“people in this business are almost forced to resort to these sort of things,”
Only the bottom feeder losers.
“I agree. Spammers need to be turned in or we will never see decent results.”
Spammers are just cheats. Only a fool doesn’t turn in cheats in games they play.
“When I do a search for that term, I find all kinds of sites about texas holdem.”
What a nonsense statement. Being relevant to a query is not the point, and any three year old knows that, so please spare up the obtuse comments. Search engines rank results, and users expect ranked. They don’t expect random stuff pulled out of a hat.
“Lets face facts, you arent reporting sites to Y! because the results arent relevant, you are reporting them because they are out ranking you using a method that you dont like.”
Oh please. Stop the nonsense. Relevant has nothing to do with anything so stop talking about that. A redirect can direct a person to a relevant site, but the URL listed is not the genuine result. This should be reported. The top fifty links all redirecting to the same casino are all relevant and it makes no difference at all. It is cheating and breaks the rules and should be reported.
“Anyhow, if you have time in your day to act as a volunteer to help a search engine with it’s perceived algorithmic failings, then you are at a competitive disadvantage because aggressive webmasters will be using that time to productively work on getting sites to score.”
More backwards thinking. Bottom feeding spammers waste more time than anyone. It takes a few minutes to turn their lame, weakling butts in.
I volunteer to make me more money.
“Instead of wasting time telling tattle tales to the search engines to hurt your fellow webmaster and competiitor, maybe you should work on trying to compete.”
Spammers are not my “fellow webmasters”. They are cheating vermin that need to be stomped out. And, I make more money than all the spammers here (including the #1 one who right now doesn’t believe that could be true), so save the ludicrous comments about competing.
Spammers grub for pennies when tens of millions are at hand.
“Sites Positioned Above Mine”
The mantra of people who don’t know what they are doing. Instead of repeating simpleton nonsense, learn how to build and promote quality content, and then maybe you’ll figure out why spam is just a mosquito. Spam is the stuff ranking below me that will be culled from the database in short order because it is rat garbage of the Internet.
And yes this is harsh, but that is because spammers may be webmasters but they are not in the same business as I am. The pathetic cheats have to accept that this is the status they choose for themselves, and pretending they are “fellow” is delusional.