Please Read! Scam alert!
I don't know how well known this is but I'm just putting it out there. I'd actually forgotten about this until I got a second email this morning.
A day or two after purchasing my domain name musiclifeblog.info from 1&1 I got an email to say that I had to register my domain name for it to be ranked in Google and other search engines.
The email led to a 'checkout' page and was asking me to pay $97 otherwise my domain name would not be able to be ranked in search engines.
I ignored it at the time but got the same email this morning and decided to look it up as I was sure it would have been mentioned in training here at WA if we had to pay for the domain names to be ranked in Google.
Low and behold I came across this article, debunking the email as a scam: http://www.hoax-slayer.com/domain-search-engine-submission-scam.shtml Please have a read, the picture of the email is the exact one I received.
The sender came up as "registration services"
Someone may have already posted about this but thought I'd share just in case.
You only have to pay for your domain once. If you want to get your website ranked in Google all you have to do is follow the excellent training here at WA.
Always look something up if it doesn't seem right. Stay safe guys!
Jenni x
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I'm beginning to wonder how "private" our emails are when we sign up with different sites. Thanks for the heads up!
I never believe anything is private on the internet, I'm only a few conspiracy steps away from wearing a tin foil hat lol.
My favorite so far is the emails from the FBI. Sure...like they would email me (with poor grammar and punctuation).
I'm thinking that if the FBI wanted me then they'd be on my doorstep not in my email system.
Yes, you're right. I'm in the UK and regularly get emails from George Osbourne (our chancellor of the exchequer). The only contact the revenue want with me is to get me to pay more tax and George wouldn't want to get his hands dirty doing that, Ha Ha.
Good call Jenni, these sort of scams do catch new people out especially. You don't have to 'register' your domain name to get ranked anywhere. You can pay people to submit your domain to the search engines but there's no need, they'll find you quick enough anyway.
That's it, I'm glad I looked it up because I wasn't sure. I've never owned a domain name before so didn't know. Don't want anyone to get caught out. If they haven't got a reply block I'll keep spamming them with my affiliate link and try to lure them into a legitimate way to make money HA!
Thanks for the good information, I hadn't seen this one yet. It's good you knew better and checked it out!
Interesting, I've never seen this, and I don't use domain privacy on my more popular sites. Maybe 1&1 is advertising newly registered domains?
Possibly, I may have to switch, I've only got a .info domain so I might buy a .com or .co.uk from a different provider but still keep the name
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Thanks for the heads up.
No worries :-)