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# When SEOs get desperate
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2013/04/when_seos_get_desperate/
- Published: 2013-04-11T23:09:58.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T15:54:21.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: Blogging, SEO, spam

Like most bloggers of any note, I get regular e-mails asking me to publish guest posts, or text links. I understand the SEO reasons for this, but always decline – politely to the well-thought through ones, and through deletion to the ones where my name, my blog name and a recent post title are rather obviously pasted into a standard form e-mail.

Yesterday an e-mail arrived that was so far outside the norm that I have to quote in full:

> Hi,
> 
> i need this type of placement could you do this?
> 
> 1. We will provide php file with plugin source code
> 2. Webmaster will need to FTP to root folder of blog, then open folder wp-content/plugins
> 3. Webmaster will need to create folder ‘footerlinks’, then enter that folder and upload php file that we provided
> 4. Webmaster will need to log into blog admin area, click ‘Plugins’ in left menu, click ‘Installed’ in submenu, find plugin named ‘Footer Links’ and click ‘activate’ link
> 5. After that links will appear at the bottom of the blog like here **\[LINK REMOVED\]** see our links in footer.Very simple work just 1,2 minut only,Our links show on your old ABOUT PAGE.
> 
> i can give you $200 for uploading our php file for 1 year time period only.
> 
> Let me know are you agree if you agree then send me paypal id please.
> 
> Waiting for your Answer
> 
> Thanks  
> vincent

Well, now, Vincent, you want me to insert your arbitrary php code into my (non-existent – I use a different blog platform) WordPress install, for the grand sum of $200 dollars? Hand you a backdoor to the blog for such a small amount of money. I think I’ll be declining, and I think anyone else who recieved such an “offer” should do the same.

This e-mail tells me two things:

1. There are some pretty stupid bloggers out there, if this works
2. There are some even more desperate SEOs…