Putting the Spin on the Spinners

by MKDS
Storm Multi-Media Technologies Ltd

Anybody who has a BlogSite or BlogSpot, or even a Website that allows the visitors to leave Comments and Reviews, will know what a “Spinner” is, and believe me when I say it is nothing like a spider or a sportsman/sportswoman.

A “Spinner”, for those that do not know is a “Spammer” that has been sent through an SEO/Organic Marketing Agency or Company, who hopes they can achieve one of two things; 1. To have the Blog Author ‘Approve’ their kind words by accepting them – which means any further communication by this ‘Spinner’ will activate a ‘Link-Back’, and thus generate a lot of traffic for the person posting the Comment. 2. That once ‘Approved’ by the Author of the Blog, the further visitors of the BlogSite or BlogSpot will click the links and so initiate those afore ‘Link-Back’. If there was anything more irritating on this God’s Green Earth than hearing Angela Lansbury sing Madonna’s “Like a Virgin”, then it would definitely be “Spinners” cluttering up the Comments pages of Blogs.

Of course, there are people out there who believe that these – sometimes – legitimate SEO/Organic Companies are there to help people, to further their Traffic, to grow their Sales and get them bigger out-puts in Commerce. The truth is, people, they are just out to get easy money in doing something so simple as to what the everyday “Blogger” is doing – Writing, Posting, Uploading and Fresh Pressing their ideas while coupling the Company that they own and run during the day when they aren’t Blogging. Anyway, that is a much different story, and one which I will reveal very soon in another Post on the Internetwork – because that is what the Net is…a Network.

So, having launched the 35^th BlogSpot on WordPress, my initial thought was, as it always is “How well will this one do next to the others that I have done?” It was a known fact that already The [MKDS] Network had clocked up more than 750,000 hits altogether over the 34 BlogSpots combined, so what difference – if any – would this new Blog have in joining the wagon trail? I mean, it was “Severed Ties” after all, so the probability would be the very same as “On a Storyteller’s Night” Volume 1.

After a couple of days I checked back on the Blog. “Very good” I thought. Then I checked the Dashboard as I always did with all the Blogs that I run and there I found sixty or so “Spam” inserts waiting to be granted ‘Approval’ by yours truly. Now you may say at this point: “Why didn’t you just delete them?” Because my Family and Friends who also run their very own BlogSpot’s said exactly the same, but I was different – I’ve always been different – and I didn’t mix my words or emotions to let it be shown, either.

“Right, that’s it,” I blazed, but maybe not so politely. “Let’s see who’s Spinning who here?” And with this I systematically stripped every one of those “Spam” Comments down, tore away their hearts by deleting the original ‘Back-Links’ and “Re-Spun” the Comments into something beautiful and meaningful to those other legitimate and loyal surfers entering my Blog Sites. I had successfully put the “Spin” on the “Spinners”…or so I thought.

Almost a week later I received an email from WordPress, which is very rare indeed. It read aloud their anger that I was allowing a lot of “Spam” through the system which caught it, and that I had to vigorously check future “Spam” before allowing it access into the “Approved” section. The “Spin” had worked because it was virtually re-directed, unfortunately, it was the IP Address that I was unable to change – and why would I even try – that was still showing up as a Partial “Spamlet” and it was this that they referred to as dangerous.

Of course I contacted WordPress back and explained what I had done and off the record…well, yes, it was a great way to “Re-Spin” the “Spinners”, but at the end of the day Rules were Rules and I could not be allowed to break them. Since then I have not changed any of the many “Spamlets” that have found their way into my “Spam Box”, nor have I modified any of their comments or “Back-Links”. Now I just delete them and move on.

There are those of my family and friends, however, who own their very own websites in bought Domains and here they use the “Re-Spin” method that I discovered by way of losing my temper and calling it a day on the “Spammers” who clog our Inboxes and Spam Filters every day. There are points of this which have them phone me up chuckling and laughing uncontrollably, telling me that some actually got back to them requesting politely on “How” they did what they did with their “Comment”, and could they do the same? It’s a pretty screwed up world when people have to run their chance and luck on someone else’s ideas, don’t you think?

© Marcus De Storm 2011

Article submitted Tuesday, October 18, 2011 & read 123 times.

Marcus De Storm having much, if not a very colourful life behind him, has been a writer since the age of 10 years old, Marcus’s passion not only burns with motivation, but it also drives him to his next piece that he edits and cleans himself before Publishing, Posting or Submitting. And with more than 38+ Blog Sites, 3 Websites, 4 YouTube Channels and many other Conduits at his disposal, the extent of his writing and ability can be seen visually by all of their readers and viewers.

Marcus De Storm is the CEO/Director of http://www.multimediaproducts.co.uk/ (UK & International). Presently a Published Writer/Author in the US, Marcus lives in Wetherby, Leeds, UK, along with his wife of fourteen years, Carol, and their two twin young daughters, Chantal and Jade.

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