There are more member sites going to get hammered as well. Look at this url: http://www.collegesurfing.com/content/resources.php At the bottom of the page study the resources area. Notice they are all member websites. The spammers are seeding their back links. Once google finds the back links then it will start indexing the spam. This a very highly organized attacked and the sophistication is beyond awe. There are tons of pages like this and their main function is to seed the links to Google.
Do you still get results? Ever since two days after the original post, I havn't got a single result from those domains, and right now I get zero results on them all.
This is an update about the Russian spammers. It appears the membership sites that I quoted are using the PLONE content management system. Thus the Russian spammers are exploiting a flaw in the PLONE that allows them to spam Google. Plone.org from what I understand is being hit pretty hard as well and are working on a fix for it. http://plone.org/news/current-web-site-slowness
If anyone is interested in my spam situation you may check out my blog as I have posted all the details on there. http://www.spamspotter.com/2006/09/13/plone-exploit-that-caused-search-engine-spam-is-fixed/
LOL!! I didn't knotice this until now, but I made the index page of http://www.syndk8.net/ (A black-hat site!!) Read the 'The Black Hat Seo industry seems very strange at the moment' article!!! I turned into a low down parasitic spam hunter!!!! Yo, Earl, it's September, you can let us in!!!
Synopsis of first article on that page: Don't blame us Google made us do it. The comment Nintendo is referring to is further down the page.
I searched for one of my domain names in Google and came across this site kehrrare.info that doesn't have that many pages if you do a site search. But if you go to that site, then it must violate all googles TOS to 500%. All you see when you go to the site is a google ad, and you have to scroll down the page to even see anything, and what you see is scraped search results (?) with no "live" links at all. What is interesting though, is that you see a lot of info domains listed in the results. One of them is khmerrare.info so I checked that one in google and that site is mentioned in 557 pages, which is not very much, but they are mentioned in other spam pages like khoonew.info and it goes on and on...... My question is, do they still have millions of pages but spread out on thousands of domains with a smaller amount of pages? Another question is, why are they there at all?
Yes, they have millions of pages, hundreds of millions. Why are they there ? Sometimes Google are not banning spam sites, they are looking at the big picture and instead of banning them they are using the repoted spam sites/pages to make their way of discovering spam better so that the next time somebody launches that kind of sites, they will be banned automaticly.
Doing a search for "spanish lessons london" , I find a lot of spam as well during the last couple of months. There is a site in 2nd and 3rd position from the first 10 in the list that provide language trainers. At the top of the page you can find a menu; click over any of the languages offered and it will display an extensive list of pages (all of them having exactly the same content). It doesnt seems to me to be duplicate content, but multiplicated and doesnt trigger any penalty. Really they are training us to make spam... Now, do the same search for "spanish courses london" and realize they are the winners too. But that is not all, the last 3 domains in the bottom seem to belong all of them to the same company; just small variations in the domain. Is THAT SPAMMMM???? French Courses Home French Language Trainers French Courses in London French Courses in Birmingham French Courses in Bradford French Courses in Brighton French Courses in Bristol French Courses in Cambridge French Courses in Cardiff French Courses in Chicago French Courses in Cork French Courses in Crawley French Courses in Croydon French Courses in Dublin French Courses Edinburgh French Courses in Exeter French Courses in Leeds French Courses in Leicester French Courses in Liverpool French Courses in Luton French Courses in Manchester French Courses Milton Keynes French Courses in Newcastle French Courses in New York French Courses in Nottingham French Courses in Oxford French Courses in Peterborough French Courses in Reading French Courses in Sheffield French Courses in Southampton French Courses in Wolverhampton Pricing - French Course French Teachers French Courses Home French Language Trainers French Courses in New York French Courses in Austin French Courses in Baltimore French Courses in Boston French Courses in Brooklyn French Courses in Chicago French Courses in Columbus French Courses in Dallas French Courses in Detroit French Courses in Hoboken French Courses in Houston French Courses in Indianapolis French Courses in Long Island French Courses in Los Angeles French Courses in Manhattan French Courses in Miami French Courses in Philadelphia French Courses in Phoenix French Courses in Queens French Courses in San Antonio French Courses in San Diego French Courses in San Francisco French Courses in San Jose French Courses in Staten Island French Courses in The Bronx French Courses in Washington DC French Courses in Westchester Pricing - French Course French Teachers
This is not bound to be spam. I did not check it, but do thay have useful content ? If so I would not call it spam even though they are in the top results with many pages. I mean, thats what we all are aiming for and some of us are not spammers.
Maybe you should try looking. You obvoiusly don't know what this thread is about if you're saying it's probably not SPAM...with out even looking. Try reading the thread some time...if you can go a few days with having no life!! *Sidenote: This thread is now the largest thread on the main Google board. *
Hi. You dont get my point, read a bit between the lines please. You cant tell if its spam or not just by what magic pants are telling, he have to give more info: URL. And I mean that in general, it doesnt have to be spam if a site has many similar results on the top of the serps.
These sites has ripped off content from my site and all it has are non-live links with text from my ads. I want this site and also other duplicate content sites from the same guy REMOVED from your index ASAP. This is my site I searched for: domain.com If you do the same search then you'll see these sites that have stolen content and that is indexed in Google and they need to be gone right now. khuunew.info jollycolly.info kehrrare.info kindbind.info blackstac.info greenjeanne.info greenjeane.info plannedgrand.info badladd.info baerrare.info chartsmart.info khoonew.info khmerrare.info badthad.info bluepu.info jollylolley.info and th list goes on and on... They seem to have been registered with this info and false data: Domain ID14283093-LRMS Domain Name:KHMERRARE.INFO Created On:04-Aug-2006 17:35:32 UTC Last Updated On:18-Aug-2006 23:42:22 UTC Expiration Date:04-Aug-2007 17:35:32 UTC Sponsoring Registrar:RegisterFly.com, Inc. (R318-LRMS) this is the google ad id: google_ad_client = "pub-5782014427777178"; This guy needs to be REMOVED FROM YOUR ADSENSE PROGRAM AND SITE NEED TO CEASE AND DECIST NOW! If you search for one of the sub domains thay have "oklahoma-akc-bulldogs" then they show up on first place, and that is after just a couple of weeks after having registered their site..... I THOUGHT Google wanted to get rid of spam sites but WTH????????
Mike, I'd post the same thing on google group http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_Help I've had good luck getting a response there. Every time I submit a spam report, I also post there, takes a few days an then the offending domain is gone. Good luck.
Good idea! Went ahead and did that! Now we'll see what happens. Won't hold my breath when it comes to Google