{"id":427,"date":"2006-06-18T00:13:19","date_gmt":"2006-06-18T06:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=427"},"modified":"2006-06-18T00:13:19","modified_gmt":"2006-06-18T06:13:19","slug":"the_very_long_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=427","title":{"rendered":"The very long tail of spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A search engine optimizer named Alex <a href=\"http:\/\/merged.ca\/monetize\/flat\/how-to-get-billions-of-pages-indexed-by-Google.html\">reports<\/a> on the perverse consequences of search-based advertising. He points to a site that apparently has managed to get billions &#8211; yes, billions &#8211; of spam pages indexed by Google after being launched just 18 days ago. Loaded with AdSense ads and content swiped from other sites, it has already become one of the web&#8217;s top 7,000 sites, as ranked by Alexa. &#8220;I wonder,&#8221; writes Alex, &#8220;how much that one person is earning per day with billions and billions of pages indexed and ranking?&#8221; Well, if you have a billion pages (all automatically generated, of course) and each pulls in a penny a year, that would earn you a cool ten million bucks per annum, or about 27 grand per day. It&#8217;s not hard to see the incentive, is it?<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in getting into this business, Alex provides a nifty set of instructions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A search engine optimizer named Alex reports on the perverse consequences of search-based advertising. He points to a site that apparently has managed to get billions &#8211; yes, billions &#8211; of spam pages indexed by Google after being launched just 18 days ago. Loaded with AdSense ads and content swiped from other sites, it has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}