Comments on: Google Tells Us How They Can be Gamed: They Artificially Inflate Recent Web Pages

By: John

John — Wed, 19 May 2010 14:49:14 +0000

Interesting.. Thanks for sharing this..

By: John

John — Wed, 19 May 2010 09:49:14 +0000

Interesting.. Thanks for sharing this..

By: Smart Boy

Smart Boy — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:43:06 +0000

These are some interesting developments from Google. Thanks for sharing!

By: Chris Lang

Chris Lang — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 04:16:50 +0000

This is how social bookmarking spam was successful.

However Digg still passes real link juice and Google STILL sees value in Digg submissions.

Not the ones that get 4 Diggs from the same guy with 4 ficticious accounts but 200 to 300 Diggs from real Diggers that find the content to be valuable.

The Google slap of this Christmas made the 3 marketers offering social bookmarking spam software pull their $97 a month products and rush new ones to the market. You know who they were, I don’t need to be nasty and mention them.

Their sites fell out of rankings too, like disappeared. I am the only one left because I have always taught that real Digg profiles and real participation and NOT Digging your own content has good influence on Google and still does.

In fact my sites did not sink during the slap because my Digg incoming links are whitehat and real. I also don’t depend on spammer links like the guy mentioned above.

My content is rich so I pull real links as well. Just because the spammer days are over don’t think that that was all social bookmarking had to offer.

Real Digg stories linking back to your site are still valuable to Google, the game is just harder to play now.

By: Vectorpedia(Rick)

Vectorpedia(Rick) — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:05:06 +0000

I found this to be a very interesting concept…..may be well overblown

By: Michael Martinez

Michael Martinez — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:30:37 +0000

This effect has been around for years. It’s a total non-issue.

By: Denver Home Refinance

Denver Home Refinance — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:53:53 +0000

There is a guy who has taken this concept to the nth degree with his website http://www.conversationdomination.com/

He charges $1,500 to learn how to manipulate the Google search results in this manner. I heard him hawking his product on a podcast. Basically, you do a blog post and then post to the social bookmarking and news sites referencing back to the blog post, pinging each social site along the way. The result is that you can get to the first page of Google, but the problem is that the results don’t stick. They last for a short time, and then the post falls out of the search engine rankings altogether. It’s just a flash in the pan technique. Google has an algorithmic juggling act that none of us could perform any better. I think that they will figure out how to weed out postings boosted by these type of techniques, but for the mean time, at least the posts don’t stick for long.

By: Jason Murphy

Jason Murphy — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:16:28 +0000

This has been going on for awhile. The key is to have a niche site that combines heavy content filled with good keywords. I know this is why we’ve also seen such an increase in SPLOGS in the last 12-18 months. Rob Benwell wrote Blogging2theBank which also contributed to this marketing strategy. I have a site that is using an awesome service that helps ethical marketers leverage this “gliche” in Google. The service creates WordPress like blog sites with anywhere between 1 and 10,000 articles instantly. The articles are created automatically and are dynamic so they change on the homepage every day. An example of a site is http://www.escapecollege.com which has over 3,000 articles on it. I also have the ability to write new pages or fresh content that will also appear on the homepage.

If you want to check out the company I use here is a link http://www.whypark.com/?hop=iay2007 it really is the best thing I’ve seen in awhile as far as ease of use and affordability. You can host 100 sites for $99…not bad.

By: Waleed Eissa

Waleed Eissa — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:43:05 +0000

This is very interesting, this is why I think this PageRank thing really sucks and should be replaced all together…

By: Christopher Kata

Christopher Kata — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:20:34 +0000

In case anyone was wondering, I was just kidding about the spamming comment!

Although this effect has been around for awhile I think it’s important that people continue discussing it!