Open Letter to Google About Rap Genius SEO

#1

Post by iball » Tue, Dec 24, 2013, 5:27 PM UTC

Open Letter to Google About Rap Genius SEO
news.rapgenius.com

Re: Open Letter to Google About Rap Genius SEO

#2

Post by mwcurry » Tue, Dec 24, 2013, 5:36 PM UTC

Can anyone post the original controversy? The letter mentions it but doesn't link to it.

Re: Open Letter to Google About Rap Genius SEO

#3

Post by jlebron2 » Tue, Dec 24, 2013, 5:37 PM UTC

mwcurry wrote: post #2

Can anyone post the original controversy? The letter mentions it but doesn't link to it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6956658

Re: Open Letter to Google About Rap Genius SEO

#4

Post by julespitt » Tue, Dec 24, 2013, 5:38 PM UTC

mwcurry wrote: post #2

Can anyone post the original controversy? The letter mentions it but doesn't link to it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6956658

Re: Open Letter to Google About Rap Genius SEO

#5

Post by julespitt » Tue, Dec 24, 2013, 5:38 PM UTC

jlebron2 wrote: post #3

mwcurry wrote: post #2

Can anyone post the original controversy? The letter mentions it but doesn't link to it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6956658

Jinx!

Re: Open Letter to Google About Rap Genius SEO

#6

Post by ryes » Tue, Dec 24, 2013, 5:39 PM UTC

These guys knew exactly what they were doing. Nice fake pr apology trying to trick your users into thinking you are clean. Example of anyone can get addicted to bad tactics and $ coming in. But you need to remember to not get a lot of PR and do grey tactics at the same time.

Re: Open Letter to Google About Rap Genius SEO

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Post by drsim » Tue, Dec 24, 2013, 5:41 PM UTC

Oh dear. The schoolkid gets caught and says 'yeah, but Jim did such and such that's worse'.

Re: Open Letter to Google About Rap Genius SEO

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Post by keltex » Tue, Dec 24, 2013, 5:42 PM UTC

These are just paid links. It falls under the category "exchanging goods or services for links". The "service" is a tweet or post on facebook.

You can report them to Google here:

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/paidlinks

Re: Open Letter to Google About Rap Genius SEO

#9

Post by milkshakes » Tue, Dec 24, 2013, 5:44 PM UTC

what a joke of a non-apology. i hope the search quality team makes an example out of them.

Re: Open Letter to Google About Rap Genius SEO

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Post by AndrewKemendo » Tue, Dec 24, 2013, 5:45 PM UTC

Well played. The Bieber song linked in the first paragraph is the one they wanted pushed in the first place to get their page rank up.

Looks like an apology but is a huge SEO push.