I run a Regional Search Engine, contains millions of indexed documents. Does anyone know if keeping links like www.mydomain.com/search.cgi?query="keyword", be considered as spam. I am kind of unable to decide whether or not and obviously I dont want to get my Search Engine site banned.
Hi Bilz not for nothing but that small business seo site with the same colored text at the bottom as the background... smells like spam via hidden text...might want to change that up before Google figures it out...
The text at the bottom is not the same color as backround. It is a light color, but definitely not the same as the white background. Perhaps you need to re-calibrate the colors on your monitor/ or i need to - it looks fine on to me.
This actually looks normal but the my link would return indexed documents (of other sites) from my DB. This actually makes the SE to index the same contents from my site which are already present in their index (90% of them).
A product search engine that I think should face spam-measures is Kelkoo.com. They seem to produce product URLs on-the-fly, based on product seaches. I've found dozens of pages/directories named slightly different but leading to the same content. However, as they obviously arn't banned from Google that may be a very successful way of boosting your search engine visibility. Correct me if I'm wrong!
Well if its the monitor... Best Buy might get it back throught their nice big plate glass window... after the arm & leg they charged me for it lol... I use firefox so that may be a better reason why things looked as they do.. It could be they are serving static pages to the robots and dynamic to the users. Google has no problem with this as long as both generated pages display the same information.. It is when a static page served to the robot is different than what your user sees from a dynamic page that Google classsifies this as cloaking. Hope it helps Clint
Dump the keyword linked dynamics - we ran a small shopping site a while back which did get penalized for just that. Although we sold the domain with full disclosure, it took almost a year to get the site restored in Google's SERPs.