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Perusing through my Google alerts this morning I found a blog post of mine that wasn’t really mine. But it was.
Someone took one of my articles and re-translated it through their automated spam-text creator. I’m sure you’ve all seen something like this a dozen or more times but it made me laugh out loud. The original article is here, and below is what I like to call the Web 2.no version. I’ll refrain from linking to the spam blog, even with a link condom. No sense sending them traffic!
I’m fascinated by the way Digg works, specifically the whole idea of burying article. What are the reasons Diggers bury articles? Well, according to Digg they are:
Let’s take these one at a time:
Duplicate story: Reasonable enough. If the story is a dupe of another recently dugg article then there is cause for it to be buried. Better, though is for Digg admins to verify if a story is duplicate and simply remove it. End of story.
Would you want to be part of a business network that has to lie to you to get you to join? Me neither. There is no worse way to try to gain legitimacy than to attempt to gain subscribers through illegitimate methods. I recently received an email from a company attempting to do just that. Below is a screenshot of the email I received from a business networking service similar to Linkedin.
Our fearless leader and CEO of Pole Position Marketing, Stoney deGeyter, is teaching a class at Truckee Meadows Community College (TMCC) here in Reno, Nevada. Launched in 1998, PPM is Reno’s leading search engine optimization and website marketing firm. For nearly a decade, Stoney has provided local and global business owners increased website visibility, top search engine rankings, and boosted online conversions.
Registration has begun for “Website Marketing Performance Strategies,” an intensive 12-hour course, taught in four three-hour segments, covering all facets of online marketing including:
• Building a Search Engine friendly website
• In depth keyword research
• Understanding a Search Engine
• On- and off-page search engine optimization (aka SEO)
• Google AdWords and Pay-Per-Click campaigns
• Link building strategies
• Tracking your traffic and understanding stats
Just wanted to drop some quick stats that I ran across in an article featured on New Scientist about the shocking volume of spam that is perpetuated on the Net.
Editors note: I’ll give a free EMP book to the first commenter who doesn’t know the reference of this post’s title. (Be honest!)
So, speaking of things that people say, but don’t quite know what they mean, I got this email in my mail box the other day:
We cant find your web site.
SEOr·gasm (es ee ôr
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The peak of excitement from an SEO’s sudden release of pent up frustration regarding the tactics of other SEOs who’s practices they condemn. Characterized by strong feelings of pleasure often following a blog or forum posts of some kind. Can be accomplished as a solo act but is often found to be more pleasurable in group settings such as online forums or blogs.
spam (spm)
n. Unsolicited e-mail, often of a commercial nature, sent indiscriminately to multiple mailing lists, individuals, or newsgroups; junk e-mail.
We all hate spam, don’t we? Nothing slows up your morning like having to sort through hundreds of junk emails, just to find the handful that are of a genuine business nature. Thank God for commercially available spam blockers like cloudmark, that will sort through your email as it’s being downloaded and remove all the junk for you. Most web servers also allow you to set your spam settings to one of several levels of strictness and remove or mark email as spam for you. Spam sucks, but life is good when you have a good spam blocker.
There are two things I don’t understand about email spam, 1) why people complain about it when there are a host of spam blockers available for cheap or free? and 2) why some feel the government should get involved in regulating spam when there are a host of spam blockers available for cheap or free? The only real problem I see with spam, other than the minor annoyance of it, is the fact that we don’t have more spam blockers for other things.
I got a lead through our website the other day with an interesting comment attached. The prospect was requesting specific information on pricing for our services but as you can read below, they simply copied the information from what another SEO provided them.
I am just starting an internet business and I am looking for the following services. Please let me know if these are services you can provide and if so an estimated cost. Thanks
1. Website Analysis to check the current status of your website.
2. Meta analysis and recreation of clients tags and keywords.
3. Link popularity program – Increase the amount of pages that link to you.
4. Automated Submissions to 1090 search engines for site indexing twice a month.
5. Manual Submissions to the search engines that don’t accept automated submissions.
6. Submissions Report on the 1st and 15th of each month showing the progress of the website. “upon request”
7. We build you a Site Map for your website which helps all of your pages to be indexed into the search engines. The site map will also be submitted to 1090 search engines for site indexing twice a month.
(Don't wait for the movie!)
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