I understand that this may seem like common sense to many of you here at DP but I think it's worth a read for lot's of people. In the webmaster world there is a lot of buzz going on about how much junk gets through the SERPs (search engine result pages). If you have ever Googled a term and came up with a page the seems to be irrelevant or virtually bare of content and don't understand why it made it to the top of Google's ref feral list I am going to try to clear things up in this post. Let's get raise some facts and try to connect them. Google is by far the leading search engine in the world, Myspace is the leading social network in the world and Microsoft internet explorer is the leading web browser in the world. What do all of these services have in common? They are all targeted by spammers and black hat advertising for the same exact reason they are the largest. They reach the more computer screens in homes in offices on a daily basis than many of their competitors combined. If you are able the cheat the system why not cheat the best one. If you are able to reach the top of Google you will reach 1.5 times the people that you would reach if you top out on Yahoo and 3 times as many people if you get the #1 spot on MSN. Take a look at THIS page to see the amount of searches a day through the major search engines. HERE is a great pie chart showing the dominance (although fading) of Internet Explorer web browser. If you can get your spyware into the computers of IE you are going to reach approximately 88 people for every 1 you reach with Firefox. This is exactly why so many people are moving away from IE and towards Firefox. If Firefox were to ever take the top spot for web browsers you can put your money on Firefox seeing a whole lot more spyware and viruses. The same rules apply for social networks that apply for Google and Internet Explorer. With sites like digg, Myspace, Stumble, Flikr, Wikipedia and many powerful niche forums you are bound and determined to run into a more than fair share of spam and inexpensive advertising. In conclusion I guess you have to ask yourself if you are with them or against them. can you disguise your spam really well it won't be spam at all. Your spam will actually be quality content that gives the user what they are looking for but leaves them hungry for more with a mouse that can pay your bills.
Errr.... so your goal is to hide your spam so well that it seems like normal content? I don't think I follow your ambitions....
You must realize that google has to deal with thousands and thousands of sites being added daily. They can't just give rankings away. And this is part of why you will find older / possibly non realevant sites when searching. Just my .02
yeah it has. it has been c&p from my blog. I was going to write the post but decided to just write a blog post about it also. I figured it might be an interesting read and a little bit of a different way to look at spam in google for some people. I understand that it will not be anything new for some of the more experienced users here on DP but I figured I'd put it out there.