Green Eggs and Spam

May 24

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I don’t mind giving a little link-love to a hard working SEO professional. I know how hard it is to get a good site up in the rankings.

You provide relevant content, quick download times, inbound links from relevant sites, a sitemap and use google tools. You wait and wait, and still no love from Google.

Green Egg(s) and Spam

The way the search engines are set up, it isn’t fair. Search engines are ‘gaming’ online commerce, in my opinion, in that they are set up to ignore good sites for ones that have jumped through bullshite hoops.  

They richly deserve to be outsmarted, manipulated, and otherwise humiliated.

Long gone are the days when you can look for something and find all these cool, groovy, hip little stores. Now its comparison sites (that make Google rich), mega-corps who have droves of cubicle drones who do nothing else than feed the google monster (that make Google rich), and mega-corps that publish little stores to make themselves look cool, groovy, and hip.  And make Google rich.

But some of you out there didn’t get the memo. Even with a sympathetic admin, you… just… gotta… push…. don’t you?

Here are the rules,  spam kids, read them, know them, live them and love them.

1 : Post with RELEVANT and ORIGINAL copy. Do NOT simply copy something and repost it. This will require you to READ, then THINK, then WRITE. No effort, no link love.

2 : Your link should not be to crap products or services. You know what crap is. Medicines, get-rich-quick, warez, squeeze pages. You know what crap is, even if you are in denial that what you are promoting this week is crap. You know.

3 : Your link should not be to a competitor. If my blog is for Hawaiian shirt Friday, and I sell from http://www.hawaiian-shirt.net (which I do), do not post to me from aloha shirt shop dot com.

4 : Write in English and use good grammar.

5 : Learn to spell. This bugs the crapola out of me, so I listed it separately. I was a production slave and occasional freelance editor for a division of McGraw-Hill before they mismanaged it into the ground (another story), and I HATE bad grammar and LOATHE bad spelling.

I did have an open policy for posting, but all I got was redirects, joke names (I am guilty of that) and Akmet the mad spammer.

Bye bye spammers, just installed Askimet.