You've probably noticed that the AdjunctWorld blog has been missing over the past several weeks. Here's why...
An automated 'bot' at Google (host of the blog) decided that it was SPAM. Google says a SPAM blog "...can be recognized by their irrelevant, repetitive, or nonsensical text, along with a large number of links, usually all pointing to a single site."
I ask you, did you think the AdjunctWorld blog was SPAM? Or did you find it a valuable resource that supported your search for new Adjunct jobs?
If you'd like to see the AdjunctWorld blog return, please leave a brief comment below and/or VOTE in the poll to the right. I'll share this with Google as part of appealing this mistake. Hopefully it will help them see the error in their ways.
Thanks again for being a part of the AdjunctWorld Community and your continued support!
Matt Cobb
Founder, AdjunctWorld
Leave this alone you clods!
ReplyDeleteAdjunctWorld is a valuable resource for online instructors. Bring it back!
ReplyDeleteAdjunct World is a valuable site for teachers to connect to and find open teaching position. Reinstate this site
ReplyDeleteAdjunct world has helped many people find employment. It most certainly is not spam!
ReplyDeleteAdjunct World is a legitimate site, not spam! Mr. Google, take down that wall!
ReplyDeleteI have found this blog helpful for seeking employment, and learning about online ed.
ReplyDeleteAdjunct Work is not spam! It is a great resource for those of us who are working as adjuncts. Please allow it come back online.
ReplyDeleteI meant "Adjunct World".........message is still the same, however!!
DeleteThis site is a great tool for new online instructors- please bring it back.
Deletegg
This Adjunct work site is very useful for those looking for temporary jobs for a short period of time .
DeleteH.S.
Please give us back this great tool and hats off to Matt for giving us this site Joan
DeletePlease bring back adjunct world. It is a very valuable tool in that I and everyone else can visibly see the jobs that are available online and also see where the needs are in specific areas. We need this kind of information online.
DeleteI found my new job because of and through AdjunctWorld blog..... so please bring it back.... pretty please....
DeleteI AGREE with everyone. This is a spectacular web site and so great for job leads! I love it and want it back!
DeleteAdjunct World is a valuable resource. I have never received any 'junk mail' or SPAM from the site. It is one of very few legitimate resources for online employment and should be allowed to continue to be.
DeleteDear Google --
ReplyDeletePlease remove your block against the Adjunct World blog.
Adjunct World is a wonderful resource and it is as far from spam as a blog site can be.
Matt Cobb, Adjunct World's founder, is a conscientious blogger who has always been careful to provide service only to those who request it. He is a NOT a spammer and your arbitrary software program that blocked Adjunct World made a genuine mistake, which I hope you will correct immediately.
You owe Matt and his Adjunct World community a big apology.
Thank you for your immediate attention and correction.
Sincerely,
Guy
MyHelpSource
Update:
DeleteI also wrote to one of Google's feedback portals to request that they reopen Adjunct World. Of course, they neither make it easy to write to them nor provide a name or department with which you can follow-up, so my request may have gone straight to the trash.
In any event, I hope you're back up soon on a better platform, Matt.
Onward!
Guy
Adjunct World is a site I checked regularly as a valuable resource for me as an adjunct professional. Google needs to reconfigure their policies if they are getting rid of valuable sites like Adjunct World.
ReplyDeleteMatt --
ReplyDeleteWhile I believe you've been wronged by Google here and I admit that it really isn't my business, may I suggest that you move your blog to another platform?
To be honest, your blog is far too valuable to be parked on Google's system. I believe you could eliminate many of the Blogger hassles and deliver your message to a much wider audience if you were to register adjunctworld.com and build your blog using WordPress or TypePad (full disclosure: I use TypePad, but have no financial stake or affiliate relationship with that platform).
I admit that moving a blog can be a real hassle, but Adjunct World is better than Google's platform.
In any event, whatever you do, I wish you the very best in your endeavors.
Onward and Upward!
