Please forgive my rant, but I'd like to know I'm not the only one who hates some of these popular internet 'marketing' tactics. - Scrapers, spinners and auto-blogs (stop stealing articles & do some work) - Bots designed to forum spam, comment spam, link spam or email spam (how do you sleep at night?) - Pop-ups & pop-unders - Blackhat SEO (just play fair) I'm glad I got that out of my system
Spam and stealing is bad for sure, I hate seeing popups and pop unders but they work well to make money from
Hey element, I completely agree with you on the spinners / blackhat / bots! I don't see why people waste their time trying to do stuff blackhat.. I mean I know it makes money short term and all - but in my opinion it's just not worth the hassle. What's the point in spending all that time and money to rank a blackhat site only to have it get shot down on the next Google update? Pointless in my opinion. I've been there myself with the spinner stuff.. Some of the stuff it produced was actually readable.. but I was prone to always getting the pleasure to dance with Google. Long gone are those days! Been focusing my efforts on big brand building with content marketing and the results are just straight crazy! Stuff ranks on Google without even building backlinks. Now that's what I like! You're not alone! I don't mind others doing it - I'm just going a different route than them. Sounds like we both are!
100% with you on this. Tired of all the companies out there that spin articles and still make money off it! Black hat SEO also!! Bots are terrible, they make most of our clients have to ask us to take comments down or purchase some sort of spam protection. The famous Ugg boots or leather jackets bots.. gotta love them. People that play the game right will be the ones that prevail.
A few months back our visitors had an option of emailing our poster through an email form right from the site. Little did we know that one guy (who wrote a backpage ad posting software) wrote a qwikad ad posting software too. We started receiving these angry emails from our posters complaining that some days they would receive 30-50 spam emails. I was like: "Whaaaaa?" To make a long story short, we had to disable that option. Even if we'd try to fight the spammers with a captcha and other anti-spam options, they would still find a way around it. I personally dislike email spam more than any other.