Something rotten at Mahalo
Tonight I was testing Mahalo to see how up to date it was with Uk politics, eg ex prime minister Tony Blair, new prime minister Gordon Brown.
First thing I noticed was that Gordon Brown and Gordon Brow returned the same fricking page,
Gordon Brow
Gordon Brown
You really want to sort out your dupe content as those 2 pages alone will cause you issues, god knows how many more there will be for misspellings – I certainly found a few.
But then I noticed the Ads by Google. On the Gordon Brown page I got Gordon Brown style Adsense, but on the Gordon Brow page I got a Prime Minister Brown advert which I thought was pretty amazing that the misspelling was actually pulling Prime Minister Brown ads, until I clicked on the Ads by Google link and I got Adsense for Search, TOS below from the page…
Program policies
The Google AdSense terms and conditions state that search queries must originate from individual human end users inputting data directly into a WebSearch box, and that search results should not be activated from a software application (including toolbars). If you feel that the search results page you landed on was arrived at in violation of these policies, or if you got to this page after doing a search on Google’s own site (www.google.com), please let us know. In addition, if you feel that the search results page you landed on was generated from a website associated with undesirable software (as described in our Software Principles), please let us know.
but even if I clicked a link from the Home Page on Mahalo to the Politics page, which in turn lead me to the Gordon Brown page, and never once did I put into the web search box Gordon Brown or any other search term to trigger Adsense for Search, I still get them. So I ask how come??
rob 2129 days ago
http://www.yackyack.co.ukDya think they’ll ban them for breaching AFS TOc’s
Personally, I don’t get why they’d have an issue with a kw driven bit of contextual advertising. Why does it have to be actioned by a user driven websearch box query anyway?
Lot of nonsense if you ask me.
The new Google referral program lets you specify a keyword within the code, why should this be any different…
Dan 2129 days ago
The better thing to talk about mahalo, is how they blatantly break googles ToS (in fact, it seems to be there entire business model) by deliberatly trying to get their results in google much as how wikipedia does. We can only hope matt cutts takes action, (and maybe takes our all the eurekster spam also)