Google is full of spam now, and possible reasons are..

A lot of my sites got dropped big time, I'm making some low cash on adsense. Pretty pissed right now!

 

same as my gmail account. the gmail spam filter working very effectively and I seldom see any spam came out from the spam filter in my inbox.

 

If you search for how to convert avi to mpg you get bunch of software sites and 1 relevant site.

 

I haven't noticed any spam in google, however, I have noticed that my site's
rankings in the serp has been very inconsistent lately.

 

can't see any spam in google too. . . maybe in top 100 position. I see that most of it are not relevant to the query!

 

Hes actually right yahoo and MSN tend to have more relevent results then google.

 

I agree completely with the OP. I've noticed a few sites hiding links in their pages, using cookie cutters and keyword stuffing techniques and they've all shot up the rankings since the last update. This is nothing to do with good SEO, because the sites themselves are garbage because of it. Google does seem to be letting it's standards slip of late.

 

I haven't noticed any more spam than usual...It might be because of the keywords you are searching for

 

What are we talking about here? Doorway pages in the index?

 

For health related products right now there's only spam. Man, what happened? I worked hard on some new sport sites and when I checked my other stats today... crap! No wonder my sales are now equal to zero.

I haven't had big traffic anyway but some of my old blogs with only original and unique content are just ... not in the index It never happened to me since 2002. Some sites with quality content are now out of google's index.

That's very strange, maybe they are preparing another major update. Or they cannot fight seo spam. Either way it sucks for me.

 

I've seen one site hiding an entire article on their homepage which is hidden with CSS (you can only view it by clicking a very discreet link) filled with Google bait. It's there for a search engine, much of it doesn't even make sense. They also have dozens of duplicate pages with only a few words altered, and countless empty documents with follow robot metas. Again purely for search engines. No doubt he's been reported, but Google has done nothing.

 

Can you give us the IRL?

/*tom*/

 

The filters must be working now . I did not see spam.

 

I'll tell you why. Because advertisers pay Google good money to have their shit in the listings, in terms of Adwords. Google's a spam index as we know it.

 

google show spam site. try search "jewelry". i notice alot of time that spammy sites on 1st pages but those stay only 4 or 5 hours.