Spam-o-Thon

The holidays are coming up along the end of the fiscal tax year. That’s 2 great reasons to give money to charity rolled into one.

Here’s what I propose:

1. We need to pick a charity. Please suggest something good in the comment section. It should be some credible and reasonably well known charity that helps poor people. I really don’t know who should be the beneficary, but it should be some people that are poor: Really poor, like even more impoverished than than white hats ;)

2. To make sure the funds actually get to the charity, (and don’t get pocketed by, say, me) I would ask that an embassador from Google (does nofollow even work?) set up an adsense account and send the funds directly to the charity we pick. Then just let us know what the adsense code is.

3. I invite all Bloggers and SEOs to put this adsense code on their blogs or on few of thier thier sites for anywhere from a day to week between December 24th and 31st.

4. No click fraud.

Let’s face it, most of us are very fortunate to be in the line of work we are in. If a few lines of code on our blogs during the holidays can help out, we should do it. What do you say?

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12 Responses to “Spam-o-Thon”

  1. se6fff4c says:

    I think that would be a big foot print.
    Except that, good idea.

  2. matt sandy says:

    Well, I don’t get that many hits on my main site, but I would be willing to participate.

  3. MrPenn says:

    Can I recommend St. Jude Children’s Hospital.
    They lead the way in finding cures for childhood illnesses (ie– cancer and other terrible terrible things) and they never turn a child away just because they can’t pay the bill. Frankly, I can’t think of a better charity.

  4. rose.water says:

    The white hat appeal site is dead.

    It’s archived here:

    http://web.archive.org/web/20051208061921/http://www.whitehatappeal.com/

  5. f8L says:

    I work with http://hananasif.org/ – Hananasif is a nonprofit that was set
    up to help the orphaned children living in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. I’m
    helping with their internet marketing. 100% of all donations go
    directly to the orphanage center and I’m sure they’d appreciate your contribution!

  6. frank says:

    I’m also happy to participate, but my blog also doesn’t get much traffic…every little bit counts though right?

  7. copyblogger says:

    Im upset because Cutts wouldn’t answer my question about this being a “bad neighborhood.”

    I’ve got two theories on this.

    1. You tainted me with the Lord of Google forever.

    2. Matt figured out I’m an asshole all on his own.

    Oh well… the charity thing is still a good idea, but I can only link to it with a condom.

  8. rxbbx says:

    Why not, just some days.. orphaned children is ok..

  9. ChrisWebPub says:

    Just reading in playboy this month that the average salary of a nonprofit charity CEO is over $300,000, and I know that that Red Cross CEO makes big bucks like that. So I’d recommend the Salvation Army, their CEO makes something like $13k a year. It is one of the best charities for actually using their donations for what they’re meant for.

    http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=95001506

  10. gh0stb0t says:

    hell of a great idea. i propose that it be UNICEF http://www.unicef.org/ because i really don’t trust most of the charities out there. who knows how much they skim before actually giving to the cause that they profess to support.

  11. Pearse says:

    If any of you are into animals my wife the Interior Designer is redesigning a room at the San Diego Human Society. All tax deductible. More info at http://doggiedesign.blogspot.com/ Happy holidays.

  12. 1.0 says:

    That’s seriously commendable. When I decided to persue this line of income, being able to be in a position to do just this sort of thing was one of my goals. Let’s just hope I get that far ;)

    Good work fellas. Hope you did well during December :)