SPAM (Photo credit: AJC1)
Thank you for reaching out to me. I understand some company you contracted to do advertising engaged in some unethical behavior. They had the audacity to spam hundreds of thousands of blogs with spam comments containing links to your fine website. Upon learning about this, I’m sure you were completely mortified. And even more embarrassing, now that Google is penalizing those types of linkages, you’re at a loss for how to redeem your good name.
It must be awfully difficult to have to reach out to all those blogs that you unknowingly spammed over the last few years and to ask them to remove the comments that company left, in an effort to regain some of the page ranking you’ve lost to such nefarious tactics (that you were completely ignorant of, of course). And I do understand how much you’d appreciate me removing those links, because after all… those connections are also hurting MY Google ranking as well. So let me clue you in to a little secret….
I DON’T CARE.
I really don’t think many people arrive at my blog via Google. And if it hurts my ranking, so what? I can live with that. If keeping your spam on my site hurts your site’s reputation and ranking, then I couldn’t be happier to keep them active on blog posts of mine from 2009. No, I don’t really like them either, to be honest, but it does make me giggle a bit that the very unethical behavior that you’ve engaged in over the last several years is now biting you right on the rear end.
If you really want them gone, you can send me $25 per link removal, directly to Paypal. Please put “I’m a SPAMmer, a slimeball and I make the world worse for other people” in the memo field so I know what this is in reference to.
Your friend,
Steve
