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Blog Readability Test Or Link Building Scheme?
Link Building News Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk
Published: Jan 26, 2008 - 08:39 pm
Story Found By: dannysullivan 1581 Days ago
Category: Link Building
Skip the confusion that it was ALT text driving up traffic. Interesting look at how an apparently popular blog readability testing site handed out graphics with code that put links driving anchor text to a payday loans place. Not a new tactic, though I’m surprised people didn’t see these links and scratch their heads.
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from pittfall 1580 Days ago #
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Well Danny,It’s quite the ironic thing, rather than testing the "readability" of the site in question, it tested the "readability" of the person grabbing the code to pop on their website!"Can I get a badge for that?" LOL

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from mikelowery 1579 Days ago #
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covered over  week ago here:http://www.shoemoney.com/2008/01/17/i-liked-your-widget-until-i-saw-your-spammy-links/matt cutts and adam lansik both commented on his post.

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from SophieUK 1578 Days ago #
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I pointed this out in a comment on SEJ back in November last year: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-loves-transparent-links-hit-counter-spam/5615/

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