BST owners STOP doing this NOW

[davids355]

that issue never really occurred to me personally, but aside from that, its much more professional to have a private email anyway. so really if you have a BST, you should have a private email for branding purposes and so on.

 

[Advancing]

100% agree OP. It's pure laziness. If a person is too lazy not to use gmail, then I can't imagine what type of garbage service they are offering. I say everyone should start including in the BST review if they used a gmail account, to protect the rest of us. IMHO you shouldn't of waited to protect the BST owner, you should be trying to protect the bhw community.

 

[zee007]

I think we are getting carried away here. SEO is just the world WE live in. Think of all the other information that rests on G's servers. Political take overs, financial information, smuggling, mafia etc.....and you think they are snooping around to look for SEO related stuff? Really? Its a small microscopic piece of information they have access to.

Trust me. If G cared so much, they would have bought every possible service from BHW and screwed everyone over like 5 years ago. And they would not break a single law in the process.

 

[Magic5]

Delete this. Posted twice for some reason first time for everything..

 

[Magic5]

Haha word OP! Been saying this since way back when all the genius sellers here where using Gmail AND Google Docs to deliver reports... Like I mean c'mon dudes use your brains lol

You have to change that signature every time i see it all i see is a sexy woman and over 4000 clients in 2 years i thought you were a very very busy female escort.

 

[zee007]

Seems like OP is right. G has admitted to reading e-mails and all the data is theirs:

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer...s-its-reading-your-emails-because-advertising

Damn. Need to stop using Google docs etc

 

[pazocean]

OP's post is a bit confusing as it refers to ALL free popular email providers.
I think it's not that huge problem if one uses hotmail/outlook/yahoo/...

Its just about Google and Gmail + Google Docs.

 

[bartosimpsonio]

OP's post is a bit confusing as it refers to ALL free popular email providers.
I think it's not that huge problem if one uses hotmail/outlook/yahoo/...

Its just about Google and Gmail + Google Docs.

I didn't want to make this about Google.

If Yahoo becomes the mainstream search engine, then using yahoo.com mail raises the same problem.

 

[alexodysglobal]

Cheers for finally delivering this message to all sellers around this forum, OP.

I was reading NoHatsSEO's post on PBN de-indexation the other day and he was trying to convince all those who commented on his blog that using Google Docs to keep track of your PBN domains was absolutely safe and that it has nothing to do with the slap.

Unbelievable.

 

[Techxan]

The other annoyance about BST owners and email addresses, is when you use a virgin email account for the order, and start getting spammed within 48 hours.

This really chaps my ass. Worse is when I signup for a service or buy a product and I have to put up with your spam in order to be kept aware of support issues.

If buy your product and you stick me on a mailing list, that is the last time you get my money.

 

[ardley216]

Thanks for this. I should have known about this type of thing before. I dont sell SEO services but I send my reports through PM rather than email to make sure my customers get their keywords

 

[King_James]

So we should use private mails even for private stuff-non business related?

 

[Toz]

I think we are getting carried away here. SEO is just the world WE live in. Think of all the other information that rests on G's servers. Political take overs, financial information, smuggling, mafia etc.....and you think they are snooping around to look for SEO related stuff? Really? Its a small microscopic piece of information they have access to.

Trust me. If G cared so much, they would have bought every possible service from BHW and screwed everyone over like 5 years ago. And they would not break a single law in the process.

They did. It was called, "Panda".

 

[bartosimpsonio]

So we should use private mails even for private stuff-non business related?

Check this out: http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/18/google-location-history/

If that sort of thing bothers you, then you should start thinking about privacy.

 

[King_James]

Check this out: http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/18/google-location-history/

If that sort of thing bothers you, then you should start thinking about privacy.

Of course it does... but I don't have Android, only use gmail.

 

[linuxsmtp]

Just get a private domain, if you are so paranoid with G

 

[funkybunker]

Somebody mentioned making a business email mandatory for certain services. Perhaps that's something the Mods could look into. You get limitless mailboxes with 99% of hosts anyway.

 

[GodLy]

That's why we don't use any free CMS/mails/support boards/ticket systems and all other free bullshit. We code all stuff by own hands. And if u need quality the only way to go with custom stuff.