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More Digital; a UK based Digital Marketing Consultancy

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  1. SEO101

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    I just got an email from a guy at More Digital, which claims to be a "UK based Digital Marketing Consultancy."

    Here's the email (I substituted my domain name for privacy purposes):

    Hi,

    I work for More Digital; a UK based Digital Marketing Consultancy.

    We represent clients interested in social media marketing on smaller sites with little or no existing advertising and we're currently looking for advertising partners.

    Would you be interested in placing a small text-based ad on example.com?

    We pay a fixed upfront annual fee which we will agree on with you. Once the ad is in place, payment is made within approximately 48 hours.

    I hope to hear from you soon.

    Kind regards,
    Andrew Webster

    I checked out MoreDigital.com and it appears to be a legitimate website. I'm trying to decide if I should reply and at least see what the offer is (ie. rates for the text-links) or simply ignore this. It is an unsolicited email (mailed to my domain's whois email address), so I'm of course a little suspicious and wary. Any thoughts?

    Posted 3 months ago #

  2. Anonymous



    Looks like this may go against Google's TOS (Terms of Service) of allowing paid links. I think as long as the links are no-followed, the strategy may be legit, but if they're used to garner/ exchange "link credit" (ie. PageRank juice), then it's most certainly a violation of Google's TOS.

    I think I've actually heard of people getting banned for this (selling text links). I would stay clear - it's probably not worth if for a couple hundred bucks or whatever they offer you...

    Posted 3 months ago #

  3. Anonymous



    Hey,

    I just received the same message and had similar thoughts - checked their HP and looking for reviews. I also feel unsure about it. Has anybody new/more experience with them?

    Thx

    Posted 1 month ago #

  4. Anonymous



    I got the same email today 8to an German email account).
    There are no details. So I feel it is not really serious.
    Fred

    Posted 1 month ago #

  5. Anonymous



    I also wonder what is this about.

    Posted 1 month ago #

  6. Anonymous



    Also got this a few days ago. May break google tos and affect page rank. 120 usd for a link to o2.co.uk

    Posted 1 month ago #

  7. Anonymous



    Hi
    this is the message I got today?

    I work for More Digital; a UK based Digital Marketing Consultancy.

    We represent clients interested in social media marketing on smaller sites with little or no existing advertising and we're currently looking for advertising partners.

    We pay a fixed upfront annual fee which we will agree on with you. Once the ad is in place, payment is made within approximately 48 hours.

    Would you be interested in placing a small text-based ad on [my homepage?

    Kind regards,
    Ruth Sims

    Has anybody new and or more experience with them?

    Posted 2 weeks ago #

  8. Anonymous



    Hi,
    I've just received the same email (to an italian email account) and I don't know what to do.
    Any suggestion?

    best,

    Vittoria

    Posted 2 weeks ago #

  9. Anonymous



    I got the same email you all are talking about. I agreed to put the link up last week. Since then they have sent me 2 emails saying this...

    How are you?

    I apologise for the delay in payment. We are normally able to transfer funds to you via PayPal within 24-48 hours. We have grown rather quickly, are making more payments to webmasters like you, and PayPal now requires us to complete more security measures. Unfortunately we didn't have any warning this would occur. In the long term, this will mean more secure payments and enable better transfers, however right now it means a short delay. We are hoping this will be resolved within 72 hours and are doing everything in our power to work with PayPal to fulfil their requirements.

    Thank you for your patience, I understand this is unexpected. We will keep you updated on when you can expect your payment through.

    Hopefully they come through and pay, and my opinion on against google TOS for accepting a paid link is complete ****. It is google's responsibility to ensure quality search results (not ours). If they cannot do so properly without their dumb broken "pagerank" then they need to move over as #1 search engine and let someone do it that can do it properly without telling everyone in the world that they aren't allowed to profit off of their own website.

    Google doesn't own the internet and anyone afraid of accepting a paid link needs to grow some balls and tell google to screw off.

    Now whether these people actually pay up is a different issue, I'll let you all know if they ever stop having paypal problems and pay me.

    Posted 2 weeks ago #

  10. Anonymous



    Hello!
    Can I ask the More Digital payed?
    I got a same e-mail... and I don't konw it is real or not...
    Best wishes,
    Aaron

    Posted 1 week ago #

  11. Anonymous



    Good Lordy people. What is the problem? If you don't like the deal you take the ad down. You have ultimate control.

    Um .... many many sites sell advertising space on their sites. Kind of like commercials on television. Where is the fear and confusion coming from?

    Posted 6 days ago #

  12. Anonymous



    I'm the one from 3 posts up. They DID pay me, we ended up using google checkout since they had paypal issues. this is a legitimate offer, stick it to google and make $100.00

    Posted 5 days ago #

  13. Anonymous



    I received a similar letter to Russia.
    What money to pay for this work?

    Posted 4 days ago #

  14. Anonymous



    I got this same email. Does anyone have a website address for this company?

    Posted 4 days ago #

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