Targeting Spam > Do malware links to your site hurt you? « Totally Not a Blog
[Totally Not a Blog] Well, if you run any kind of blog, than you should at this point be well aware of the wall of spam that comes in every now and then and hits either the spam filter, or in the case of Google’s blogspot, they never seem to make it past the captcha. The point is that 99% of the time this spam will fail, and while I am sure that the 1% or less results in some money along the way, the real issued of the point is why do you do it?
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