I know that Google allows Adsense publishers a maximum of 3 ad units per page but this just looks downright D-E-S-P-E-R-A-T-E! Want to know what I mean (yup, it’s a real website)… Another interesting news is that Jeremy Shoemoney is furious that he got an email from a corrupted DMOZ editor asking for $5,000 to keep his listing on that directory. This is just one of a long list of complaints about the Open Directory Project and which makes me wonder why is Google still using DMOZ. In case you’re still wondering who in the world is Shoemoney, he’s the guy who made a cool $133,000 from Google Adsense back in September 2005 - probably makes much more now.
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I like the way you republish a story that has was debunked as pure linkbait several weeks ago. Have you even checked any of the “facts”. There are plenty out there.
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I think you will find that after he offered the ODP a bribe back in 2005 to get his sites listed, his stuff was banned from the ODP for good.
There are many sites that record the offer of that bribe. He has been aware of the ODP listing ban for at least a year. Several editors still have copies of correspondence.
Any claim, now, about a “threat of removal” is completely bogus. He already knows his sites will never be listed.
If you inspect archive.org to see if anything at all was ever listed, you will only find a feed URL that was in the ODP for a couple of weeks at the beginning of 2007.
It seems like one editor had listed it in spite of a “do not list this site” note being attached, and then another de-listed it a few weeks later to comply with the editor consensus about that site.
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I am amazed that this just gets reported by you and hundreds of other sites as: “Shoemoney Gets Extorted by DMOZ Editor”, without anyone adding “allegedly” to the post, or even questioning:
1. whether any sort of communication ever actually existed (unlikely).
2. whether said commiunication actually came from an ODP editor, or just from some random scammer (moot).
3. whether there was anything ever listed in the ODP that could have been removed (there wasn’t).
It is time that the blogosphere woke up and started questioning stories rather than blindly repeating stuff as fact.
Blogoscoped does a good job of pulling it apart:
http://blogoscoped.com/forum/106601.html
Other people question other things about that site:
http://www.vanhara.com/2007/01/21/is-jeremy-shoemaker-aka-shoemoney-scam/
Comment by g1smd on September 18, 2007 at 8:02 pm
g1smd: this is a personal blog and there’s no investigative journalism here - I’m just sharing what I read.
That said, I sincerely appreciate your comments and which has cast a new light on my opinions of Shoemoney.
Comment by Larry on September 19, 2007 at 12:31 am