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What's going on with Google & Payday Loans?

by ecopac
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We all know the UK payday loan search is spammy, it always has been, but after the big G unleashed their update directly tackling it I have to say it was cleared up to the best I have ever seen it.

However, after the latest update in October it seems they've taken 2 steps backwards.

Previously, hacked websites ranking high were there for a day or 2 then taken down, it has always been that way, but since October these sites are still there. Despite submitting spam reports, how on earth are these sites still ranking for over 8 weeks now? In fact there's been extremely little movement in the serps for payday loans since this update.

Perfect example is the ieee-pels website, the search for 'direct payday loan lenders' delivers 9 entries from this website in the first 20 results - all links redirecting to a payday brokers website. This site has obviously been compromised. As well as that, there's the powa.org site that has been hacked and a couple of others.

Does this indicate bigger problems at Google tackling webspam again in these areas? These spam results all but disappeared up until the 5th October - something is definitely not right for them to be ranking for so long. Something in that algorithm update has dug up all of this spam again.

Personally, I am expecting another update or major refresh within the next couple of weeks.

Opinions??
#google #loans #payday
  • Profile picture of the author awledd
    "Despite submitting spam reports" Is it possible to report on search results? My second question is the definition of spam. Spam - is it always negative or it can be sometimes positive? Say for eg. people are trying to know which weight loss pill will work for them and it so happens that I wrote in a comment what is working for many people with my link to the product page. Now if the searcher finds what he really wants and if he is satisfied, do we call that a spam? We can also take payday loan websites as another example. Don't you think people are getting what they want when they want it due to those pages? If so why do we call them spam?
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      A man walked into the doctor and said, "Doc, whenever I bend over
      backwards and touch my toes, I hurt for a week. What should I do?"

      Doctor replies, "Stop bending over backwards and touching your toes."

      If you insist upon doing searches for what google (and the rest of the
      world) thinks is scams, cons, schemes, etc., you are going to continue
      to get scams, cons, schemes, etc. in results.

      Google is not the internet police, nor do they want to be. They might
      toss a bucket on a trash can fire, but can't possibly keep the whole
      town from buring down. And they don't try.

      Of course google too has it's bad days for such things. Feds are trying to
      take down their nonsense DNA con. And who said google was just a search
      engine?

      Paul
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      If you were disappointed in your results today, lower your standards tomorrow.

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