fatbill wrote:
Yahoo! is ‘supposed’ to be implementing changes that deal with re-direct’s, according to some of the feedback I’ve read…. when, however is another matter….
I think Yahoo already has worked on this, or started to. Google is the one that is really a mess when it comes to this issue. Check out some of the webmaster forums. A lot of people are getting their rankings stolen with these redirected, partial content scraping “back links”.
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/25638.htm
The spam text site listed earlier is hard on the eyes. Imo though, it’s not much different than people buying thousands of site wide back links with targeted anchor text. Spam is spam. Spammy text is probably done by the people who can’t afford the spammy back links. It just looks worse because the searcher sees it.