Serps full of guestbook and blog spam

[Markoi]

I'm seeing more and more guestbook and blog spam in serps.
Same as cloaking from .edu Serps are gettting worse day by day.
Is this the serp quality google wants?

[tedster]

Rhetorical question, right? Clearly it isn't what they want.

Google seems to be shuffling something around these days -- issues they seemed to have a good handle on have been popping up again, but often just for short periods. My guess is that is the near future you'll see those spammy results go away again.

[MThiessen]

I have yet to see a guestbook entry come up in the serps... Maybe we search for entirely different things, but I personally have not seen it as a problem.

[Markoi]

Question is why can't they filter it out then. I posted on MC blog a exemple a few days ago. But is seems te get worse.
High KW density, only text, not in url, title or descrip.
Seems to me this is easy to filter out.

64.233.183.104 i hit on <one term> as exemple to see if i was right about blog and guestbook spam, and there are many keyword more i'm watching that have the same problem.

<Sorry, no specific search terms.
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[edited by: tedster at 12:32 am (utc) on Jan. 8, 2007]

[gehrlekrona]

I have seen this too. Tons of new EDU spam pages showing up.
I have a domain that has been hit really, really bad by scrapers and if I search for the domain name, I get all these scraper sites, EDU domain spammers and my site isn't even listed on the first page.
Been like that for some time now and it is getting worse in MSN also where I used to get the most visitors from to that domain.
Google is fighting an uphill battle. There will always be people who find loopholes to get into the SERPs and everybody else get hit by Googles removal of spam sites. One step forward, two steps back it seems.