Comments on: This is For All the Turds Who Send Me Emails http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/this-is-for-all-the-turds-who-send-me-emails/ Smart Ways to Live a Passive Income Lifestyle On the Internet with SmartPassiveIncome.com Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:52:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Melvin http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/this-is-for-all-the-turds-who-send-me-emails/comment-page-1/#comment-22830 Melvin Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:55:25 +0000 http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/?p=2392#comment-22830 Its fine if its an automated bot. What's worse is when a real person from a real website/blog calls you that way which is really annoying. I also get pissed off when people misspell my name but I still reply to them and correct the spelling. Its fine if its an automated bot. What’s worse is when a real person from a real website/blog calls you that way which is really annoying. I also get pissed off when people misspell my name but I still reply to them and correct the spelling.

]]> By: Alan Mater http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/this-is-for-all-the-turds-who-send-me-emails/comment-page-1/#comment-22406 Alan Mater Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:12:18 +0000 http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/?p=2392#comment-22406 Hey Pat, I get the same crap as well. I've learned to just ignore them. I get anything from link exchange requests to product promotion requests, and most never address me by name. That tells me they don't care enough about their business, so why I should I care? As others have mentioned, they're probably just spam bots anyway. I've noticed that the majority of these types of emails I get are all for the same websites or products. They just get deleted and forgotten about. ;) Hey Pat,

I get the same crap as well. I’ve learned to just ignore them. I get anything from link exchange requests to product promotion requests, and most never address me by name. That tells me they don’t care enough about their business, so why I should I care?

As others have mentioned, they’re probably just spam bots anyway. I’ve noticed that the majority of these types of emails I get are all for the same websites or products. They just get deleted and forgotten about. ;)

]]> By: Ryan Saghir http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/this-is-for-all-the-turds-who-send-me-emails/comment-page-1/#comment-22147 Ryan Saghir Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:18:25 +0000 http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/?p=2392#comment-22147 Ha! Welcome to the club man. As soon as you gain any level of notoriety the turds come floating to the top. Just wait until you get the barrage of emails from the PR robots who don't know the first thing about blogger-relations, they're even worse. Ha! Welcome to the club man. As soon as you gain any level of notoriety the turds come floating to the top.

Just wait until you get the barrage of emails from the PR robots who don’t know the first thing about blogger-relations, they’re even worse.

]]> By: Marcus Emmanuel Barnes http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/this-is-for-all-the-turds-who-send-me-emails/comment-page-1/#comment-22138 Marcus Emmanuel Barnes Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:30:08 +0000 http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/?p=2392#comment-22138 Hi, Pat! Funny... I recently got a slew of these types of e-mails. Basically what's happening is that other site owners hire a bot <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_bot" rel="nofollow">bot</a> service (whether knowingly or not). This may come as part of SEO services. A basic fact: if an actual person visited your blog and wanted to start a meaningful business relationship with you, they would click on the *second* tab in the main menu: "About". They would then see, "Hey, this blogger is named Pat!" and address their e-mails accordingly. Almost every blog has an About page or something similar on their main navigation menu. If someone is actually writing these e-mails on a case-by-case basis (which I doubt), I have to wonder what kind of message they think they are communicating? I'm confident that most of us here would not want to establish any kind of working relationship with such a person. If you get too many of these automated e-mails, you can always fight back by creating your own automation: create a filter in your e-mail program that sends any e-mails that don't contain any reasonable variation of your name to a "spam" folder (or even delete these e-mails right away). You can tell people on your about page to address e-mails to you using your name -- a nice test to see if they have taken a moment to actually learn about The Smart Passive Income Blog is all about. Wishing Everyone heaps of Smart Passive Income! Yours truly, M.E.B. Hi, Pat!

Funny… I recently got a slew of these types of e-mails. Basically what’s happening is that other site owners hire a bot bot service (whether knowingly or not). This may come as part of SEO services. A basic fact: if an actual person visited your blog and wanted to start a meaningful business relationship with you, they would click on the *second* tab in the main menu: “About”. They would then see, “Hey, this blogger is named Pat!” and address their e-mails accordingly. Almost every blog has an About page or something similar on their main navigation menu. If someone is actually writing these e-mails on a case-by-case basis (which I doubt), I have to wonder what kind of message they think they are communicating? I’m confident that most of us here would not want to establish any kind of working relationship with such a person.

If you get too many of these automated e-mails, you can always fight back by creating your own automation: create a filter in your e-mail program that sends any e-mails that don’t contain any reasonable variation of your name to a “spam” folder (or even delete these e-mails right away). You can tell people on your about page to address e-mails to you using your name — a nice test to see if they have taken a moment to actually learn about The Smart Passive Income Blog is all about.

Wishing Everyone heaps of Smart Passive Income!

Yours truly,

M.E.B.

]]> By: Steven Churchill http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/this-is-for-all-the-turds-who-send-me-emails/comment-page-1/#comment-21787 Steven Churchill Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:55:56 +0000 http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/?p=2392#comment-21787 Pat, Anyone who uses the word "Turd" in the title of a post deserves props. Does that harm SEO? I hope not. I will follow suit with the post I put up tomorrow (2/16/10). Thanks! Pat,

Anyone who uses the word “Turd” in the title of a post deserves props. Does that harm SEO?

I hope not. I will follow suit with the post I put up tomorrow (2/16/10).

Thanks!

]]> By: Marcus Sheridan, The Sales Lion http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/this-is-for-all-the-turds-who-send-me-emails/comment-page-1/#comment-21653 Marcus Sheridan, The Sales Lion Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:26:43 +0000 http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/?p=2392#comment-21653 Love your sense of humor Pat..Any article that uses one of my favorite words (Turd) in the post is a must-read ;-) ...Keep up the great work. Love your sense of humor Pat..Any article that uses one of my favorite words (Turd) in the post is a must-read ;-) …Keep up the great work.

]]> By: Marcus Sheridan, The Sales Lion http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/this-is-for-all-the-turds-who-send-me-emails/comment-page-1/#comment-21652 Marcus Sheridan, The Sales Lion Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:25:29 +0000 http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/?p=2392#comment-21652 Now that's a 'Turdy' thing to say...... Now that’s a ‘Turdy’ thing to say……

]]> By: Nick@Subject2.com http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/this-is-for-all-the-turds-who-send-me-emails/comment-page-1/#comment-21647 Nick@Subject2.com Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:33:51 +0000 http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/?p=2392#comment-21647 I can't even spell Personal Finance. The only reason why I'm here is because Pat pays me $100 a week to come by and make at least one comment per post. j/k of course ;) I can’t even spell Personal Finance. The only reason why I’m here is because Pat pays me $100 a week to come by and make at least one comment per post.

j/k of course ;)

]]> By: Anthony Feint http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/this-is-for-all-the-turds-who-send-me-emails/comment-page-1/#comment-21596 Anthony Feint Sun, 14 Feb 2010 07:05:02 +0000 http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/?p=2392#comment-21596 I get the exact same rubbish pitches for Task.fm. You would think they would be smart enough to use your real name. I get the exact same rubbish pitches for Task.fm. You would think they would be smart enough to use your real name.

]]> By: Dianne http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/this-is-for-all-the-turds-who-send-me-emails/comment-page-1/#comment-21559 Dianne Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:32:45 +0000 http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/?p=2392#comment-21559 Love it! Have a good V-day! Love it! Have a good V-day!

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