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Web spam

Warning: Backlinksforum.com is running a link spam contest

by Michael Martinez on July 14, 2010

I absolutely detest these faux SEOs who run link spamming communities. These people have no clue how to really optimize for search. They just sell, share, or recommend link spamming robots that create fake user accounts and profiles on blogs and forums for the sake of “link building”.
Backlinksforum.com is running a contest requiring [...]

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Google launches a new spam industry

by Michael Martinez on December 7, 2009

I am not a big fan of Twitter. I have only recently reluctantly gotten involved with Twitter because it seemed necessary to create activity for several accounts that were set up to protect name spaces. For work I’ve been maintaining http://twitter.com/seo_theory. I’ve also been updating a couple of personal accounts.
Having little time [...]

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Beware new comment spam

by Michael Martinez on October 30, 2009

Once again Google shows us just how uncoordinated a very large organization can be. Webmaster Central is telling us they will now discover new Web pages through comment feeds in ATOM/RSS format.
Why am I the only person to publicly note that this is an invitation to comment spammers to step up their dirty tactics?
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