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Re: Long-Time SEO Jill Whalen Moves On, Praises Google For Rewarding Content More

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Post by gazkey »

Matt_Cutts wrote: post #35
dchuk wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Surely this is something trivial to identify internally for you guys?

We're pretty good at dissecting various techniques, spam networks, etc. But I always like to hear feedback from different places to see how we're doing, uncover new pockets of spam, etc.

I must admit, I always wondered how this network got away with churning burning for past few years (hdwallpapers3d.com, hdwallpapersdj.com, hdwallpapersinn.com, hdwallpapersuk.com, hdwallpapersfan.com, hdwallpaperszon.com, celebritywallpapers3d.com, hdwallpapersonly.com)

Always come up, they offer little value, and are often no more than a few months old, and all made for adsense pages of content ripped from other places. Moment you take one down like you did with hdwallpaperarena.com they just redirected it to hdwallpapersinn.com (which even has the same logo up still).

I just found it a bit of an an odd one given some tactics they apply are outlawed yet they seem to get by, I always see these sites crop up.

Re: Long-Time SEO Jill Whalen Moves On, Praises Google For Rewarding Content More

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Post by lzr »

Matt_Cutts wrote: post #35
dchuk wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Surely this is something trivial to identify internally for you guys?

We're pretty good at dissecting various techniques, spam networks, etc. But I always like to hear feedback from different places to see how we're doing, uncover new pockets of spam, etc.

Hi, Matt, If scraped content ranked high is considered a spam, try search for 'atx pinout' (without quotes). The first image result is img.lehaleha.com/medium/17/atx%20smps%20circuit%20diagram17.jpg which is placed on the page circuitdiagramupdate.blogspot.com/2013/08/atx-smps-circuit-diagram.html . You can see in lower right corner of this image url smpspowersupply.com - that's where they scraped this image. Ironically, the original image (shown in smpspowersupply.com/connectors-pinouts.html ) is seen nowhere in google search results.

Re: Long-Time SEO Jill Whalen Moves On, Praises Google For Rewarding Content More

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Post by kamisendu »

Matt_Cutts wrote: post #36
Matsta wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hahaha do you seriously think he's gonna give up the keywords these guys are making money off. Spamming sites still worked pre-hummingbird and infact it works even better now. Even Negative SEO works just as well. Have a competitor you don't like? Give him 100k blog comments with "Buy Viagra" and suddenly he will be de indexed in 3 months or less. I think half the reason she quit is that SEO is so damn unpredictable…

Hey Matt G, I appreciate the suggestion but I already read quite a bit of BHW. P.S. I enjoyed reading about that Twitter stuff from 2-3 years ago.

In fact, there are many spamming sites in non-English searches. If you like these info,I can mail you some.

Re: Long-Time SEO Jill Whalen Moves On, Praises Google For Rewarding Content More

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Post by SEOBSDetector »

Matt_Cutts wrote: post #35
dchuk wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Surely this is something trivial to identify internally for you guys?

We're pretty good at dissecting various techniques, spam networks, etc. But I always like to hear feedback from different places to see how we're doing, uncover new pockets of spam, etc.

Here's one that is a little under the radar. The Young Entrepreneur's Council theyec.org posts guest blog articles on well known sites like Forbes, Inc, B2C. Those articles are full of "expert" quotes from members of the YEC with paid memberships - all with links to their sites of course. You'll see the same sites linked to in most of these mostly useless articles. You won't be seeing any quotes or links from people who haven't paid the YEC. Nice little link exchange to get links from really prominent sites.

Re: Long-Time SEO Jill Whalen Moves On, Praises Google For Rewarding Content More

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Post by jack81054 »

@ matt cutts

How bout this example website:http://www.seroundtable.com All he do is copy content from forums and paste it on his blog by adding a couple of lines. This easily falls into following categories of Spam as mentioned by google

1. Thin Content 2. Copied Content

So how bout banning this blog?

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