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
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”.