I’ve been receiving comment
spam on this blog from dubious far flung companies. My apologies if you’ve had to read any. What’s been
bamboozling about the comment spam, something
I haven’t seen before, is it’s specific references
to the post. From what I read online spam
comment posters, real people from “far flung” are employed to send out the comment spam.
Nice phrase “ far flung.” I was feeling slightly far flung tonight when taking part as panellist in a debate “what
value literature” alongside three distinguished panellists: Arts Council Director of Literature
Srategy Antonia
Byatt , Chairman and chief Executive
of Penguin Group John Makinson, Poet In The City Chief executive Graham Henderson and chaired
by the Director for English PEN Jonathan Heawood .
The event took place in front of a packed audience in The Freeword Centre at 60 Farringdon
road. It’s a compliment to Freeword
that the audience was at least as
interesting and qualified as the panel
proffering stimulating comments
and questions throughout.
Encouraging news from Makinson announced tonight . Penguin is re-establishing the
African writers series once made famous by Heinemann. It’s an exciting development for African
writing and will be used to publish
African writers in Africa. The series also republishes much of the previous Heinemann list but the new writing will be edited by Chinua Achebe. Please correct me if I have misintepreted.
We debated value in literature and enjoyed the audiences participation arriving at the inevitable discussion about The
internet. This developed into a
discussion about the entirely new way of accessing audience, of quality
control. In fact each department of publishing – the writer,
the product, the copyright, the market – is brought into question by the internet
age. This place – the freeword centre – amazing.
I got to your page with the intention of, as you call it, spamming it. We, in this filed of work, SEO (Search Engine Optimization), call it link building. The company I work for is far from dubious, it's well known and respected by the SEO community for it's standards. There are many forms of link building, some quite condemnable such as bulk spam. We try to build links only on pages that have discussions for witch our links could be of help. We always make comments in direct relation to the article and never lace more than one link. I try to make documented posts by reading other articles and discussions.
Don't think that all we do is bad for you and we are just trying to rip you off. In order for your page to rank well for Google searches, you need to update your content. Article related comments are the best way to do just that. They create new content for free. Other sites have to pay people to write new articles and comments to be able to update when needed. Also, I use a tool that allows me to see the word density of your page. The ones found the most on a page are the ones for with you are most relevant to Google searches. I try to implement those words in my comment thus making your page even more relevant.
This is the way me and my colleagues build links for clients that don't want to make a bad name for themselves by having their site listed on a bulk spam message. Not all we do is bad and we don't want to offend anyone.
Respectfully, Jonah Clint – Drupal web content management developer.