Comments on: Gordon Sands Threatens Seattle Bubble with Google Disavow in Misguided Attempt to Clean Up BankruptcyAction.com Comment Spam

By: Cally

Cally — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 09:55:23 +0000

I had not heard of this problem until I got a similar email from a different company this morning. I googled some key phrases and this blog post came high up the list, so your correspondent should be happy with all the free publicity he is getting! In my case, I had one link to the company on my site – a genuine one, in which I recommended their product. I had sprained my ankle and bought one of their walking sticks: that’s it. But as I am not in the walking stick niche, my recommendation is irrelevant, nay damaging, to their business. What???? I am not bothered about the disavowal threat, but they have made me more than happy to withdraw my recommendation. I have, instead, linked to this post, so I hope that doesn’t upset you.

By: Brennan

Brennan — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 22:03:14 +0000

Good call @hank but it is very unlikely to get them to pay $100, I tell them $10 per link and it seems to get paid every time.

I also don’t think this guy understands the disovow, the point is to tell Google not factor a link from a site, not to penalise the website it is coming from.

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 21:29:20 +0000

In reply to deejayoh.

No problem, I will do it for you.

Gordon, check out the link below. This link says the homestead exemption is $125k only if you purchased in the last 1215 days. If not, it’s only $40k.

http://www.bankruptcyaction.com/waexemptions.htm

:-)

By: Perry Bernard

Perry Bernard — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 18:46:07 +0000

In reply to HankP. Nice! Good call :-)

By: HankP

HankP — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 06:01:02 +0000

I run a web site, and while I try to get all the comment spam some has gotten through over the years. Whenever I get a request to remove it I tell the company that since they paid to have them placed it’s only fair to pay me to remove them. $100 per link, payable in advance.

By: Fox

Fox — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 05:13:50 +0000

Are we just going to ignore the fact that he uses the phrase “sensitive woman” as though it were an insult?

By: The Tim

The Tim — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 05:11:31 +0000

In reply to davnel. Exactly.

By: davnel

davnel — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 05:09:59 +0000

I don’t understand something. I read the “offending” comment, in the context of the article and comments, and I don’t see what this Sands idiot is complaining about. The link in the comment is a data reference citation, and makes NO value judgment about the source. What is he whining about?

By: Gordon Sands Link Removal Threats

Gordon Sands Link Removal Threats — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 00:02:37 +0000

[…] and result in both a PR disaster but the link is not removed in the first place. This time it was Gordon Sands from Bankruptcyaction.com that managed to piss off blogger The Tim when he sent him the somewhat […]

By: PHB

PHB — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 23:19:50 +0000

I earn $80 an hour working from home! So glad that I will never need to call on the services of BankruptcyAction.com.

By: Justin Alan Ryan

Justin Alan Ryan — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 22:23:26 +0000

I'm really surprised that a principal of BankruptcyAction.com would behave this way, as I have found them to be quite professional in our other dealings!

By: deejayoh

deejayoh — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 20:57:01 +0000

The funniest thing about this is that I was the one who posted the link, and it IS relevant to his business

Who’s the crummy businessman?

By: deejayoh

deejayoh — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 20:54:56 +0000

In reply to Dan.

Reminds me of a Monty Python skit…

Right! If that’s the way you want it — Cardinal! Poke her with the soft cushions!

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 20:28:35 +0000

Ummm is it just me, or does it seem like he completely misunderstands how disavow works? He seems to be under the impression that if he disavows your site, it will magically disappear from all google search results. I believe that what actually happens, is when google calculates page results for say, “idiots who practice bankrupty law” and say some site like “bankruptcyaction.com” was calculated with 200 links from other sites, google would go, “Oh wait, this one for SeattleBubble.com is disavowed, I guess it only has 199 links instead.” That’s hardly going to destroy SeattleBubble’s business…

By: Les

Les — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 20:11:22 +0000

I love how comment spammers are suddenly worried about the spam they’ve left all over the place now that Google is punishing them for it. I’ve not received anything similar myself, yet, but I have in the past long before Google implemented this policy. I was so ticked off about it that I wrote a big entry calling the spammer out for it on my blog.

By: Paul Davis

Paul Davis — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 19:38:12 +0000

I stopped updating it a while ago (I just delete the user and all their posts as soon as spam appears), but it was fun for a while: The Ardour SEO Hall of Shame A few folks did write and ask me to remove them, but they really didn't seem to understand the Scam That Is SEO, so I took pity.

By: Dan Van Riper

Dan Van Riper — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 18:16:29 +0000

This gives me the idea of moving all the spam in the comments on my site to a special page instead of deleting it. Sooner or later somebody will come around and try to get me to delete their links off that page, and they may even threaten me. I’ll just give them the raspberries and laugh, like you folks are doing. BTW, I like how the spammer got all upset at the end. Very funny.

By: deejayoh

deejayoh — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 22:04:57 +0000

I am sooooooo tempted to leave a link here Tim…