Web CEO: Doesn't It Work? Then why...?

Our directory just got the following four submissions from an IP address located in the Ukraine, which just happens to be where the software company that produces WEB CEO Web Site Promotion Software is located:

Title:
Web CEO - Web Site Promotion Software

Description:
Web Promotion Software for Keyword Research, Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Submission, Ranking Check, Link Exchange, and Traffic Analysis

Keywords:
web site promotion search engine marketing website management web traffic analysis search engine optimization

Category: 74

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Title:
Web Ranking Software

Description:
Web Ranking Software by Web CEO. Using this web ranking software, you just select the search engines

Keywords:
web ranking software web ceo website ranking webranking report webranking software  website ranking report free website ranking report

Category: 80

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Title:
Link Popularity Tool

Description:
Link popularity tool by Web CEO, this is now an indisputable part of modern website promotion, helping to save time, effort and to realize web promotion in a process that exhausts all options

Keywords:
link popularity tool increase link popularity link popularity check improve link popularity link popularity tool link popularity checker

Category: 92

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Title:
PhantomaSEO - SEO Softwares Review

Description:
seo software reviews: Know everything about search engine optimization tools and website promotion packages, get webceo, ibp, seo elite and webposition comparison chart

Keywords:
seo software review seo tools seo software packages search engine optimization software website optimization tool website promotion tool keyword research tools

Category: 80

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This last site, PhantomaSEO, was interesting and the first one that I looked at. It offers reviews of SEO software, but I could tell right away that one product seemed much better than the others. At first I was not suspicious and even approved the listing with a little editing. Then I noticed the OTHER submissions and it made we wonder. Sure enough, the IP was from the Ukraine and so is Web CEO and a little more digging confirmed the connection. So PhantomaSEO is just a lame marketing review site to promote WEBCEO....!

 

Is the product really so bad that they have to do this? I think I tried a demo copy a couple of years ago and I thought it was "ok". No replacement for a good SEO consultant, but better than nothing. So why turn to this underhanded, dishonest method of marketing? I have no idea, but this kind of stupid stuff is just going to hurt them now. If nothing else, the IP of the submitter has been banned.