Are You a Search Engine Spammer?
Peter Davis, Sitepoint Moderator and Small Business Forum owner, has moved past the denial stage in his search engine marketing practices, and is starting to confront the fact that the shady SEO practices which have grown in popularity over the past 18 months, may infact make one a spammer.
Are you an SEO spammer and didn’t even know it? According to Mr. Davis, if you fit the profile you may indeed be a search engine spam artist, and in need of some professional help. Here’s a teaser:
You might be a search engine spammer if…
* you have recurring nightmares of Matt Cutts finding a complete list of the sites you own.
* you have webmasterradio.fm bookmarked.
* you use Digitalpoint’s Ad Coop to drive traffic to your site.
* you think that MSN’s search engine is doing a pretty good job.
* you appreciate the different way that Link Vault places links.
Peter’s looking for some other indications of SEO spam hammin’. Feel free to add your own below or at Peter’s Blog.
One of my pet peeves is the following:
You might be a spammer if you use article libraries to build your “web site”.
I can’t stand looking for information and running into these regurgitated “articles” consisting of poor grammar, poor spelling and inaccurate information.
You also might be a spammer if you write such tripe and submit it to article libraries in the hopes of getting backlinks from other lowlife who will use them to build such crappy web “sites”.
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It is telling that about one half of all the commenters no the Cutts blog – do not add a hyperlink to their usernames – even with the Nofollow tag
But MSN has gone through a massive update and it is now deprioritizing body keywords
BTW:
Google has just had a MASSIVE Update today – link popularity is being replaced with TrustRank