Here’s what I am going to do about the spam whores.
I’m looking them all up – easy enough to do on the search engines, and finding out what casinos they are promoting.
Then, if I have any of these casinos on any of my sites, they’re coming down.
If enough of us followed suit, maybe the casinos will take notice, and start closing the accounts of these ethic-challenged webmasters.
REalizing that these spammers make a lot of money for the casinos, these kinds of measures won’t work unless we can band our crazy asses together.
A quick look on the SE’s shows me that these are the casinos/casino groups being promoted on the rogue sites:
Casino on Net (888) (tradal)
Empire Poker
Casino Partners Casinos (Tropez et al)
IOG Casinos (King Casino, Swiss Casino, etal)
What Hypnotik says is absolutely right. These sites make the whole industry look like scum.
It’s laughable that the industry takes such a hard stance on emails (spam), yet the practice of throwing up sites with redirects and/or dirty seo practices are overlooked – or even encouraged.
Any casino group that shows such blatant disregard to the image of the industry as a whole in favour of quick profit, does not earn a place on my websites. 20/20 blindsight. Let’s look to the future – the long term future, folks. A future where, hopefully, online casinos and online gambling is as accepted and respected as land-based casinos in Nevada are.
Not only that, but by paying these rogue affiliates, these casino groups are shitting over the hard working, honest webmasters. The power to reform the serps lay in the hands of the affiliate groups. All they have to do to discourage it is to close the accounts of offenders. Why the hell do they not step up to the plate to protect the reputation of the industry they are in?
Now, on a side note, if good quality sites came up on the serps because of blog spam – who would care, if the site offers content and quality, and essentially deserved a good position on that basis, I wouldn’t complain at all.
But that isn’t the sort of site doing it, this is why it is upsetting to most of us.