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Cloaking for AdWords

Joost de Valk — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:16:27 +0000

A post by Barry on SEL discusses cloaking AdWords URL's to get around the display URL policy from Google (displayed domain in the ad has to exactly match the destination domain for the ad). The source for the "news" is a post by Stephen, who shows a good example of it, on which Matt commented immediately.

But this isn't really new is it? And it's not only about the display URL policy either... It's about hijacking a good page / domain to get a good quality score, and using that quality score to make sure you get cheap clicks on your bad landing pages (with high CTR's, I bet)...

Trust me, this has been going on for quite a while, and it's done for all sorts of reasons outside of this one: cloaking to be able to use flash landing pages, to serve high quality pages to Google and high converting pages to customer's, etc. etc. You'd think Google was aware of this by now...

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Nice noframes spam…

Joost de Valk — Sat, 24 May 2008 07:20:54 +0000

I told the people who attended my session at SES New York a while back that spam in the Netherlands was just as abundant as everywhere, just more stupid... Well this is a nice example of such ridiculous noframes spam, which ranks them #1 for some pretty competitive keywords, check out how their google cache looks:

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So Matt, how would you classify these stories?

Joost de Valk — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:08:40 +0000

Quote:: "Thereâ€™s not much more deceptive or misleading than a fake story without any disclosure that the story is hoax."

Ok Matt, please tell me, how would you make a top 10 for these keywords:

You know Matt, that I am with you on quite a lot of spam issues, even link buying, but this time, you've crossed an invisible line, I'm afraid... I hope very much, that we're misquoting you, or not understanding what you're saying...

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Google subdomain & 302 spam

Joost de Valk — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:54:00 +0000

Dave pointed out last week that 302 spam is far from gone. Wiep pointed me at another form of spam that's far from gone, combined with 302 spam. If you search for "hypotheekoffers" and flip to page 2, you'll see a whole lot of subdomain spam. These subdomains 302 redirect to one domain, resulting in one domain taking almost the entire second page...

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