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      “And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but
             considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?”

> From: Victor Green <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Attract more customers to your Website Sean - 2G
> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 04:27:17 +0530
>
> Hi Sean,
>
> Just took an initial look at your site http://www.conman.org/ and found
> that there are not enough keywords in the source code of your website
> resulting in loss of valuable opportunities.
>
> About us, we are Qtonix Software and have been in this domain for the last
> decade and have amassed 500+ clients in the US alone. For details, please
> visit http://www.qtonix.com/ [1].
>
> We will not only put your site at the top of Google, but also ensure visits
> from target viewers. We will do a total competitor analysis and market
> analysis and give you 50 targeted key words to choose from (a mixture of
> long tail specific keywords and high volume ones). That done, we will
> optimize your website as per those keywords to attract the target visitor.
>
> Your social media presence is minimal and not integrated with your site. We
> will do regular postings on your behalf and create and manage your brand
> awareness, driving in more traffic from Social Media.
>
> Today visitors depend a lot on reviews and we will ensure that you have
> only positive reviews on Social Media as well as your website.
>
> The site has an alarming 6 HTML (HyperText Markup Language) Coding errors
> making it difficult for Google to navigate the site properly. You can check
> the link https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.conman.org.
>
> Organic Traffic to your site using the concerned keywords is only 5 and
> there has been a disastrous reduction in traffic since August 2017.
>
> …
>

I saw this spam, and I thought, this is how you sell yourself as an SEO
(Search Engine Optimization) expert! You give your company name, and specific
indications of what you can fix. It wasn't until I got to the bottom of the
email that I realized this was my “Free report [2]!”

> …
>
> Unlike most companies, we are offering you a unique Money Back Guarantee,
> under which you can get all your investment refunded within the first 30
> days, in case you are not happy with our services. For more details, please
> visit http://www.qtonix.com/money-back-guarantee/.
>
> **Please send me your direct number and a convenient time so that I can
> share more with you.**
>
> Thanks
>
> Victor Green
>  /SEO Consultant/
>  **Qtonix Software Pvt Ltd**
>  p: XXXXXXXXXXXX m: XXXXXXXXXXXX
>  s: sales.qtonix
>  w: www.qtonix.com <http://www.qtonix.com> e: [email protected]
>
> On 11/20/2017 9:39 PM, Alisha Qtonix wrote:
>
> > ———- Forwarded message ———-
> >
> > From: **Sean Conner** <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> > To: David Parker <[email protected]
> >         <mailto:[email protected]>>
> > Subject: Re: Serious issue found while visiting your website
> > Date: Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 5:01 AM
> >
> > It was thus said that the Great David Parker once stated:
> >
> > > **Hope everything is fine at your end.**
> > >
> >
> > It is, thanks.  How are things with you?
> >
> > > PS: I am not spamming. I have studied your website, prepared an
> > > **FREE** audit report and believe I can help with your business
> > > promotion.
> > >
> >
> > A free report?  Sure, please send it to me.
> >
>

So … David Parker is Alisha Qtonix? Or David Parker forwarded it to Alisha
Qtonix? Who then forwarded it to Victor Green? Okay …

But then immediately afterwards, I received another email from Victor Green:

> From: Victor Green <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Attract more visitors to your Website Sean - 2G
> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 04:41:18 +0530
>
> Apologies, the trailing mail was sent inadvertently. (Subject was wrong!)
>
> Victor Green
>  /SEO Consultant/
>  **Qtonix Software Pvt Ltd**
>  p: XXXXXXXXXXXX m: XXXXXXXXXXXX
>  s: sales.qtonix
>  w: www.qtonix.com <http://www.qtonix.com> e: [email protected]
>
> On 11/21/2017 4:27 AM, Victor Green wrote:
>
> > Hi Sean,
> >
> > Just took an initial look at your site http://www.conman.org/ and found
> > that there are not enough keywords in the source code of your website
> > resulting in loss of valuable opportunities.
> >
> > About us, we are Qtonix Software and have been in this domain for the …
> >
>

It quoted the entirety of the previous email.

Wow.

I honestly didn't expect an answer back. And now I know where the “errors and
issues present in the website” came from—an experimental HTML validator [3].
I'm using HTML 4 for my website, and had he used the main validator [4],
Victor would have seen my site passing quite readily [5]. Just for kicks, I
decided to return the favor and validate one of the sites sent as an example
of their work and man … fifty-three errors! And just to make sure it wasn't
an anomaly, I tried another one (out of the 11 sent) and this was better—only
fifty errors.

Their own site [6] does much better—only three errors [7], but still, if you
are going to show me the errors on my page, it might be a good idea to check
your own site first.

I'm just saying.

I think I should point this out to them.

[1] http://www.qtonix.com/
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2017/11/17.1
[3] https://validator.w3.org/nu/
[4] https://validator.w3.org/
[5] https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.conman.org%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0
[6] http://www.qtonix.com/
[7] https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.qtonix.com%2F

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