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September 6th, 2012:

Merchant Data Systems Spams The Internet on Equities.com

Daily I do a Google News search looking for the latest news on Merchant Services – yet pretty much every day I see a new set of news releases released to Equities.com that claims Merchant Data Systems has launched something new in the merchant services world for a niche vertical.  The simple fact is this does not appear to be the case – rather it seems like a marketing ploy to keep Merchant Data Systems name in the news.  I then read the link to the full set of press releases on PRWeb.com and found a lot of keyword stuffing in their news releases, that link to various pages within their website – which really appears to be more of a failed attempt to achieve SEO rankings for keywords that they feel are relevant to their business.  Luckily, it appears that Google has caught on as Merchant Data Systems does not appear to be ranking well for merchant services business terms.  Essenentially they are spamming the Internet with offers that are not esepcially useful, news worthly, or helpful.  I hope they stop this and focus on delivering relevelant merchant solutions to their customers instead – they are probably better at that anyway.