[documentation] Siteground spam in the handbook

[John Wilkins]

Good catch Dave! This tutorial is just a bunch of links to their  
website. There's no actual steps on how to do anything. Except how to  
sign up with them.

I don't have docs delete privs or I would do this myself. I'll comment  
more in the issue queue. (Congrats on your first issue!)

  - John

John Wilkins | Drupal nickname: JohnAlbin



On Apr 23, 2008, at 3:05 PM, Dave Chakrabarti wrote:

> 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.
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