Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Scribd.com spammed by Internet marketers







At Scribd.com you can share any documents online, is a big user generated library.

Why Scribd got abused?




Not long ago you could upload Word, PDF, plain text, HTML, JPEG, PowerPoint, Excel, Postscript, LIT, and even audio format. But in the recent weeks a video appeared about spamming techniques, and in the preview video the Scribd.com was mentioned as a good way to increase you page rank by putting link in the file you upload.

 




The consequence




Scribd got angry and now you can’t upload HTML files and have links in your documents, you can upload document with link but they will converted in bold and underline words. Now search engines wont give you a higher page rank from Scribd documents because they dot have links.



 


The partial solution


 




Even if you don’t have links in your document you can get visitors, all you have to do is to write the full website address “mywebsite.com” where you wanted a link.



Add at the top and bottom of the page an image with the website address. For this methods to work and make money online you have to write good quality material.


 



Before this abuse Scribd was spammed in many interesting ways, remember don’t send money to strangers because they say you can make money. Unless is me.

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