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Is The Search For SEO Ruining The Web?

This morning I spent 15 minutes archiving unsolicited emails from SEO companies looking to exchange links with my sites.

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Next I had to scan the 61 applications to join one of our forums - it turned out that every single one was spurious, asking for user names like "seobacklinkblast" as an example.

Then I went to check the public forum I moderate for a friend, to find a total of 108 spam posts, full of links, which I had to delete, and then ban the users.

Annoyed and frustrated, next I opened a Google Alert I have set up for some search terms I am trying to rank for organically. And I found a complete nonsense article, which has obviously been scraped from one of our sites and then altered just enough to prevent it being a duplicate. It was then crammed with keywords, and placed on a site that seems to cover everything under the sun.

It's Sunday and I've wasted an hour.

These people are ruining my web experience.

Are they ruining the web?

Submitted by Mike on January 30, 2011 - 10:06.

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