Brian White » Spam http://brianwhiteblog.appspot.com Webspam, Google, Et Cetera Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:21:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Link Selling Mistakes: Including the Buyer’s Directives /2008/01/12/link-selling-mistakes-including-the-buyers-directives/ /2008/01/12/link-selling-mistakes-including-the-buyers-directives/#comments Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:34:23 +0000 Brian /2008/01/12/link-selling-mistakes-including-the-buyers-directives/ Continue reading →]]> 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.

]]> /2008/01/12/link-selling-mistakes-including-the-buyers-directives/feed/ 6 Spam Comes In All Forms /2007/07/05/spam-comes-in-all-forms/ /2007/07/05/spam-comes-in-all-forms/#comments Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:37:21 +0000 Brian /2007/07/05/spam-comes-in-all-forms/ Continue reading →]]> 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)

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