JoePublisher - 12:43 pm on May 13, 2011 (gmt 0)

There must be a monetization method or ROI for all this 'work' (or why bother with the hack) would you mind saying how the spammy site was monetized goodroi? Did they make money through sign-ups, email harvesting, affiliate links or adsense etc.

Or did the spammy site in return link off to other monetized sites, re-routing the increased pagerank from these 'links' (<?if any?>) through a third-party website - trying to disguise the 'theft' of 'link-juice' as it were? In my gut I get the feeling that this (however far down the internet chain) is another pollution of the internet because of lax adsense policies ...

The only reason I ask is that IF this is an effective monetization 'hack' it WILL spread, and something that was supposed to be of benefit to the internet will once again be subverted for dirty ends ... to the point where like meta keywords, the canonical tags purpose becomes obsolete, when it could be of great value ...