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Search Engine Spam Amnesty Bins
February 14, 2006
I was in the security checkpoint line at the Cleveland airport last week when I noticed an amnesty bin about half way through the line.
Am I the only one on the planet that hadn't seen these before? These containers were actually introduced in 1993 as a way for the U.S. Department of Agriculture to encourage overseas travelers to dump undeclared plants and exotic living things forbidden from entering the states.
For the last 12 years, amnesty bins have been used to dump everything from dirty diapers to drugs to python snakes.
Believe it or not, people have even used amnesty bins to relieve themselves. Wow, that must have been a very long line!
Coming soon to an amnesty bin near you, additional verbiage: “Please do not pee in our amnesty bin.�
Apparently they have evolved into more than just amnesty from forbidden plants and such. In 2006, an amnesty bin can now forgive the transgression of knives, guns, scissors, and other weaponry like the dreaded fingernail clippers. And the bins are clearly marked that if you drop your stash, there will be no fine or prosecution. Sounds like a good deal doesn’t it?
What does this have to do with SEO you ask?
I hereby propose that search engines introduce amnesty bins for search engine spammers and companies that have unknowingly hired a company that used spam techniques on their site. Across the front of the Search Engine Spammer Amnesty Bin would be: “Confess Spam. Dump Spam. Avoid Search Engine Delays and Penalties.�
“Attention all search engine spammers and unknowing passengers, for your convenience, amnesty bins are located at the nearest security checkpoint.�
I think we all know that for the most part, search engine spammers themselves would not use this amnesty bin (except maybe to relieve themselves). They’re spamming and they know it and most would laugh at the idea of search engine amnesty. However, it’s the companies mentioned above that I feel deserve the right, at least one time, to ditch their prohibited spam, no questions asked, say a few “Hail Googles� and be forgiven of their sins.
Do I hear an Amen?
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posted by Doug Ausbury at February 14, 2006 05:44 PM
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