To clarify:
- Domain Registration is the legal ownership of your domain name. I've written about this topic, previously, in a blog post titled "How to maintain control of your web site."
- SEO is the art of writing good website content (and title tags) so that search engines give good "snippets" of your website when people are doing various searches.
There is no need to pay for "monthly SEO" (ongoing submissions, etc). You may choose to pay someone monthly to go in and improve the actual text and title tags in your site, but I prefer to teach my clients how to do this on their own. I've found that there are too many snake oil salesman in the SEO area. Once your s ite is built and indexed by the search engines, they come back and "crawl" your site regularly, scanning for updates. You do not need to re-submit your site every month. And you certainly don't need to pay someone else for "search engine submission" services. Yikes!
Here is the full text of the email that my client received:
ATTENTION: IMPORTANT NOTICE
Domain Registration Service SEO Company
Notice#: [REDACTED]
Date: [REDACTED]
EXPIRATION NOTICE
DOMAIN: [REDACTED]
Notification Purchase Proposal
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To: [REDACTED]
Domain Name:
Registration SEO Period:
Price:
Term:
[REDACTED] [REDACTED] to [REDACTED] $66.00 1 Year
SECURE ONLINE PAYMENT
Domain Name: [REDACTED]
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This important expiration notification proposal notifies you about the expiration notice of your domain registration for [REDACTED] search engine optimization submission. The information in this expiration notification proposal may contain confidential and/or legally privileged information from the notification processing department to purchase our search engine traffic generator. We do not register or renew domain names. We are selling traffic generator software tools. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) named above.
If you fail to complete your domain name registration [REDACTED] search engine optimization service by the expiration date, may result in the cancellation of this search engine optimization domain name notification proposal notice.
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