Link Selling Mistakes: Including the Buyer’s Directives

Jan 12 2008

I ran across this today (emphasis mine):

Opps Oops

I don’t know if the author of this sponsored post was in a rush here, but I thought I’d point that out. After all, brianwhite.org is a Website That Cares!

Added: Since it’s been a while since I blogged about Webspam (I work on the Google Webspam team), I’ll add a reference to our quality guidelines on link schemes.



Spam Comes In All Forms

Jul 05 2007

World of Warcraft players were recently treated to a show: Not only did they get a Fourth of July fireworks display, but also a hailstorm of gnomes. Those in control of the gnome(s) were using an exploit to teleport themselves into a position so that the accumulated deaths spelled out the name of a third-party gold broker website.

Gnome Spam

No word on whether or not the corpses had loot in the form of cookies attributed to an affiliate :)

(via waxy.org links)