And your conscience still allowed you to sleep at night?
All this seems like a nice illustration of how the web ecosystem encourages parasitic behavior on so many fronts. It's sad.
All this seems like a nice illustration of how the web ecosystem encourages parasitic behavior on so many fronts. It's sad.
We were masking those domains from google because google penalizes selling backlinks to justify paying for their ads. My conscience is quite clear. When google delisted our network, we refunded our customers and moved on to a smaller invite only network that ran well for years. I left that company 6 or 7 years ago, but I'm sure they are still making some money off hosting and managing private blog networks.
The average American endorses slavery in their clothes, Christmas decorations and electronics. By comparison creating some bad links in a search engine is so low on my list of moral failings it doesn't even register.