Guy
MyHelpSource
By the way, Google's errant--and may I say, ignorant--blocking of Adjunct World makes me wonder what other excellent content they've decided fails to meet their "standards."
ReplyDeleteI'm just sayin'...
Guy
Please restore Adjunct World's blog. It is not spam.
ReplyDeleteThank you,
kb
Google, this was a very helpful resource in identifying potential job opportunities in an industry that's very difficult to find a "one stop shop" for quality job leads.
ReplyDeletePlease reverse the decision made by a machine.
JU
Memphis, TN
Please restore Adjunct World - it's a great resource and not spam.
ReplyDeleteBring it back!
ReplyDeleteI have to add my voice to urging Google to restore AdjunctWorld. There are jobs that I've been able to apply for that I wouldn't have known existed if it weren't for this site. And in this tough economy, that *HAS* to say something. So whomever made the error of deciding that this online resource is spam - please change course! We adjuncts need all the help we can get!
ReplyDeleteThis is an amazing website and I can't believe it is gone. This MUST be an error. Please bring it back! I have gotten jobs from this site that I never would have found without this -- I have my livelihood thanks to this site! Again, bring it back!!
ReplyDeletePlease allow adjunct world to come back, it is a valuable resource. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteAdjunct World is NOT SPAM. It is a great resource I have used to find adjunct teaching jobs. If anyone would have looked at the posts they provided your would have seen the value. Bring it back!
ReplyDeleteI miss Adjunct World. It's sad that it is viewed as spam when it is, in fact, a blog I relied upon to help aid in my search for work in the field of education.
ReplyDeleteDear Google team administrators;
ReplyDeleteAdjunctworld is NO spam. It is a good resource for online instructors. I have applied for jobs through them before. If HigherEdjobs.com is not considered spam why would Google label
Adjunctworld spam? I wonder what criteria Google uses to label a site spam. Please, bring Adjunctworld back.
I looked forward to my Adjunctworld updates!
ReplyDeleteGoogle
ReplyDeleteThis is not spam!
It is a very good resource for online jobs, so PLEASE BRING IT BACK.
I'm trying to break into online teaching, and I found this site to be most helpful. I wondered why the link was broken, now I know why. Google, please admit you made a mistake and bring the blog back. I've missed it.
ReplyDeleteAdjunct world helped me get an online teaching position. I was wondering what happended to the sight.
ReplyDeleteGoogle, you have made a grave mistake! Remove your Spam block on AdjunctWorld. It is a valuable resource for all of us in the educational field and Matt Cobb has been a God-send to us all.
ReplyDeleteDo yourself and all those in the educational arena a favor and reinstate AdjunctWorld in the respectable position of a valid and verifiable resource for educators.
Great blog with relevant information. Especially for people looking for legitimate online teaching opportunities. This is a resource that is needed (and was used heavily). Definitely not SPAM, please bring it back!
ReplyDeleteI agree with an earlier post whose comment was, "Leave this blog alone you clods!" I rely on it for new information pertaining to my job search! Butt out and go after the real spammers!
ReplyDeletenot spam!
ReplyDeleteAdjunct World has been a great resource, not spam.
ReplyDeleteI have found Adjunct World a great resource. I can't imagine how it could be defined as spam.
ReplyDeleteIt's not Spam. Now FOX News, that's Spam!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations for displaying your ignorance in the midst of an important effort to reinstate Matt Cobb and his good work!!!
DeleteGoogle's algorithms may be stupid, and this site is one of the most valuable resources on the Internet!
ReplyDeleteBring it back, it is one of the best resources we have as instructors on the Internet!
ReplyDeleteThis is an important professional resource blog for those of us who teach online, which is a steadily increasing community of employed college and university professors.
ReplyDeleteBring back AdjunctWorld. It was a valuable resource and is sorely missed!
ReplyDeleteAdjunctWorld is not spam. Please remove your block. And perhaps consider having a human being check up on your robot's activities!
ReplyDeleteAdjunctWorld is a part of our world. Thanks to Matt for bringing us together. Please bring it back ASAP!!
