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Spam trends - content spam and articles

They're always going to come up with ways to stay in business. Spammers have managed to put a stick in the wheels of how blogging works by generating splogs. Now, they're going after article sites and publishers. Taking good articles and turning them into junk by auto-generating hundreds of different versions of the same article... That's a real shame.

Watch SE Spammers Activity with Google Alerts

If you are worried about other webmasters stealing your content and creating search engine spam, it's not paranoia. You should set up some Google Alerts with some unique strings from your web pages to see if what other pages come up in Google's index. These alerts get sent to your email either in real-time, or as a daily digest. You can have your alerts monitor web results, newsgroups, news, and blogs.
It's just way too cool!

http://www.google.com/alerts

-Jeffery


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Overture Keyword Tool - Spammed Results From abcmesothelioma.com

Spammers will stop at nothing to produce junk in hopes to drive traffic that will click on their stupid ads.

If you use PPC advertising, chances are you are familiar with Overture's keyword suggestion tool.
It's just sad that unscrupulous idiots are spamming this free tool. They're just ruining it for the rest of us. Check this out for example:
http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/?term=mesothelioma%20cancer&mkt=us&lang=en_US

Here's what the results look like:

Searches done in February 2006
Count Search Term
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122 abcmesothelioma.com cancer lawsuit lawyer mesothelioma mesothelioma
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Does this mean that thousands of web users have searched for "abcmesothelioma.com" terms last month? No. Someone, probably the guy who created abcmesothelioma.com's website ran a bunch of automated queries or ran repeated queries from a browser (doesn't really matter, it's spam any way you look at it). The queries show up on Overture and now in last month's results. The point is, this sort of spam is annoying, nobody in their right mind would actually go there and click on their ads. Someone please report these guys to Google's Adsense program for TOS violations.

Google Update Not Up To Date Yet

Even after this latest update from Google, there are lots of webmasters and website owners who are left in the blackhole of banned domains although they have legitimate sites, while Google still has a crapload of splogs and autogenerated sites (SE spam) in their index. Many of them never noticed anything until one day traffic just stopped coming in. Imagine one day seeing your traffic go from 3000 visitors a day to a trickle of 40 or so... hmmm... It's easy to panic. But often times a site is not banned, it's just dropped a few pages back in the serps. Which is natural given the nature of search engine algorithms. Things just change all the time.

Things to do:
- check your listing in Google with the site command [site:yourdomain.com]
- type yourdomain.com in Google to see if it's even listed in their index

- Check for content thieves who may have swiped your content illegally:
-- do searches for a phrase that's unique to your site, something you wrote and check it in Google with quotes

This last one is something you can actually do something about by submitting a DMCA violation complaint to Google: http://www.google.com/dmca.html

In any case, what you'll need to get back in (if you were banned) is a lot of patience. And of course, a cool head on your shoulders. It won't do you any good to get pissed at Google's staff...

One suggestion I think would also be helpful is to have someone at Google Answers check your site out and give you an assessment of anything you could do to your site to improve your chances of getting reincluded. http://answers.google.com/answers/

I wish there was an easier way for Google to let legitimate sites reincluded. Blogger does have a mechanism to remove the captcha (that's used to prevent spam - it's triggered by spam filters). And the Blogger staff has been very responsive to this kind of request... Why can't Google do the same? Don't they have the big $$$ and the brains to make this happen?

-j