Google and Removing Spam Results
April 30th, 2008 | by DavePosted in Search engine optimisation
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At B10G we like to think of ourselves as an ethical angency that only undertakes white hat techniques to improve our clients organic rankings.
However when you look at a search term that you are trying to rank for and see that the top 2
results are clearly the exactly the same site with different URL’s you have to think….
The search term is National Will Register the results of which can be seen here
As you can see the first 2 results are exactly the same site, apart from slightly changed meta description . Clearly this is against Googles webmaster guidelines and rather annoying, although no worries our client has only just launched and I am looking forward to knocking them off the top spot using ethical SEO.
Google do offer a way to report sites engaging in these tactics so they can consider it for removal from the index or tweak there algorithm based on spam reports but in my experience I have found that this does very little if anything even when there is clearly breaches in Googles terms.
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May 13th, 2008 at 11:53 am
call me a bit of a sadist but i love knocking companies off the top spot, especially if they are spamming or have some stuck up web master who thinks spam is the way forward. It’s a pity that google doesn’t take serious action against these sites. maybe fine them.