SEO From a Mall Kiosk???

Recently I was at the West County Mall in St. Louis and ran into something that could only be described as amusing.

After leaving the Apple store I noticed a kiosk with a screen rotating the services the company offered, typically I do not pay much attention to these things but in this case as the screen switched from home computer setup, wireless networking, and other mundane services to something a bit more complex and something that was quite funny.

The company was asking if I wanted to be found on the first page of Google. Did you know you could buy local search engine optimization in a mall???

Since I like to instigate a bit I thought it would be fun to quiz the person in the booth about getting my business found on the first page of Google. My wife thought it best to walk away before it started for some reason...

After the person first did not even know about the sign that had just flashed that the company he was promoting offered such services and local SEO he then tried to sell me on coming to my house to setup my internet (I would of paid a million to hear him say interwebs). I then asked again as the slide flashed again, even after I had already explained my company did online advertising, web development, and we helped businesses get found online he asked if I needed a website.

I was done having fun at this point but he did then continue to tell me that "Josh" was good at this that or the other, literally everything on the board from anti-virus to local search was his "specialty".

So, next time you are in the mall beware of search engine optimization from a kiosk, but then again, maybe you can have your spyware removed at the same time.