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Just look at any competitive keyword. Try <removed>. A blogspot page is the second result! Plus they usually just redirect to some lame ads-only site.
[edited by: jatar_k at 7:03 pm (utc) on July 26, 2006]
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The general problem of "spam blogs" or "splogs" is a fairly new one, and several large blog sites have gone from high-quality to extremely low quality in a fairly short time. So far we have rejected proposals to just blacklist entire domains, since we really want to preserve the ability to serve pages from the good blogs, which are still out there.
We think we have made some progress here (at one point many queries returned nothing but splog results) but it's clear that there's a way to go. Doing this carefully takes longer than making a quick hack, so please try to be patient.
That blog is completely excluded from MSN search results for no apparent reason.
In spite of being excluded from MSN search, that blog ranks in the top 50 most popular blogs (out of almost 250,000) on the wordpress.com site all the time and is often in the top ten.
It hit the top three within the past week.
It used to rank #4 on MSN for a common search term associated with the information it provides.
Exclusion of that site makes no sense whatsoever.
There is a blogspot.com site which says it is in the same information space but which is primarily used for the promotion of sites related to phone sex.
That obvious spam blog was ranked number one on msn for the past couple of years for a common search term which is completely unrelated to the topic of phone sex. After numerous times of being reported, it finally moved down onto the second or third page of results on msn.com
Since I pointed it out to msndude privately recently, that site is now number 3 on the first page of msn results for that term.
It makes no sense to me.
PS: Yahoo ranks that site #1 for that term so they are doing even worse, and Google, of course should have deleted it long ago but does not. (the site does not show up on Google.)
That doesn't mean any particular page will be presented for a targeted query,of course, but they're definitely in the index.
One day it simply vanished.
It is no longer included in the index.
The blogspot.com porn promotion blog is still there and now ranks better than before.
Pages of the site indexed went up from 410 to 859 to 1170 over the last couple of weeks and this morning, the site completely vanished from the results.
Remember, this is on Wordpress.com where there is no control over templates. It can't be an accident, it has to be deliberate.
It has dropped to #6 on search.msn.co.in and is
#5 on search.msn.com.my and has dropped to #9 on search.msn.co.za.
It is still not found in any search results on msn.com
