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Maybe the casino blasters affiliate manager will step forward and tell who us it is or put a stop to it?
Well, I also have lots of these kind of sites linking to me and have been wondering the same thing. Ironically, I have gotten some traffic from a few of them so IMHO, as long as they have a true link to your site it shouldn’t hurt.
Literally overnight I have 5 or 6 of these above me in every good MSN spot I had and google reports some 35,000 linking to me. I am sure these are mostly these scraper sites…
in lookin through the source of that page, it seems they are using some sort of feed (url=feed.peakclick.com)
They are also using a gibberish generator in the text block at bottom…. there are lots of sites in the engines doing this…. It mixes in keywords probably at some density setting….. interlinked in this text is links from random works to identical sites on other domains….
MSN is probably the worst of the big engines right no, with this and similar types of spammy bs sites
Definitley scrapper sites prolly using automated bots to create lots of static pages, in this case I believe, and of course this only my lame brain opinion, this particluar tactic is trying to knock you out of se rankings. The good news is it’s probably temporary.
Are you running Overture PPC campaigns Dom? I have a suspician that these are coming from Overture as “sponsored results” effectively. I recently removed all my PPC campaigns for a while to test the theory out. But i read on WMW that most scrapers are doing it to generate PPC traffic.
Cheers
Simmo!
I have just noticed the same thing on Yahoo, type in a range of casino names and up pops a range of strangely named websites – when clicked up pops the very same website.
Im debating is this wrong or just some genius who has mastered SEO
I have tryed myself the Overture UK for the poker terms.
What i saw was a lot of different sites linking to me. When i visited them it was clear they show the bidding from Overture. They were clearly link farms.
Beside the bids are very high i end up paying for searches on my own room terms. I am not sure how much traffic come from them but i would gladly say no to that traffic.While Overture periodically appears to display some really really old ads from me for reasons unbeknownst to me, I haven’t advertised there in years.
I do have all kinds of ads floating around on the web though and recognize these as well as some plain engine listings.
I am reporting all those scraper sites that knocked me out of positions.
I have been poking around a bit – unbelievable, there are thousands and thousands of them.
If this is the new Golden Palace stunt – flood the internet with spam sites – I have finally had it with them.
Sites linking to you, shouldn’t hurt your rankings. There is a new phenonomen called ‘Google Bowling’ – well worth reading. However in my experience SEO wise other than page hijacking there is nothing anyone can do offsite to harm your rankings. Google also now seems to have finally got a hand on page hijacking as well
Webzcas wrote:Sites linking to you, shouldn’t hurt your rankings. There is a new phenonomen called ‘Google Bowling’ – well worth reading. However in my experience SEO wise other than page hijacking there is nothing anyone can do offsite to harm your rankings. Google also now seems to have finally got a hand on page hijacking as wellI was under the impression that if you were linked to from a “bad neighbourhood”, this could harm your rankings Webzcas. Have i got that wrong?
Cheers
Simmo!
Yep you have pretty much.
If that was the case I would be busy submitting links to everyones sites with bad neighbourhood or even better banned sites :rasta:
The whole idea of link popularity is to ensure other people cannot directly or indirectly affect your natural rankings. Only you can do that – ok it is not full proof but the big three engines ( google, yahoo, msn ) are very good at tweaking their algos when required to ensure this remains the case.
The article on google bowling is interesting and is something that has cropped up on the black hat seo sites. I’m not convinced though. ( I also do not advocate Black Hat Seo Tactics )
Who you link to can however effect your rankings. If you link to a site penalised by a search engine, ( ie banned etc etc ) this could effect your site rankings.
Dominique wrote:There are dozens and dozens of these almost identical sites in my ” site http://www.gamesandcasino.com ” google links.I know these are spam – the entire web, all engines it seems, are flooded with them overnight.
But are they hurting us if we are listed on them?
xhttp://www.schnyder-kuhn.ch/bingo-site-web.html
(remove the x)
Hmm just looked at the site. I’ve seen spammy affiliates do this, but not actually casinos. That said, this site does not have from what I can see any aff tags – I would not put this past goldenpalace however.
I wouldn’t worry though, I’ve seen google zap these types of sites from their index pretty quickly. During the bourbon update a few weeks ago, I saw a shedload of affiliate spammer sites creep into the index, only to be dropped like a stone shortly thereafter.
Webzcas wrote:Yep you have pretty much.
If that was the case I would be busy submitting links to everyones sites with bad neighbourhood or even better banned sites :rasta:
Good point!
Who you link to can however effect your rankings. If you link to a site penalised by a search engine, ( ie banned etc etc ) this could effect your site rankings.
Another good point – time to re-evaluate!
You control who you link to, so you can be penalized for that.
You don’t control who links to you, so you’re not generally penalized for that.
