Bad Data Push Continues
The problem with subdomain spam, and what webmasters are being told is a “Bad Data Push” when it came to eiqz2q.org has not been corrected. I hope the folks at merged.ca and threadwatch.org catch this continuing problem and continue to post about it.
Back on May 25th I posted examples of this very problem on WPW in this thread titled Google Rewards Craigslist and Feydakin posted about it on the SEO Forum in this thread.
Today, if you do a Google search for wedding forum or a Google search for queer forum you’ll see that craigslist.org dominates the search results with page after page of results from them. Not only that, each and every page is identical content.
Just as I suspected, Google has not corrected this gaping deficiency with Big Daddy, they simply went in and manually de-indexed the site.
Dave
June 19th, 2006 at 10:48 am
Exactly right, CrankyDave. Google is giving us a hand-job and removing the offenders manually. I hope they realize there are many more thousands of them. I think this will present a bigger challenge algorithmically than first imagined — after all, http://www. is a subdomain itself. Nice example with Craigslist, that is actually worse than “pizza sauce recipe”.