Epic Fail at link building by an SEO. Just wrong on every level

by Mike Anthony

Posted: 9 years ago 29 replies

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{I have|I've} been {surfing|browsing} online more than {three|3|2|4} hours today, yet I never found any interesting article like yours.
{It's|It is} pretty worth enough for me. {In my opinion|Personally|In my view}, if all {webmasters|site
owners|website owners|web owners} and bloggers made good
content as you did, the {internet|net|web} will be {much more|a
lot more} useful than ever before.|
I {couldn't|could not} {resist|refrain from} commenting.
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{I will|I'll} {right away|immediately} {take hold of|grab|clutch|grasp|seize|snatch} your {rss|rss feed} as I {can not|can't}
{in finding|find|to find} your {email|e-mail} subscription {link|hyperlink} or {newsletter|e-newsletter} service.
Do {you have|you've} any? {Please|Kindly} {allow|permit|let} me
{realize|recognize|understand|recognise|know} {so that|in order that} I {may just|may|could} subscribe......................(goes on for maybe a thousand words).

1) Its 2014 and this poor soul is still trying comment blasts
2) its 2014 and he's doing a very limited spin
3) its 2014 and with all the tutorials for all the comment spamming tools out there (and for years) he still can't get the spin option right.
4) Its 2014 and yeah the links he is trying to drop (not included in copy and paste) are STRAIGHT to his money site
5) Even without the spinning your grammar sucks

Take this as a lesson on how NOT to leave blog comments or better yet just don't use links spam tools to leave garbage comments on pages all over the net.

#building #epic #fail #level #link #seo #wrong

yukon Banned 9 years ago

Someone lost $5.
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- writeaway 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by yukon
  
  Someone lost $5.
  
  hahahah. Yeah. It's always a bad idea to outsource SEO blog commenting on Fiverr.
  
  What's next? Outsourced skyscraper keyword / silo research method on Fiverr?
  
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GGpaul 9 years ago

Damn havent' been here in quite some time.

Hope you guys are doing well.
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- Mike Anthony 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by GGpaul
  
  Damn havent' been here in quite some time.
  
  Yeah I know . I been seeing you over in the PPC area you little sell out
  
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  GGpaul 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Mike Anthony
  
  Yeah I know . I been seeing you over in the PPC area you little sell out
  
  Hahahaha. Got to expand my horizons!!! .
  
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sweezeter 9 years ago

How lazy can you be? This is great though as the more I see this kinda thing the happier I am.

Dumb competition means easy rankings.
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- Waywardaussie 9 years ago
  
  lol that's hilarious someone has lost a few bucks with that
  
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nest28

9 years ago

Hello Mike, Paul, Yukon...been a while. But yea that's bad, made a mistake like that way back when I first started IM. It happens, but how it happen in 2014? Idk lol.

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Mike Anthony

9 years ago

Originally Posted by nest28

Hello Mike, Paul, Yukon...been a while. But yea that's bad, made a mistake like that way back when I first started IM. It happens, but how it happen in 2014? Idk lol.

He's alive!!. Owe you an apology to Bro. Forgot entirely about that favor you asked me to do. If you stil need the links hollar at my PM.

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nest28 9 years ago

Originally Posted by Mike Anthony

He's alive!!. Owe you an apology to Bro. Forgot entirely about that favor you asked me to do. If you stil need the links hollar at my PM.

It's cool tho. I had to hit my man Niko up thanx to you lol. It's been so long since been here, everything changed, SEO section more focused, less threads, but still dumb questions and noobs looking for short cuts to success, I guess some things never change, but still good place to learn IM.

Btw what is that new search bar I see under popular sites now, I love it, Google stepping there game up.
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DPM70

9 years ago

For those that want to translate it into another language in Google translate and then translate it back again into another language and then spin it again and then put it back into English, here's a quick spin:

I have been surfing online more than 4 hours today, yet I never found any interesting article like yours.
It is pretty worth enough for me. In my view, if all website owners and bloggers made good content as you did, the net will be a lot more useful than ever before.
I could not refrain from commenting.
Exceptionally well written!
I'll right away clutch your (a)rss as I can't in finding you email subscription hyperlink or e-newsletter service.
Do you've any? Kindly let me realize in order that I could subscribe......................

Top notch! (Manually spun!)

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HostZealot

9 years ago

Originally Posted by DPM70

Haha! It actually sounds decent now, when you did the needed work. Unfortunately, that poor soul did not manage that far. Yeah, its 2014 out there, yet people fail in basics...

Literally laughed for a couple of minutes on the fail and thanks for your translation!

