Deleted post: How Bikes Can Save Us

A post was recently published called How Bikes Can Save Us! and though it was an awesome +1 for bikes, it seems to be "black hat SEO," or a tricky way to mess with search engines through spammy, fake websites. Transit blogger John Hendel wrote up a whole article about it.

A brief excerpt:

The legitimately pretty and well-done infographic has made the rounds of several news sites and blogs in the last two weeks. People saw the visual, loved it, published and commented on it, all the while linking to and supporting what would seem to be a link farm, a spammer, a farce of a website called HealthCareManagementDegree.com, which exists to game the Internet. The bare-bones, purposeless Health Care Management Degree website was created in 2004 and registered to Mascot Media Circle LLC, based out of Austin, Texas. This shadowy entity also created OnlineBachelorDegreePrograms.com in that same year, RatedColleges.com in 2004, and Computer-Colleges.com in 2002, among what I would imagine are many other bogus web addresses likely meant to take advantage of Google's search engine selection and enjoy a little SEO payoff.


"As a blogger that works very hard to make his own Google juice, I occasionally speak out about Black Hat SEO mischief like this," DL Byron remarks in his Google+ post. "You've probably noticed how irrelevant, at times, Google's search is. That's because of sites and tricks like this." 

We are pro bikes but anti spam, so we decided to remove the post. To see the well made graphic, check out that article. It's a happy, feel good link, but unfortunately somebody out there is taking advantage of our passion for spreading bike love. We hope you understand.

Thanks,
SaltCycle Admin

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