Woot - Wordpress accused of spamming

Rorschach · 2005-03-31, 04:41 PM

Apparently they were hosting 168K outsourced articles, written by an outsourcing agency, for making money from high $ Adsense keywords.

http://www.waxy.org/archive/2005/03/30/wordpres.shtml
http://www.threadwatch.org/node/2106
http://slashdot.org/articles/05/03/3....shtml?tid=217

Bill · 2005-03-31, 04:57 PM

adsense spam is becoming big business, and it's likely to become bigger.

I mentioned here before about bloggers creating fake asbestos blogs to take advantage of the huge price pr click offered by asbestos lawyers.

It does sound like wordpress knowingly put up these adsense articles...

Rocco · 2005-04-01, 02:17 AM

yeah, for the most keywords I am searching for in google I only find sites doing "adsense spamming"

Joe · 2005-04-02, 01:44 PM

Looks like selling WP as a free product apparently didn't pay well enough.

Just as a note to current WP users, Google is NOT banning the blogs, just the wordpress.org domain name.

2005-03-31, 04:41 PM	#1
Rorschach Shut up brain, or I'll stab you with a Q-tip! Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 115	Woot - Wordpress accused of spamming Apparently they were hosting 168K outsourced articles, written by an outsourcing agency, for making money from high $ Adsense keywords. http://www.waxy.org/archive/2005/03/30/wordpres.shtml http://www.threadwatch.org/node/2106 http://slashdot.org/articles/05/03/3....shtml?tid=217

2005-04-01, 02:17 AM	#3
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2005-04-02, 01:44 PM	#4
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2005-03-31, 04:57 PM	#2
Bill Selling porn allows me to stay in a constant state of Bliss - ain't that a trip! Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,914	adsense spam is becoming big business, and it's likely to become bigger. I mentioned here before about bloggers creating fake asbestos blogs to take advantage of the huge price pr click offered by asbestos lawyers. It does sound like wordpress knowingly put up these adsense articles...