Costa Rica based Online Casino Inetbet allegedly using Black Hat SEO Spam.

By: Thomas derlan Rouletters Gambling News

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011 at 3:05 am EST/EDT

Online Gambling ReviewBreaking news is coming through from Casinoaffiliateprograms forum that Inetbet has allegedly been stealing home page content from online gambling sites and using it for the much maligned technique of blog spam.

Inetbet is based in Costa Rica which is a jurisdiction that allows casino owners to operate without the gambling licence which so many company’s are bound to so there is no recourse for any of the owners who are allegedly the target of their theft.

Many Online Casino`s use techniques that violate the Google guidelines and are sometimes even possibly illegal but the blatant theft of content for use in Black Hat SEO blog spam is something which is quite unique.

Rouletters spoke to the victim of the alleged content theft and he said “We were quite surprised to notice that a large group like Inetbet would be interested in stealing content from our Online Casino HD. These are the type of actions one would expect from small time websites without proper marketing budgets or accountability. But I suppose in an SEO climate where gathering links for your website is getting increasingly difficult and some would say almost impossible these things will happen, no matter how much financial backing.”

2 Responses

  • Simon Skinner (webpositionexpert.com) on Tuesday, 3rd May 2011 at 3:58 pm

    My name is Simon and I was involved with SEO for inetbet in 2009. Blog commenting and forum commenting was outsourced to an external firm from (about) March until may 2009.

    It quickly became clear that the external firm (in India) were not “playing by the rules” and were not providing honest quality SEO link building work.

    As soon as this became clear I sacked the external firm immediately.

    This external firm was employed by me and NOT by iNetBet and as soon as I realised the damage that they were doing to iNetBet’s reputation their work was summarily discontinued and they have not been employed since then.

    Obviously I tried to contact as many blogs and forums about this but some obviously slipped through the net.

    Obviously this happened in 2009 and I have made sure that this has not reoccurred.

    I sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused by these unprofessional people. Clearly I am still clearing up the mess 2 years later (moral of the story – don’t outsource even the most mundane linking tasks!)
    Once again I apologise for this.

    Sincerely
    Simon
    simon@webpositionexpert.com

  • Thomas derlan on Monday, 9th May 2011 at 8:43 pm

    Thanks for your comment.



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