Clever SEO Spammer

by Andrew on June 24, 2009

in RichmondWiki,SEO,Spam

Hey, you. Spammer. Quit dropping your links in our wiki.

By the way, you suck at SEO.

You know who you are, or should I be more specific? Your IP address is 121.97.74.130 and you are near Legaspi in the Phillipines:


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You found our site by googling inurl:wiki intext:”business suit”.

Business Suit Search on Google (click to expand)

Business Suit Search on Google (click to expand)

You’ve visited twice, so you’ll probably find this post. Hello uto-uto.

You then edited the James Limousine article to include a link (twice!) to your horribly-optimized website (which I won’t promote with a link).

Trust me buddy, your website has a long way to go with SEO before you max out the potential for organic traffic. A spammy link in a wiki that employs the rel=”nofollow” attribute is not going to get you (or your client) to the top of any search engine. Well, maybe Bing.

If you’re going to spam a wiki, be more clever.

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1 Bradley Robb June 24, 2009 at 3:22 pm

Ah, the scurge that is the “NoFollow” tag. I wonder how much mind Google pays to those, as Twitter adds NoFollows and shortened URLs onto everything and they still pass some juice.

Then again, this guy was clearly getting paid as outsourced work and his clients are likely more clueless than he is. So, it would seem that, once again, the site owner is the real victim here.

2 Andrew June 24, 2009 at 3:39 pm

G seems to abide by the nofollow tag for discovery and indexing, but it is no longer effective for on-site pagerank sculpting.

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