Comments on: Jason Calacanis: Screw You Google, Now I’ll Sell Links Too

By: Who Are The Top 10 SEOs in the World? | SEO Book.com

Who Are The Top 10 SEOs in the World? | SEO Book.com — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:29:23 +0000

[...] Imagine entering an industry pulling in attention by calling everyone in the industry a bunch of scumbags – stating that you will clean things up through the use of manual intervention. Then imagine using the economic downturn to fire almost all your editorial employees and leveraging your built up domain authority to create a low quality automated general purpose web scraper, which stuffs Google with indexing their own search results (heavily wrapped in ads). And then imagine link farming to build authority, then using the leverage of that platform to start selling SEO services to corporate clients & selling links! [...]

By: Fae

Fae — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 02:51:04 +0000

So if this “ad” as you call it is really a question/answer site, yes, sponsored by a wine company, but nevertheless, populated by Mahalo member/contributors who get paid to work there, is that still spam? That “paid ad” as you call it is a question that a Mahalo contributor posted, just like the questions that are posted on the Mahalo site. It’s not an ad. It’s a link to a question on a question/answer site. You’re misrepresenting this entire thing so badly, I can’t even believe it. You should be ashamed.

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Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:52:22 +0000

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By: Michael Abehsera

Michael Abehsera — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:06:05 +0000

I dont care how you put it, or what other sites do, you have to disclose that its an ad, if any of us did that we will get banned or sued. Mahalo gets away with many things, the funny thing is that they are trying to become bigger then google thats their goal.
How can you beat google if they are the ones accounting for most of your traffic? and any ways whats innovative about mahalo.

By: Michael VanDeMar

Michael VanDeMar — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:08:49 +0000

@Jesus Christ Man – I replied here: http://smackdown.blogsblogsblo.....ment-38386

By: Jesus Christ Man

Jesus Christ Man — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:36:52 +0000

Dude,

Could you get you head any further up MAtt Cutt’s ass if you tried?

Why don’t you remove your internet Sherrifs badge and let google worry about whose spammy and whose not. Perhaps they could even build like an Algorithm to do it?

Jesus Christ you people…

By: The Mahalo Paid Link Evidence Trail | Smackdown!

The Mahalo Paid Link Evidence Trail | Smackdown! — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:53:49 +0000

[...] Matt Cutts asked me in a Sphinn comment the following question relating the my post on paid links on Mahalo.com: [...]

By: SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 12, 2010

SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 12, 2010 — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:19:58 +0000

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By: Ginetta

Ginetta — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:55:21 +0000

I don’t really understand this whole thing aside from the fact that an ad is masquerading as a ‘hot topic’. Page Ranking, in my mind, and passing on authorative link backs is what this whole thing is about no? How else do you get good ranking if you cannot find appropriate sites to link to and from? I would like to order a nice bottle of Red Malaho 1996 thanks

By: Sean Percival

Sean Percival — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:54:06 +0000

That wine site runs a white label version of mahalo answers. The links are probably not paid for, instead Jason is sending some traffic their way so the community grows.

Not much different from what many major sites do for partners.