The Irony is Killing Me...
Ah, the irony.
You would think a blogger who makes it a point to show the world bad SEO practices on his blog would be the last person you would want to spam. But wouldn’t you guess it, I got an obnoxious blog spam comment after yesterday's post from another Denver SEO company.
It turns out that the spammer didn’t see the irony when he left the comment below on yesterday’s post (by the way, I removed the little carats you use for HTML and replaced it with “[“ and “]”…what can I say, I don’t feel like looking it up the code for those symbols). Ok, here is the comment:
Thank you for the great information. I am always looking for good information on [a href="http://www.ascendemarketing.com/go"]Internet Marketing[/a] related topics. I have a similar blog called www.semprofessional.blogspot.com. We would love it if you added us to your address list, along with our company website; www.ascendemarketing.com We do most of business in the [a href="http://www.ascendemarketing.com/go"]Denver[/a] and [a href="http://www.ascendemarketing.com/go"]Colorado Springs[/a] areas.
Nice work chief – you could have left a simple message without trying to embed a ton of links, and it would have gotten published. But instead you got greedy for a bunch of nofollow links. Sweet move.
Is it just me or are people like this guy the reason the SEO practitioners are held in the same regard as snake oil salesmen?
Spam guy…comment? Do you know that link spamming is not cool or are you just as skilled as your counterpart over at Acperion?
Comments
Wow-a bit hostile today, aren't we?
Do I offend?
My apologies.
Are you in Denver?
Maybe we could go have a cup of coffee.
It looks like you did publish it. Thanks.
Posted by: Dan | December 8, 2006 07:20 PM
Hey Dan - not hostile at all. Just trying to point out that you basically left the most ridiculous spammy blog comment imaginable. Not good form my man.
If you try to get traffic (and links) for your clients by spamming blogs I think you are doing them a disservice. Blog spamming SEOs are one of the reasons why the SEO industry has bad reputation…it seems that you might be one of those bad seeds.
I could be wrong, and if I am misinterpreting your intentions for that comment please let me know. But with the number of links you have embedded, it’s not looking good.
Posted by: James | December 11, 2006 07:10 PM
I was just doing an experiment.
I did not mean to offend.
Your reaction was noted, and I already apologized.
Would like to meet with you for a cup of coffee if you are in Denver.
Posted by: Dan | September 7, 2007 02:21 PM