Who pays $199 to submit to google!?

I found this spam e-mail that linked me to:
www. googlesubmission. info

I thought I'd share because it was hilarious.

" 200 million people a day perform a search on Google. Do you want to miss out?"
Obvious...

"The GOOGLE SUBMISSION service costs $199"
Who PAYS that much??

" No cost per click"
Obviously (when people search for your site and click on it)

And kids, you can do it for free at:
http://www.google.com/addurl/

 

I think you should report that site to google as its kind of a scam
Hope not many innocent people didnt lose money there

 

OMG, actually I feel sorry for the poeple who have paid, could it be reported to G?

 

Googlebot is capable of locating links itself! Submissions throught the google url is also not necessary.

BTW I agree some nuts may pay US$

 

A scam eh? Yeah, they're making like $199 a minute! (doesn't take long to submit it at all)

and they spammed me

 

Well I think if you are new to this business and your drunk and high as crap.. Then you probably would pay the 200 bucks

 

Just some retard ripping people off. Google may take them down as they DON"T state "we are not affiliated with google....." which is necessary when offering these type of services. Report it using webmaster tools and they will take it down.

And submitting using the addurl doesn't speed up the process either. Backlinks are the only thing that does it.

 

I wouldn't exactly call them nuts. Lack of quality info makes you pay! Thats why we should be grateful for forums like this. Ignorance is expensive, not nutsy

 

True.. but even I knew how to submit to google at 15 lol (I'm not poking fun)

Anyways, wouldn't they google up "submit to google" and voila the google addurl page is there, or maybe they don't know what google is

 

I know a couple people that subscribe to monthly search engine submission services....$50 a month..........they keep the services because they swear it works

 

Very funny

 

But there's no need to constantly submitting your site to the SEs.. What a shame, they should spend that money on SEO

 

Okie I just reported that site to google XD lets hope that site gets banned and google take some serious action against it

 

Hooray! I wouldn't be surprised if there are other sites like that out there

 

They are perfectly within there rights to charge $200 to submit to google. they aren't breaking the law. Its like charging someone $2000 for a drink of water, it crazy but not illegal.

 

Well in a way it is as I already mentioned. They are infringing on Googles TOS. You are supposed to state that your not affiliated with Google. Sites have gotten shut down for less than that. I can't guarantee they will take it down but I am pretty sure they would atleast send a warning.

 

I'm pretty sure they do state that on their site, I checked them out after they spammed me as well (I had no intention of buying I was just curious).

But the trademark infringement should be sufficient to get the domain shut down.

 

I Dont think google can do anything about the site

why coz there are many such sites . sime are famous too im sure google knows about them . they rank on top in google too so this isnt a crime

just an opinion

 

What a crook, hopefully he gets shut down. Maybe we can get his hosting to pull the plug on him?

 

I think it is illegal. I also got this spam. They mislead naive webmasters who will believe that the letter is from Google