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2005/5/11

sub-domain spamming days are over; whats next

@ 11:20 AM (54 months, 21 days ago)
The key issue here is not the cleaning process; this is natural tendency. The main point here is looking at the motivations; understanding them and finding approvable ways to fund these gozilla-websites. It's easy to teach ethics when you are a global company (see Google corporate policy: do no evil), but when you need money to run a useful website, spam used to be an option. While each webmaster goes on trying to justify his unethical seo spamming methods, google found the way to filter sub-domain spamming sites out of its index. This radically changes the equation of the entire technique, and the quick effect will be one of a "cleaner web". The websites that tried to inflict their high pagerank over spamming sub-domain link-farms will get completelly punished by google. Instead of more Adsense revenue generation farms, we'll witness a cleaner web.

Sub-domain spamming, a technique used to trigger Adsense-like adds over repeated and cross-referenced spam text pages used to be part of the SEO arsenal. These days the wheel seems to change. After link farms and keyword stuffing, the sub-domain spamming technique goes out from the black magician's SEO hat to the public awareness.

After the revealed Wordpress spam, Andy from Waxy turned back recently to syndic8.com Search Engine spamming, and google replied quite fast by punishing all syndic8 content from its index.

Webmasters that run this game used to be driven by greediness or the need to survive. Although it's ethical to remove the greedy ones, what happens if this cleaning technique removes mandatory revenue for important yet-free websites?