How do I stop SEO offers from flooding my new website's inbox?

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Topic summary

A new website owner is overwhelmed by daily SEO and traffic-generation offers flooding their inbox and contact forms. Multiple participants confirm experiencing the same issue, receiving dozens of spam messages weekly.

How spammers find new sites:

  • Automated bots crawl websites searching for email addresses and contact forms
  • Scripts then bulk-send promotional messages to discovered contacts

Suggested solutions:

  • Mark messages as spam and block sender addresses
  • Implement email filtering tools like Mimecast
  • Add DMARC records to DNS settings (Google’s new requirement to reduce spam)
  • One user reports success with hostile replies, reducing spam from 5/day to 1 every 2 weeks

Ongoing challenges:

  • Spam also arrives via Facebook and Instagram Messenger, not just email
  • One participant suspects Shopify may be selling contact details, noting all spam comes from Gmail addresses
  • The issue remains largely unresolved, with blocking and filtering as the primary defenses
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hello. since my day one i launched my website, 10s of people contacting me daily through my website, claiming they can help me with seo, driving traffic, etc. it is getting annoying. does anyone know how they know i am a new website or how can i stop this? thanks

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I also get dozens of these emails per week. Unfortunately, there’s not really any way to stop them.

They’re essentially just crawling sites automatically, searching for emails or contact forms, and then running bots/scripts to bulk email everyone that they find. Super annoying, but all you can do is block the email addresses, move them to spam, and continue with your day.

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I want to know this too. They are driving me insane!!! Not just email but Fb, IM messenger!!

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Yes there’s not really any way to stop this other than marking them as spam in your inbox. You can try using something like Mimecast which will likely filter out more of the spam and phishing, but even then it’s hard to stop.

That said Gmail are tightening up their spam settings, making it harder for spammers. They’re making everyone people add DMARC records to their DNS settings, which helps protect domain reputation.

If you haven’t added DMARC, you might want to take a look on Google about it.

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I have done the DMARC step. The problem is mostly through Meta’s FB and IG Messenger, though. I’ll keep blocking.

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Try responding to them with hostility. I was getting about 5 emails a day. I started replying with things like “Go f*** yourself” and other similar hostile replies to them. After about a month of doing that, I get maybe 1 email every 2 weeks from them. Sounds crazy, sounds dumb, but spam from them to me is almost gone.

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This is happening to us as well!! It’s edging on illegal I’m sure! Is Shopify selling our details? These are also coming ONLY via Gmails!!

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Must be something more than that, ONLY coming via Gmails, all of them.