Proud of Being a Spammer?
Blogging June 18th, 2006
Naive me … I thought spammers would prefer to call themselves marketers, and would generally stay away from using the term “spam”. Oh, boy, how wrong I am. Some are actually proud of being spammers.
After analyzing a site that in the first 18 days of existence, got 5 billion (yes, that’s a “b”, is that even possible?) pages indexed by Google, Alex, a “SEO bloguru” lays out the easy steps how everyone else can do it. The last two steps in his recipe: (I’m using nofollow, no link love to spammers)
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“Launch your blog comment spam attack. Link to some of your subdomains which are also interlinked.
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Wait a few weeks… then sit back and enjoy your billions of indexed pages. Be sure to put 3 Adsense or YPN blocks on each page.”
Censorship is bad … yet I am really unhappy to see this on Techmeme.
Makes me wish there was a “nuke it” button to keep spam away.
Others on the subject:
- Geek News Central
- Rough Type
- Web Metrics Guru (I’m glad it does not work for everyone...)
- John Battelle
Zoli Erdos
I actually think this not such bad thing that the recipe is public. Think about it this way. Instead of having one person doing it, tomorrow, you’ll have a 1000, and next week who knows… And what do you think is going to happen to their income?
Yep, that’s right, it is going to decrease to a trickle since there is a finite amount of searches every day, in essence decreasing the incentive to do it, hopefully to the point where they realize it is not worth it
At least one can hope it will turn out this way.
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Proud of Being a Spammer?
[Source: Zoli's Blog :: Main Page] quoted: Naive me .I thought spammers would prefer to call themselves marketers, and would generally stay away from using the term “spam”.