Comments on: Aboutus.org: Write About Them And They Spam Your Blog! http://tucsonseosolutions.com/aboutusorg-write-about-them-and-they-spam-your-blog/ creating probabilities out of possibilities Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:19:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Jim Prior http://tucsonseosolutions.com/aboutusorg-write-about-them-and-they-spam-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-1717 Jim Prior Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:19:22 +0000 http://tucsonseosolutions.com/?p=87#comment-1717 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. 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.

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