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Blog spam Yahoo seems to be working
Hello. I have a very popular poker strategy website that has done well in google but is nowhere in the yahoo results.
At first, it was because there was something wrong with my robots.txt (but that is now fixed).
Anyway, the important thing I noticed was that for two searches- poker tips and poker strategy- several sites that are simply redirects come up.
A very interesting site was www.shelltechgroup.com- which is not a site but redirects the user to a popular online casino (obviously a casino affiliate).
Anyways, I did a backwards link search on yahoo for http://www.shelltechgroup.com (you need to put the http: in there) and it came up with 21,300 backlinks. Evidently,t hese people spammed many people's random blogs and it got them a top placement for these searches.
This doesn't fly with google, as poker strategy and poker tips both bring back fairly solid results.
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well shelltechgroup.com is registered by godaddy which in their great domain registery ways registered the domain name to dnsmadeeasy.com which offers "Free HTTP Redirects!!" (bullnuts)
Basically some poor soul registered the domain with godaddy which in part registered/parked the domain with dnsmadeasy and while the domain is parked the domain is redirected to several "affiliate" sites that either dnsmadeasy or godaddy deems "acceptable" or someone pays them a bucket full to redirect a sh*tload of parked urls to an affiliate site.
GoDaddy makes a fortune doing this. Knowing that less than 10% of the URLS that are registered through them will actually be used right away so they redirect them to affiliate sites for extra cash for the time being. *sarcasm* Expired GoDaddy domains work great too! especially when you dont have to give up the domain name right away and poin them anywhere you want *sarcasm*
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You have to love how low people will sink for affiliate commissions
I think the interesting thing about it from an SEO standpoint is that someone posted a link for that site on thousands of blogs with anchor text related to poker, gambling in general.
While this doesn't put it on the google serps, it seems to have struck gold with yahoo.
Last edited by TwoGun : March 3rd, 2004 at 01:42 AM.
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I think the interesting thing about it from an SEO standpoint is that someone posted a link for that site on thousands of blogs with anchor text related to poker, gambling in general.
I'm sure if you pay enough money you can get a handful of parked domains and redirect them anywhere you want them to. Just "advertise" them and make a small fortune while they are being unused.
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Google has redirects as well....
One of my "competitors" for some keyterms is a site that I suspect a domain-name speculator picked up called clackamasliteraryreview.com. Good number of backlinks from a "legit" literary website that forgot to re-register their other domain name. Google seems to like its HTTP redirect/cloaking as much as we say Yahoo! does. Anything to suggest a way to remove it from the SERPs?
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Google has redirects as well....
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