Collegian.psu.edu dominating casino keywords in Google.

[Malikbhai]

Someone in the Penn State university is obviously in on it.

There isn't any easy way to report these pages, either.

There's mediarelations@psu.edu.

But not sure if they can do anything about it.

First they started with bingo sites, and now are pretty much targeting every casino, like a proper affiliate.

So it's definitely not paid advertising. One of their webmasters that's responsible for uploading content is most probably behind this scheme.

If the university's management is involved, then we can easily fathom where the American education system is headed.

[Slotsjudge]

Wow thats some spicy drama

[universal4]

This has been a problem at universities for many years. It first started with links hidden on pages, then later moved to in-content links.

For years the gust posting method has been used.

From what I could tell the tags on Penn State site with the most offenses are
hxxps://www.collegian.psu.edu/search/?k=%22casino%22#tncms-source=keyword
hxxps://www.collegian.psu.edu/search/?k=%22gambling%20game%22#tncms-source=keyword
hxxps://www.collegian.psu.edu/search/?k=%22online%20gambling%22#tncms-source=keyword

Clearly someone at the universities are earning from the article insertions.

While some may say this is ethical, one has to wonder since in a lot of cases the universities are state funded or subsidized, and what such situations would do to their funding.

Rick
Universal4

[Malikbhai]

Schools and colleges shouldn't be selling Amazon products on the internet.

It would be weird if MIT started publishing juicer deals instead of scientific journals X years from now.

Hey, it's America. Never say never.

[econfox]

More "sponsored content"
Just scroll down to the bottom and you can see that this is out of control.

hxxps://www.collegian.psu.edu/

Newspapers are doing the same thing. I guess Google gave them the go ahead to do this.

[econfox]

More PSU added today. It looks like the same people who have been buying sponsored content from newspapers are now all in on PSU. I was checking keyword phrases that have not been producing money lately. I found 3 or 4 of the top 7 returns are now sponsored content.
Google has to know.

[universal4]

Well when it comes to State Universities, who gets the revenue?

The school, the state, the feds or some geek who facilitates the posts?

The reason this is even more messy, is the school funding, some of which comes from the tax payer.

Rick
Universal4