New SPAM sites...billions of results!!!!

Hoff, are you upset about this characterization of the blog?

I just saw this on Digg too.

 

Nah, I brought it on myself with the title in the header. It was meant to be a joke on the SEO acronym... since most of what SEOs aim to do is obfuscate the search engines, not optimize them. I guess the person didn't read the other posts since there is nothing else about search engine trickery.

Here is the other Digg; it is dropping off the front page now though.

 

Gotcha! I never even noticed the title there. obfuscation is far more appropriate (but damn hard to spell).

 

I wonder how much money this guy paid for bandwidth. Google-bot probably sucked up about 200TB from his sites.

 

I don't think the traffic reached any TB, its just text and each of the so called pages might have been not more than some bytes or some KB.

 

so that means billions of kbs... still quite a lot...

 

/sigh...

I wish you guys wouldn't post stuff like that where I can read it, ya know.

1 billion kb = about 1 TB. The sites were at least 3kb each. So if he did indeed have 5 billion results in Google (and it wasn't just a "bad push", then not anywhere near counting his other traffic (remember his Alexa rating for just one of his thousands of domains?) or other bots, then his Googlebot traffic alone would have been somewhere in the vicinity of 15TB.

-Michael

 

How much does that kind of bandwidth cost?

 

Don't unmetered servers only cost around $400-$500 per month? If he really had as many pages indexed as it seems that he did he was probably making more than that per day.

 

For what keywords/phrases did these subdomains appear at all? I missed these spam sites, they aren't in google nomore fortunately, did they have a pr at all? How da hell did they rank at visible positions at all?

 

They're nowhere near gone. Click here. Go down about a third of the way till you see the title "Blackjack pizza denver", the sites start about there and dominate most of the rest of the page. Not sure what he's still ranking well for, that was just an easy way to find him. That might even be another person using an identical tactic. Gives you an idea of what it was though.

I'll save the source in case G finally gets on the ball about this, although I expect it'll take weeks if not months to beat this.

-Michael

 

I think it is time to put this behind us

 

Ultimately I'd say this, regardless of any Internet or computer issues at all, If I'd get to that dude who did this, I'd show him what hard-earned money is all about, earned with hard work whether online or in a standard job, and not made in 2 weeks literally flying under google's radar, while honest webmasters like ouselves try to get their hard work to pay off and get the acomplishment and satisfaction feelings... This dude isn't genius for doing what he did, he is weak, he rocked for a while, but since this won't last forever, when things will get hard for him in the future he will ironically turn to some of the great SEO dudes right from this forum, or will work on a gas station somewhere near bambaloo...

Let's move on, shall we?

Edit:

I think it is time to put this behind us

Exactley Forumer.

 

I think all his sites was hosted on theplanet.com there most expensive hosting package comes with 10,000 gb of bandwidth which cost $6999 a month.

 

Put what behind us?

The "chink in the armour" that was exploited is still there. Nothing has been corrected algorithmically that will prevent this kind of thing from happening again from what I've seen. I do believe the "loophole" that allowed the 404 blog pages to be "claimed" has been closed, but that's all I'm aware of.

Near as I can tell, the door is still open for this same type of thing again.

Dave

 

WOW...if you're an SE gamer, this is true mastery. I DON'T agree with those that are of the opinion that this is a scumbag spammer. As soon as I saw Jagger updates, BigDaddy and Matts very proud attitude I knew it would simply lead to a new breed of webmastering. Now we're seeing it first handed, thanks Nintendo.

From my perspective this is genius...nothing short of it. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it Matt.

Since Jagger updates many of us have studied the algo. Many of us have taken action based on the knowledge we gained. Here's a great example of someone tearing BD to pieces, I personally find it entertaining and give it thumbs up. C'mon yu gotta like it. Especially if you look at Matts blog and his comments when they were hyping BigDaddy...very brave statements in terms of unbreakable. Many would see that as a challenge, obviously.

These (G) engineers are good, but not that good. Why I like what I'm seeing is because Google (I feel) has stepped on alot of innocent feet whilst trying to sort out their mess...starting from Jagger updates. I have never seen them stable since. Many serps net clever spammy sites.

So what has Google actually accomplished here? They were a mess then (Jagger) and their even worst now, IMO.


H

 

10,000 gb is nothing, he would of used it in a few hours

 

I don't think he's gone through and approved us yet. I got a reply to an E-mail I sent the admin...

I even confessed to being the dude who who exposed the spammer and mentioned his members would love to tar and feather me!!! So he knew who I was!!!

 

Put "this" behind us? Why? This is the best thread since Shoemoney Scrapergate!

 

And this is one of the very few threads that has managed to grow to several pages without getting hijacked and turned into a totally different discussion