March Madness Spam

[KevinMcC]

Check the the 2nd,3rd, and 4th pages when searching "March Madness Predictions". There is a shit load of spam popping up dominating those pages in the SERPs.. at least for me. Anyone else see it?

[jdwanchalk]

Define spam in this context.

[Mike]

Kevin means search engine spam - Spamdexing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, and yes, when a spa site has #11, a remodeling site has #12, and a stone shop has #13, there is definitely a lot of spam in those serps.

By the time google bans the site for spam, it will be too late, lol. I don't get what the point of all of this is, though. Most of the sites in the 10 - 20 range seem to be exactly the same and there is no apparent monetization attempt.

[KevinMcC]

By Spam I mean something like this..



That reads this in the text.. "Angela Lento's Runway to the Fashionable Four, the Fashion Power Index and College Basketball Predictions March 12, 2010 2009 March Madness"

[casinodave]

I don't get what the point of all of this is, though. Most of the sites in the 10 - 20 range seem to be exactly the same and there is no apparent monetization attempt.

My guess is that this is some automated testing of the waters to see how easy/difficult a keyword/niche/whatever they are testing is.

Either that or it is Google and Caffine integration...and the knobs are not quite good yet. lot of people been mentioning lots of spam at top of some serps the last day or 2.