ReplyDeletePlease restore the blog. It is most definitely not spam. This is important to us who teach online.
ReplyDeleteI find Adjunct World to be a very useful tool, please do not remove this valuable resource.
ReplyDeleteI think Google had better spend it's time addressing FAR more serious issues (child porn online, terrorism online, to name but a few) rather than thwarting a bunch of adjuncts' attempts to connect with each other. Get real. Maybe this robot thing (instead of actual human oversight) is the reason the more sinister websites are thriving and this blog has been kicked to the curb...? Give us our blog back, please! Perhaps a group-wide disabling of all Google toolbars and searches would be in order if this is not reinstated! I teach computer classes and I'm sure my students would love to protest something. I'm kidding about the disablement of toolbars and protests (sort of.) Really, please bring it back - adjuncts are already tortured, abused and disrespected enough. Have mercy on us (please?) :-)
ReplyDeleteGoogle...wake up.
ReplyDeletePrior comment submitted by Matt Lit, adjunct faculty and Vice President of Adjunct Affairs, Colorado Mountain College.
ReplyDeleteWe poor adjuncts need any help we can get. I miss Adjunct World and want to see it return.
ReplyDeleteChristina Hitchcock
Southern New Hampshire Univeristy
Manchester (NH) Community College.
Keep the site alive...One of the few regular posts that offer true leads
ReplyDeletePlease bring AdjunctWorld back!
ReplyDeletePlease bring AdjunctWorld back!
ReplyDeleteIt was a one stop shop form searching form online teaching jobs. It was definitely a vaulable resource. Please bring it back!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteIt was a one stop shop form searching form online teaching jobs. It was definitely a vaulable resource. Please bring it back!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteGoogle one word for your arrogance;
ReplyDeleteANTI-TRUST !
Now give use back our blog
Adjuncts need all the help they can get.trust me I know because I have taught as an adjunct for 14 years in Calif.Please allow them their blog!
ReplyDeleteDr Ramseyer
EdD
This is a great site with useful information. Please save this blog. Dr. E
ReplyDeletePlease keep AdjunctWorld afloat! We need all the help we can get!
ReplyDeleteThose of us trying to find jobs don't want Google making it harder!
ReplyDeleteThis is a great site. It is very informative with good useful information for adjuncts.
ReplyDeleteGreat site
ReplyDeleteGreat site
ReplyDeleteThe Adjunct World blog is a valuable resource and a legitimate blog for online adjunct professors. The site is in no way connected to spam. I hope Google reconsiders their error and allows the blog to be reinstated.
ReplyDeleteAdjunct World blog is a valuable resource for me as a adjunct professor. Please bring it back!!
ReplyDeleteAdjunct world blog is a valuable resource for me, please bring it back.
ReplyDeletePlease remove the block and allow Adjunct world blog to return it is a very valuable resource.
ReplyDeleteAdjunctWorld is a beneficial resource that I have used as an adjunct and as an administrator hiring adjuncts. It is not spam and I have missed seeing it. Please bring it back. LuAnne Holder
ReplyDeleteAdjunct world is a viable resource for persons who are qualified to teach College or University courses. It gives us a one stop shop if you will to have an idea of where to search for position. Please remove the block and bring the Adjunct World Blog back. Thanks in advance for your time and consideration of this issue.
ReplyDeleteWilda Smith
Oh please correct this mistake! I rely on this source among others to find employment. This site is not SPAM!
ReplyDeleteThis is a needed source. Please bring it back.
ReplyDeleteAdjunctWorld is not spam, please remove the block and allow the blog to continue as it is a huge resource for many.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great resource for instructors. This error needs to be corrected.
ReplyDeletePlease allow this blog to come back as it is the only resource available where online adjunct jobs are posted! This site streamlines job searches!
ReplyDeleteAdjunct teaching jobs are advertised in a wide variety of venues. Adjunct World did a great job aggregating the content in one place, which is an asset for busy online educators. Please remove this from your spam category.
ReplyDeletePlease don't block Adjunct World, it is a valuable networking resource for adjunct faculty.
