I grew up eating Spam. Hey, I was lucky enough to grow up in Hawaii and in Hawaii, well we ate Spam. Thinking back to those days, I loved Spam and I ate it with rice often.
But, this isn’t a post about Spam the meat, or whatever it is. This is a post about web spam, internet spam, email spam, etc. SPAM on the “interwebs.” This is a bit of a rant.
My wife was in our office looking to the web for a remedy to a common ailment. She brought up the big G search engine and typed in her query. Of course, an endless number of pages came up with the remedy. She quickly read through the first page and opened up a couple of the more appealing sites.
She began reading some of the answers posted by ‘helpful and concerned’ folks. After hearing a few of these remedies, I had to lean over and read her screen with her. We went through a few pages and I had to stop reading.
I was taken back by the amount of obvious SPAM posted on medical remedy sites. There was just a bunch of fluff and junk on some sites. For what, to get a backlink? I soon became frustrated, for my wife too, all she wanted was a simple remedy. I know that spaming goes on everyday, heck my inbox is filled with spam email, well the spam box is anyway. I simply lost sight of how prevelant spamming everything on the web has become.
Do these spammers not appreciate and value the property of other folks? It’s e-property, but it’s property nonetheless and I’m certain the site owners take pride and value in their property. When I add a comment to a blog post or add my 2-bits to someones site, I choose to add value or create banter about the topic and hopefully learn something. Not to fluff the site for the sake of getting a backlink.
With the recent changes in the “Google Algorithm”, hopefully the spamming for backlinks will decline, at the very least subside to a point where we can get information without wading through the rubbish. So, a simple request, don’t SPAM. Instead, add value and encourage the conversation.
Thanks for listening to my rant.
In the end, we found a remedy, it worked and everyone felt better.
Aloha, and welcome to my blog. For some of you, welcome back to my blog. A while back I made the silly mistake of not securing my WordPress installation and I was hacked. Yeah, getting hacked really sucked, but hey, lesson learned.
xperience there has taught me how to be successful and how to get things done, two vitally important characteristics of Internet Entrepreneurship.