[Sigia-l] "Spam and be punished"

[Andrew Boyd]

Eric Scheid wrote:

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>from the URL Ziya provided:
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>    Radisson SAS made extensive use of Shadow Domains and Doorway Pages
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Hi Eric,

I saw that bit, but wondered how the creation and use of shadow domains 
and doorway pages constitutes spamming Google per se?

Say I am, well, a widget distributor in Australia. I buy a bunch of 
domain names like "findwidgetsaustralia.com.au" and "widgets.org.au" and 
populate them with a bunch of none-too-subtle redirects to my home page, 
ozwidgets.com. I'd then (using Google's flawed 
big-referrals-equals-good-information selection mechanism) have to 
googlebomb the redirect sites before it constituted spamming Google. 
That is, in its simplest form, set up a bunch of phony link lists that 
contain recommendations to my redirect sites. I think that it would be 
an interesting challenge for a talented programmer - to create a 
googlebomb generator - such that a googlespammer could enter a topic 
domain (subject/target audience/geographical region) and have the phony 
link pages generated automatically. Unless this is happening already, 
which would not surprise me.

Unless I have this all wrong. Wouldn't be the first time! :)

Cheers, Andrew

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