Don't irritate the 800 pound gorilla
I know that this has been commented on by other people, but it's an interesting piece of "police action" on the internet - Google was irritatated enough by the pagerank scamming that syndic8 was up to that they've removed them from their index. Go ahead - Google for Syndic8. Notice how they don't come up? Bill Kearny, one of the guys behind the site, has managed to get them to appear on page one (down a few links) by redirecting from his domain, but wow - that's a penalty. The take-away from this? Don't go wild with your SEO tricks if you want to be found.
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An Epidemic
[Charles Miller] May 12, 2005 1:16:33.026
Isn't this just what WordPress were pinged for a month or two ago? http://www.waxy.org/archive/2005/03/30/wordpres.shtml Looks like it's an ongoing scam - somebody finds a high-pagerank sites and does a deal with them to use that ranking to drive traffic to their AdSense text ads. They skim the money off the AdSense revenue until the parent site is penalized by Google, then move on. The advertiser doesn't lose anything, because it wasn't their site that was whacked, they were just renting space on someone else's site. And at least in Wordpress's case, they got their PageRank back soon after the adverts were removed. I wonder if Google will be as lenient in Syndic8's case, though.