Comments on: Just saying no to link spam

By: colleen johnson

colleen johnson — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:16:58 +0000

I received a similar offer as well for casino site. Mine is a review site. Watch out guys

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:20:33 +0000

That reply is hilarious. Unfortunately, these requests are getting even more common nowadays. Automated comment spam tools are also extremely annoying. I recommend that anyone getting comment spammed to add some sort of capcha confirmation.

By: kristjanm

kristjanm — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 22:40:45 +0000

I do get a bunch of these requests for my site, at the beginning I would at least reply to them but now I just ignore them.

I’m pretty sure a lot of these e-mails get sent out in an automated fashion so I don’t think it’s worth responding, they might send out a 100 e-mails and only a few of them reply.

By: sheila

sheila — Fri, 27 May 2011 04:43:55 +0000

The ethics of this kind of SEO is one thing, but the ethics behind the management practice of the Linkstar branch in the Philippines is another. Someone I knew worked for this company managed by a British punk who lorded it over underprivileged Asians (whose country went through 300 years of colonial history), and who get paid for just about $300 a month doing their scam. They market their company with such brilliant colors, but what damns them further is the way they decided one day to summarily terminate several batches of employees under the guise of a change in management. Whether it was Australians who took over, or some other British imperialist, we cannot say. But a labor case was mounted against them late 2009 or early 2010. Last time I heard, a local they use as a puppet company president has relocated his office, and begun a newer company. It is unknown whether this is a spin-off of the old company, but I got a job invitation for link writing, which made me think another chapter just turned. Foreign outsourcing is a double-edged sword for poor countries with fiendish governments: they perpetuate social and economic injustices by replicating local job conditions and pay, but adds a dark shade of racism and corporate imperialism that gets flamed elsewhere. Hell, in the Philippines, some foreign companies even forbid you to speak the native language, even in the pantry.

By: Reader

Reader — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:31:03 +0000

First of all, the EMAIL is NOT spam.

(And I HATE spam.) Yes, it’s a solicitation, but not spam. Do you honestly expect someone to write a PERSONALLY WORDED email to a large contact list?? Get real. This is standard business practice: the same thing YOU would do if trying to generate business.

It’s a personal, one-on-one communication, like it or not.

Having said that, the company may be real or dubious. But reality-check.

By: Bilal Ahmad

Bilal Ahmad — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:42:43 +0000

I also got a email offering me $400 for life time for 5 dofollow links. I am still confused, because he agreed on all of my terms. The links are relevant, payment will be made in advance etc..
But my heart is still not agreeing, i don’t know why.
Do you think this is spam OR not good for my blog?

By: Blogger

Blogger — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:32:52 +0000

I was actually dealing with one from Linkstar named “Joan”.

She requested to put a link in one of my blogpost.

They provided a paragraph with a link of their client in it. They promised to pay me, but in about one week, the payment was not sent. But I already removed the link. She replied that ‘they have grown big quickly, and been busy and all’
Then she asked me once again to put the link back, and she paid me through Paypal eCheck. A week later, the payment has been canceled. She told me to just remove the link, until their payment process has been resolved.

I believe they were just fishing to know if their sites gets traffic from the page in my site. And would only pay if they’re satisfied with the traffic they get.

One thing for sure, I would not deal with them again.

By: Jackie S

Jackie S — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:25:05 +0000

Dear All, thanks for helping me make my mind up about LinkStar. A business buddy of mine also sent me this, which only confirms what you guys have said. Cheers!
http://blogs.computerworld.com/web_advertising_linkstar

By: fucker

fucker — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 07:34:35 +0000

Fuck them all. Fuckin spemers!

By: smokingJoe

smokingJoe — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:18:02 +0000

Well they paid me 100 bucks for 5 mins of my time so I made a profit. I guess their client will stand to make more than $100 over the next few months from the ad I placed. Sounds pretty much like a normal arbitrage business to me, albeit on a small scale.

btw Nora – did you notice they are offering to pay you, not the other way around.