Comments on: “Undetectable” spam http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/undetectable-spam/ neat fun stuff Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:35:07 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Timothy Smith http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/undetectable-spam/#comment-410452 Timothy Smith Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:05:54 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/undetectable-spam/#comment-410452 One of the problems white HAT SEO practitioners face is the transparency and accountability of people purposely manipulating search engine rankings. Unfortunately there is no court of law for SEO. I am hoping for a fast interactive system where flagging of penalties where webmasters can flag report infringements and know what penalties they received after all they have got all the benefits of the traffic. One of the problems white HAT SEO practitioners face is the transparency and accountability of people purposely manipulating search engine rankings. Unfortunately there is no court of law for SEO. I am hoping for a fast interactive system where flagging of penalties where webmasters can flag report infringements and know what penalties they received after all they have got all the benefits of the traffic.

]]> By: Jaime http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/undetectable-spam/#comment-404298 Jaime Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:58:58 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/undetectable-spam/#comment-404298 Hi Matt could you please tell me if this is considered spam, <a href="http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=7171888" rel="nofollow">Here</a>. Basically this website has multiple domains all targeting the same keyword linking to each other and the leave comments on sites like the linked site given which is a news site that is not a nofollow. The comment is nothing but an advertisement for their business it helps the viewers with nothing but yet they get a backlink ... is this allowed, can we all do it cause right now these guys are not being penalized. I'm sure if the spam team looked into their network you would see something. Hi Matt could you please tell me if this is considered spam, Here. Basically this website has multiple domains all targeting the same keyword linking to each other and the leave comments on sites like the linked site given which is a news site that is not a nofollow. The comment is nothing but an advertisement for their business it helps the viewers with nothing but yet they get a backlink … is this allowed, can we all do it cause right now these guys are not being penalized. I’m sure if the spam team looked into their network you would see something.

]]> By: Goran Giertz http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/undetectable-spam/#comment-122417 Goran Giertz Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:38:34 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/undetectable-spam/#comment-122417 I see our competitors buying links, doing all sorts of tricks and yet they are still ranking at the top for key keywords. Its hard when customers say why are they there and we cannot bad mouth them for what they do as that in itself is bad business practice. Maybe one day they will loose there ranking. I see our competitors buying links, doing all sorts of tricks and yet they are still ranking at the top for key keywords. Its hard when customers say why are they there and we cannot bad mouth them for what they do as that in itself is bad business practice. Maybe one day they will loose there ranking.

]]> By: John http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/undetectable-spam/#comment-121529 John Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:23:17 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/undetectable-spam/#comment-121529 Interesting article, there seems to be a launch every few months for some software that promises short cuts to getting great results. Interesting article, there seems to be a launch every few months for some software that promises short cuts to getting great results.

]]> By: Paul http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/undetectable-spam/#comment-119988 Paul Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:41:20 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/undetectable-spam/#comment-119988 I guess there is always a new method or software that comes out that promises it is going to get great SERPs but if they work, they don't last long normally. This is just short term stuff. I guess there is always a new method or software that comes out that promises it is going to get great SERPs but if they work, they don’t last long normally. This is just short term stuff.

]]> By: Bruce http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/undetectable-spam/#comment-119734 Bruce Sat, 29 Dec 2007 04:35:49 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/undetectable-spam/#comment-119734 Now this was a good read that just showed up on a business search. Sometimes sometimes finding something like this on a random search is like a belated Christmas present. Now this was a good read that just showed up on a business search. Sometimes sometimes finding something like this on a random search is like a belated Christmas present.

]]> By: çanta http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/undetectable-spam/#comment-117219 çanta Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:10:45 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/undetectable-spam/#comment-117219 good blog thanks. good blog thanks.

]]> By: Mike Curry http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/undetectable-spam/#comment-115725 Mike Curry Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:09:57 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/undetectable-spam/#comment-115725 What about 'unpaid' variations of links embedded in content? I received a request from another site to have them write free articles for my site, in exchange for my leaving their embedded back-links intact. I'm not sure how you would detect that, but it's certainly spam. What about ‘unpaid’ variations of links embedded in content? I received a request from another site to have them write free articles for my site, in exchange for my leaving their embedded back-links intact. I’m not sure how you would detect that, but it’s certainly spam.

]]> By: carrion http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/undetectable-spam/#comment-115217 carrion Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:46:14 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/undetectable-spam/#comment-115217 Since this post is about "undetectable spam" here is something still undetected: xrumer. This bot is used to spam forums and blogs for years to increase spammer's page rank most of the times. Its spam is not hard to detect and still it remains undetected. For example all new registered users have "Location: Tramadol" / "Location: Fioricet" etc., things that are not common for normal posters to have. This week all forums were spammed with this bot using message "this forum moderated by human?" - http://www.google.com/search?q=%22this+forum+moderated+by+human%22 . Probably the author is making a new list with unmoderated forums and blogs to sell a new version. Since this post is about “undetectable spam” here is something still undetected: xrumer. This bot is used to spam forums and blogs for years to increase spammer’s page rank most of the times. Its spam is not hard to detect and still it remains undetected.
For example all new registered users have “Location: Tramadol” / “Location: Fioricet” etc., things that are not common for normal posters to have. This week all forums were spammed with this bot using message “this forum moderated by human?” – http://www.google.com/search?q=%22this+forum+moderated+by+human%22 .
Probably the author is making a new list with unmoderated forums and blogs to sell a new version.

]]> By: SEO Expert Dubai http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/undetectable-spam/#comment-113345 SEO Expert Dubai Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:03:28 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/undetectable-spam/#comment-113345 Hi Matt, Nice stories thanks for sharing, you know people think they are smarter than the search engines and so... :) Hi Matt,

Nice stories thanks for sharing, you know people think they are smarter than the search engines and so… :)

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