Lucky for me, a loyal commenter on my blogs put me on the path to mt-blacklist. It is a plug-in for the Movable Type blogging software that helps you scan and remove the unwanted posts.

I had to re-run it a few times to get it to remove all of the entries, but in the end it did get over 3,100 of them.

But this whole scenario concerns me. As a legitimate SEO company, how do we respond to this? These types of SEO tactics are not considered legitimate, yet these sites will ultimately receive high link popularity because they are linked to from thousands of sites. Sure not too many will be relevant, but the sheer volume of links back will be worth something to them.

Just imagine how many other sites are unknowingly providing these spam links to these sites?

It concerns me that some sites and SEO companies have to stoop to such tactics to artificially inflate rankings and worth on the engines, when there are so many legitimate tactics out there.

Ultimately I would like everyone with a blog to realize this, and remove these spam posts. But like most other things on the web, most people will be unaware. Of course, like most spam tactics this isn't new, just new to me. I have found other blogs who reported this as long as a year ago.

It is a good thing there are tools out there like mt-blacklist to help make this process relatively painless. I don't know how long it would have taken me to remove almost 3200 entries manually.

Rob Sullivan
Production Manager
Enquiro.com

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