ReplyDeletePlease do not block a great resource for us.
ReplyDeleteAdjunct World announced the job that I start on July 10th. If not for Adjunct World, I'd still be among the under/unemployed in our country. Please leave this site alone...they are providing a valuable service to those of us who need it, desperately.
ReplyDeleteOne of the most valuable tools out there for adjunct faculty!
ReplyDeleteI definitely miss the valuable information pro vided by this blog. Not spam at all!
ReplyDeletePlease bring back AdjunctWorld. AdjunctWorld is a great tool!
ReplyDeleteAdjunctWorld is not spam! It allows those of us in higher education to share resources and information. Please allow it to come back.
ReplyDeleteThis comment has been removed by a blog administrator.
ReplyDeleteSeems the bot and its maker has a job... whereas, I don't. This is a source of information for those looking for work...
ReplyDeleteThe Adjunct community by definition is a broadly dispersed and diverse group; AdjunctWorld is a very helpful source of information. I certainly support restoring it as soon as possible. Larry Chandler, PhD
ReplyDeleteAdjunctWorld is not spam!! It is a valuable resource for those of us in the teaching profession. Please allow it to come back.
ReplyDeleteAdjunctWorld blog is a great resource I use quite often! You "bot" is wrong on being spam. I get a great deal of spam that makes it through my filtered email everyday, ADJUNCTWORLD IS NOT SPAM!!
ReplyDeletePlease bring it back!
AdjunctWorld certainly is not a spam. I used the excel spreadsheet Matt provided and obtained an adjunct position. Without this resource and services Matt provided, I would not have known of this opportunity. Please return AdjunctWorld back where adjuncts can have a voice and resources.
ReplyDeleteKim
Please leave alone. This is not spam and it helps us find jobs as adjuncts.
ReplyDeleteJay
I found my first online gig through AdjunctWorld. It is a great resource.
ReplyDeleteAdjunct World is an extremely valuable tool for online adjunct who are trying keep abreast of what is going on in the world of online teaching. Adjunct World provides a one stop place for many who are looking for online adjunct teaching opportunities. Please let Adjunct World continue. It is definitely not spam.
ReplyDeleteNate
AdjunctWorld is NOT spam and it has greatly helped me find jobs within higher education. Matt does a great job in giving individuals the ability to find work, I would think a huge corporation would appreciate his efforts. But, when technology has the ability to make a decision, we all see what occurs.
ReplyDeleteAdjunct World is a valuable resource for online adjunct and not a spam.
ReplyDeletePlease restore the Adjunct World, it is not a spam!!
Sophie
To whom it may concern:
ReplyDeleteAdjunct World is an important source for the Online teaching social community. Please be so kind as to restore it.
Sincerely,
Mark Kass, Ph.D.
This comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDeleteAdjunct world is NOT SPAM, it is the best place for finding jobs in higher education. Matt Cobb has helped to us in finding jobs. As professionals in education, many of us found jobs on campus or online. IT IS NOT SPAM is a great resource
ReplyDeleteAdjunct world is not spam! I have subscribed to it for a reason, and I found an online position through adjunct world.
ReplyDeletePlease bring it back!
We need more Adjunct Worlds to help the online instructor.
ReplyDeleteAdjunct World provides information and job seek-opportunities for many people pursuing teachin careers.
ReplyDeleteIt is a valuable source. Tom Roka
Adjunct World is needed and appreciated, and I question why Google would think otherwise. It is not spam but a valuable resource for all who work so hard.
ReplyDeleteAdjunctWorld is a valuable resource for online instructors. It is NOT spam!
ReplyDeleteAdjunct World is a valuable resource for current and future online instructors. Bring it back! Pick on some of the other junk that bombards me and leave helpful sites alone!
ReplyDeleteHoping that a real person at Google will see these comments, I add mine to the rest: AdjunctWorld is NOT spam, is a valuable resource for the ubiquitously unemployed adjunct professors, and is a responsible blog. The irreponsible ones here are the Google uninformed programmers! How dare you make arbitrary and harmful decisions like this one and let go the most egregious blogs and sites?!! I am signing this as "Anonymous" in order to protect my own postings as much as possible from Google and its goons.
