Excerpt from an amusing spam message

Something calling itself "Rockwell Data Corp" wants $400 a year --
not $400, $400 a year -- to submit my Web page to search engines. It
almost falls in the category of "if you're stupid enough to fall for
this, you deserve to be taken."

I had to chuckle at the come-on:

YOU may be unaware of this Shocking fact:
Your web site designer and your host are NOT responsible for getting
your web site seen! Yes, they may submit your site to a few search
engines periodically but to stay on the Search Engines and at the TOP
is an aggressive business.

"An aggressive business" -- so they want me to pay them $400 a year
to do things that will probably make Google blacklist my site!

I don't believe I've ever submitted either of my Web sites to
Google, yet there they are.

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Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
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Quoth the raven Stan Brown:

"An aggressive business" -- so they want me to pay them $400 a year
to do things that will probably make Google blacklist my site!

One of my clients received a similar spam a couple of months after I
finished his site. He thought it sounded like a good idea, signed up,
then emailed to tell me how clever he was.

It took better than a year for me to get Google to recognize even his
domain name.

I don't believe I've ever submitted either of my Web sites to
Google, yet there they are.

Same for my other sites.

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-bts
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