Semalt.com – Rogue element? Or just scum?

Posted on January 18, 2014 by Steve

So Google is full of sites posting about the above company … they would seem to be trying to do some sort of SE ranking or are they just complete arses?

This is an example from one of my site logs … there is NO reason for this behaviour but their repeated use of IP addresses in various countries suggests that they’re either paying people to do this shit or they’ve paid for time on a bot-net.

Ask yourself…would you really trust a company who resort to these sort of tactics as a business model?

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