Comments on: What Google Knows About Spam

By: Julie Francis

Julie Francis — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:36:53 +0000

First I’d like to say that quality content is notably valued by Google and that it gets indexed and can rank quite highly with almost no optimization (via links) under certain conditions, if for example the keywords being targeted are low in competition and the content is highly relevant to the search term. So thanks to Google for making this possible.

What I find difficult to do, is to optimize an article that provides quality content on a topic for which there is high competition and no single obvious keyword phrase. It could be a truly excellent article and never ever be seen because its on a SER page 582. The article is relevant to the site topic but specific to its own subtopic. If it were read perhaps it could garner links – hence bookmarking linkbuilding – which if done personally is a form of spam.

If anyone can suggest a non spam way of bringing such quality content to the attention of people who might read it, and link to it, I’d love to know about it.

By: Siva

Siva — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:43:41 +0000

I couldn’t see the video .. it is streaming only but not playing
Any direct links pls?

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 03 May 2010 13:16:11 +0000

Hey, the video was sound,
I have had loads of unique hits from China, seems to look like some kind of spam?
Does anyone know whats going on?

By: Francis Scriven

Francis Scriven — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:48:40 +0000

I don’t really see the point that SEO or paying someone to do SEO for you is not the same as spamming. The whole point of pagerank, which still is so important for Google, is that it is based on a presumption that links coming into your site are out of your control and therefore they should count as a vote towards the authority of your site. However, if you do have control of links coming in then you are dispruting that basic concept. Those people with the greatest money or resources are disrupting or manipulating page rank. Imagine I have a very relevant page for the user’s search terms but my links are not there because I’ve not had the money to employ an SEO team, my page will most likely be further down in the rankings. Link building is the de facto method of achieving high search rankings in Google, how can this be?

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:44:22 +0000

Google needs to start clamping down on repetition across and within domains. Many many site owners (especially web designers) create multiple sites where the only page text that changes is a reference to the business location.
This lot have covered almost the entire UK.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=%22superb+value+website+design+service%22&btnG=Search&meta=&aq=f&oq=
Returns 160+ index’d sites all with practically identical page text.
Why isn’t google doing anything about this sort of thing?

By: Fincas en Venta

Fincas en Venta — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:42:51 +0000

Question…

I did comment some nice photos on Panoramio and in one or two days I got dozens of links coming into my site, I understand that It happened because did write my link, that´s ok, however and because Panoramio´s system my comments multiplied by 4 times more or less to other users´s comments…

Is this Spam?

By: Kenny

Kenny — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:24:13 +0000

Question is what does Google do about a Gmail Account Holder spamming many Google Groups over a week?

And the answer is NOTHING, even those The Gmail Account Holder have reported many times to Google, in fact not doing anything Google is helping the spammer and if so how much commission does Google get from the spammer?

By: Karl

Karl — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:47:23 +0000

Hi!

The more spam there was, the richer Google got.

from http://www.scroogle.org/bubble.html

?comments

Karl

PS: I try to say it at all ways; but no reaction:

Globalisation Ballet is dancing in Heiligendamm the expensive dance of NoDecision.

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:39:16 +0000

Spam is the ONLY way to ma to make money on the web
I live in poor country and my family is the most important to me
You live in comfort and can smile all the way to the bank

What is better?

1. Spend HALF year optimizing site for few keywords and loose first position overnight because someone do it better

2. Made mass pages and after 5 days make 10 to 20 $ a day

Really – 2 options is the ONLY logical choice for thinking peoples

Regards

By: Steve Regal

Steve Regal — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:25:00 +0000

I have noticed more and more instances of fake press releases showing up on google lately.

For example a company posts a link to a press release about being honored by an association, then they link to the associations website.

You go to the associations website listed in the press release and find out through a whois that the domain was just recently created, and owned by the company who the press release was about.