Sorry to be so late weighing in on this topic, but I have been fighting a losing battle with a major spammer who gets his results by building fifteen interlinking sites all in slightly different aspects of the same business, interlinking all the sites to each other from every page in every site, and then registering these sites in different names, but some with the same email address, and some with the same physical address and all within fifteen miles of a small Southern town. All are hosted on unique IP addresses on different class C IP blocks and all use the same basic website designs and the same method for hiding a couple of paragraphs of text on the home page of each site.
My client has even gone to far as to fedex letters to the Google top brass, but the sites all remain in the index and all rank well.
My conclusion is that, for whatever reason, Google is at the moment not too interested in removing this type of spam, so long as the search results are relevant.
Does this mean that the bad guys are winning? Not sure who the bad guys are anymore.
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Jennie holland
, Oct 30 2003 02:59 AM
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Posted 10 November 2003 - 11:37 AM
It's amazing, no? That's the exact same stuff Google used to give PR0's to, and now they're winning.
Can't help but figure it's only a matter of time. Isn't it? Gotta be. Hopefully? Maybe?
Can't help but figure it's only a matter of time. Isn't it? Gotta be. Hopefully? Maybe?
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Posted 10 November 2003 - 11:43 AM
Hi Mel,
sorry to hear about your encounters with spammers. I posted earlier in SEO no - nos about a site which has multiple entries in the SERPS, all of which appear different but redirect to the same site. They get high in the listings by using a javascript redirect to cloak a spam filled page of some metasearch engines results with extra repetitions at the bottom. Their prominence in the serps is not going to give any user the relevent results so it would be comforting to think that Google will care but may have a long wait...
Can anyone enlighten me as to why the 3W Hotels site also appear in a search at www.alexa.com for "Hotels in Southern Highlands Australia" (no quotes) with the site info & related links for Cleveland Police Department?
sorry to hear about your encounters with spammers. I posted earlier in SEO no - nos about a site which has multiple entries in the SERPS, all of which appear different but redirect to the same site. They get high in the listings by using a javascript redirect to cloak a spam filled page of some metasearch engines results with extra repetitions at the bottom. Their prominence in the serps is not going to give any user the relevent results so it would be comforting to think that Google will care but may have a long wait...
Can anyone enlighten me as to why the 3W Hotels site also appear in a search at www.alexa.com for "Hotels in Southern Highlands Australia" (no quotes) with the site info & related links for Cleveland Police Department?
Edited by Jentotaltravel, 11 November 2003 - 11:33 AM.
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