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How have they done this?

by ecopac
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Ok so a new site has appeared amongst the thousands of spam sites on the first page of Google.co.uk and I decided to take a bit more on an in depth look.

I don't have/know about all the tools to use to see exactly how they've done this, but I would love to know how they have just got indexed into Page 1 of Google under a search terms that was specifically targeted by Penguin?

The domain is Payday Loans Zone: Get a Payday Loan Approved in 10 Minutes! - I can see it was only registered on the 22nd May, 6 days ago. I can also see that they have 2092 backlinks and 458 referring domains from Majestic SEO.

This must mean they've auto generateed 2092 backlinks in 6 days, so would Google surely not see this as spamming/manipulating the Serps? I thought this Penguin update would discard this type of site straight away now.

Is it the backlinks getting them into this position or something else?
  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Originally Posted by ecopac View Post

    I thought this Penguin update would discard this type of site straight away now.
    Penguin is not a real-time part of the algorithm. It is a filter they run periodically.

    So no, Penguin would not have caught a site as recent as that.
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    • Profile picture of the author ecopac
      Oh right ok I wasn't aware of that! So how often do they run it, approximately?
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  • Profile picture of the author bymarcot
    It`s easy. If you analyze top 10 sites then every week some brand new site appears and most of them uses redirects for traffic (Google sees one site and visitors see other site - good example paydayloansnocreditcheckmilo.co.uk - when you visit the site through search engines you will be redirected but when you use type-in url then you see actual page). But they rank with using cracked plugins and themes. These have backdoors and they link all the sites to main site and also they are using 301 redirects.

    Cheers
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  • Profile picture of the author FrankRumbauskas
    In the portfolio of "experimental" or "test sites" that we maintain, Penguin 2.0 had little or no effect, surprisingly, on the ones ranked with pure spam from automated tools such as GSA SER. So I'm not at all shocked that you're seeing this.
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