I just published a post on white collar spamming The recent 2.0 development as it may seem sites like Blogrunner and Techmeme are growing on a really rapid level, and not only that they are getting indexed pages as well. My question is, when webmasters make auto blogs and such they are considered spam and banned by google AND technorati as well as considered as bad neighborhoods but when high profile companies do it, they don't suffer much at all. These sites are already at huge numbers in indexed pages.. Any thoughts?
40,000 pages isn't that large of a website. Some major websites have over 1,000,000 webpages. Look at site:myspace, over 8.3 million pages indexed and thats not even probably 1\4th of them.
These websites started not too long ago, and the fact im posting this is that the content being indexed is not owned by them or created by them as far as thats concerned. And when these websites get their authority their pages (copied from other people's content) will rank higher then the original content, thats a classic case of spamming. Sites like youtube,myspace,bebo..etc have original content or user powered content, they are not copying content from others so they can make as many pages as they want and it won't be spamming.
No not them as a company, blogrunner the project is spam in other words a middle-man news provider, they are just publishing feeds from high profile news sites. To further address this, a company can't be called "spamming company" its what they make that matters the same company is itself an authoritative news site and still it made a site that is spamming google. Even myspace did that once, it was covered on techcrunch on how myspace was cloaking urls to spam google. Like i said "white collar spamming" same ol' spam, just the people doing it are big timers..
Ah, I see what you mean. It appears they cite the source of there content, but it's just spam with sugar coating on top.