How to destroy your SEO when marketing your medical spa.

Everyone who is in cosmetic medicine is almost harassed by an endless list of self proclaimed lead generation specialists and marketers. From Facebook to Instagram to whatever they pitch is always around lead gen and how to build your business automatically.

If you fall for these pitches you’ll be noticed, but not in the way that you want to be.

Here’s an example of the kind of link spam that is left as a comment and that we have to deal with on Medical Spa MD.

Medical Spa Spam Links

We do what every other reputable publishing platform does. We both delete these links and at the same time file a warning with Google and other search engines that marks the website that these links are pointing to as spam.

The result is that your medical spa, the one that you’re attempting to promote, is penalized and will actually drop in the ratings over time. This is not a winning strategy for you, or your clinic.

Medical Spa MD: Botox & Laser Clinic Spam Comments

If you're Medical Spa MD Member you'll probably already know we have a hoard of spammers who regularly target the site with garbage comments about fake Botox, discount purses or skincare, laser hair removal and the rest.

Paula says it clearly:

Jeff,
When I first joined Medical Spa MD, I signed up to have recent posts sent to my email account so I wouldn't miss important clinical discussions. There is SO much spam now (i.e., Jaquily and others) on a daily basis that I have to unsubscribe from the feeds. Can you please find some way for this to stop so I can once again enjoy the discussions?

Belive me, I feel your pain. The spam is something that I have to deal with every day.

So, effecive immediately, we're going to run a test to see if we can keep a lid on the fake Botox comments. All comments will have to be approved by a Medical Spa MD editor or myself before they go live. I don't expect to be able to stop all spammers but perhaps we can make a dent by trying to catch those that are clearly just posting spam.

Medical Spa MD Member comments will not have to be approved before being published so you can just login to your account to aviod the wait.

Note: Comments will only be rejected for violating our terms of use. We will not be verifying anything about the truth or accuracy of a comment or claim.

A Curse On Plastic Surgery & Botox Spam

A curse upon these medical spa and Botox spammers. Perhaps something involving scorpions.

Medical Spa MD got hit overnight with more than the usual amount of spam comments for 'Vacation Retreats', 'Watch the Book of Eli online', 'Plastic Surgery in Orange County' and such. It's really not very difficult to detect and we're pretty good about deleting it as fast as it comes in but it is a pain. Worse for them, it's reported as spam across the internet so that other sites block it automatically.

If you've got any relevant question or comment, please feel free to interact with our community, but to the spammers (especially the one's who post code) a slow and painful death.

P.S. One of the initiatives that Medspa MD is about to launch will be our own White Hat SEO tools and services for plastic surgeons and medial spas. I'm hoping to have it up by the end of the month.