Comments on: Search Engine Land Spamming?

By: Rin

Rin — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:50:23 +0000

I agree James. The SEO staff has the smell of blood now, they won’t back down from the false charge that this is spam. Stop the disinformation: This is not SPAM. This is part of a designers commitment to creating blind-accessible websites.

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Is this ethical? - Page 2 - WebProWorld — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:16:39 +0000

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By: Dario

Dario — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 11:38:47 +0000

I don’t think Google will penalize a PR 7 site for this teeny tiny set back. Oh, well… time will tell!

By: James

James — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 00:25:49 +0000

Yes, as the comments are trying to point out, but “SEO people” seem to be ignoring, is the fact that this is NOT spam. This is a completey acceptable web development technique. Please acknowledge this.

http://alistapart.com/articles/fir/

By: SEO Refugee Blog

SEO Refugee Blog — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 23:12:08 +0000

See that’s why I make sure everyone knows that I’m not a coder. If something like this happens on my site, I can honestly claim ignorance

By: Andy Beal

Andy Beal — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 00:27:38 +0000

LOL@Jordan – I see you updated the “via”. Don’t mind Barry, he’s harmless as long as you link to him.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 23:38:38 +0000

Poor guys, they even edited their CSS file to read:

//honest, we didn’t mean to spam. need the explanation?
//see http://www.webproworld.com/search-engine-optimization-forum/60110-ethi cal.html#post322526

And I’m assuming they removed their H1 text, because it now contains a nobreak space. This is even worse! Put your company name back in there, you’ve done no wrong.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:29:22 +0000

As long as they’re not using it maliciously, it’s a common image replacement technique and is actually helping the web become a better place.

By: LSF

LSF — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:22:55 +0000

This is a standard image replacement technique used extensively across the web. If the image reads what the header text says it’s difficult to see how it can be described as spamming. Some people ought to grow up.

By: huphtur

huphtur — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:22:10 +0000

That’s called the Fahrner Image Replacement technique, absolutely NOTHING to do with spam. More info about that can be found on ala: http://alistapart.com/articles/fir/

By: Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:27:56 +0000

okay

via via

By: Jordan McCollum

Jordan McCollum — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:22:52 +0000

I thought so, too. Good call hiring Tamar

By: Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 20:51:16 +0000

Nice find Jordan.

By: Andy Beal

Andy Beal — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:44:41 +0000

Any bets that some blogger is at this minute, checking the code of every popular SEO blog, looking for a “Top 10 SEO blogs that are spamming” linkbait post.

I need to go check our code.