besnette - 5:26 pm on Feb 13, 2013 (gmt 0)

I agree @indyrank that not all sites are 'bad' that use some of these tactics. It all comes down to intent, and to me, looking at a site that does all of this, but has no 'authorship' associated with it, no expertise, no hint of who is behind the site, no real way to contact the site owners or figure out who they are - just a purchased database of information that's found 100 times over elsewhere, with little original content - that's what becomes a bummer to the rest of us who work on being a 'real' authority in our niches.