Comments on: Sam Casuncad – Unprofessional SEO?

By: Ronn

Ronn — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:26:42 +0000

Hey Andy,

Way to call this guy out. Nice to see that Jonathan stepped up with an apology but was the damage already done?

Managing an online reputation is obviously a crucial business practice to focus on.

Looks like Sam may need a new pair of glasses and/or a new career.

By: Lucia

Lucia — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 04:44:03 +0000

I feel left out too! Sam didn’t hit my blogs. (It’s either that or my spamfilters caught him and I never noticed.)

By: Make Money Blogging

Make Money Blogging — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:57:36 +0000

I actually met this Sam guy. He came in for a job interview for an SEO position were I am currently working (in the Philippines). What a small world.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:25:22 +0000

That comment spoofing thing is a little scary.

Maybe I should pay someone to start leaving thoughtful and interesting comments all over the web using my details ;-)

Or stupid ones using someone elses :twisted:

By: Jadehat

Jadehat — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:19:13 +0000

Sadly, road to hell is paved with good intentions, as saying goes. Now with your reputation is hit by Sam’s actions, you will have to work much harder to restore it.

By: rob watts

rob watts — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:09:20 +0000

Hello Daehee

Seems my ironic sarcasm attempt fell below your radar :)

Yes agreed, spammers are resourceful little so and so’s

By: Daehee

Daehee — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:54:47 +0000

I don’t know the exact details of your issue, but even with a captcha or spam plugin like that, spammers can always override that with trackback spam.

By: Michael VanDeMar

Michael VanDeMar — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:09:34 +0000

This isn’t really you. It’s really me, James D. Kirk from boldlygoing.com.

Interesting to note the Mybloglog icon being automatically spoofed as well. I mean, the way it works it has to, since it is merely driven by the username and has no authentication involved, but still. Having someones avatar, especially if it happens to be their face, next to the post only increases the impression that it is actually coming from that person.

Doesn’t even have to be deliberate, either. If a non MBL member just happened to use the same username as some MBL member on a blog running the code, then the Mybloglog members avatar would show.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:48:25 +0000

Hi guys,

Sorry about that one. My bad. Sam is still fairly new to the SEO field so he tends to want to do things all the way to achieve top rankings by tomorrow. ;-)

I did ask him to start promoting our 2 new wordpress themes but did not give him specific instruction on exactly how to do it (or in this case, not to do it). Thanks for alerting me about it by sending me an email.

By: James D Kirk

James D Kirk — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:03:11 +0000

In this post I had inserted a “disclaimer” at the bottom of the post box but made the mistake of using brackets “” to encase it. Andy’s site removed those brackets and the disclaimer text. It basically said that I was not affiliated with Andy’s site, and that while I have a bit of a professional relationship with Andy, chatting on IM and posting back and forth between our two sites, I would never comment like this except on this particular post. If this offends someones sensibilities, please accept my sincere apologies in advance! Thanks.