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Jason Calacanis: Spamming Mahalo for PageRank
Propeller mouth Jason Calacanis aka Mr “SEO Is Dead!”, founder of “search engine” Mahalo (see our article Mahalo – Another Investors’ Hula Schmooh), is anything but an adored let alone respected figure in the SEO community: little wonder seeing the controversial and abrasive approach that seems to have become his hallmark.
Now, it seems he’s been caught red handed dabbling in what is generally considered to be blatant “black hat” SEO techniques: spamming Google with links funneling PageRank to his web site – in clear violation of their TOS.
We figured something must be amiss beyond his overt linkbait intentions when he suddenly tweeted today:
Official statement regarding SEO to the SEO community: I was wrong SEO is not b.s. (and I’m the greatest white-hat SEO of all time). Thanks.
Now while we generally don’t condone outing fellow SEOs no matter the cause, a practice that, in our view, will merely prop a fascistoid culture of denunciation, terror and debasement, this case is quite different for the very reason that Mr Calacanis has never been on record for being anything but dismissive of search engine optimization and its exponents, making it unequivocally clear that he himself is definitely “not one of those”.
(And sorry, no: that tweet of his is anything but a retraction – not in view of the fact that his utterly hypocritical stance had just been revealed for what it really is.)
Makes one wonder what it is with Mahalo making him so desperate to resort to means he has always claimed were absolute bs propagated by a class of greedy and clueless industry insiders to hoodwink innocent consumers and quite unnecessary to boot…
Aaron has the full scoop here, a very nice catch:
Mahalo Caught Spamming Google With PageRank Funneling Link Scheme
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