So I guess Google has struck a nerve and changed their algorithms enough that they're causing pain to the link spamming SEO companies. According to Techdirt, they're even going so far as to nicely ask webmasters to take down their spammed links. [ "Oh sure, I'd love to do you a favor"... or not! ]
Here's a link to the article
They also link to an article on the Awl
Ha!
UPDATE:
The HuffPo had an article about SEO, where they quoted the AP:
While the Federal Trade Commission and several state attorney generals
have cracked down on fake endorsements or reviews, they have not weighed
in on clicks. Meanwhile, hundreds of online businesses sell clicks and
social media accounts from around the world.
...
In 2013, the State Department, which has more than 400,000 likes and was
recently most popular in Cairo, said it would stop buying Facebook fans
after its inspector general criticized the agency for spending $630,000
to boost the numbers. [OMFG - the IG had to tell them that ?!?!]
...In Indonesia, a social media-obsessed country with some of the
largest number of Facebook pages and Twitter users, click farms
proliferate.
Ali Hanafiah, 40, offers 1,000 Twitter followers for
$10 and 1 million for $600. He owns his own server, and pays $1 per
month per Internet Protocol address, which he uses to generate thousands
of social media accounts.
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