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Question: how does somebody end up at this spam page? Google seems to do a good job of filtering stuff like this. It wasn't in the first 10 or so pages of search results for "aaron wall"
The spam page example given in the article is: http://www.mahalo.com/aaronwall Question: how does somebody end up at this spam page? Google seems to do a good job of filtering stuff like this. It wasn't in the first 10 or so pages of search results for "aaron wall"
Second: the idea is not to rank for every page. But the marginal cost of one more page is basically zero. So if even 1% of them rank on page one, the return on investment can be pretty high.
Calacanis is in a tough position, to be honest. He can dial down the quality and automatically get more revenue for no extra money. But he can't reduce the capital expenditure he made to create this system in the first place.
It's sort of like being a janitor, but having a great connection for huge quantities of black tar heroin. You could be a really stand-up guy, but after a while, all the easy money gets tempting...
If Mahalo is alleged to be a scraper site then just let Google handle it. If you think about, if Google delists the site then thats probably their business model gone because Google is like 60% of search Market in the US and higher else where so if Google delists them and take away their Adsense then they are in trouble. So let them taunt Google all they like and then see what happens when the Google Dragon wakes up…
When Aaron Wall hounds them over it, they'll be more likely to make the right decision.
When will we stop hearing about Calacanis and Mahalo? The only thing I take away from the whole thing is how effective manipulating search engines can be. And I already knew this. From blackhat SEOs. The only thing the blackhats haven't taught me is how to get into the Google index and stay there - how are you doing it, Calacanis?
Mahalo is a black hat SEO site, that's given preferential treatment by Google. Any other black hat SEO site would have gotten delisted a month after launching.
Shame on Google algorithms for not automatically being able to detect a page without content. Over the years, my view of the Google's ranking algorithms went from dream-like (they are so smart they understand everything) to infant-like (just a bunch of keyword counters). Obviously there has to be huge complexity involved, so my current view must be pessimistic, but still... Just one (unrelated) example: search for "l…
Damn, you're going to feel pretty foolish if it ends up that either the Indian holy leader or the BA stewardess are among the current leaders in online used car sales.
That being said, just to add fuel to the fire, I did the same search on bing. All results were relevant, unlike Google's. But none of them gave me the answer I was looking for.
When will we stop hearing about Calacanis and Mahalo? The only thing I take away from the whole thing is how effective manipulating search engines can be. And I already knew this. From blackhat SEOs. The only thing the blackhats haven't taught me is how to get into the Google index and stay there - how are you doing it, Calacanis?
If Mahalo is alleged to be a scraper site then just let Google handle it. If you think about, if Google delists the site then thats probably their business model gone because Google is like 60% of search Market in the US and higher else where so if Google delists them and take away their Adsense then they are in trouble. So let them taunt Google all they like and then see what happens when the Google Dragon wakes up…
I'm sure it's just a bug, and they're working to fix it real soon now... ;)
I am just waiting for Calacanis to show up here and say just that. I have never seen anybody else lie that openly and get away with it.
Lets not forget he'll use his obligatory "Peace n love" signature...
I though it was Matt's job description to noindex pages? Oh, I get it now, he delegates, let the patients run the asylum...