How NOT to promote your service/blog
Just recently I found out about the new e-mail going around. Thank God I did not receive it. I might have had a heart attack.
The e-mail goes like this:
From: Google AdSense [mailto:adsense-adclicks-noreply@google.com]
Sent: June-17-09 7:31 AM
To: info@example.com (publisher prefers to remain anonymous)
Subject: Google AdSense Account Disabled
Hello,
While going through our records recently, we found that your AdSense
account has posed a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers. Since
keeping your account in our publisher network may financially damage our
advertisers in the future, we’ve decided to disable your account.
Please understand that we consider this a necessary step to protect the
interests of both our advertisers and our other AdSense publishers. We
realize the inconvenience this may cause you, and we thank you in advance
for your understanding and cooperation.
If you have any questions about your account or the actions we’ve taken,
please do not reply to this email. You can find more information by
visiting
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=57153.
Sincerely,
The Google AdSense Team
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And then it goes to say: sorry, we are joking, we are not from Adsense, we are just promoting our (paid) service to prevent such thing happening to you.
Holy m%^&$f%cKi%^nof… How many people stopped reading after that “Sincerely” and break…. And got scared sh%^&ess?
Is that the way to promote your service? By impersonating Google and scaring people? FU uniCliqs or whatever.
And you got the initial idea so right. Such hosted service can be useful and needed.And the idea of making it into a guest posts is great. Even problogger picked it up initially, until he saw the details of your e-mail campaign.
It probably could have ended on much more high profile blogs if you did it right.
But you decided to go the stupid way for a quick buck, by scaring people into subscription instead…

