

3711 13:48:54
catherine

Simon Cox 13:49:17
Ok Cool - where can I find your company details?

3711 13:50:06
what detail do you need?

Simon Cox 13:50:29
Well - If I was to make any purchases i would want to know who i am dealing with.

3711 13:51:22
we are a factory based in Guangzhou, China

Simon Cox 13:51:53
Ah OK - thats odd - but you quote UK law on your Privacy page : Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003

3711 13:52:26
As our server located in Uk

Simon Cox 13:52:35
but your not actually a UK Company?

3711 13:52:58
no, we are not
we make replicas

Simon Cox 13:53:29
OK - that explains why your spamming my website with links to your site. Why are you doing this?

3711 13:54:14
which site, as our seo job is outsourced.

Simon Cox 13:54:43
But it is you that will be paying the advertsing charges?

3711 13:55:30
yes, but we dont know what they did

Simon Cox 13:56:11
OK so that will be £10.00 per day - minimum one month of course. Are you able to send me a cheque?

3711 13:56:46
can you tell me which site it is

Simon Cox 13:56:55
Yes - simoncox.com

3711 13:59:06
ok, we will negotiate this with the seo company. and we will contact you later, please leave your email

Simon Cox 14:00:14
Thats ok - you can contact me through the contact form on my website. I don’t like giving my email out as it tends to end up in the wrong places.

3711 14:01:43
ok, that is a nice site.pr3

Simon Cox 14:02:18
Thank you. I really should charge more for the advertising on it as it is a nice site.

3711 14:02:55
do you have other site?

Simon Cox 14:03:00
no

3711 14:03:39
ok, how much you earn with this site?

Simon Cox 14:03:53
I’m sorry? that’s confidential information.

3711 14:06:27
its ok
you are from london?

Simon Cox 14:06:40
Of course

3711 14:06:51
I studied there some years ago

Simon Cox 14:06:57
Oh ok

Simon Cox 14:07:35
So you will know then that the techniques your seo company is using are not considered polite over here.

3711 14:10:31
yes, we will inform them

Simon Cox 14:10:43
thank you - good bye

My comment forms state that it’s £10 per link advertising fee. Do I think I will be able to collect? Do I think it will stop any of them? No but it’s fun.

So awesome. How cool would it be if they did actually start to make good on the contract that they entered into by using your site for backlinks?

It would be superawesomestrength cool!

Actually Marcus it was your article on eetemplates (backlink love) that tipped me into this today!

Thing is I dont have a contact form yet on the site - so I expect the SEO people will either ignore it or comment spam me again! They certainly won’t pay (not when they see the traffic numbers)!

yeay! I helped somebody!

That’s so funny! I am amazed you even got a human. Every time I have used those contact things I get a semi-illiterate ‘bot that just points me to a FAQ.

BTW do you outsource the SEO for your Santaballs (great name!)?!!!