ReplyDeleteBeing it back!
ReplyDeleteThis is a most valuable site for those of us who depend on the research Matt has done.
ReplyDeleteAdjunctWorld is a valuable resource for those of us seeking teaching opportunities. Please bring it back.
ReplyDeleteBring back Adjunct World. It is not spam.
ReplyDeleteAdjunctWorld is a valuable site, an exceptional resource for adjunct educators. It is not spam.
ReplyDeleteI love Adjunct World! Great site:)
ReplyDeleteAdjucntWorld is a site that offers valuable information. I agree there is too much repetition with the reposting of every single comment.
ReplyDeleteIsn't the blogosphere for everybody including those of us who teach as a second profession? Bring it back Google. What are you thinking?
ReplyDeleteGoogle, what are you thinking? This is a valuable tool for those of us in the academic profession. It is NOT spam!
ReplyDeleteGoogle folks,
ReplyDeletePlease restore AdjunctWorld....it is a much appreciated website for those of us looking for employment in the Adjunct Faculty arena. Thanks
MJ
I have truly appreciated the assistance that AdjunctWorld has given to those that are interested in pursuing or currently employed as Adjunct Instructors.
ReplyDeleteI do not see AdjunctWord as a SPAM site. In this day and age when so many people are looking for employment opportunities or the ability to share their skills with other why oh why would AdjunctWorld get stripped from our Online community?
Useful resource for adjunct faculty. Please restore Adjunct World.
ReplyDeleteTO: The Googleplex
ReplyDeleteIt was not evil for your bot to boot this blog but it will be evil if one of your humans does not bring it back. Don't be evil.
Free James Brown...er, I mean free Adjunct World!
ReplyDeleteI lecture on SEO. Google had better learn the difference between a spam blog and a masterful blog full of valuable content that benefits a profession. Restore Adjunct World IMMEDIATELY!
ReplyDeleteIt is not SPAM! Everyone who uses it has a genuine need to look for adjunct jobs and grateful that we've found this site. It is also an informative resource to discuss job trends and responsibilities. Without it, I for one, have had difficulty communicating with online adjunct professionals. Please restore it immediately.
ReplyDeleteI strongly urge that Google reinstate Adjunct World. It has been an aid for countless instructors finding part- and full-time teaching positions. Thank you.
ReplyDeletePlease bring it back!!! It is valuable and definitely not spam!!!!
ReplyDeleteThis site is an important way for adjunct faculty who make up nearly 60% of the faculty at most community colleges to connect with one another and to share resources and open teaching positions.
ReplyDeleteI had been looking for an online adjunct teaching opportunity for years. AdjunctWorld exposed me to many online teaching opportunities and I FINALLY secured an online teaching position. I thank Matt Cobb and AdjunctWorl for making this possible. Please keep AdjunctWorld alive!
ReplyDeleteMatt Cobb is a blessing to the Adjunct Community. Please bring it back. We support him and the blog.
ReplyDeleteBest,
Gloria
Adjunct World is an important resource for those seeking employment for adjunct teaching opportunities. Please bring back this important resource.
ReplyDeleteValencia Wiggins
4Woven
I'm very upset in founding out that you have blocked a valuable site. Adjunct world has been an important blog for online adjunct teachers, please bring it back.
ReplyDeletethank you.
Dr. I.
Please bring back AdjunctWorld blog. It is NOT spam.
ReplyDeleteAdjunct World provided a valuable resource to those of us who teach part time at the college or university level. It is a one of a kind resource and a loss to adjuncts. Please, reinstate this site.
ReplyDeleteAdjunctWorld is a valuable resource for online instructors. Bring it back! It is not Spam it is a great tool for job seekers!
ReplyDeleteWe teach more higher education classes than anyone else. We need more of the kind of resource that Adjunct World represents,and moreover, a national union.
