How Seriously Does Google Take Spam?

Well, try to see it this way.

If somebody told you to move your car because somebody else needs to park there.

Would you think this is a big deal?
Would you care?
Would you be in a rush to move it?

It'll get removed eventually, all it takes is time.

Not very seriously.

They just have an entire team of PhDs working on the problem full time, costing them millions of dollars every year.

If Google singlehandidly catches you spamming the search engines you will be sure to receive some kind of penalty, so these crappy sites you are talking about, just give it some time and they will slowly fade away.

dreamtoreality,

As others have mentioned, the propiretors of these sites will eventually be knocked back down in rankings. I just wanted to point out that I think it can appear that Google may not care about spam when sites like these continue to rank well (or at least appear to do so). Keep in mind the scope of the probelm. There are thousands of people out there every day whose only goal is to try and game search engines. Collectively they create millions of websites and as soon as those get penalized, they start over and do it again. This is an incredibly difficult force to contend with and the fact that much of the results in any given SERP are pretty credible, I think Google is doing a pretty good job at fighting web spam. Yes it isn't perfect but when you have bright people out there constantly searching for ways to beat the system, it can be a duanting task I'm sure.

here are some interesting stats on Google's web spam initiatives. In one month alone google took over 6 hundred thousand manual actions against websites who were spamming.

Fighting Spam ? Inside Search ? Google

best,

Shawn

Doubtful it matters If you report another site, I'm sure the report gets added to the bottom of a long list ahead of your report.

Thing is, If spam sites are temporarily blasting their way to the top, are you going to spend your time reporting the next wave of spam for all of eternity?

Spam works, my previous largest clients just proved it to me, he has sites with a million back links that rank awesomely well for a long time already. I asked a bit and it turned out he has 20 dedicated servers setup to spam all day long LOL, talking about hardcore.

When spamming it is essential that you also have true high PR links, like blog posts, his private network is 1000 sites large and he only uses it for private purposes.

Another essential thing is that you get links from a wide variety of platforms, otherwise you can forget lasting results, it's kind of like imitating a campaign that go's viral but then on a massive scale. Links like blog comments help here for the simple reason that they come from authority domains but what most people do wrong on this forum is that they use just 1 anchor txt, then place like 10 comments cause they don't want to spam, but then 1 comment is sitewide all of a sudden and they totally screw their anchor diversity. That doens't work.

I am definitely not a fan of spamming myself to be honest and wouldn't recommend it either but with the right combination it still works. Most people fail in finding the working combination and end up with spammed/penalized sites. The main reason why I not suggest it.

Google's algorithm doesn't seem to pick it up when you do it properly and when you report a site then the reviewers won't even look at the back link profile, they only look at onpage things, like is this site cloaking, is it a thin affiliate site etc etc, its more like a first impression they get from the site itself then that they truly research it, no wonder with the amount of reports that they get.

And in fact it makes sense, Google wants to show quality websites in the SERPS cause that's what the searches are looking for, they can care less about a spam back link profile cause they have engineers that take care of that part, but again, it's not so easy to fool the algorithm so better stay away from it.

One thing to add: People who spam professionally are often professionals that invest a lot of money into their technique's, once they rank on the top they want to make the most out of it so often they also have the best most professional looking sites that convert like crazy.

Spam is a multi million dollar business.

But again, be careful and don't fool yourself, with the spam links that are being sold on this forum you won't get anywhere cause those people have no clue, they once bought some software, couldn't rank their site so now they use it to start a service with it. Sad but true.

Spamming works for sure. No doubt about it.

However, it all depends on what your spamming with, google tries to target this stuff, but it's really hard to do so, after all, google is just an algorithm.

But if you follow any spam forums you'll realize that ti's been much harder recently, it's a lot easier honestly if you just try to go for a long term large website, it pays off huge in the end.

But yeah, if you have your own private blog network, you can basically own any google serps that you want.

I don't think anyone doubts spam links can work, the problem with spam links is constantly creating disposable sites, screw that, build a site you don't have to think about & still earning money a year from now.

If I wanted to work all day/everyday I would get a 9-5 job offline (forget that).

If you are creating quality sites then you don't have to be worried about crappy sites, they would go when there is any update..