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The SEO Spammers Behind Online Infographics

Posted by samzenpus on from the spam-by-the-numbers dept.

jfruh writes "Over the past couple of years, you may have noticed a rash of often high-quality infographics by third parties appearing on your favorite websites. These images are offered to Web publishers free of charge, with the only request being a link back to the creator's own site. But when one blogger got an odd email from a the creator of infographic he put on his site two years ago, he did some digging and discovered that he had inadvertently helped some shady characters do SEO spamming."

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  1. I don't understand what the problem is. by jibjibjib · · Score: 2, Informative

    A site is increasing their search engine ranking by... producing meaningful content that people want to link to? I don't see what the problem is here.