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.