Dear Google, why has my (spam) site been banned from your index?
By Mindy Gofton in Search Engine Optimisation on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 @ 14:55
While trying to find some simple articles for a client today, we stumbled across the following comment on the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:
OK, so, this spammer has made a post on the official Google blog asking why his site hasn't been indexed and adding a spammy, keyword stuffed link to a second site. Now, do we need to spell out why his site disappeared from Google?
For the record, the site in his username contains syndicated article content - all duplicates. The site in the keyword-stuffed link is "under construction" and as such has only one page - the rest of the links are broken.
Adrian Berry wrote:
Sep 17, 2008 - 15:07I just had a look at the algarve url and it's simply a series of ezine articles dropped on the site. Why bother trying to game Google when they've already stopped you playing?
Tino wrote:
Sep 17, 2008 - 15:25This just demonstrates that spam is not the way forward. If you want to be a spammer you gotta be more clever than that!
waco_kid wrote:
Sep 17, 2008 - 16:38Irony