What's especially disturbing about this is that sites which used directory and article links are still punished by Penguin 2 years later, but these guys who used the spammiest of tactics get off after 10 days.

Life's not fair, and nether is Google.

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Nice take on  RapGenius getting back into Google's index in a week by +aaron wall http://www.seobook.com/spam-big-or-die << Crazy how Google will destroy smaller businesses for a lot less, but give big brands a pass so they can use it as a good PR opportunity to peddle their b@llshit.

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If you want to stop spam, the most straight forward way to do it is to deny people money because they care about the money and that should be their end goal. But if you really want to stop spam, it is a little bit mean, but what you want to do, is break their spirits.

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