Link spamming by Adsense members

Now I've seen it all: Yahoo's forums being used to promote Google

[Webwork]

Latest edition: Spamming the Yahoo Investor forums with links to Adsense websites with absolutely no connection to the Yahoo investing forum's topic. I'm sure the links are bringing in quality traffic. :-P

Of course, Yahoo doesn't do bupkiss about link drops in their investing forums, so, in a way it's kinda funny in an ironic way: Yahoo being used (exploited) to promote Google.

Maybe that might eventually irritate someone at Yahoo?

Nah.

Yo! Spammers! At least you might do your link dropping in forums that somehow relate to the topic of your website. I think Yahoo has some 5 or 6,000 business/company specific investing forums. Remember it's about targeted traffic that converts, so at least choose a forum about a software company to link drop to your software blog.

Or not. :-P

[goonewb]

Can these spamming work? Can it be reported? And will Google take action on it? How do you define spamming, if the info is posted to a relevant group but you post it everyday?

[Webwork]

Can these spamming work?

Ya, it can work to get you booted out of the program. Bad mojo. Bad traffic. Most definitely a violation of Yahoo's T.O.S. I don't think you can "make bad" with someone else's website and, at the same time, be on Google's good side. At least that's the way I read the Adsense terms - expressly or implicitly.

[goonewb]

But I have also seen numerous spamming sites continuosly doing it for few months already...and yet adsense are still in their sites/blogs. I dun think Google is that strict...they are very strict/overly strict when it comes to click attacks which you might not be responsible...but when it comes to other blatant infringements like spamming, scraping, MFAs etc etc...nope...many continue to do what they are doing...