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I was just wondering if it's a reportable offense (or even worth reporting) when websites use my company name along with many other keywords for what's essentially spamming. For example, if I do a search for "Widgets Inc." in Google I get like:
URL: [somesitename.com...]
Description: We have information about Widgets Inc., Some Other Company and this Company as Well.
URL: [someothersite.com...]
Description: Come learn about Widgets Inc, Something Or Another, And This Thing Too.
URL: [anothersite.com...]
Description: Information about Widgets Inc., Some Movie and it's Products, Another Widget Co.
They all have one word URLs that relate to nothing and they all have the same page design but with different colors. At the top of the page is a list of like 50 companies, keywords, movies, whatever might be searched for. Then below that is a table of advertisements like "Buy DVDs for Cheap!" or whatever.
Similarly I get third party search engine results like this:
URL: [somethingsearch.com...]
And the 'description' is the lead in text from my own site! But when I click on them they either fail to load or they show up as a link to my site which really redirects somewhere else.
I guess what I'm wondering is if these things are bad for my site? Nobody's really going to fall for clicking on a link called britney_spears.html when looking for Widgets, right? :) If they are bad for my site, can I/should I report them to Google? I did a WHOIS on probably 10 of them and 7 of them were the same company. Maybe they could just wipe all their URLs? Anyway, any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks.
anyway the thing about web users is that some of them are a bit on the dumb side and I would imagine that it isn't doing your site any good. If someone (perhaps a net newbie) has heard of your site, but doesn't really know about it, they may click on these links and decide it's not much good after all.
I would report it - the fact that the pages are all duplicates and that they are not what they claim to be should be enough for Google to penalise them.
Now another company selling fakes of these products came up with a website "company f" (for fake) where they make heavy use of keywords O. They do this in a clever way - they say for example:
"We sell product f (for fake) which is similar to the well known product O of company O."
In fact product F looks similar, but is made more simple, and therefore is cheaper.
So they do not lie, but they use my specific keywords O. They made some SEO around these keywords O. And they begin to come up in SERPs. So far the company O site lists at #1 for keywords O, but company F shows up at #3 for one of keywords O, #7 for another.
Only thing to do - SEO competition?
Or some SEO pages about "how to tell the difference between original and fake"?
Any other ideas?
