Abusing Vox for Commercial Purposes?!?!?

I recently ran across a vox powered blog that was nothing more than a slam site where one dealer looks to be trying to generate traffic on another dealers name, by creating and republishing negative information.  As an Automotive SEO firm we were able to easily identify the purpose other than just slamming the offended dealer.

Here is a copy of a post that was done with the innocent and guilty names and the city names changed.

Nissan Spam
Nissan Spam

The items which are green are hyperlinks to the "Dirtbag Nissan Dealer's" marketing properties, which are being used for SEO purposes.  It is my opinion that creating a blog here just for SEO purposes is an abuse of the platform but may be over looked if the contnet provides value, while at the same time building out a slam site to hurt a competitior and SEO linking is just plain low class.

I notified Six Apart yesterday and as of this posting the offending blog is still live. We just hope others do not follow suit and the Vox moderators resolve ths situation.

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Paul Rushing
It looks like Six Apart does not care how their platform is used and they have done nothing about this issue.

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