Are KeywordSpy spamming you as well?

by Patrick Altoft on August 31, 2008

KeywordSpy has been sending unsolicited spam emails and comment spam to a whole host of bloggers recently and I thought it was about time their practices were made public.

If you are getting spam from KeywordSpy leave a comment below.

This is the first email I got yesterday from “Kelly”, you can see from the referrer string they have just searched Google for anybody mentioning SpyFu, their competitor.

from Kelly
to paltoft@*ooglemail.com
date 30 August 2008 16:52
subject Contact Form Results

Kelly (http://www.keywordspy.com) wrote:
Greetings,

It gives us great pleasure to introduce to you KeywordSpy, a search engine tool
that generates keywords for ad campaigns in the Internetâ€™s most popular search
engine sites. KeywordSpy also generates information by using keywords in
identifying key competitors that may also be advertising in the same search
engine.

…………………………………………(content removed)

If you have any question or may need additional information regarding
KeywordSpy please let us hear from you and we will be glad to respond or assist
you in your queries.

Thank you very much and best regards.

Kelly.

kelly@keywordspy.com

http://www.keywordspy.com

P.S. This is an advertisement and a promotional mail strictly on the
guidelines of CAN-SPAM act of 2007. We have clearly mentioned the source
mail-id of this mail, also clearly mentioned the subject lines and they are in
no way misleading in any form. We have found your mail address through our own
efforts on the web search and not through any illegal way. If you find this
mail unsolicited, please reply with “Remove” in the subject line and we will
take care that you do not receive any further promotional mail.

IP: 123.237.147.247
Referer 1: http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=zlS&q=spyfu&start=10&sa=N

Page visited 1: http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/spyfu-launches-in-the-uk-get-50-off/
Page visited 2: http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/contact/

Keyword 1: spyfu

Barely 2 hours later “Jenni” emailed from the same address as “Kelly” to say this:

Hello,

I found this great adwords tool KeywordSpy.com for keyword researching & also its affiliate program. It really worked well earning me good profits. They track affiliate keywords on powerful networks like ClickBank, Commission Junction, LinkShare, PayDotCom, ClixGalore, ShareASale, MAXBounty, TradeDoubler, Amazon.
I noticed it when I read many people who use keywordspy are making very good revenue & can see who are the super affiliate, look at the keywords, the ad copies and setup similar campaigns.

In 10 minutes we can have a affiliate campaign setup that is already profitable.
It very useful for tracking what your competitor is doing, tracking all advertisers on Google in over 20 countries.
I could also monitor my competitor’s marking strategies. Therefore KeywordSpy can be used to imporove own PPC campaign by finding better keywords.

We could exchange some more ideas & tools if you have come across.

Thanks,
Jenni.

Just to make sure I didn’t miss the emails they were sent to my branded3 address as well.

Patrick Altoft is Director of Search at Leeds based digital & SEO agency Branded3. Patrick also runs Blogstorm.

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Chetan 31 Aug 2008 at 10:01 am: I got one from a name Dane but i did not care thinking this might be one of the regular spam.. But didn’t know that it has so much buzz all around! lol
Matthew 31 Aug 2008 at 6:06 pm: I haven’t noticed anything from them coming through yet, but I get a lot of junk every day and would probably have just deleted it with out thinking about it anyway. I will keep an eye out and post any details if I now get spammed from them.
Tamar Weinberg 31 Aug 2008 at 7:43 pm: Yes, they spam me to death, but not as bad as the ContactThem network who has probably every single email address I have ever owned in their database.
Monetization Hub 01 Sep 2008 at 6:24 am: I have been spammed by them, but I have never mentioned SpyFu.
Frank Hellerup Madsen 01 Sep 2008 at 11:30 am: I haven’t received any mails from KeywordSpy, but for some time, I have had a lot of referrals from their website. This made me wonder, if they are active in referral spamming as well?

The sites in question are quite obscure sites in Danish, and I honestly do not think that all five of them – on completely unrelated subjects – could attract the attention of competitors wanting to check them out with Keyword Spy..
rickvalentine 01 Sep 2008 at 12:23 pm: yes!! they constantly spam me!
Yossarian 02 Sep 2008 at 8:33 am: Yeah they have spammed me as well, a lot via contact forms with captchas too, which is a little annoying!
Jon 03 Sep 2008 at 10:20 am: I have mentioned SpyFu but haven’t been spammed by KeywordSpy (yet!)
John 04 Sep 2008 at 3:06 pm: Like Frank Hellerup Madsen I’ve seen a lot of referrals from them which suggests to me that they’re also spamming those.
Matthew Anderson 19 Feb 2009 at 10:21 pm: Yup, I get them regularly as well as referral spam which I detest more than email spam
Remove pissedconsumer 16 Aug 2010 at 1:13 pm: Excellent post Very informative… Thank you so much.. Always keep up with your good work