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Mahalo Caught Spamming Google With PageRank Funneling Link Scheme - is it true?

Recently I read one article stating that Mahao caught spamming Google with PageRank Funneling LInk scheme. What's the reality behind this?

http://www.seobook.com/mahalo-caught-pagerank-funneling-link-scheme
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jeffhoard | 2 years, 8 months ago
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That article is actually old (Feb 09), from long before Mahalo 2.0 was launched. Regardless, I don't think Mahalo did anything wrong, I've been with Mahalo long before Feb 09 and I don't remember this "controversy" ever coming up. "Funneling link scheme"?? looks more like Mahalo employees, linking to Mahalo pages they built, from their personal blogs.

As far as I know Jason Calacanis (Mahalo Founder) is good friends with Google, If Google considered Mahalo spam, why does most of our search traffic come from Google? Why would Mahalo use Google ads exclusively? We are partners - if anything, with Google?

Here is with Google VP Marissa Mayer with Jason at a previous Techcrunch 50, which is one of Mahalo founders Jason Calacanis many projects
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mager/2840375894/

In fact Marissa will be back at this years conference. Why would she be invited if Google didn't like Mahalo, Google loves Mahalo, they provide us with search results, image results, video results, product results and yes, 90% of our advertisements are operated from Google.

Personally, I don't know who Aaron Wall is or what "seobook.com" is or why they would say Mahalo violates Google? As far as I know, Mahalo is A-OK in the Google books.

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wy | 2 years, 8 months ago
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I saw that “article” too.
Jason, CEO of Mahalo, may have replied in that article in details, explaining his view.

I don't really know how Google’s classifying website as spammer.

I find the title “Mahalo Caught Spamming Google With PageRank Funneling Link Scheme” really funny. The same for another article from SEObook “Official - Mahalo is Spam, According to Google's Internal Spam Documents”.
It looks as if Google has classified Mahalo as spammer. A further read into the articles will tell you that it’s SEObook’s view only… LOL..

I still can see Google Ads everywhere in Mahalo. :-)

I think Mahalo have to beware of possibility of being classified as spammer though..

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