Comments on: Scott D Smith – Spammy Spam Spammer

By: SEO. Or rather, spamming. » Cloudy, turning to FUD later

SEO. Or rather, spamming. » Cloudy, turning to FUD later — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:04:03 +0000

[…] “live blood microscopy” specialist. And the evidence suggests this is being done by Scott D. Smith, an SEO of the old spamming-is-good school, who has links with Errol Denton, including trying to […]

By: Guy Chapman

Guy Chapman — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:59:04 +0000

Scott D Smith is going round helping malicious quack Errol Denton (http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Errol_Denton) with his online reputation – I hope he’s on danger money, looking at Denton’s latest Twitter sock @FightRacism2.

His idea seemed to be that the best way to help Errol was to register a fake petition site, thepetition.co.uk, to host the defamatory petition that was deleted by iPetitions and Care2. Any competent professional would have said “do not, under any circumstances, even think of doing that”. What kind of fool protects a client’s reputation by helping him dig a bigger hole for himself? Much better advice would have been to amend these claims http://www.asa.org.uk/Rulings/Non-compliant-online-advertisers/Fitalifestyle.aspx and get off the ASA blacklist!

I am led to the conclusion that he is not too bright.

By: 011100110110010

011100110110010 — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 15:14:21 +0000

In reply to Emma. Same shit though really isn't it!? ;)

By: Emma

Emma — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 10:35:57 +0000

In reply to 011100110110010.

AHH I’ve found him! His name is “STEPHEN KARSCH” (Always in ALL CAPS) and it’s not “rape allegations” it’s “jail” that appears when you search his name. Hilarious.

What all those years in prison taught me about comment spam!

By: 011100110110010

011100110110010 — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 08:33:27 +0000

In reply to Dustin Verburg. Nearly deleted this ;)

By: 011100110110010

011100110110010 — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 08:09:38 +0000

In reply to Emma.

Ouch! I’m sure they’re still great at SEO!

‘What Rape Allegations Taught Me About Reputation Management’

By: Dustin Verburg

Dustin Verburg — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 21:29:34 +0000

In reply to 011100110110010.

Yeah, there’s a good chance that the comment is always going to be useless, so it’s much easier to just click the delete button than to even think about what that person is trying to say (or what a translator robot typed for him/her). I realize not everyone speaks perfect English, and a lot of ESL people have some good insights… but if it looks like a Mandarin Spam Android typed it and it links back to something inane… then there you go.

By: Emma

Emma — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 19:34:06 +0000

I have the exact same problem! There’s one spammer (name i totally forget) whose comments are just

NAME NAME NAME NAME NAME

with a link to his linkedIn – I’m guessing it’s reputation management (I did Google the name and the suggestion was something like NAME rape allegations) – hilariously done!

By: 011100110110010

011100110110010 — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 13:33:18 +0000

In reply to Alessio.

Yo Alex 🙂

I’ve considered removing the link before but sometimes the comments are of such little value that I just end up deleting it.

By: Alessio

Alessio — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 13:28:31 +0000

Yeah, having the same problem.
Sometimes, I just approve the comment removing the link, as a signal : hey, I know you are just commenting for the dofollow link (damn, for some people in 2012 that’s still the way of building crap links).

Other times: I can simply not publish the link because it’s clearly a shit site.

Best,

Alex Twin