Everyone wants links from other websites.  It is a good way to build traffic, generate higher search engine rankings and attract more customers.  

There is a good way to do that: make interesting content and tell people about it.

There are many bad ways to do that: comment spamming, buying links, lying, etc.

One of my favorite sites Under30CEO – Jared, can I still read it when I turn 30 on Wednesday?? – recently posted a useful article by my coworker Stella.

Check out this comment to that article – “I really like this article because it is a big help for me and you will know so many ideas. I love the content and every word that you read you can easily understand it. Hope to see more article coming from this author” from “Credit Card Processor” with a link to a First Data website – http://www.fdiseagle.com/.

Seriously???  This is a $$$multi-billion corporation doing spam comments in a blog and lousy / obvious spam comments to boot.  The resulting link has a nofollow anyway, so it’s hard to see what they are accomplishing.

First Data gets the Online Marketing Dunce award this week.

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