Rip-off links
Take a look at these two threads:
The “SEO company” responsible for this forum spamming has a London address, but is essentially a bunch of Indian spammers.
Get this, though - I contacted them, and they told me each link provided in those threads cost £15. Each.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry - laugh because charging £15 for a signature link is utterly laughable, plus a forum posted links you should be able to get direct from India for less than
$10/hour.
And cry, because I’m obviously charging far too little if people are going to be sucked into paying this sort of money for these types of base links - links which even call the client’s company reputation into question!
Hell, I already know I don’t charge as much as I could - maybe should - but I have to say, anyone who is spending for these sort of forum spamming links @ £15 each is throwing their money away to companies with little clue about the real value of links.
Oh, dear…
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holy cr*p batman, you telling me that you are involved in spamming forums… I was beginning to like this blog… no on re-reading I can see that you don’t agree with this as it is STUPID and does not work, the search engines take no notice, no one clicks on them, and any forum that is active deletes that crap, or stops it before it gets as far as a post. I run a sucessful forum, and have no spam at all… buut they do try … they try very hard.
Comment by fred — August 19, 2007 @ 8:04 pm
on the subject of electrically charged vending machines, the last person who touched it in an official capicity for maintenance is liable, that’s european law. Be that a member of staff who plugged it in, or the person who put the plug on. It has been law for at least 10 years, and goes directly to the employee for responsibility, which the company will no doubt have insurance for.
This law was passed to avoid people “fixing” an electrical appliance, with the intent to cause harm or death. An electrician who causes death after servicing an electrical item, will be charged with at the very least man slaughter… A faulty electical appliance that causes injury is not treated as an accident.
In other words if you are not an engineer, don’t fix it.
Comment by fred — August 19, 2007 @ 8:11 pm
No, not at all involved in spamming forums. :)
As an admin for 20+ forums, I find it bloody annoying…
I will say that some degree of forum spamming probably works - but only as low value links you would have to get in number across a large number of forums, with unique content.
However, if anyone is paying £15 per link for forum spammed links, they are paying waaay too much. Could simply get a $5/hour Indian to do 5-10/hour.
Even still, couldn’t ever recommended it as a mainstay of a link development campaign, and the potential fall-out from negative publicity makes it a risk I could never advise for valued sites.
Someone should suggest that to Moneysupermarket.com. :)
Comment by Brian Turner — August 19, 2007 @ 9:35 pm