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I feel bad for JC Penney who got connect by a shady SEO firm. Google's reaction of completely delisting them sounds like a kill switch action, not an algorithmi
by anonymous246 16y ago
I feel bad for JC Penney who got connect by a shady SEO firm. Google's reaction of completely delisting them sounds like a kill switch action, not an algorithmic tweak to ignore spam. It almost seems like Google just doesn't have the technology to detect and remove spam pages. I'm pretty sure I can do this over a weekend [1]. I wonder if it's because the problem is hard technically, or because Google doesn't have the incentive to do so.
[1] for those who don't remember, this is a tongue in cheek reference to an infamous comment on HN that somebody made claiming he could clone stackoverflow in a weekend.
- vampirical 16y agoThey actually did exactly that. They didn't do a hard de-list for JCPenny as in the bmw.de case, only a tweak to the link weighting to remove the type of bogus link JCPenny was benefiting from. So they've dropped down 30-50+ positions in a lot of cases, as have other who were benefiting from similar links, but they are still being fairly listed.
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- joelrunyon 16y agoYou feel sorry for them because they didn't properly vet their SEO firm? They're paying someone (probably a crap-ton of money) to perform a service for them. They should be keeping tabs on what they're actually doing & have someone in house or a third party checking to make sure they're being legitimate.
- leon_ 16y ago> It almost seems like Google just doesn't have the technology to detect and remove spam pages this