This morning I was spammed by Shark Byte Media and their new project, LuxuryHomesofSarasota.com. I’ve never signed up for anything from these people and a huge pet peeve of mine is when I get unsolicited email. Especially when it’s marked “High Importance”, which is just too arrogant and annoying. Furthermore it took me only about 3 seconds to figure out that the copy on their pages is the same as 2 other realtors’ websites.
To recap: if you want to draw the ire of the web community, harvest a bunch of email addresses, spam them with a “high importance” header, and put up a site with copied content. The beauty of the web is that it’s so transparent – if you do anything like this, it’s bound to come back and Byte you in the rear.
I hope none of the “real” Sarasota realtors signs up for this thing. There are a number of great Sarasota realtors and brokereages that sell truly luxury homes, just don’t see them using this website.
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Received my 4th spam email from Shark Byte Media on July 28th. Although it wasn’t marked “high importance”, it still was heralded as an important announcement – they got a #4 ranking in one of the 3 search engines for the 3 words in their domain name! Holy Christ! Send out the press releases, boys! Or better yet, scrape some email addresses and spam even more people!
I know this is an old post but LuxuryHomesofSarasota.com is no longer up. Was there ever a site on that URL?
By the way, I had dinner with Gigi and a few other Realtors last week. I told her I liked her site.
Yeah, there was. I guess they didn’t renew it.
Glad you like Gigi’s site. Yours is a model to be followed as well.