Dum.. Dum Dum Dum…. dummmmmmmmmmm!
Anyway – I am sure Matt Cutts and his fellow Web Spam busters are hot on the case of the latest and greatest web spam trend (or old trend… it’s at least somewhat new to me.) I have been checking out some of the newest SEOs in the scene who have been pumping out some pretty fast results and thought I would dig in a bit to see whats the driving factor for many of these results and wow… these guys/gals can be pretty creative…
This is how it works: I create a baby application or perhaps get an open source one, throw a name on it and submit it to a shareware website and/or even authority websites like WordPress. Here is where it get’s juicy..
SEOs create an account and use their ‘Authors Name’ as the keyword they want to rank for. For an example say I want to rank high for Phoenix SEO – I join WordPress.org or another software shareware website and create an account under Phoenix SEO and link the Author profile to my main website. The generic software gets published and bam… instant cred from Google. Do this a few dozen times and you have a website with a lot of credibility even when in most cases the software is not custom and it has really no relevance or workability… and so on..
I am really just starting to dig into this but there is some pretty creative things going on. Who knows – maybe I am way out in left field – maybe its not spam? Sure looks like it and if I was Google I would surely zap the sites for trying to trick authority juice as well as build large sums of links on really nothing but good ol’ fresh spam.
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