Caution with the “Blog Readability Test”!

Remember the “Blog Readability Test” we discussed last Friday? An eagle-eyed commenter wrote the following this morning:

By the way, looks like this Blog Readability Test is a spam trojan horse. Any blogger out there who has put the embed code on their blog, may want to reconsider after reading this: http://www.labnol.org/internet/favorites/blog-readability-test-online-scam/1910/#more-1910

According to that link:

The real concerning part is that they have added a hidden link in the embed code pointing to an Online Cash Loans website - and the font size is in small so most people are likely to miss that hidden link.

The test might be fun to take the readability test but if you decide to display the badge on your site as it it is, that could prove very harmful to your site rankings in Google.

Thus, please be very careful if you’re thinking of embedding the “test” result badge on your blog/website. The last thing any blogger needs is more spam!