| Clarendon : Business Start Up 13th September 2012 3:53 PM |
“It's quite interesting running Biz Directories, because we are a good hunting ground for the lazy SEO'ers. We've had to roll out automated block lists because of the volume of rubbish.
But recently, we've actually started contacting a few businesses on our site, where they are obviously all above board, but then get hammered with 10 or 15 positive reviews in pigeon English, blatant and obvious self promo or someone tries to relist the same business umpteen times with different keyword combinations.
9 times out of 10, it's a mickey mouse SEO company that's done it, and when you speak to the actual business owner, they are genuinely mortified, angry and embarrassed as they are paying out a lot of money in good faith to these SEO muppets.
Trouble is, this rubbish is replicated across hordes of directories with countless duplicate cheesy reviews, which Mr G is now going to start penalising
So the poor innocent biz owner is out of pocket, and then gets whacked by Google 
Lazy SEO at its worse and the sooner it dies out, the better for everyone.”
But recently, we've actually started contacting a few businesses on our site, where they are obviously all above board, but then get hammered with 10 or 15 positive reviews in pigeon English, blatant and obvious self promo or someone tries to relist the same business umpteen times with different keyword combinations.
9 times out of 10, it's a mickey mouse SEO company that's done it, and when you speak to the actual business owner, they are genuinely mortified, angry and embarrassed as they are paying out a lot of money in good faith to these SEO muppets.
Trouble is, this rubbish is replicated across hordes of directories with countless duplicate cheesy reviews, which Mr G is now going to start penalising
So the poor innocent biz owner is out of pocket, and then gets whacked by Google Lazy SEO at its worse and the sooner it dies out, the better for everyone.”
That's awful. I'm a member of quite a few business forums and some of the blatant anchor text stuffing is horrendous.
It's a real shame that genuine businesses are being conned by these cowboys. Luckily Google has really wised up.
Clarendon
