Comments on: Spam, but What Kind? http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/12/spam_but_what_kind.php?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=spam_but_what_kind Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more. Thu, 16 May 2013 04:38:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Michael SEOG http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/12/spam_but_what_kind.php#comment-12345 Michael SEOG Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:11:18 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/12/spam_but_what_kind.php#comment-12345 <p>Like graywolf said, they are trying to make unique text to make it less likely to be flagged by Google for duplicate content and eliminated from the index. This helps them to drop links in their splogs with the aim of their target website ranking higher. Plus any incidental traffic they might get from the splogs and the random text.</p> <p>I see a lot of this in Google Blog Search -- it doesn't seem to have many filters to detect this stuff and not show it.</p> Like graywolf said, they are trying to make unique text to make it less likely to be flagged by Google for duplicate content and eliminated from the index. This helps them to drop links in their splogs with the aim of their target website ranking higher. Plus any incidental traffic they might get from the splogs and the random text.

I see a lot of this in Google Blog Search — it doesn’t seem to have many filters to detect this stuff and not show it.

]]> By: BillSaysThis http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/12/spam_but_what_kind.php#comment-12344 BillSaysThis Wed, 06 Dec 2006 03:24:50 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/12/spam_but_what_kind.php#comment-12344 <p>When I was weeding out spam for my last company, the vast majority of it pointed to .info domains, which I think was because they are (were?) so cheaply available.</p> When I was weeding out spam for my last company, the vast majority of it pointed to .info domains, which I think was because they are (were?) so cheaply available.

]]> By: graywolf http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/12/spam_but_what_kind.php#comment-12343 graywolf Wed, 06 Dec 2006 00:27:31 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/12/spam_but_what_kind.php#comment-12343 <p>they are "uniqifying" the text in hopes of not being flagged as dupe content.</p> they are “uniqifying” the text in hopes of not being flagged as dupe content.

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