Dave Reid

Since the Kaltura module was announced in the forums, discussed recently on Drupal Planet, and "advertised" on the development mailing list, it has come to the attention of Morbus and myself that the Kaltura All in One Video module contains unacceptable code that creates unwanted and hidden SEO link spam. The code is present in both their Drupal module and their WordPress plugin (which has gone unnoticed for quite some time). Interestingly enough, the same is not found in their MediaWiki plugin, because I can only assume they were paid to write that one.

It is stunning (and kinda funny) to think that some people still believe they can get away with such a dirty and nasty practice, especially in open source software. At the time of this post, the company has yet to respond in either of the posts in their forums (linked above). Anyone not wanting to be punished by Google and lose rankings should probably disable the module immediately. This is just another reason why I will always recommend to do a quick read of a module's source code before you use it. The offending code is in the full post if you'd like to check it out yourself. Read more