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[ImVickieB]

You would think that they would try tweaking the algo so the problem would be fixed instead of fixing it for a single case.

http://www.google.co...=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

It looks like the algo change did NOTHING to hurt these spammers and their listings. The company, the 6 (!!) pages of listings redirect to, covets a top spot for the search term "pregnancy tests" now when they didn't were not ranked for that term at all before the changes occurred. It would appear that google kicked legit sites out of the top listings and the spammers still won.

You can't say that those results are relevant for the term searched for.

Yeah, I know. Sour Grapes.

[Mel]

...But eventually (perhaps now?) sites like these are going to have to start being randomly rotated throughout the top of the SERPs...

Hi Jill;
This is an interesting idea, is it just an idea or is there something about it in one of the threads that I missed?

[Scottie]

It's just an idea Jill and I have been batting around... the reason the dance hasn't "settled" yet may be because it isn't going to.