ReplyDeleteThis site is not spam! It is a valuable tool/resource for those teaching professionals who looking for opportunities to teach at higher education online Universities.
ReplyDeleteAdjunct World is the only group that helps adjuncts find work. I cannot understand why you would block this group and not porn sites. Who judges what should be removed?
ReplyDeleteBRING IT BACK!!!!!
AdjunctWorld is not spam! I find it very useful as a full-time adjunct faculty member to have support and motivation to keep on teaching at (count 'em) 11 different schools!
ReplyDeleteI found AdjunctWorld to be a very valuable part of the social network. The blog shared very useful information to those of us in the teaching field. Please consider re-instating the blog.
ReplyDeleteAdjunctWorld is a terrific site and has given me multiple leads for Adjunct Professor positions online. The blog is a great resource!! This is not spam.
ReplyDeletePlease bring this back. It's a great resource for online instructors.
ReplyDeletePlease we use Google so much and did appreciate what you have done. Thank you for considering and hopfully bringing it back
ReplyDeleteThere is no legitimate reason why this blog should not be allowed to continue as before. It is not offensive or spam and it offers a valuable service to its followers.
ReplyDeleteI hate google and its SPAM bots that leave thousands of other sites alone but actual sites that help people they want to take down. This is censorship and needs to be ended!
ReplyDeletethis is a valuable resource for adjunct faculty, please bring it back and leave it alone!
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ReplyDeleteGoggle, you guys are morons. Sure you people don't work for the government, say the Social Security Administration or the VA? Matt has been a valuable resources for so many adjuncts looking to find work as online instructors and what happens? You imbeciles block his site. For all that is sacred, bring it back online and leave it alone
ReplyDeleteWe opted in, Google, to be a member of the Adjunct World community, which Matt has generously donated his time and expertise to creating, connecting, and maintaining! All bloggers should be so relevant!
ReplyDeleteWe opted in, Google, to be a member of the Adjunct World community, which Matt has generously donated his time and expertise to creating, connecting, and maintaining! All bloggers should be so relevant!
ReplyDeletePlease bring back Adjunct World!
ReplyDeleteThis is ridiculous! This is one of the most informative sites I keep on my subscription list. The blog needs to be reinstated.
ReplyDeleteDr. Callie
This is one of the valid and useful sites - we need it!!
ReplyDeleteVery helpful site- please bring it back :)
ReplyDeleteGoogle needs to adjust it's bots. AW is not spam
ReplyDeleteAdjunct World is a helpful site to instructors looking for part-time work. It is not Spam.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with others that if Google doesn't get it together, then please move it to another platform that won't be censored.
Google is beginning to disappoint.
This is a great website for adjunct faculty. I have found several jobs because of Adjunct World.
ReplyDeleteThis is not spam!!! This is such a valuable resource!
ReplyDeletePlease bring this blog back.
ReplyDeleteAre you kidding me! This blog helped out adjuncts a great deal. It's definitely not spam, it's a great resource for adjunct jobs.
ReplyDeleteI agree that your site is a good resource for current and potential adjunct instructors.
ReplyDeleteSince when is a site that helps adjunct instructors find work spam? Matt works hard to help us find the openings and I appreciate it.
ReplyDeleteAdjunct World is a highly needed and utilized resource. Please allow this site to continue delivering part-time college instructors this important job information.
ReplyDeleteA great resource, not SPAM. Please return it!!
ReplyDeleteThis many instructors/job seekers agree Adjunct World is needed, wanted, and deserved. We did not ask for it to be censored or blocked. Please do not intrude on something that helps facilitate our livelihoods.
ReplyDeleteBring this back!!! Target the real spam crap we get bombarded with and leave educational blogs alone!
ReplyDeleteI use Adjunct World for job searching.
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ReplyDeletePlease bring back, this is not spam but a valuable job searching tool.
ReplyDeleteHow does "google" remove the site from the internet? I thought only the ISP host could block that.
ReplyDeleteI think it is a good site, and should be allowed to continue.