[documentation] Siteground spam in the handbook

[Dave Chakrabarti]

Hey all,

I had a client almost sign up for Siteground as a result of a handbook  
page that was created to help their SEO. Other posts on d.o were  
created by the same user to pimp Siteground, and there's been *very*  
heavy criticism of their hosting / marketing / blackhat SEO tactics on  
d.o and a couple of nonprofit tech mailing lists.

Other folks have also said that d.o "advertises" siteground, which  
sounds a lot like siteground has successfully spammed d.o (unless  
there *was* a conscious decision to advertise them somewhere, which I  
wasn't aware of). My client was also of this opinion.

All links in my issue (yay, my first issue): http://drupal.org/node/250452

Questions, since I'm a docs lurker and low on d.o karma:

SEO is a tricky thing. Very organic-looking links are sometimes part  
of an SEO campaign. Can we look at this overall and decide that SG  
uses some seriously shady SEO tactics, and we shouldn't be hosting  
handbook pages with links to their site(s)?

Is that grounds for deletion or archiving? I'm not sure about the  
archiving process, but if someone can provide guidance I'd love to  
make my first edit :)

Non-docs issue: the SG employee who posted the page has also posted  
elsewhere on d.o, making recommendations for SG hosting without  
disclosing that her post is part of a marketing campaign, or that she  
is affiliated with them. How is this normally dealt with?

   Dave.