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How Not To Be a SEO Spammer

Posted by samzenpus on from the it's-up-to-you-whether-or-not-you-want-to-just-do-the-bare-minimum dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The head of Google's webspam team, Matt Cutts, has blogged about one of his colleagues receiving an email offering SEO services to help the web site www.google.com. The irony wasn't lost on Matt, who has blogged about these emails before. As this article points out, if ever there was evidence that the people who send many of these emails haven't done their homework, this is it."

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  1. This page should have more comments by spoot · · Score: 5, Funny

    It would make it rank higher organically with search engines.

    1. Re:This page should have more comments by cold+fjord · · Score: 4, Funny

      I will send you my bill for this comment.

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    2. Re:This page should have more comments by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Informative

      It would make it rank higher organically with search engines.

      Well, here's one....

      I had to go look up 'SEO' as I was drawing a blank on it. Search Engine Optimization (SEO). There, now I have some idea what the article is about.

      Maybe someone could optimize editors on /. to make sure all acronyms are spelled out at least once in the article.

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  2. News for nerds, stuff that matters by Swampash · · Score: 4, Funny

    Next up: Slashdot reveals that some of those billionaire Nigerian princes aren't actually real!

  3. Re:trust me by pspahn · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes, it's mostly snake oil, but there is something to be said for properly implemented schema.org tags, well formed page names, and the rest of the stuff that makes your site not only bubble higher in the search results, but also provide useful links within your search results.

    And by the way, you can indeed quantify SEO improvements. The only problem is that the SEO guy usually doesn't know how and ends up asking a developer anyway.

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  4. Props, though. by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 5, Funny

    The spammer managed to get ahold of a real human inside Google. No small feat.

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    1. Re:Props, though. by Samantha+Wright · · Score: 4, Funny

      The machine learning researcher in me feels this comment is overly presumptuous and possibly discriminatory.

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  5. so i got an SEO phone call.... by acedotcom · · Score: 4, Insightful

    she wanted to boast my rank on google. i asked her how she found my business number and then pointed out that someone had to google it....which means my SEO is just fine. she then hung up.

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