“Make money online” is why the internet has so much useless noise on it

Like I mentioned yesterday, I’ve been looking at the state of get rich quick schemes on the internet over the last few days. I’m slowly beginning to realise exactly how the internet went from being a proud resource, with some major high quality resources… (who am I kidding, was it ever that good?)… to what it is now. Every second one of these guides that I seem to read points in the direction of “generate lots and lots of spam and plaster it with ads”. I’m not sure how these can even make that much revenue.

There was one system that mentioned automatically generating blogs. Not blog posts, but blogs. I’d link it, but I get the feeling that GoogleBot might crucify this poor site if I linked to that sort of shameless junk. The approach sort of makes sense from a ruthless capitalist perspective – even if a new blog only gets 10 hits a day, that’s 10,000 hits per day if you have 1,000 of them. That’s a good start if you have an easy way to spit out 1,000 automated blogs. I’d even be tempted to try it if I had any faith in an automated bot’s ability to produce good English, but alas I don’t. Also, I’d have to shed a part of my soul.