arronsky
msg:4161761 | 1:02 am on Jun 30, 2010 (gmt 0) |
I would just remove the data from your site and forget about wasting your time on the rest. Your problem is not unique and Google can handle it.
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tedster
msg:4161808 | 2:15 am on Jun 30, 2010 (gmt 0) |
I would get rid of soft 404 handling. It doesn't really help anything these days and it can cause problems - that's why Google added itnto the Webmaster Tools reports. If spam links bang into a true 404 response, then you have a strong safety net from even accidental bugs.
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seoholic
msg:4206980 | 11:34 pm on Sep 25, 2010 (gmt 0) |
After three months my site is still ranking for spam and non-spam keywords. 20k-50k p*rn serp impressions per month include my site (WMT). I even get link exchange requests from p*rn sites...
The spamlinks were continuously created (from March to present). The spammer now uses also autogenerated blogs/subdomains and the links point directly to my homepage in all newer spam versions.
I removed soft 404s a week ago and the content 3 months ago, but I can't see any serp changes yet.
Obviously Google isn't able or willing to detect and remove off topic sites.
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tedster
msg:4206988 | 12:49 am on Sep 26, 2010 (gmt 0) |
If you only removed the soft 404 a week ago, you still have a wait ahead of you. I assume those requests now generate a true 404 status, correct?
With a soft 404, the spam backlinks redirect to your home page and their anchor text is counting toward your home page. Google "should" now process the real 404s over the next few weeks, and gradually you will stop ranking for those keywords.
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seoholic
msg:4206990 | 1:21 am on Sep 26, 2010 (gmt 0) |
True 404, correct.
I get newer spamlinks directly to my homepage and not to my forum. So the spammers behaviour evolved. This includes using blogs/subdomains... instead of or additional to forumposts (it's hard to analyse this garbage).
I'm not sure why this happens, most of the other sites, although they deleted the forumposts, still get links to their (404) forums.
I suppose that there always will be a new link directly pointing to my homepage replacing the old 404 links to my forum.
So far my site hasn't suffered, but it's interesting to watch, because it's an obvious error and Google doesn't fix it.
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tedster
msg:4207009 | 3:36 am on Sep 26, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Yes, it certainly is interesting - and informative too - to see the gap between what Google hopes to do, or says they do, and what they ACTUALLY accomplish.
It's never a good idea to underestimate them because of shortfalls in this moment, however. They do have a way of coming around and fixing stuff sooner or later.
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mcskoufis
msg:4207222 | 9:33 pm on Sep 26, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Have had a similar same issue happen, this time with the spammer linking to dynamic pages and adding his own parameters to the URL so a 404 wasn't that easy to implement.
They link to example.com/somedynamicpage?page=1>=v14gra etc.
Nonetheless, this shows the power of anchor text...
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tedster
msg:4207227 | 9:45 pm on Sep 26, 2010 (gmt 0) |
@mcskoufis - that kind of backlink can be a danger signal. The page may be hosting parasite links that are cloaked so only googlebot sees them. It's always worth a quick check with "Fetch as googlebot" in Webmaster Tools.
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mcskoufis
msg:4207231 | 10:05 pm on Sep 26, 2010 (gmt 0) |
This is a very rare case, perhaps the rarest I've worked with.. The site just wouldn't rank on anything compared to its content. Had been hacked years ago but the links stayed and due to the dynamic nature of these pages they were returing 200 ok..
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seoholic
msg:4225336 | 11:11 am on Nov 2, 2010 (gmt 0) |
MajesticSEO shows a small decline of (spam)link growth for october. Exponential growth of spamlinks before.
WMT isn't showing any spam anchor texts since this week. In the past nearly half of the shown anchor texts were spam.
Spam rankings are intact.
Normal rankings are intact.
Lost more than 15% of indexed pages but I suppose this to be normal at the moment.
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indyank
msg:4225358 | 11:57 am on Nov 2, 2010 (gmt 0) |
I agree with Tedster.One should not fear about 404s. If a page doesn't exist on the site then return the mosy appropriate http code. If you still fear a 404 for pages already crawled, will affect your rankings, you could add a noindex meta tag to the pages, use GWT for removal of pages from google's index.Then you could delete those pages and return a real 404.
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seoholic
msg:4234288 | 2:43 am on Nov 24, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Refering domains discovery declined by 90% in October and November. This means: no new spamlinks!
Spam rankings are intact.
Normal rankings are intact.
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