Search Engine Bait, a.k.a. Crap Content!

A few days ago I was browsing through the 'Most Popular' articles on My Scoop, a blog aggregating service.

I spotted an article  about  search Evaluating a Search Engine optimisation Specialist, and being in the field decided to check it out.

Landing on the article, and reading ( well, trying to anyway),my reaction was something like: WTF!

My question: How the hell can any reasonable English speaking person allow crap like that on their website? I won't publish the name of the article here, but it is available if you ask me for it.

The article was written in extremely poor english, either by a person with a very poor grasp of the language, or it was thrown into a third world article spinner, and the 17th regurgitated version was eventually used.

No, it was actually an article that came from an article directory, copied and pasted.

Any SEO specialist, especially someone who is TRYING to convince you of their credentials MUST know about the duplicate content penalties. It is my opinion that this absolute sh1t was plastered onto the website merely to attract visitors, and once the visitors had arrived, to so disgust them, that they leave the site via a Google ad.

Way to go dude! You don't have friends to click your ads, so you use other shady techniques to create traffic and an income.

This is the first time I have been back to My Scoop since seeing the article in question on the 28th June.

From this, I feel that perhaps My Scoop should introduce a flagging system, to eliminate this sort of crap. To build a reputation is tough. To lose it is easy. Keep the crap out, and My Scoop will be better for it.

The second thing I take away from this episode is that I won't be bookmarking the marketing articles website, but io will remember the name.