Comments on: Webspam projects in 2010?

By: Mary

Mary — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 15:00:32 +0000

I wish that there was a way Google could filter out of results those articles and pages which are stolen and badly spun content. I get so sick of seeing my own articles which I worked hard on rehased, sounding like junk and ending up ahead of the original in the results.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 06:34:02 +0000

I had to delete 700 spam posts in one week on one of my sites, I eventually got a plugin to disable comments, between writing articles, research, manual backlinking one just do not feel like going through all those spam comments. I have reported quite a few sites for spam, but two of them still rank higher than my site on Google, I have come across 15 of their spam comments on my blogs. Feels like you are banging you head against a wall doesn’t it.

Honest people get a kick in the behind.

By: Juansterism

Juansterism — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 02:09:21 +0000

On the back of Daniel’s concerns. His attitude to this idea sucks “I would understand if the Google algorithm had a flaw and this worked against Mom and Pops shops, but this is no Mom and Pops”
What’s wrong with Mom and Pop shops, Daniel? They’ve been the backbone of the web since Alta Vista days and Vax Notes. OK they’re an outdated type of site, but what puts your own Inc 1000, 2000, 3000 whatever in charge? Do you have a moratorium? Stop being so crazy. If you have the wonga you don’t need Googs and ranking. You should have built your own traffic system by now. Oh, did you forget to do that?
JG

By: Alex Final

Alex Final — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:00:27 +0000

I would like a stronger filter on blog post. Their are so many computer generated comments that you have to go through and delete its extremely annoying.

By: nks srikanth

nks srikanth — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 05:52:14 +0000

Personal Blocklist chrome extension is really a great one.

Thank you Mattcutts

By: Comment Spam

Comment Spam — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:39:02 +0000

Here’s a project:
Why don’t you investigate every single link that has been added to this page?

You’ve got a trusted domain and people are taking advantage of the fact that you follow the links in the messages here.
You are directly contributing to the problem that you’re asking about and you’re allowing people to manipulate Google results.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 15:35:32 +0000

Matt,

I’m extremely worried and concerned about the way Google is handling these link spam reports and link spam in general.

Especially how you can sabotage your competition by link spamming and then reporting them.

A few weeks ago, we noticed an unusual trend of hundreds of incoming links coming to our website via Webmaster Tools. We noticed they were not very good links. We thought to ourselves “It must be a competitor trying to sabotage us, but there is no way Google would allow an Inc. 5000 corporation to get delisted by such shady tactics”. We were wrong.

Fast forward one week, the home page of our Inc. 1000 company is completely gone from the Google index even for our name (feel free to check, the website is in the e-mail I used to submit this comment). I would understand if the Google algorithm had a flaw and this worked against Mom and Pops shops, but this is no Mom and Pops.

Later, another friend of mine in the SEO industry told me that this is actually very easy to do. That his company has been delisting client’s competitors like clockwork in the past 6 months by doing similar things.

The only way to solve this is if the algorithm discounts bad links, instead of sandboxing altogether because of them…

Matt, I’m very worried about this. Not only because of our website (which we will have to go public and issue press releases if this isn’t solved soon), but also because if this becomes public knowledge, results will become completely irrelevant in the best search engine.

Thank you for your attention,

Daniel

By: Angsuman Chakraborty

Angsuman Chakraborty — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 04:57:01 +0000

Thanks Steven, I second your opinion:
“But why stop there? Instead of dropping the ranking of sites Google doesn’t want showing up in it’s SERPs for whatever reasons, wouldn’t it be better to directly tell webmasters what you DO want and suggest changes to help them rank better? Webmaster tools already informs webmasters of missing title tags or short meta descriptions but what about showing pages Google deems over optimized or pages Google feels are lacking content or can be improved in some way to help them rank better.

I think Google employees should try to put themselves in the shoes of a webmaster trying to build a well ranking site with very little advice from Google but 100 trillion pieces of bad information provided by SEO blogs and forums which almost all encourage black hat activity. It’s hard to build a quality website when you have no idea what Google actually considers “quality”.”

Google should work on ways to reduce collateral damage to innocent sites. It should initiate dialog, maybe for a fee, when the webmasters cannot genuinely find what’s wrong with their sites and at least provide some pointers. It isn’t right to be judge-jury and executioner at the same time with no way to appeal or even know what you are being executed for. From webmasters point of view its horrible, plain and simple autocracy at its worst.

By: Marcos

Marcos — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 15:54:33 +0000

Love to see spammy techniques as this one out of the index:
http://www.depilacao-laser.net/depilacao-a-laser-com-psoriase/?cid=27
These guys are ranking top 1 using these techniques. I agree some sites get out of the index after a Webmasters Tool report, while others stay there for ages. Even Adsense is misused in these pages.

By: G

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:37:40 +0000

Another year goes by… and still we see sites buying links from dodgy sites and Google still ranks them, ie:
http://www.ergoresources.org/
http://mymediacomhome.com/
http://www.redistrictusa.com/
http://www.arrugadas.com/
IMHO and I share this freely, if Google can’t/won’t deal with this it’s time to sell Google shares…