http://blog.teledyn.com/node/2281 Comments for "But the money ..." en http://blog.teledyn.com/node/2281 <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dirson/7963287/"><img class="right" src="http://photos5.flickr.com/7963287_2530cd5513_m.jpg"/></a>Waxy says Wordpress had some major <a title="see: TeledyN - Asbestos farming in the Blogosphere" href="http://blog.teledyn.com/node/2240">ad-mining operations</a> going on ... until someone blew the whistle on them and prompted Google to do a little dance around the bogus ad-phishing posts:<br /> <blockquote><cite class="blog-source">I discovered last week that since early February, he's been quietly hosting at least 168,000 articles on their website. <em>These articles are designed specifically to game the Google Adwords program, written by a third-party about high-cost advertising keywords like asbestos, mesothelioma, insurance, debt consolidation, diabetes, and mortgages.</em></cite><br /> [ <i><a href="http://www.waxy.org/archive/2005/03/30/wordpres.shtml">Wordpress Website's Search Engine Spam</a></i> ]</p></blockquote> <p>Say what? One of our own, fallen to absestos mining? Wait, it gets better, or worse, depending on your sense of righteousness and irony, and it's not just because the Wordpress crew have taken to hiding the links behind negative CSS and remaining unrepentant about the practice, it's because someone has made adsense-phishing into a 9-5 start-up ...<br /> <blockquote><cite class="blog-source"/>The articles are given to him by Hot Nacho, a startup that <a href="http://aahh.com/fares/">pays freelance writers to generate 300-800 word articles about specific topics</a>. All advertising revenues go directly to Hot Nacho, and he's paid a flat fee for hosting the articles and ad banners.<br/><br /> Matt said he was skeptical at first, but the money ...</cite></p></blockquote> http://blog.teledyn.com/node/2281#comments the skin of culture Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:47:00 -0500 mrG 2281 at http://blog.teledyn.com