Top 5 Search Engine Spammers

Glen Allsopp / 3 Comments / May 12th, 2007 / Subscribe via RSS

This is partly for the project over at ProBlogger and partly because I think it will make an interesting post. So as the title says heres a look at the top 5 Search Engine Spammers

5. Blogspot

Thats right, Google owned Blogger / Blogspot are reported to have 80% of their blogs being pure spam.

…14 of the top-15 doorway domains have a spam percentage higher than 74%; that is, 3 out of 4 unique URLs on these domains (that appeared in our search results) were detected as spam. To demonstrate the need for scrutinizing these sites, we scanned the top-1000 results from two queries – “site:blogspot.com phentermine” and “site:hometown.aol.com ringtone” – and identified more than half of the URLs as spam easily.

4. Affiliates

Im not going to generalise them, as I dont think they are ‘bad’, I actually think they are good at getting their Affiliate pages ranking in the top results of Google more than the original website who has the offer. Spam?

(Click The Image Below)

3. Paid Link Buyers

Thats Right! If youve ever bought a paid link in order to help you with Search Engine Rankings then you are now officially a Search Engine Spammer.

And well you could argue if you’re signing a ton of guestbooks really fast, or you’re doing a ton of trackback or referer spam, you know that almost does get towards the denial of service attack, but this is the first time where you could actually go to a court of law and you can say, “look, here’s my account, I got hacked, here’s all the stuff.”

And on some level, it is almost kind of a silver lining, in that for the first time you could go, and you know, you could actually get an SEO convicted of doing something like this. - Matt Cutts of Google

2. 5 Billion Indexed Pages

Comon these guys had to be up there, They even made it on the front page of digg getting over 5 billion of their pages indexed and ranking highly in Google, impressive to any blackhat. Caught by a DigitalPoint Member

1. Roger Webbe

Sorry Roger if your reading this and think we have the wrong end of the stick, dont worry we are going to explain. In the eyes of an SEO who is the best Search Engine Spammer? Then It has to be Roger Webbe. This guy gets his sites to rank for terms they dont deserve to rank for with Blackhat techniques and then trys to openly teach spammesr why what they are doing is wrong: