Further Update: See here for the backstory on the redaction.
Update: It was Blaine Patton of BP Web Design.
So you gotta wonder whether spamming my blog really helps Martial Force in the long run. I suppose that people who maintain sites which get more traffic just turn on comment moderation and are done with it. But this here blog doesn't get much traffic (or many comments), so when someone decides to spam one of my threads I can take the time to be properly petty and vindictive.
The neat thing about search engines these days is that they're smart, but they're not that smart. For example, I could say something along the lines of "REDACTED" or "REDACTED" or even "REDACTED". I'm not asserting the truth of any of those statements, but search engines aren't to the point where they can figure that out yet. All they see is "REDACTED" or "REDACTED".
Which is a pity to some extent. For example, I can truthfully say that Martial Force is trying to game search engines by spamming blog threads. If Google were smart enough to figure that out then maybe they could take some sort of punitive action.
So, as long as I'm at it, I might as well mosey on over and take a gander; I've had a bad day at work and feel up to the challenge of mocking someone's website. For example why, if they're Tae Kwon Do specialist, do they have a picture of Bruce Lee on their header? And why is their selection so shitty? I mean, really, they don't have anything you can't find at a dozen other martial arts stores on the web. Except maybe the martial arts greeting cards... don't know that I've seen those anywhere before. Is some 4th Dan really so desperate for cash that he's hand-crafting greeting cards?
Though, you know, I wonder if the spamming is really even their fault. Russel and Ann Shaw are probably decent folk, and spammers don't generally leave their mobile number lying around their website. Possibly it's the guys who designed their website, REDACTED, that's responsible. REDACTED offers REDACTED; if I were going to guess who's the spammer I'd choose an SEO consultancy over the people who run an internet Tae Kwon Do store. Meh... whatever.
