Thursday, September 13, 2018

You Wanted Free Advertising? You Got Free Advertising


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This blog's comment entry form clearly says "Keep it on topic" and these irrelevant phony "compliments" posted with an active link to your business employ the same technique I see from all kinds of spammers with questionable motives and potentially hazardous links. Recent cases in point:

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Since your spammer selected old posts, my guess is you're trying to game SEO by seeding your links around. I don't put the considerable work into this to give you a publicity platform, and I doubt this is the only place you (or whomever you've contracted with) have tried this, hoping that an odd-hours entry with no moderation would let you lamprey off the efforts of others.

Is that close?

In any case, my incentive for doing business with an outfit like Outdoor Limited that engages in such deceptive practices is now extremely limited, especially since it would entail giving you credit card information.

Do feel free to leave a comment that's on topic this time.

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