Seth Godin takes on Reed Elsevier’s recent “marketing”. It’s worth blogging as I wonder if an LIS blogs out there have experienced this?
“Over the last few weeks, I’ve received several meails [sic], all the same, all from real people at Reed. They baldly (and boldly) ask me to swap links with them as part of a scheme to move up the Google rankings. Anyone who reads this blog knows that I don’t do that, nor does any reputable blog I know of.”
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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One Reply to “Spammers, and proud of it”
I got an email from someone saying they liked my site and asking me to swap links to improve Google rankings, but they didn’t say which site of mine they liked. It was my work email, so I didn’t know if they meant the library web site (which I don’t control) or what. They were vauge and didn’t say what site they represented so I deleted it. Losers.
I got an email from someone saying they liked my site and asking me to swap links to improve Google rankings, but they didn’t say which site of mine they liked. It was my work email, so I didn’t know if they meant the library web site (which I don’t control) or what. They were vauge and didn’t say what site they represented so I deleted it. Losers.