Selling spam?
21:04 Wednesday 24 Oct 07
Google just nailed the PR of this site down to 4 because - and ONLY because - I have text link ads. I’ve said my bit before so I’ll not go on again. I knew it was coming.
Google do not like this because the space I sell on MY blog affects their results. They consider it irrelevant, not targeted. Okay.
One of the first anti-spam tools for WordPress was by Kitty. Essentially it said that if the spammer paid, their spam could stay. I doubt anyone paid, but hey, nice idea. I still have that code.
So - what would Google do if we allowed “text-spam-comment-ads” instead? It’s not like they can penalise for spam content in comments is it ? (Bye Bye Blogger!)
The sole consolation I have is that as a Firefox user with Adblock Plus, G-filter and CustomizeGoogle running I don’t see most ads. So much so that theirs stick out. I’m 6c off the $100 in adsense here so when that hits they will go too.
So Google, what next? You obviously think this is cracked (remember the craptacular nofollow which came about because of pagerank?) so who is the next victim?
Google is an advertising business first, last and everything in between.
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What took you so long to realise that? :)
09:10 Thursday 25 Oct 07
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It’s their “Let’s give them toys and they’ll not notice us screwing them stupid” attitude.
If a business is being harmed because of it’s business model then it needs to change that model.
09:20 Thursday 25 Oct 07
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I have removed all of my adds and crap from my Blog, it just makes the whole place untidy and you dont make enough to by a packet of crisps anyway. We need a revolotion in Blogging and take the place back, clean sheet.
13:07 Thursday 25 Oct 07