There is a booming industry of online businesses offering Facebook ‘Likes’, Google Plus Ones, Twitter Followers and the like. These social media bookmarks are supposed to be desirable because they signal to search engines the number of internet users who genuinely like your website or your content enough to share it with their friends. Well they used to …It was, of course, not long before the idea was hijacked by companies who made up thousands of false accounts ﾖ in Facebook, Google, Twitter, and on. From there it was easy to offer a thousand social media bookmarks or followers overnight …
