Flashes of Panic

Adam Gaffin at Universal Hub draws our attention to a new “service” in which you pay for “relevant” comments to be left on “high-page-rank blogs”, which helps your site “rank better in the SERPs.” (SERP = Search Engine Result Page.)

The part I find most amusing is their attempts at self-justification:

YES, Buying Blog Comments is 100% ethical and NOT spam!

…and yet they’re spending the rest of the page explaining how their technique leaves comments which won’t be deleted by the site moderator. Now why would a site moderator ever want to delete 100% ethical, not-spam comments?

(If there’s any confusion in your mind, buying blog comments is 100% unethical and is spam.)

No extra points for counting the spelling and grammatical errors. Note that I have used rel="nofollow" on the link to the sleazy ones.

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