Return Of Spammers?

Top Ten Has Seven Spam Sites!

[joeking]

Disappointed to search for something on Google and be confronted with a top ten filled with spam. I thought these days were gone.

1.2 million results and in the top 10 there are three entries all with different domains but directing to the same website with a PR3.

Then there are four scraper sites!

Sites I know that are good in this field are conspiciousd by their absence.

Please tell me this is a one-off.

[SEOPTI]

The next data refresh will remove the sites.

[doughayman]

I've been hearing this for years. Google continues to turn the other cheek when combatting spams. Specifically, naughty redirect servers seem to be in the good graces of Google. For the life of me, the only reason I can come up with for Google allowing this to happen is money. Whether it's Adsense, kickback from revenue generated by the site, or whatever.

Allowing spam to proliferate certainly does not help the image of Google, and you would think (in their eyes) that this would be a long-term survival priority.

[b2net]

It's what happens when the strict duplicate content filters penalize wh websites that use templates, navigation bars and similar footer texts. Scraper sites survive these filters because they have 99% unique content on each page.

I used to do some tests and right now my hand written white hat sites are on pages 5 to 7 and my scraper sites are on page 1. It's a little sad because I'd like to make my wh sites better but there's no motivation after they've been filtered down on the serps (or penalized manually by my friends in Dublin).

[europeforvisitors]

I could cite any number of SERPs that don't display any spam in the top 10, which merely goes to show that results and perceptions may vary for any given search term at any given point in time.

Perfection is unattainable, but in my experience, Google's SERPs are considerably more spam-free today than they were a couple of years ago. (Which isn't to say that they couldn't--or won't--become better.)

[tedster]

We all see search engine spam every day - it's a major battle and it's clearly not technically easy to handle. Please take all spam complaints directly to Google. [google.com...]

Even better, go through your Webmaster Tools account - those communications have more credibility on the other end.

For more general Google editorializing, pro or con, we really don't want it - see the Google Forum Charter [webmasterworld.com] We want to see productive conversations here that benefit the community, not generic noise that bores most of us to tears (there, I've said it). For the moment there is one active thread that we've allowed for those who feel they must follow such time-wasting and energy-wasting pursuits.

I do not trust Google any more [webmasterworld.com]