Why do these tiny sites rank so high? WTF

Have a look at This

It has been a spammer xxxatheistunderground.org

have a google on his CB affid

Duly reported to google:

June 22, 2008

Thank you for submitting a spam report for this site: xxxhttp://www.atheistunderground.org/

We take the quality of our results very seriously, and we thoroughly investigate every report of deceptive practices and take appropriate action when we uncover genuine abuse. In especially egregious cases, we will remove spammy websites from our index immediately, so they don’t show up in search results at all. At a minimum, we’ll use the data from each spam report to improve our site ranking and filtering algorithms, which, over time, should increase the quality of our results.

We appreciate your taking the time to help us improve our service for your fellow users around the world. By helping us eliminate spam, you’re saving millions of people time, effort and energy.

Backlink spamming.

Every now and then someone finds a way to manipulate google. I remember one time it involved having millions of videos linking to your site. Stuff like that.

It always gets you banned.

You can get a nonrelated website to rank for anything if you have enough links pointing to it. I have seen a pharmacy website rank for a casino term in the past.

dont forget – how old the domain is and what previous traffic it had also counts. there’s always ways around google and there’s still many a blackhat out there looking for routes in. after all – its all about money. good spot. lets hope it gets sorted.

Those are actualy old domain names with previous good websites. The owner could have given up on the domain or forgot to renew and another one buys it. Since the domain already has plenty of links pointing to it, it takes a while for Google to remove it from their DBs, hence it temporarily ranks it on whatever theme the site currently has.

It’s a good short-term strategy, but it fails in the long run. It’s an odd trick but not really spam, at least not more than link exchanges are considered spam.