You are ruining the fun for everyone. If you are doing SEO or SEM for someone, you are wasting your time by posting comments on this site. Here’s why:

• All the links on my comments thread are given the rel="nofollow" attribute. What this means for you is that all these links to your target site will NOT be picked up by Google, Yahoo, or MSN Search.
• I have the Akismet spam filter plugin installed and enabled. What this means for you is that your comment is caught before it even reaches my moderation queue. It also helps make Akismet even better at catching spam. So the more you post, the more you will make it harder for “SEO practitioners” and “Link Builders” to spam blogs with Akismet spam filters enabled.
• If by some slim chance, your post does not get caught by Akismet, it goes into my moderation queue. What this means for you is that now your post will surely get marked as spam and sent to Akismet to further strengthen it. So you lose, again.
• When Google penalizes a site, it will also penalize other sites linked to it as well. I have gone down to PR 2/10 from PR 4/10, no thanks to you idiots. I would love nothing more than to bring you down to the same PR by linking your site to mine. But you will do that to yourself on your own if you keep spamming.

So, before you hit that “Submit Comment” button think twice.

Lastly, to those who pay people to do SEO, SEM, or “Link Building”, here’s my advice: Don’t. You have nothing to gain from these people. “Building quality links” or “quality traffic” requires quality content. These people will only flood your site with useless hits.

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