Faced with a business that costs thousands of dollars to come to your door and is not very difficult to optimize, I think every SEOer will not let it go and try their best to negotiate the order. However, just now, the author resolutely rejected this piece of fat that was about to be delivered to my door. Because the author knows very well that as an SEOer, you must have the minimum moral bottom line and social conscience when accepting orders.
The thing is like this: This morning, the author's QQ suddenly received a customer inquiry, asking me to help his website do Baidu rankings, asked some questions, and then got three keywords such as "XX train station ticket booking phone number" Let me make a quote. After a comprehensive examination, I found that optimizing these words was not too difficult, so I quoted a price of X thousand yuan (the specific amount cannot be disclosed) and asked him to send the URL for a look. The other party made no counteroffer. While giving me the website address, they also asked me for an account number and a down payment. At first, I was secretly happy, thinking that it was quite easy to make money. But then, instead of feeling relaxed, I became very heavy. On the surface, there was nothing abnormal about the client’s website. , but after analysis, professional habits told me that what the customer asked me to optimize was a scam website.
The specific fraud method is: first create a fake online ticket sales website → find an SEO company to optimize the target keywords to the top three on Baidu → netizens who need to buy tickets enter his website through keywords → the website prompts netizens to call to book tickets → implement on the phone The scam allows netizens to send money to scammers → the scam is successful.
So, the author immediately proposed not to take over the business (he had paid me the down payment at this time). The other party suddenly felt very surprised and asked me why? Because I didn’t have any evidence, just my own guess, so I answered like this: Because we have the most basic moral bottom line and social conscience. I then returned the down payment to him. The other party scolded him, "You're crazy, you can't make money even if you have money" and left. The author gave a wry smile and blocked this person.
After this incident, the author's heart could not be calm for a long time, because in this era of materialistic desires, more and more people's moral bottom line and social conscience are disappearing. In order to pursue their own interests, they have used some unfair methods. As a result, all kinds of scams emerged one after another, defrauding kind-hearted people who did not know the truth one after another. Although the author rejected this business today, there is no guarantee that all SEOers can resist this temptation. In our SEO team, there are always a small number of practitioners who see the money and become their accomplices, helping these fraudulent websites to be optimized to the forefront of SE and making unintentional money. Just imagine, when those who have been deceived are crying and scolding these scammers for their unscrupulousness, will those SEOers who help the scammers feel a trace of regret in their hearts?
Finally, the author would like to say that adhering to the moral bottom line and social conscience is the foundation of an SEO practitioner and the prerequisite for accepting orders. Only when all practitioners work together to guard this bottom line can the Internet environment be more harmonious and the SEO industry develop in a healthy and orderly direction.
This article was inspired by Zhan Jianmin, the webmaster of the China Ventriloquism Forum http://www.fuyu5.com . Please keep the link for reprinting. Thank you.
Editor-in-Chief: Yangyang Author Shangrao SEO's personal space