Should I Help This SEO Spammer or Should He Suffer?

As the owner of a popular internet marketing blog (this one) that gets around a half million unique visitors / month, I’m used to getting all sorts of spam.

Every week I get dozens of requests to purchase links on my site (which I ignore), and every month, and we delete hundreds, possibly thousands of spammy blog comments and link drops.

But more recently I’ve been getting a different tune of spammy emails from SEO spammers, like this one asking for help with link removal:

Oh how the worm has turned…

I’m guessing their back-link profile is full of anchor-text-rich, no-followed blog comments and that Mr. Penguin doesn’t like that too much.

Seriously, what to do here – should I help out this SEO spammer or should he suffer?

Reasons to Help This SEO Spammer

• We’ve all dropped a link with anchor text at some point in our lives. Heck I admit I’m guilty of having done this in the past, too.


• He’s appears to be trying to clean up his act.


• Better to take the high road and just help people out who need help.

Reason to Ignore this SEO Spammer

• SEO spammers are the scum of the earth. They’ve given the entire SEO industry a bad name. Better if they just go bankrupt sooner rather than later for the sake of the rest of the industry.


• The guy doesn’t even apologize for spamming my blog. Says he’s working to clean up “links that have been created on your website.” Hello! They’re links that you created!


• The guy is clueless, still blog spamming even up to a few months ago?! (Hello, Penguin?)


• I’ve wasted several days of my life just deleting and cleaning up comment spam in my blog comments. Why waste even more time now dealing with dozens of link removal requests.

So SEO community, what would you do in my situation? Blog owners, what are you doing when you get these link spam removal requests? I welcome your opinion in the comments! Spammy link drops will not be tolerated

This post originated on the WordStream Blog. WordStream provides keyword tools for pay-per click (PPC) and search engine optimization (SEO) aiding in everything from keyword discovery to keyword grouping and organization.

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Is This a Google Hummingbird Search Result?

(Obviously ALL Google search results are Hummingbird-impacted, but this one really caught my eye today as being odd. Maybe you agree?)

A couple times a year, I need to share a link with someone to an old article that I wrote here on SBSM:

Dear Small Business Owners: Put Down Your Ranking Reports

The easiest way for me to get that URL is to do a Google search for “put down ranking reports.”

In the past, that query has produced results that are pretty much exclusively SEO-related. I did that search this morning, and got this:

As you can see, it’s an odd mix of football “rankings” that are being broken “down,” a couple journalism-related pages (i.e., US News college “rankings report”) and credit card “rankings” from Consumer “Reports” magazine. Oh, and my article is right there in middle.

That’s one of the strangest Google search results I’ve seen in a while — a total mishmash of mostly unrelated pages that use my query keywords in very different ways.

Take a look at where my four words show up in the top result (a Google News match):

Here’s the credit card page from Consumer Reports:

And this one might be the strangest match of all:

I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t spend as much time analyzing Google SERPs now as I did when I was more active in doing hands-on SEO consulting, so I have to ask:

Are these search results weird to anyone but me?

This is a post from Matt McGee’s blog, Small Business Search Marketing.

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Is This a Google Hummingbird Search Result?

(Obviously ALL Google search results are Hummingbird-impacted, but this one really caught my eye today as being odd. Maybe you agree?)

A couple times a year, I need to share a link with someone to an old article that I wrote here on SBSM:

Dear Small Business Owners: Put Down Your Ranking Reports

The easiest way for me to get that URL is to do a Google search for “put down ranking reports.”

In the past, that query has produced results that are pretty much exclusively SEO-related. I did that search this morning, and got this:

As you can see, it’s an odd mix of football “rankings” that are being broken “down,” a couple journalism-related pages (i.e., US News college “rankings report”) and credit card “rankings” from Consumer “Reports” magazine. Oh, and my article is right there in middle.

That’s one of the strangest Google search results I’ve seen in a while — a total mishmash of mostly unrelated pages that use my query keywords in very different ways.

Take a look at where my four words show up in the top result (a Google News match):

Here’s the credit card page from Consumer Reports:

And this one might be the strangest match of all:

I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t spend as much time analyzing Google SERPs now as I did when I was more active in doing hands-on SEO consulting, so I have to ask:

Are these search results weird to anyone but me?

This is a post from Matt McGee’s blog, Small Business Search Marketing.

Is This a Google Hummingbird Search Result?

Small Business Search Marketing

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Should I Help This SEO Spammer or Should He Suffer?

As the owner of a popular internet marketing blog (this one) that gets around a half million unique visitors / month, I’m used to getting all sorts of spam.

Every week I get dozens of requests to purchase links on my site (which I ignore), and every month, and we delete hundreds, possibly thousands of spammy blog comments and link drops.

But more recently I’ve been getting a different tune of spammy emails from SEO spammers, like this one asking for help with link removal:

Oh how the worm has turned…

I’m guessing their back-link profile is full of anchor-text-rich, no-followed blog comments and that Mr. Penguin doesn’t like that too much.

Seriously, what to do here – should I help out this SEO spammer or should he suffer?

Reasons to Help This SEO Spammer

• We’ve all dropped a link with anchor text at some point in our lives. Heck I admit I’m guilty of having done this in the past, too.


• He’s appears to be trying to clean up his act.


• Better to take the high road and just help people out who need help.

Reason to Ignore this SEO Spammer

• SEO spammers are the scum of the earth. They’ve given the entire SEO industry a bad name. Better if they just go bankrupt sooner rather than later for the sake of the rest of the industry.


• The guy doesn’t even apologize for spamming my blog. Says he’s working to clean up “links that have been created on your website.” Hello! They’re links that you created!


• The guy is clueless, still blog spamming even up to a few months ago?! (Hello, Penguin?)


• I’ve wasted several days of my life just deleting and cleaning up comment spam in my blog comments. Why waste even more time now dealing with dozens of link removal requests.

So SEO community, what would you do in my situation? Blog owners, what are you doing when you get these link spam removal requests? I welcome your opinion in the comments! Spammy link drops will not be tolerated

This post originated on the WordStream Blog. WordStream provides keyword tools for pay-per click (PPC) and search engine optimization (SEO) aiding in everything from keyword discovery to keyword grouping and organization.

Internet Marketing Blog by WordStream

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Is This a Google Hummingbird Search Result?

(Obviously ALL Google search results are Hummingbird-impacted, but this one really caught my eye today as being odd. Maybe you agree?)

A couple times a year, I need to share a link with someone to an old article that I wrote here on SBSM:

Dear Small Business Owners: Put Down Your Ranking Reports

The easiest way for me to get that URL is to do a Google search for “put down ranking reports.”

In the past, that query has produced results that are pretty much exclusively SEO-related. I did that search this morning, and got this:

As you can see, it’s an odd mix of football “rankings” that are being broken “down,” a couple journalism-related pages (i.e., US News college “rankings report”) and credit card “rankings” from Consumer “Reports” magazine. Oh, and my article is right there in middle.

That’s one of the strangest Google search results I’ve seen in a while — a total mishmash of mostly unrelated pages that use my query keywords in very different ways.

Take a look at where my four words show up in the top result (a Google News match):

Here’s the credit card page from Consumer Reports:

And this one might be the strangest match of all:

I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t spend as much time analyzing Google SERPs now as I did when I was more active in doing hands-on SEO consulting, so I have to ask:

Are these search results weird to anyone but me?

This is a post from Matt McGee’s blog, Small Business Search Marketing.

Is This a Google Hummingbird Search Result?

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