I came across this indexing splog:
rabbit-blog-news.blogspot.com
because the users has a bot that comment spammed one of my Robot / Zombie Blogs. (funny in a way – Spambots Comment Spamming other Robot Blogs).
The Comment said:
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Skype Offers IM Tool for Integration Date: 8/25/2005 — Internet telephone provider Skype announced on Wednesday it is allowing its IM client, Skype Instant Messaging to be incorporated into Web sites and other …Great blog, I’ll definatly recommend it to some of my friends that are into horse racing
I also have a site on tropical fish ( www.pet-index.com/fish )
Please feel free to take a look
Naturally, I wanted to see what some other SEO Black Hats are doing.
First of all, the load times on this site are 10 secs + with Explorer. It works great in Firefox, but (at least for me) it is horrible in IE.
Now, it appears he spammed about 200 or so links from this B&P indexing blog, which is about right. However, posting every 10 minutes or so will often get your splog banned AND raise red flags about your site to the search engines. He made each indexing blog about a topic (like rabbits) and drop all the links for that topic in.
You are better off with many more splogs and a lower posting frequency per splog.
None of his backlinks are showing in Google. But that’s no surprise as Google is proud to feature the industry’s most useless backlink checker. He may not be completely banned, but I don’t think he has more than 6 pages indexed.
He has 3240 backlinks in Yahoo, but most are from the pet-index.com site.
And he has a few on MSN which reaveals what looks like 6 more spam sites (that are probably his).
The things i give him credit for are:
1. Quick site creation – I can’t Imagine that site took him much time to make.
2. SEFURLs (Search Engine Friendly URLs) - (Although I would Mod-rewrite away that .html extension)
3. Keyword Selection - The Phrases seem not too competitive and do appear in the Titile.
4. page mass for the sites seem ok
But overall, his sites are unimpressive.
1. He raised about every red flag you can
2. Spammy Looking Site - aesthetically unpleasing
3. B&P ramped up too quickly
4. Indexing Splog only pointing to 1 site - huge red flag (need Outbound to authority sites)
5. Linking from his other spam projects (Look Google this is my bad neighborhood!)
6. 404 from 2nd link on Home page - the Contact Us link.
7. His on page Search Engine Optimization is very weak: Could write a whole post just on this point.
8. Mediocre Adsense placement.
They are the sites that people HATE to land on because they are so freaking ugly. Everyone knows it’s Spam, they don’t think “oh, this might be a good pet resource” - Not even the really stupid people.
While he is probably making some decent money with these sites, with a few tweaks he could probably double his earnings. As I said before, to make serious money in Black Hat SEO, you need to make your Spam sites look legit. These example sites demonstrates the need for the SEO Blackhat’s step by step guide to Search Engine Spamming.
My work is far from over; there is just so much more we need to cover . . .
2 Responses to “Search Engine Spammer’s Site Review”
hello all
i think they use a powerfull script. i just analize more site, and have enought links back,today have 190,and when verified again after 1 day they have 10500 links back,
i`ll try to find something like that, well any advice ,,,,
This site is very interesting. I found it through my research on Article Bot and TE. I’m amazed you think this guy is making money with that pet site. If he can make money doing just that, what kind of money would he be making if the site actually looked decent?
I found someone’s network of sites I think he/she built with TE or something like it. I think they are aesthetically much more pleasing. They also are using the new standard Adsense placement (with images). What do you tink of these sites? Think they produce worth while income? http://www.a1journeys.com/
I have no affiliation, just interested in learning.