Thanks for the comment. Why do you consider it spam? Can you elaborate? I'm not selling anything. It's a case study with examples, and a step by step guide, on how to rank higher in Google in far less time, and for free, by doing doing a different method content marketing.
Could you expand on the content performing well? If it is useful and informative and accurate, I wouldn’t consider it spam. Someone who gets targeted ads for a brand in their email and finds those ads useful for sales probably doesn’t consider the email spam. Similar line of logic here for me.
What is the point of this? I thought the point of spamming was to insert links to your website or promote some product. This just looks like random compliments.
Well, the page contains nothing but a tool to import data from a competitor in order to get users of the competitor to sign up for your service. That meets my definition of spam to a certain extend.
For me the key property that defines spam is that it is unsolicited. I'm the one going to Google to receive a dose of that "scraped content with ads", they don't come and bug me with it.
For the same reason, all the content this guy is ranting against is not spam either. I'm free to ignore all those eHow pages (actually some of them are not that bad) and referral sites and quirky apps that people write.
It only turns into spam when so much dark SEO has been applied to it that it turns up in search-engine results for which it should have been irrelevant.
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