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Spammy Sites Still Flourishing?

by dvduval
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I've heard a little bit more about Mashup sites and Micro Niche sites lately, but overall I am not seeing spammy business models thriving nearly as well. I've managed to shut down entry points for spam on my forums and blogs pretty effectively now. And as for getting links myself, I don't really find it difficult to find quality without resorting to even borderline spam. Do you still see any spammy models flourishing?
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  • Profile picture of the author alexbbbh
    Originally Posted by dvduval View Post

    I've heard a little bit more about Mashup sites and Micro Niche sites lately, but overall I am not seeing spammy business models thriving nearly as well. I've managed to shut down entry points for spam on my forums and blogs pretty effectively now. And as for getting links myself, I don't really find it difficult to find quality without resorting to even borderline spam. Do you still see any spammy models flourishing?

    Yes there are still a few models that bring in the $. One of which would be rankings from blog commenting.

    On a second note, overall it has become harder and harder. Google and the big guys are closing the gap and it's not as easy as before. Eventually the competition will be pretty fierce so not everyone will be able to compete. It won't be as easy as now.

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  • Profile picture of the author Orator
    Spamming will always be around, it's part of the short cut mentality. Making money with spammy blackhat tactics is easy if your willing to do it. I appreciate that Google is doing their best to fight it, but there are some very clever people on the other side to. There doing their level best to figure out how to bypass every new security mechanism.

    I can't really ever see an end to this cycle.
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  • Profile picture of the author dvduval
    I've seen quite a decrease in spammy stuff lately, though I would love to see some example of serp pages where you feel it is littered with spam.
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    • Profile picture of the author bgmacaw
      Originally Posted by dvduval View Post

      I've seen quite a decrease in spammy stuff lately, though I would love to see some example of serp pages where you feel it is littered with spam.
      A lot of the ultra spammy stuff seems to have been weeded out. Search on 'cheap viagra' for some examples. Many of the sites that are ranking are some .edu's that were either spammed heavily or hacked but seem to be clean now, although they're still ranking for the term.

      Now, once you move away from the heavily spammed niches, you'll still find sites of dubious quality. Even in these niches authority sites tend to rule, even if their authority is largely undeserved, for example, content scrappers and affiliate feed sites like thefind.com and nextag.com.
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    I rarely ever see a splog anymore but Google has cleaned it's own house since most of the splogs were Google's own Blogger blogs.
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