{"id":4972,"date":"2013-07-16T21:26:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T20:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4972"},"modified":"2013-07-16T21:26:20","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T20:26:20","slug":"fighting-back-to-the-spammers-charging-for-removal-of-blog-spam-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/07\/fighting-back-to-the-spammers-charging-for-removal-of-blog-spam-links.htm","title":{"rendered":"Fighting back to the spammers: charging for removal of blog spam links&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right from (almost) the start, this blog has suffered from spam. I guess it just goes with the territory but I&#8217;ve written in the past about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/01\/when-blog-spam-goes-wrong.htm\">people who&#8217;ve left spam comments and then found Google&#8217;s index quotes them out of context<\/a>\u00a0or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/07\/i-hate-blog-spam.htm\">tech companies criticising their competitors &#8220;anonymously&#8221; in blog comments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even when I was helping my then-CTO to raise his social media presence, my employer&#8217;s PR agency was encouraging the use of comments on blogs to generate backlinks and now the tide is turning as Google cracks down on low-quality backlinks.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, I&#8217;m getting an increasing number of emails from digital agencies including phrases like the one below:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m writing to request the removal of a link to my clients&#8217; [<em>sic<\/em>] site which is located at the following page:&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They&#8217;re (or their clients are) wasting my time, so I reserve the right to charge for removing such links.<\/p>\n<p>The irony is that, over the last few years, Google&#8217;s index changes have penalised original content creators like myself in favour of corporate websites and this blog has just a fraction of the traffic it once enjoyed (oh, those were the days)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Would be blog spammers at this site should check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/about\/rules\">Rules for Comments<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right from (almost) the start, this blog has suffered from spam. 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