by Matt
SEO Contests
If the title doesn’t make any sense to you, feel free to skip this post.
A few times a year someone decides to hold a search engine optimization contest to see who can get top rankings for various search terms on Google. As the number #1 hit for “Matt” on Google, I can totally understand the fun of this sort of endeavour.
However many times the contestants in these contests use less than kosher means of winning, such as spamming or creating dozens or hundreds of blogs all linking to the same website. (Sometimes called splogs, or spam blogs.) These blogs use up quite a few system resources, junk up the tags system, and can slow the site down for normal folks.
There are many blogs being created here by people wanting to use our blogs to try to win this contest. But WordPress.com is about blogging. It’s about communication, thoughts, news, and many other things in life. It is not about SEO.
These blogs are not welcome and will be removed when found.
September 1st, 2006 at 7:37 pm
If a user find a spam blog, can they be reported?
September 1st, 2006 at 8:02 pm
Absolutely!
You can:
Use the feedback form
Use the contact form
Use the report form
And we’ll take a look at it immediately. When you’re logged in there is a “report spam” under “blog info” on your blue admin bar.
September 1st, 2006 at 8:39 pm
Two words: Unetichal SEO
And as I see it; they should be disqualified from the contest when using splogs and comments.
September 1st, 2006 at 8:57 pm
Thank you for kicking those manipulative little jerks out of the pool.
September 1st, 2006 at 9:21 pm
Matt, I’d like to exchange links with you PhotoMatt - please link to me using the words carcasher…oh wait, think I misread the post.
Seriously though, good for you for voicing up and trying to keep this a “community” and not a thrifty nickel ads type site.
September 1st, 2006 at 9:58 pm
I’ll say a hearty “yes” to keeping the click harlots at bay.
September 1st, 2006 at 10:09 pm
thanks for keeping WP clean
September 1st, 2006 at 10:48 pm
word.
September 1st, 2006 at 11:07 pm
Here’s an seo joke
http://blaugh.com/2006/08/25/all-seos-sems-are-spammers/
September 2nd, 2006 at 12:11 am
Kudos to you, Matt. These SEO contests have gone totally out of hand are nothing more than noise in the discussion…
September 2nd, 2006 at 12:43 am
Another great reason to have a blog here. Things are monitored, reported, and removed as necessary. Good job!
September 2nd, 2006 at 3:53 am
What up Matt? I hate splogs!
September 2nd, 2006 at 4:04 am
Very good idea!
September 2nd, 2006 at 4:45 am
I used to want visitors on my old blog site (on blogspot) and none would come (though I did nothing of the sort) Now I don’t ask for them but they come to my blog!
I’ve seen some spam blogs in WP and will be reporting them. Thanks for the report as spam button. Kudos! Try to do something about the dead blogs too. I’ve see some that haven’t been updated since February and these are the type of blogs that come first under the WP Next option.
September 2nd, 2006 at 6:04 am
Hopefully the idea o getting us involved in this will work. It should be more about writing interesting posts or things that interest people more than spamming.
September 2nd, 2006 at 7:09 am
Thank you!
September 2nd, 2006 at 8:55 am
hi Thank you!
September 2nd, 2006 at 1:21 pm
just a test for my new avatar
September 2nd, 2006 at 4:16 pm
Great boys, keep WP clean…
I hate splogs, or spam blogs that have not anything to say!
Thanks.
September 2nd, 2006 at 4:26 pm
amen. thanks.
time to put that ‘next blog‘ button to use!
September 3rd, 2006 at 4:11 am
thanks for that!
September 3rd, 2006 at 9:00 am
I agree with the initiative !
September 3rd, 2006 at 3:46 pm
I almost thought you were holding a contest to see if someone could knock you off being the number 1 matt for a second. Ha!
Good to see you are on top of it though. Don’t want idiots wasting resources that us good intentioned folk could be using.
September 3rd, 2006 at 8:22 pm
If I were actually looking for an SEO company, then I’d search Google for “SEO”.
I figure that the only GOOD ones are the ones who can optimise for THAT term. Anything else is snake oil.
September 4th, 2006 at 8:37 am
Thank you! Keep the spam away!
September 4th, 2006 at 6:03 pm
Way to go! Kill the splogs!
September 5th, 2006 at 2:51 am
Google and Yahoo CAN identify Splogs and penalize them by putting them low in the search results.
September 5th, 2006 at 2:37 pm
I hate splogs, I think google, myspace and yahoo are filled with splogs, Thats why I like WordPress.
Kill’em and bury’em
September 5th, 2006 at 8:16 pm
I read a very interesting article in Times Magazine about SEOs. Looks like the trend is fast catching the internet bubble :). More on my blog…
September 6th, 2006 at 12:17 am
Yess, kill em all!!!
September 6th, 2006 at 2:45 pm
Just in case you want even quicker and easier access to the “Next Blog” link, you can copy it from the blue admin bar into your browser’s toolbar. That’s even handier than scrolling up to the top of a blog!
Oh, and thanks to everyone who has reported a spam blog. Clicking the proverbial “Kill Spam Blog” button is so satisfying!
September 10th, 2006 at 4:58 am
yup! splogs are irritating!
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