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SPAM!! please desit it is an abuse.

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    SPAM!! please desit it is an abuse.

    I'm not one for complaining unless I really feel it's justified.
    I'm also a long time and quite happy customer of vbseo.

    In this day and age one thing that really annoys, gets everyone P'D off is spam and the liberties taken by anyone who happens to have your email address. I hear some saying fool for submitting your email address. YES in some cases.

    I OBJECT to the current spamming campaign that is being carried out by VBSEO.com

    Yes that is right VBSEO.com are spammers, it's annoying, disgraceful and about as low as a company can get.

    It matters not that vBhackers is controlled/owned by vbseo.com.

    What does matter is that EVEN as a member of both communities, I do not expect one of those communities to take advantage of that fact and start spamming, advertising call it what you like the other product indirectly !!!

    I am receiving emails from vbhackers.com advertising everything from twitter to blogs etc. etc...ALL relating to vBSEO.com. WTF!!
    Nothing at all to do with vbhackers.com

    ABUSE!!!!!!!! nothing else for it.

    Even with receive Admin emails, I do not expect to receive this type of junk and that is how I see it. Not one of the emails relates to anything directly connected with vbhackers.com. NOT ONE!!

    They all relate to vbseo.com. NOT vbHackers.com.... ALL!!!

    Shame on vbseo

    ABUSE!!. Pure and simple.

    Please desist.
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    Hello ,

    There is a link within all e-mails so you can easily take your e-mail from e-mailing list.
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    That must have take a few minutes to bash out... in a second you could have hit the 'Unsubscribe' link in the email you 'Subscribed' too.

    How stupid do you feel now :O
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    You fail to see my point. It's abusing the system. I did not sign up to vbhackers.com to be bombarded with emails advertising vbseo.com.

    It's abusing the whole idea of a forum. Plain and simple.

    It's disgraceful behaviour and it's abusing what little if any right one has when joining a community.

    To think that forum/community Administrators could stoop so low is very disappointing.

    I could easily unsubscribe. It must be pointed out that I did not subscribe to
    advertising of vbseo via vbhackers.com

    get my point !
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    vBHackers belongs to Crawlability Inc who also owns vBSEO . Thats why i fail to see your point. If you don't want to receive e-mails you can easily take your e-mail out from e-mail list.

    P.S : As this thread holds no Pre Sale question , it is moved to a more proper section.
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    Hack this Mr. 360. It's time for us to suggest/force you to re-think
    an old and crusty traffic / link building strategy: Press Releases.

    SEOMoz bolded out 7 key tips on how to write a press release for SEO
    impact, even if you're NOT a media savvy master like Mr. Anderson
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    Above sent to me via vbhackers.com

    Plain and simple it's spam. If I were not already a member of THIS community and did not know of or use vbseo, then quite clearly the above email amounts to spam. It matters not one iota the Crawlability owns/runs both sites. If vbseo want to advertise vbseo they ought to do so from vbseo.com NOT vbhackers.com.

    With the greatest of respect it appears as if you have so far failed to see my point.

    Never again will I recommend vbseo to anyone.
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    My point is simple...

    The emails in question are sent via vbhackers.com to my email address which is NOT the same as the email address used here at vbseo.com..........

    Unsubscribe or edit your vBSEO email subscription settings:
    http://www.vbseo.com/vbseo_subscription.php?unsub=true&mailtype=19&emai l=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


    The unsubscribe link and all the content relates to vbseo.com. NOT vbhackers.com who sent the email.

    This IMHO it's an abuse. It's unethical.
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    It's just a personal observation, but I ~think~ you made your point.
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    Quote Originally Posted by xpfUK View Post
    My point is simple...

    The emails in question are sent via vbhackers.com to my email address which is NOT the same as the email address used here at vbseo.com..........

    Unsubscribe or edit your vBSEO email subscription settings:
    http://www.vbseo.com/vbseo_subscription.php?unsub=true&mailtype=19&emai l=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


    The unsubscribe link and all the content relates to vbseo.com. NOT vbhackers.com who sent the email.

    This IMHO it's an abuse. It's unethical.
    If you follow that link , it will remove you from e-mail list and you will not receive an e-mail from vBHackers.com again. It is plain and simple , if you don't want to receive e-mails , you can follow unsubscribe link.
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    xpfUK does have a point, but even so, when you signup at a community, you signup and abide to their rules. Most communities these days have a basic "we can change our rules" rule
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    does seem abit pointless.. just mark @vbhacker.com as spam... simple... i dont use vbhackers any more since vbseo owned it, i dont see the point.... we have vb.org
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    Hi guys. Checking in from vacation. Sorry for the delay. I handle the weekly SEO Wisdom emails. While we do reserve the right to contact our community via various mechanisms, we understand that some users prefer not to be contacted by email. As such, we built in our un-subscribe link.

    While I do not recall any other recent complaints, I am sure that you are not alone. But I do encourage you to click the un-subscribe link, since you prefer not to receive further emails. That will prevent you from receiving further emails. Note: If you have more than one address receiving emails, please click the link for each email separately.
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