Ok this is getting kinda sad. . . I was just doing some research on the payment industry on Google and came across the most blatant abuse of search engine spam by a venture funded company EVER . . . especially one with as high of profile as OboPay. Other companies have done much more, but this really takes the award for being tactless and stupid.

Check these links out (I wont hyperlink them for obvious reasons) . . .

https://www.obopay.com/resource/household-mastercard.html

https://www.obopay.com/resource/student-credit-card-visa.html

and look at all the links on the footer too . . .

Obviously made for search engine pages . . . with absolutely useless content stuffed with keywords for search engines. Even worse, they are violating other banks (HSBC’s Household division) copyright just to get some traffic.

The sad part is that these guys are obvious SEO amateurs . . . if they do some homework, it could have been done a lot more subtly . . . and not get caught by me.