Comments on: Update on blog spam

By: Zennie

Zennie — Thu, 10 May 2007 21:38:30 +0000

Greetings,

Matt, I support the anti-spam movement. But the new Robots have — by Google’s own system’s admission — detected some, but not all, of my blogs as spam.

Can you help expedite the restoration of my blogs, one of which is at:
http://zennie2005.blogspot.com

….and all are under my email of zennie.abraham@gmail.com

Thanks,

Zennie Abraham

By: Jim Korchinski

Jim Korchinski — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 13:10:17 +0000

When searching for the term edmonton limousine – a site that was using hidden text and reported for 9 months to google before it disappeared from the search results and reappeared after one month of absence – as the third result…..why would that occur ???…..the site was using hidden text on top and bottom of it’s page and also came up first for edmonton limos……..this is confusing as using a black hat technique seems to be rewarding the concerned site. I tagged my site for google verfication and it didn;t seem to help – this hurts honest business people that abide by the google parameters – I am intersted in your comment.

By: Paul the Perth Computer Repair guy

Paul the Perth Computer Repair guy — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:57:34 +0000

As part of the research for trying to get my site to number #1 in google for my favorite keywords, I’ve been keeping track of a website http://www.ansearch.com.au via google alerts which has a very good ranking in alot of areas.

Today my alerts tell me it appears to be through bloggspot.com spamming.. there are dosens of nonsense sites setup on blogspot linking to this website..

So, does that mean to stay ahead of the competition I should do likewise? I ethically dont like the idea of clogging up the net, so what should I do in a situation like this?

I’m #1 in msn and yahoo for my favorite terms, but im still trying to get up there on google.. I’m a beginner with SEO.

By: lowster11

lowster11 — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 03:59:38 +0000

Greetings Matt,
I know this is off topic and may be posted in your blog somewhere, but I was wondering if Google has any comments about the problems the DMOZ has been having for the past 2 months? That seems like a long time to be having server problems?? If they are as quick at getting things fixed as they are at approving sites then you can expect DMOZ to be back up in about 2 – 5 years time or even longer than that.

By: Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 03:58:45 +0000

I’m fine with that extension, Aaron. I like the idea. Thanks for mentioning it.

Utah Internet Marketing, you could use this extension, but the best place to report spam is under the “Tools” box in the webmaster console (search for [webmaster tools] ).

By: veronika

veronika — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 01:18:33 +0000

Can you please ask someone at AdWords to dismiss customers who create splogs and link farms? I can’t tell you how many I’ve run across that have AdWords. What is the percentage of Google revenue that is accumulated by not enforcing content quality? I would say 3-5%. It’s not enough to just remove this spam from the Google index. You need to go to the core — where people make money– and remove it as a motivation to spam. It’s disingenuous to make money from spam while actively proclaiming to be fighting it.

By: Luminosity

Luminosity — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 07:54:36 +0000

Hi Matt,

Do you still find that your site has a high level of spam? I don’t have my own blog so I wasn’t really aware of blog spam as a problem.

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 06:39:08 +0000

Matt, a blog that is created with the sole purpose of reaping ad revenues and capturing search engine results can be called a spam blog. In most of the cases, a spam blog is created/run and maintained by an automated program, which we commonly call ‘bots’. Some spam blogs disguise so well that you sometimes end up reading it for hours !

By: Pratheep

Pratheep — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 04:09:56 +0000

Matt, I agree, blog spaming was low now! Thanks to blogger and Google, i am having a blog and until now it is not spamed

Pratheep

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 04:09:17 +0000

http://digg.com/tech_news/Commission_Junction_Screw_Affiliates_Out_of_Valid_Earnings

So are goggle going to rid the world of shady business pratices like the one above ( CJ ), when they fully launch the CPA Adsense and any idea how many merchants will be included ?

And is this directly targetting middlemen like CJ. Personally I would hope that google won’t be in the business of reversing verified leads.

Sorry I’m a little off topic, but this little story struck too close to home.