Hi, please read what has been written in http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=544960#post544960 and tell me if this is possible. The site is http://www.stopseospam.com/ Also, please notice that I have a clear disclaimer, which I beleive is very fair... Thanks in advance
Matt Cutts exposes spam as well. If you can be sued, he can as well. As long as you stick to facts and don't call names, it should be OK but I'm no legal expert.
Rather than being sued I think you'll be hacked way before that. Black Hatters probably don't mind hurting you when you expose them. But anyway, I like your plan. If it won't achieve anything you intended it's still a good resource to see how it's done (you might inadvertedly be educating people even, ironically). To promote fairness and transparency you probably should allow webmaster comments so they can defend their strategies. And check back sites monthly to monitor progress so you won't find yourself listing a site longer than necessary.
Anyone can and will be sued by anyone who wants to sue you. Justification is preferred but not as necessary as one might think. Doing anything wrong is not a prerequisite to being sued in the US.
Interesting concept but... Surely you are just going to end up with an archive that 'teaches' people the most effective techniques of SE spamming. Looking at some of the stuff you have on the site has been a real eye-opener, I previously had no idea how SEO's did that tricky stuff.
Come on... be serious... who wants to go black SEO, searchs the web and quickly finds how it's done... http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=search+engine+spam&btnG=Search even Wikipedia talks about this, and has lots of details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamdexing
Your website is as useless as search engine spam itself. You just copied content from Wikipedia and now you think you are on a mission to STOP SPAM. I hope you made this website as a joke because thats what everyone is actually thinking right now in their heads and laughing hard. An advice you should consider would be backing off people's business and focusing on your own. While the whitehats, blackhats, purple and grey hats are making money with their own methods you are wasting your time trying to look down on other people's business. Search engine spam is not even a crime, so why are you trying to act like the police, even if you consider it immoral keep it to yourself, you dont even have a name in the industy to be open your mouth to critic people's practices to be taken seriously. Take the first step and remove your website from the internet if you care about so called spam and blackhat and all that other non-sense so much. Your website offers nothing new with a Dmoz clone and copied Wiki articles.
INV, problems with the eyes? Missed the screenshots and HTML source code of the links submitted? That "proove" the spamdexing? Or do you see that also in DMOZ ? Show it to me, baby!
From a glance it looked like that to me which is beside the point. Still think what your doing is a waste of time and point still stands from original post. Just took a look at http://www.stopseospam.com/details-30-NorthWest-Martial-Arts.html and found it completly funny as you actually searched for "THIS IS HIDDEN TEXT" to find it haha
INV, you naughty boy, to find posts where people were talking about Spamdexing sites, i search for "This is hidden text", because this is a very common phrase by the people who open threads on forums. I also searched for "Is this hidden text?" and so on... Any other question ? Still wainting for the answer about DMOZ And to answer the one that REDed me and sait "who are you to judge": I am not the supreme judjer, I am just an Interner user who has his oppionions and user his right to tell them. Clear enough?
Your "legal disclaimer" is a joke. It is not enforceable, actually appears to be a EULA of sorts- yet is buried as a link in the footer, and uses such poor english that even if it made sense it wouldn't make sense. You should IN NO WAY count on that protecting you from any legal action. In fact, anyone can sue anyone, and usually the party with deeper pockets will win, often by settling, but frequently by winning the case outright.
You can always be sued. You might win the lawsuit, hands down, but, in the US at least, you can always be named as a defendant in a lawsuit. What you really want to know is whether you should waste time worrying about being sued, and that is a lot harder question to answer. It depends on things ranging from where you are located, to exactly what you are doing, to exactly what laws may or may not be implicated by what you are doing (libel? slander? tortious interference with business advantage?), to whether it would serve anyone's business purposes to sue you (and those business purposes could be something other than winning the lawsuit, such as getting publicity or distracting you from your business), to whether you have lots of money to pay any judgment. I certainly don't know whether you have anything to worry about, and I would bet that no one else here really knows either.
Just for one minute if I think that whatever you are doing is useful , then I don't see anyone : 1 . Searching google for a thing they want , 2. Going to your site and then searching if the sites in google results are listed at your website . I also do not see search engines index your website to find sites which have spam . They have employees on Payroll to find these sites . Google pays $10 to $20 an hour to people to see the sites in their search results and sort out the spammy ones and then make changes to their Algorithm to keep these and alike sites out of search results . Then why are you doing it with all these tensions on your head , "Can I be sued ?" It is very good that you came up with a brilliant idea of fighting spam but think about one thing , "Is this going to benefit anyone?" . Forget anyone , "Is this going to benefit you ? " Instead of making a list of sites which "are spammy" , make a list of sites that "are not spammy" . Have sites that are providing good content or good service . Make a directory of "Non spammy" , " Quality sites" . People will submit their sites to your directory and you can judge / review them before inclusion for spam . Report the ones that are spammy to google. They will take necessarry steps to keep these spammy sites out . This way you have fought spam and you also have a beautiful directory of sites that are not spammy but have quality needless to mention "which people appreciate" Regards jeet
1. Not only can you be sued for libel/slander for labeling someone's site "spam" and shouting about them all over your site. 2. You can also be sued for copyright infringement for the screen shots of their web sites. 3. You may even end up with a guy who gets de-indexed and loses his business - and wether it's actually your fault or not - he'll be suing you for all his lost money. Once again you go on babbling about whats ethical? Who are you to decide? You're hardly an expert at SEO if you don't even have a clue who matt cutts is. Not only that but by producing source code of all these sites your giving away information to anyone who wants to try it. You're helping make it easier. The best advice i've seen: Hahahah.. so true I know I had a good laugh
jojo, you're identifying yourself with EVERYONE. well, i have bad news for you: YOU ARE NOT! and i don't give a shit about your opinion... as I already told on the other thread, who likes it, uses it, who dislikes it, doesn't use it. Now go back to insert some spam into your sites' content!