[WikiEN-l] How to sabotage Wikipedia, for SEO spammers
Puppy (KillerChihuahua)
puppy at KillerChihuahua.com
Thu Nov 27 11:50:24 UTC 2008
Simplest to find that (almost trivially simply) with a db query - I
suggest seeing if there is a developer who doesn't mind running one.
FT2 wrote:
> Out of interest, do any edit summaries actually say "Trim internal links to
> reduce overlinking. You can help, see [[WP:Overlinking]]"? :)
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> FT2
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> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com> wrote:
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>> Durova wrote:
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>>> Has anyone stopped to ask whether this is really worth it to the SEO?
>>> In terms of labor and cost/benefit?
>>>
>> In that world, it's a non-issue. For one thing, neither the
>> SEO's nor the suckers who buy their services are the sharpest
>> knives in the drawer. (If they were sharper, they wouldn't have
>> to be bottom-feeders.)
>>
>> And if an SEO can say, "I guarantee to improve your search engine
>> rankings", and if he can convince suckers to pay him to do so,
>> then it *is* worth it to him, regardless of whether he actually
>> improves his customers' hit rates (or even whether he actually
>> improves their rankings).
>>
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