Syndic8 & Adsense
UPDATE: I got waxed! Andy Baio has done some more investigation.
I was kind of surprised to see that Syndic8.com is hosting a bunch of ‘articles’ designed specifically for serving Google Adsense text ads and to take advantage of Syndic8’s good pagerank. I have seen these same articles on other domains (I forget where exactly), which does make it look like another Google Adsense game not unlike the WordPress Affair.
The notable difference is that Syndic8 are being perfectly upfront about it and placing obvious text links to articles from their front page. Does that make it OK?
May 4th, 2005 at 8:55 pm
Syndic8’s Search Engine Spam
Hot on the heels of the recent Wordpress fiasco, it looks like Syndic8.com is doing the same thing! Charles Coxhead…
May 5th, 2005 at 4:23 am
This will be interesting to follow. Is the blogosphere gonna jump down their throat? One obvious difference is that Syndic8.com is not an open source project.
May 6th, 2005 at 2:12 am
Interesting. If they are not real articles it will probably get banned from Google search?
May 6th, 2005 at 2:50 am
I have some more news:
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2005-05-06-n55.html
May 6th, 2005 at 9:35 am
Snydic8 Banned for Spamming
Charles Coxhead has the scoop and Andy Baio has a more detailed story.
I’m surprised big established sites resorting to spamming Google for revenue – there are so many other ways to make cash, why stoop to spamming.
For all those ready to blam…
May 6th, 2005 at 4:58 pm
Andy Baio’s newest search spam victim: Syndic8
Andy Baio at Waxy is on a roll. A few weeks ago, he revealed in great detail that WordPress blogging tool creator Matt Mullenweg was hosting hundreds of Web pages with junk articles aimed solely at gaming Google’s ad network. Now he’s reporting on th…
May 8th, 2005 at 1:37 am
Death Penalty By Google
Gaming Google’s ad network is not always a good thing. Various companies are getting blacklisted from Google, two companies with problems are Syndic8 and a company called Search Engine Optimization….