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DPM70 9 years ago

You know my top notch manual spin was tongue in cheek, right?
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- HostZealot 9 years ago
  
  Yeah, I enjoyed your sense of humor greatly
  
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Kevin Maguire

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Mike Anthony

This is the funniest link spam I have received in a long time. I am sure some of you guys have seen this before but across hundreds of sites (network) I have never seen this (granted I don't read alot of link spam attempts so maybe it is common). Anyway here is how you know you suck at SEO - when you can't even use the link spam tools right. Heres the blog comment message I got hoping for my approval

1) Its 2014 and this poor soul is still trying comment blasts
2) its 2014 and he's doing a very limited spin
3) its 2014 and with all the tutorials for all the comment spamming tools out there (and for years) he still can't get the spin option right.
4) Its 2014 and yeah the links he is trying to drop (not included in copy and paste) are STRAIGHT to his money site
5) Even without the spinning your grammar sucks

Take this as a lesson on how NOT to leave blog comments or better yet just don't use links spam tools to leave garbage comments on pages all over the net.

{Ok fair enough|Look,|Sorry}, rtf {made a {mess|balls} of|messed up} the syntax, I will re-{write|spin} it if you {allow|approve} it.

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cbpayne 9 years ago

But, hey, they got >41 000 links doing it:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22I...like+yours.%22
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SEO-Dave

9 years ago

I find the spammers that add the same content to any field that's not filled funny. Makes it really easy to setup honey traps to block them before posting and wasting database queries etc... (improves performance not adding hundreds of comments each day to SPAM).

I no longer need plugins like Akismet (stopped using Akismet because it uses Jquery for it's honeypot!) , have multiple honey pots, checks for duplicate content (same content in two fields trips a filter), length of comment author URL (if above X characters, X I set to 60, it's probably a spammer).

Went from around 1,000 comments added to SPAM by Akismet per site to a trickle. Most SPAM is posted by bots and SPAMbots (or their users) are dumb.

For those who spam blogs, it doesn't work any more, most blogs use nofollow for comment links which means Google doesn't see your link. Even when you do find a dofollow blog that doesn't moderate comments so many spammers post links it makes the links worthless and long term Google won't pass benefit from those blogs because they are going to bad sites (your site).

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Kevin Maguire

9 years ago

Originally Posted by SEO-Dave

For those who spam blogs, it doesn't work any more, most blogs use nofollow for comment links which means Google doesn't see your link. Even when you do find a dofollow blog that doesn't moderate comments so many spammers post links it makes the links worthless and long term Google won't pass benefit from those blogs because they are going to bad sites (your site).David

You seem very environmentally conditioned which has resulted in a misinformed seo education. Spam is very much alive and well, it's just not alive on the levels to which you have been personally exposed too.

Even when the algo decides to change it from a positive to a negative, it can still be used to manipulate the algo. For this very reason Google have made recent alterations, enough to upgrade it to 3.0.

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godoveryou

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Kevin Maguire

You'd shouldn't question him. He's been doing this for 15 years, blah blah blah, 9 months until a link provides full value, gotta reply to the most threads possible for 2 days straight, buy the theme - it looks like it's straight out of the 90's but comes with kung fu action grip....

I've just sat here and watched him; it's better to laugh at the show than try to take serious at this point. Search through his posts for a good time.

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Mike Anthony 9 years ago

Originally Posted by SEO-Dave

I no longer need plugins like Akismet (stopped using Akismet because it uses Jquery for it's honeypot!) , have multiple honey pots,

Whats with all the Winnie the Pooh references? Show Tigger some love.
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Mike Anthony

9 years ago

Originally Posted by godoveryou

I've just sat here and watched him;

Good to see you back GOS. I thought you were gone for a long time....Oh wait that was your brother not you. Hope you didn't switch laptops with him

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godoveryou

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Mike Anthony

Good to see you back GOS. I thought you were gone for a long time....Oh wait that was your brother not you. Hope you didn't switch laptops with him

Sorry that I was away, I've furiously been reading about the captivating "StallionTheme." I'm amazed at how well it works, I didn't even need my pump!! I'm completely gay for his code...

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hyzhenry

9 years ago

i have a wordpress site that I was building halfway through without akismet, and i get that crap all the time. after putting it up. Those spam comments have stopped.

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Mike Anthony

9 years ago

Originally Posted by hyzhenry

i have a wordpress site that I was building halfway through without akismet, and i get that crap all the time. after putting it up. Those spam comments have stopped.

I figures some people did but I have hundreds of domains and never got spintax before (that I know of).

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Mike Anthony

9 years ago

Originally Posted by godoveryou

I'm amazed at how well it works, I didn't even need my pump!!

I've told you before you don't need it anyway. Playing around with it solo burns out the motor and as I understand it voids the manufacturer warranty

so at least The Stallion theme is saving you some money.

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jinx1221

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Mike Anthony

I would skip the Stallion theme and use this instead, highly recommended!

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Tim3 9 years ago

Lol.
I have bookmarked his weblog for my brother in brussels...

...never did figure out the vegetable connection.
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ilee 9 years ago

Got exactly the same email a month ago. Had a good chuckle out of that one.
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white hat is better in every aspect ..so ..just be white
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