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lars: can you explain #1 a bit more? how is a simple widget/affiliate button spam?

just trying to understand this a bit better, because we are planning on doing an official mozilla mdn affiliate campaign to promote other parts of our documentation.

thanks! - jay, mdn product manager



As I understand it, the point of this is to manipulate how MDC ranks in google searches. A lot of people try to do this, and google works to prevent it. What I'm saying is that google's algorithms might see this sudden rise in links coming from sites with potentially widely different content, consider it unnatural, and classify it as spam. They also might not, I certainly don't know the details of their spam prevention algorithm.

I'm not saying that I personally am offended by this widget, I don't give a damn. But google might.




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