OK. But it costs me more to buy a .ca domain than a .com or .net domain - does that make .com or .net domains less important than .ca domains?
No, what it means it that a scraper site operator can get a lot more domains on the cheap by purchasing throw away .info names!
Yes. But not every one with a .info domain is a spammer, any more than people who buy up expired .com domains to exploit the SE rankings for porn sites and MFA crapola sites are honest businessmen.
I agree, but I think he or she feels that they are targeting .info names since so many schemers buy them cheap for scraper sites!
LOL!! You missed the most exciting week in webmaster history...when it comes to Google!!! It was so exciting that it got anthonycea to come back!!
Google is not why I came back, Crazy Rob said he was going to vaporize my hard drive and take away my Shakira videos if I left him in the dust!
Here's another spam (subdomain site) - maybe already reported: 165,000 listings from my search a few seconds ago.
Yeah lorien, Google has started banning the majority of the sites I listed here: http://googlespam.giantshoutbox.com The thing I don't get is it looks almost like they are banning them one subdomain at a time, which if that is what they are doing, then I don't see how they will ever catch up. I mean, seriously, yeah, you might nail some innocent free hosting service if you do a blanket ban on a domain name, but if you restrict yourself to only doing it to domains registered in the last 30 days or so then you should be pretty safe. I'm waiting for them to claim it's all fixed, then gonna run the bot again, see what turns up. -Michael
This may not have anything to do with Googlebot crawling more of my pages, but the past few days they are not only getting crawled but added much more quickly to the search index than in the past few months. I have a gut feeling that Googlebot was chasing round these spammers and trying to keep up with their infinate loop of page additions until last weekend when word of their game became public and Google de-indexed some of them and told Googlebot to stay away from future crawling of their sites. Now it seems like Googlebot is working on REAL content instead of this spam, which is good news for folks who are trying to do the right thing. As always, time will tell if this good news, sticks. However, I have noticed big improvements in the past week and it could be because Googlebot stopped chasing shadows created by some sharp webmaster(s) who found a whole in their system.
I hope you are right, but that really doesn't explain people being deindexed clearly. Just doesn't add up for me. I don't really care, I just want Google to fix this mess.
Maybe you're right! I learned a long time ago that making definate statements in this business is a huge mistake. I'm just glad to have some good news after many months of only bad. I'll take the good news any place I can find it, these days!