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Bad Ads Bite Bloggers

Dan Tynan can't see anything wrong with running a few text ads on your blog and pocketing the change. Just be careful with whom you do business, or you could find yourself "lumped in with all the text link spammers on Google's blacklist," he writes. Can you say goodbye to a career in Web 2.0 and hello to a day job at Wal-Mart?

While researching a company called Linkstar for a blog post last week, Tynan came across others that offer to place text ads for its clients on small, low-traffic Web sites. They are nothing more than ad farms masquerading as legitimate sites, for which Tynan provides a list of links, so you can avoid getting on Google's bad side.

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