Not only is there money in them hills ...

mrG — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:29:17 -0500

Not only is there money in the ad-phishing industry, but there actually is an ad-phishing industry! And they're luring in some pretty surprising partners in their google-spamming schemes.

Just for fun, I thought it only fair to test my own blogware provider and it seems that Drupal.org just isn't with it with the ad-awareness as the only mention of asbestos is this post using the term in the hum-drum domain-appropriate sense of a flame-war retardant.

Which is probably to be expected since Drupal.org hasn't seen any need to get into adverts of any sort on their product-support portal pages, and that's probably because all of the core developers are making their bread money actually using drupal, a radical and heretical thought in itself.

Asbestos Farming in the Blogosphere

mrG — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 08:27:49 -0500

Is it just me, or does anyone else see a similarity between link-spammers, who say our websites are open and therefore ergo to wit fair game for their profiteering, and those who, with no actual business or stake in the game, set themselves as automated pundit aggregators of a topic where they add no actual value, but effortlessly cash in on topical quirks of the AdSense? It's yet another new question in the breakdown of the web, what it really means to have google juice ...

... Right now asbestos reform and asbestos related litigation is on fire. Lawyers are paying anywhere from $15-100 per click through on Google ads. The second part of this big experiment is to see if I can capture some of that click through revenue while still providing a somewhat valid service to people who might arrive by search results.
[ via Michael Buffington ]

And he just so happened to choose 'asbestos' as his new hobby topic? Ok ...

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