Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
The recipe: Use an exploit, upload a page of computer generated keyword rich rubbish content which is unreadable. Use plenty of h1/h2 tags and kw stuffing. Find your wiki target, and upload!
Be sure to include redirects to your paid search pages.
All of a sudden, this page is ranking top 10. The actual page has zero IBL and is dominating some of the most lucrative industries on the net.
Why is this top 10? Authority domain of course.
I am finding the above happening on a wide scale, and cannot believe how fast this is spreading.
Anyone else seeing this?
Comments?
I've recently read several cases of edu sites being abused, as they give access and web space to so many people. Most edu will deal with their own abuse, once made aware (I'm sure there are exceptions!)
Most of the 'quality' wikis are well policed, aren't they?
So many .edu/wikis are exploited now, but what yanks my chain is watching a wiki getting hacked and spammers hosting a page with redirects on their domain, and they get glory for 2 weeks.
I think the same can probably be said about Dmoz..... :)
Google gives authority domains such as Wiki's and certain .Edu's preference in terms of ranking.
Is that true, or is it urban legend? I could point to several big computer-generated commercial sites that do as well in the travel SERPS as Wikis do--or, in some cases, even better.
Wikis and big-university .edu sites tend to be huge, and they probably get a lot of legitimate inbound links, so it's understandable that they'd do well in the SERPs--with or without preferential treatment from Google.
So many .edu/wikis are exploited now, but what yanks my chain is watching a wiki getting hacked and spammers hosting a page with redirects on their domain, and they get glory for 2 weeks.
So many?
I've never heard of a quality wiki being exploited to any extent for more than a few hours. That's not a wili problem - it's an idiot spammer problem.
As for edu - what makes you thinks that's such a huge issue?
In both cases, a report to Google is a valid as a report about any other site.
And a report to the site will usually work much quicker - and be permanent.
The authority site system is by no means perfect; but most of them have earned the status, and lets face it, large sites that provide such a wealth of *really* unique information, rather than machine generated MFA, deserve a bit of slack if three or four pages go rogue?
Is that true, or is it urban legend? I could point to several big computer-generated commercial sites that do as well in the travel SERPS as Wikis do--or, in some cases, even better
Explain this: A .edu/wiki domain , has a page hosted on its url. It has zero links point the page from anywhere on the site. It's a computer generated page with a redirect to a ppc engine.
How can a keyword stuffed h1 page obtain top 10 ranking in a very very competitive industry with no links, internal/external?
So many?
In the past two weeks more than ever.... Yes, some get fixed after two weeks.
deserve a bit of slack if three or four pages go rogue?
I am not attacking them per se, attacking the system that gives them credit.
And btw. that spam report never seems to work for me!
Where can I get the video?
If it's a wiki, can't you just fix the page yourself?
As said, there are some exploits going around on wiki software, where people manage to upload pages of content.
Its not an editable page.!
Most wikis have fixed this :)
The next movie I am launching!
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