Links aside, even if it doesn’t go viral it does spread bad and poorly resourced information.

Which is probably the exact reason people have a misconception about SEO.

Thanks for reading and for your comment. I agree that most readers don’t care, even when they’re told that it’s a pay per post arrangement.

The medium isn’t as bad as the x-rumer forum spam, that’s for sure. But these are paid links at the end of the day, but paid links with the express purpose of generating downstream viral links. That’s what bothers me most, in part because the people getting paid to post these things are getting a bum deal based on that amplification.

Apathy is the great killer…but I just can’t foresee casual internet users getting that annoyed at people for accepting money for posting pretty colors on a webpage in exchange for a tiny link at the bottom…

As far as spam goes, this is the least annoying method I’ve ever heard of…one might even say it would be kind of cool if more spammers took the time to make pretty inforgraphics to get links.

It beats the hell of out pesky x-rumer forum spam.

Bottom line: I think you need to let this one go.