But I have an objection to my bandwidth and blog being used as an advertising forum. I link back with no follow links to those who comment regularly. Every time I set up a site for someone, I use the same plugins I do on my own site to share that link love.

Starting with Lucias Linky Love that allows me to set an arbitrary amount of comments before they become followed links. But here is the thing, I guard my link love very jealously. I will not link to bad sites, I will not link to sales pages and most of all I will not link to splogs.

In fact I think the worst is splogs, They are even worse than those stupid russian pornographers that don’t get beyond aksimet. They seem to think that if they post there links to wankme.ru on every post I will eventually allow them. Well here’s the thing Aksimet puts you straight in the bin.

Sploggers however not only steal your content, they get you to link back to them via your pingback. It behooves you to check who is giving you pingbacks. Check out their blog or site and make sure that you are not assisting an Ed Dale 30 day challenge graduate to rank better than you for your own work.

Telling the difference between a splog and a blog is fairly simple. A splog will have your content, a link back and no added conversation. A blogger may have quoted some of your info in order to prove a point in their own argument.

Rest assured that any comment that has a link on it, will be visited by me before I will allow you a link. Once I know you, I am less strict about some things. But becoming a regular contributor on this blog does get you the link love you desire.

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Here is Ed Dale’s response

“Hi Guy,

What I teach is not spam – I teach and expect people to deliver champagne content – If you don’t – a pox on your house

I also teach people to be vibrant, active participants in their community.

Painting and entire community as “inconsiderate, illiterate, uncouth cockroaches these underhanded, slimy, bottom feeders” I would suggest is a tad unfair.

Thanks for allowing me to respond

Ed”

I have a few questions for Ed Dale though about the 30 Day Challenge.  As a person who learned a lot from Ed Dale, I have a problem with a few of the things he teaches. I actually like much of the stuff he teaches and use it regularly. There are a few things though that I consider to be below the belt.

On Day 23 of the 30 day challenge Ed Dale introduces you to the Content theft software from Word Press Direct as loved by sploggers all over the world. You may have to register to access this. But Ed gives you access to the software that allows you to rip off content from other websites and blogs.  My question to Ed is you stated in your response that you teach people to “deliver Champagne content”  Does this champagne content include content stolen from others hard work?

You say you teach people to become “vibrant, active participants in their community” but you suggest that they use keywords as a nome de Plume.  Is this not just a smidge spammy? Surely you are better recognised as a “vibrant, active participants in their community” using a real name?

You next state that painting an entire community as “inconsiderate, illiterate, uncouth cockroaches these underhanded, slimy, bottom feeders” as a tad unfair.  I ask if you would be happy having your work published verbatim on various content thieving inconsiderate, illiterate, uncouth cockroaches  websites. Now please note I never painted the entire industry just those that are too damned lazy to create their own content.  Do you still think I am a tad unfair or are those that I referred to as inconsiderate, illiterate, uncouth cockroaches and underhanded, slimy, bottom feeders a tad unfair?

You sir are teaching them these techniques along with all the good stuff that you do teach. Maybe a change to your syllabus may be in order. Let the bottom feeding scum find these black hat techniques on their own. That way I will not get as many pingbacks from sploggers with no mercy, no integrity or manners.

I won’t get stupid remarks from brain dead individuals that can obviously not read like the following. I would hope that someone that has a PR4 blog would be neither a spammer or a splogger.

“I would have loved to have backlinked your article to my pr 4 blog but it appears you would consider that spam. Shame that.”

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