The majority of the sites that I do SEO work on are highly competitive key words. Where even my site being on the 2nd page of results usually turns out to be a valuable position. The site that I am currently working on is young - PR1 with a good majority of targeted in links & a steady stream of fresh original content to keep the spiders happy.
For the past 2 months I have watched the site bounce around for some of our target terms, usually on the bottom of the first page. Why I say bounce is because just about every day there is a new .edu domain that has its CMS hacked and gets loaded up with keywords & then is cloaked and sends to a another page witch is just a fat bunch of PPC links. Your typical blackhat shady type thing…
Every morning I have made a ritual about it. I arrive at port authority at 8:00 am & stroll down 8th to Gray’s Papaya where I pickup my morning breakfast of a Sausage Egg & Cheese + a large coffee (all this for only $2.25 - which is an amazing deal) - I then walk across the street to my office, get situated at my desk, put on my sheriff badge and become a google cop for the next 60 minutes. I usually report a good 5 websites before I am half way done eating the Gray’s Papaya goodness.
**Sigh** It stinks, cause no matter what in this whole situation I am googles b!tch. Everyday it’s my daily routine - just once I would like to be able to eat my breakfast in peace.
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We eat the same breakfast, but yours is much cheaper
i used to have the same breakfast when i was on the graveyard shift: 8-8
i have been contemplating writing an article exposing the billion dollar firms who are buying links just to see what google will do, but the though of being sued is discouraging.
you guys probably wouldnt believe what top tier, house-hold name sites are doing it
would google ban the biggest names on the internet?
You sad individual. Large corps buy links, you probably buy links. Everyones playing the same game. Go get a life.
I love nameless comments.
This article isnt so much about buying links as it is more about people hacking .edu sites and stuffing them full of keywords and redirects. Like real shady crap.
Why not quit being a douche about it, and just play the game. Shady? I don’t think its shady - its business. Do your job and get the a high ranking.
Quit being ethical. Let google decide how its index works, its not your job. If you wanna make it your job (which you are), dont bitch about it.
Thats great, sorry I try to stay ethical and not hack .EDU domains in order to generate income.
If thats your game - I can see you are in it for the quick fix. Not the long haul.
Also, the name calling is sooooo 1998.
So does all this reporting work? Have you seen these websites removed from the SERPs?
@Jaan - Not like instantly but usually within 48 hours the sites will be gone - a lot of the time though its because the web admin figures out something is wrong and removes the hacked pages and fixed the vulns.
it’s so funny things get heated so quickly about this topic.
dude’s game is already losing.
i would have to disagree with you one one thing-name calling, especially the term “douche” is more 1995 than 1998.
@ lisa - that’s why i opt for “douchebag”. by taking “douche bag” and combining it, it becomes a new word for the new millenium. It fits perfectly for the nameless guy. Also acceptable are “el douchebo”, “douche 2.0″ and, for the latin freaks, “douchius maximus”.