So I'm doing the usual article submission run, business as usual. I get to ArticleBar and put all my stuff in then hit preview and see something a bit off. Certain keywords/phrases have all been converted to affiliate links for some random guy. ie/ everytime SEO was mentioned in the text, it became the anchor text for an affiliate link for SEO Elite. Has anyone else seen this happen before?
I can remember doing a recip once where our link on their page ended up redirecting to some other site, before it redirected again back to our site Needless to say there was absolutely no SEO value in that mess, so I asked that our link be taken down. Ironically, it was their webmaster who came to me originally to ask for a recip. Back during the dot com gold rush I was a media buyer for an upstart advertising agency who did a lot of e-mail blasts and banner placements. We ended up suing a company that owned an opt-in list for doing much the same thing. They changed all of the embedded links in our e-mail creative and made them re-direct to some other site. Apparently this was part of some CPC scheme designed to defraud advertisers using our e-mails As you know you can't be too careful. It's amazing what some people will do to make a buck