OboPay Gets Desperate, Resorting to Webspam
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.
Nice catch, Will! How will Obopay work if it can’t get a critical mass? I can’t find a friend or a store to pay through, so what’s the point?
Comment by Matthew G — September 16, 2007 @ 8:40 pm
Hey Will, have you seen what EBAY is doing at the bottom of their pages? Check it out. Looks like OboPay is not the only desperate party.
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Comment by Tong G — October 2, 2007 @ 3:04 am
why is this obopay not a terrific idea … especially since they offer affiliates a fin for each new emailed person they bring to the biz?
how do you rate it next to my url biz that should be as attractive at 410/month to ‘grow money” …?
Comment by bj tay — March 11, 2008 @ 6:36 pm
kontol
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