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Twitter Question of the WeekSeptember 22, 2010 What type of search engine spam do you see still working well in Google? Here are their responses: moreSEOtips: Paid/blogroll links from foreign websites – impacting English .com site results. lookadoo: Link farms, #1 & #2 above authority domains. piconsulting: Local dupe sites with different keyword-heavy domains and 95% dupe content with only Cityname, State changed still work well.  GrpTwentySeven: Keyword stuffing still seems to work, unfortunately! <BIG sigh> ann_donnelly: Still see a lot of scraped sites, syndicated articles without proper credit, fed into sites with loads of AdSense ads. ETeare: Holiday theme pages that send you to a virus. Sometimes with school/libraries in the URL, so you think you're safe. I80equipment09: Lots of spam blogs/scraper sites in conjunction with link farms for the purpose of Adsense revenue. forestsoftware: Pages with hidden text, mainly using hidden divs that are never turned visible. marcusbowlerhat: Single page sites for each service with all sites linking back to one main site. While main one doesn’t rank so well, individual gateway pages do. Want to participate in the Twitter Question of the Week? Follow @jillwhalen on Twitter Post Comment  Jill Whalen said: @andy, buying links count as spam to Google (if you don't mark them as such) but they're just ads, imo. SEO Specialist said: spam looking blog comments links are also working well with google rankings Jill Whalen said: Not at this blog, SEO Specialist, because I remove spammy links such as yours. (Even though they're nofollowed anyway.) Add Your Comments |
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Does buying links count as spam? Otherwise those annoying newsletters that pop up and are difficult to surpress.