Aboutus.org: Write About Them And They Spam Your Blog!
May 30, 2008
Yesterday, I wrote an article that recommended using this website. They returned the favor by spamming our blog. They offered to write SEO friendly articles, if you had a little bit of money. I find this very disgusting and offensive. We offer this service.
They most likely are using Google Alerts to inform them when anyone has mentioned them. This is a good form of reputation management. We have been discussing using alerts ourselves now that we are becoming a national player.
The sad thing for me is a better course of action would have been to thank us for the positive write-up. However, they chose to exploit our kindness. We need to apologize for not doing our homework on this site. We are listing links to other sites that have trashed these people. Please accept our apology.
I am deleting the original content and linking to this post. We will do a little more homework before recommending a website.
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One Response to “Aboutus.org: Write About Them And They Spam Your Blog!”
I was suspicious about the AboutUs.org sites intentions.
Their bot just grabs information from web sites (in our case about 10 of our related domains, all linked from our main domain), and create a page for each domain. Then they slap a number of Adsense ads and other ads onto each of the domain pages, and give some BS about it being commons shared information. To my mind, this is stealing content purely for the purposes of making money – they don’t have the wits to create good content, they use a bot to steal other peoples content.
The icing on the cake is that they pretend they are benefiting your web site by putting links to your domain(s). However, note that those links to your domains have rel=”nofollow” which means the search engine spiders will NOT follow the links, therefore no page rank benefit to your web site.
That’s the red-flag for me. Cheating thieves. I wouldn’t mind so much if you actually get benefit from it in some way, they return the favour, but this just is not on.