Dashed filenames

[progen]

I'm seeing more and more sites like:

http*//www.example.com/randomkeyword-randomkeyword-randomkeyword.htm

and then the site title is the real keyword, for an example do a search for '<snip>' and look at results #1.

Reporting this to google is no good as the owner can simply register another domain and generate this bogus content again.

[edited by: NFFC at 6:37 pm (utc) on Mar. 1, 2003]

[hakre]

yeah it's disgusting, but really many people are doing this. then they write on their page, that these keywords were used in 'their searchengine' and it's only a kind of statistic. lol.

i think the google developer are on it. amazon (or some affiliates of amazon) did also a lot of redirect stuff, but this is now less then 2 month ago.

[progen]

i hope so because it seems like a very effective way of getting traffic.

[allanp73]

I actually don't think this is bad. It is a useful way to keep track of links (especially when you have 12,000 pages to keep track of). I do it for this reason, if it gives a ranking bonus that's a plus too :)

[progen]

allanp73 the links i'm talking about have no real content they have fake titles and fake page names and simply list <snip> search results.

[edited by: Marcia at 1:20 am (utc) on Mar. 2, 2003]
[edit reason] no specifics pointed out, per TOS [/edit]

[Marcia]

No doubt Google is capable and will handle it down the road if it devalues their search results. Just report it here and leave it up to them:

[google.com...]