Beware of site submission scams
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I just got an email which prompted a thought. Beware of scams out there that want to charge you for submission to search engines. First off submitting to a search engine is pretty much not needed anymore, if theres a link to it, they’ll find it. That’s an old hold-out from when search engines were nothing more than directories with a keyword search enabled.
This particular email came from www DOT googlesubmission DOT info. Notice they aren’t even indexed themselves!
The text of the email is:
DO YOU WANT YOUR WEB SITE ON GOOGLE
GOOGLE can guarantee the inclusion of your site on the most significant and well-known search engine in the world within less than 15 working days
When you visit the site, you find out it cost $199 to submit your site to Google. You can add your URL to Google for free anyway.
I know a few Googler’s have read this blog in the past and if there is anything they can do I hope they at least keep this domain out of their index.
By the way it’s a newly registered domain in Turkey. In case they disappear, I’ve saved a screen shot: Google Submission
