{"id":564,"date":"2008-03-24T10:10:12","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T14:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/24\/a-new-scourge-for-yahoo-affiliate-mapspam\/"},"modified":"2008-03-24T10:10:12","modified_gmt":"2008-03-24T14:10:12","slug":"a-new-scourge-for-yahoo-affiliate-mapspam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/24\/a-new-scourge-for-yahoo-affiliate-mapspam\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Scourge For Yahoo: Affiliate Mapspam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The question that eClick raised in a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.eclickperformance.com\/internet-marketing\/yahoo-local-full-of-affiliate-spam\">recent article<\/a> about affiliate Mapspam at Yahoo: <em>So, how many instances of affiliate spam are there on Yahoo Local?<\/em>, motivated me to do a little research.\u00c2\u00a0 I have <a href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/080324-073914.php\">published the results<\/a> at SearchEngineland today.<\/p>\n<p>This is a cautionary tale for Yahoo, Google or any company that allows user generated content in their local product. These affiliate spammers are deceptively providing a &#8220;service&#8221; that is unneeded and unwanted. Does it cross the line and become criminal? Read the full story: <a href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/080324-073914.php\">A New Scourge For Yahoo: Affiliate Mapspam<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sphinn.com\/story\/36400\">Sphinn this story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question that eClick raised in a recent article about affiliate Mapspam at Yahoo: So, how many instances of affiliate spam are there on Yahoo Local?, motivated me to do a little research.\u00c2\u00a0 I have published the results at SearchEngineland today. This is a cautionary tale for Yahoo, Google or any company that allows user &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yahoo-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}