Matt Cutts really knows how to stir controversy. In a recent post titled, “How to report paid links“, Cutts lays out the simple process on how to bring paid links to the attention of the Google team.

Sign in to Google’s webmaster console and use the authenticated spam report form, then include the word “paidlink” (all one word) in the text area of the spam report. If you use the authenticated form, you’ll need to sign in with a Google Account, but your report will carry more weight.

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Yes, Digg traffic sucks for revenue compared to visits from Google. I know, I know… this is common knowledge for most. But, it’s still interesting none the less.

Chitika’s blog has a great post up about a stat finding hunt they recently went on related to the Digg traffic vs. Google traffic debate.

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I very rarely EVER click on Google ads, but today an ad on Digg.com caught my eye. The title of the ad reads “Cligg - Clone of Digg”. The description of the ad reads “Use Our Quality Pligg Template & Grow ur Site Like Digg.com. Try Demo”.

I run a Pligg powered site so this interested me. I figured I would check out the template and see what the buzz was all about. But after clicking through to the page of the ad, www.moonrank.com, I found NOTHING of the sort. In fact, Moon Rank’s website, for lack of a better word, was complete crap. There is no template on the page being advertised, no “free demo” on the page, and as far as I can see there isn’t even any Pligg templates available for viewing on the site being linked to.

Personally, I find it offensive that a site such as this has the audacity to spam the Digg community with the hopes of gaining clients who are willing to pay to have a custom Pligg template built.

Would it be fair to say that this company is actively using Google Adsense to spam Digg.com?

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