bikeman
Joined: Feb 13, 2005
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Posted: 2006-Jun-27 12:15
I have noticed that a large number of websites (mainly web designers) are getting good rankings by doing the following:
1. Create a page with hundreds of links to 'website design in town1', 'website design in town2' etc etc.
2. Each of the links lead to identical pages which differ only in the fact that they each use the specific town name in the intro text.
Surely this must be considered spam? If so why do these sites feature so prominently in search results with google, msn etc
thanks
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kaulbr
Joined: Mar 15, 2006
# Posts: 275
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Posted: 2006-Jun-27 15:02
That is definitely spam. If SEs aren't catching it, they will soon. New spamming techniques will always be developed and SEs will also figure them out.
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SportsGuy
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Joined: Aug 30, 2002
# Posts: 3603
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Posted: 2006-Jun-27 15:55
Yes - it's spammy. They will be found out an penalized.
DO NOT go this route.
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philh
Joined: Sep 14, 2001
# Posts: 3050
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Posted: 2006-Jun-27 18:07
Yes it's spam, but dont expect it to go away anytime soon.
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ujwal1983
Joined: Apr 26, 2006
# Posts: 32
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Posted: 2006-Jun-28 02:50
hi,
That was good suggesion, but what happens if he add some deffernet content in all pages like town descripton that can defferenciate the pages a bit. will he be out of danger?
thanks and regards
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webmasterlabor_com_
Joined: Jun 15, 2006
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Posted: 2006-Jun-28 06:49
Definitely smells spammy. Repetitive. Not much original content.
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bikeman
Joined: Feb 13, 2005
# Posts: 130
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Posted: 2006-Jun-28 11:28
Thought so but the users of this method do get top ranking. If it's so obvioulsy spam why aren't Google's bots spotting it quickly?
It's so tempting.
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kaulbr
Joined: Mar 15, 2006
# Posts: 275
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Posted: 2006-Jun-28 15:39
SEs will figure it out though. Imagine how tough it is for SEs to figure out these thousands of spamming techniques that spammers come up with all the time. Eventually they will and those sites will be penalized. It's better to just do it the right way the first time. SEO is something that happends over a long time. You don't want to do something like this and have to start back at square 1 someday when SEs figure out what you are doing.
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philh
Joined: Sep 14, 2001
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Posted: 2006-Jun-28 16:27
Agree with kaulbr.
What goes around comes around - eventually...
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SportsGuy
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Joined: Aug 30, 2002
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Posted: 2006-Jun-28 16:30
Always best to stay away from anything that smells spammy - stick with white hat and see the slow, steady, long-term results.
...or, grab a few shortcuts and pay the piper at some point...
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galway
Joined: Apr 26, 2004
# Posts: 300
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Posted: 2006-Jun-28 17:56
Frankly I am amazed this is working, it smells of 'spam 2002 style' which was pretty well hammered by Google and Yahoo.
The real problem in the end though is whether the traffic this generates (albeit temporarily) is worth the long term problems when G gets you in its focus.
Lets face it these pages are pretty low in value when you arrive at them, most people make a split second decision as to whether they stay or not.
My opinion is that the end result is long term wilderness for short term gain, especially due to poor quality delivery to the person landing.
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andhrastudent
Joined: Jun 13, 2006
# Posts: 81
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Posted: 2006-Jul-01 10:25
Hi,
No doubt it is spamming. But search engines will not detect spam at a time they will slowly observe the site and they will penalize it. So it will take some time.
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