“Money Plant” is Baidu hyperlink cheaters punisher
Baidu’s “Money Plant” algorithm, introduced in 2013, targets link-spamming practices such as buying and selling links, aiming to promote fair competition among websites. The latest update, “Money Plant 2.0,” released on July 15, 2013, expanded its scope to penalize sites hosting promotional articles (advertorials) considered as link spam. To align with the “Money Plant” algorithm,…