Barnes & Noble’s New How-To Site Quamut Already Being Link Spammed
Duncan Riley
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Barnes & Noble officially launched how-to site Quamut this week, and it’s already attracting link spammers.
The main service offers online guides that cover more than 1,000 topics written by experts in each field. Guides include illustrations and pictures and can be purchased as PDF’s or laminated how-to sheets. It’s a reasonable offering; nothing ground breaking but clean, thorough, and usable.
Quamut also offers a user-generated how-to wiki with similarities to Squidoo, but with no revenue sharing model for contributors. With no revenue sharing model there’s no obvious reason why someone would contribute to the Wiki (after all there’s no for the good of humanity angle like Wikipedia), but one week in free Google juice has become a driving force behind user contributions. Around half of all pages in the Quamut Wiki tested included links to external services, most clearly focused on gaining Google juice, for example links on terms like search engine optimization and web design (page here). A check of the source code on these pages show that links are not tagged link=nofollow.
B&N will likely crack down on this shortly, but it’s a lessoned learned: anywhere you offer unmoderated user contributions without safeguards, someone will always end up trying to exploit the situation.
“B&N will likely crack down on this shortly, but it’s a lessoned learned: anywhere you offer unmoderated user contributions without safeguards, someone will always end up trying to exploit the situation.”
Yes… shame on those link spammers… trying to get better traffic via GooGle. Whatever happened to original, quality blogs…
Link spammers are a serious problem. Any post i write on my blog. it goes to here gearfire.com with some other author name. and they displays some cheap ads along with my post.
These websites become more searchable in google and even Technorati than my blog.
Uhh, then stop running a crappy blog on blogspot sunil
how come i din’t see any spammed content there?
It become very hard to control link spammers in such situations, …. They should invite few volunteers to control such link spamming. Though its a Nice concept.
Just moderate the contributions, period.
For the rule of thumb has always been: there’s no free lunch.
The same is true for B&N.
B&N? Really?
A Web 2.0 site owner?
Really?
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Not every blog can be techcrunch. To acheive this limit, you need a strong support and good finance And if you did not like it. No need to visit. I just shared my problem here, I have not said to visit my blog by the way.
and this is the post i was reffering to
gearfire.com/?p=31409
it’s from my page with different author name.
What I like about this site is that it links a “page” of useful information with a listing of books that can help you find-out more about the topic… I think Wikipedia could learn a few things from this approach without pissing off contributors. What drives me nuts is their google ads click in a new window while I still don’t have that option in my adsense
3$ for a 2 page printout seems rather expensive considering you can buy some of these books for that price USED elsewhere or even get them free by going to the local library.
I would see this site working great with authors but I don’t see much value for anybody else to be honest, the GJ isn’t going to last much longer and once they got some crazy moderators with a Napolean complex like on Wikipedia involved… the site becomes worthless for any SEO or SEM uses.
Jon
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pretty obvious that the author has limited knowledge on the matter.
What’s “google juice” ? LOL
After posting my last comment and following the link to TechCrunch Forums, I found an entire wealth of Link SPAM right on this site. Get your forums in check, it’s looking like a bad neighborhood.
Quamut.. what does the name mean ?
Perhaps it’s getting spammed because the “quamut” sounds like one of those random-gen’d words that spammer’s insert into their nonsense
Seriously, what an unattractive name.
I think is going to be a hard job to control de links spammers, probably it could be imposible to check all them.
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I guess nobody noticed that the site was fixed a few days later so all links now have the rel=”nofollow” attribute so search engine’s won’t even bother spidering those.