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You didn't do your research. Your domain had a spam history. Also, a simple backlink analysis from any SEO would have turned up these issues and then you could
by jgmmo 13y ago
You didn't do your research. Your domain had a spam history.
Also, a simple backlink analysis from any SEO would have turned up these issues and then you could have promptly disavowed them and be done with it.
It's not Google's fault that you didn't dot you i's and cross your t's as a webmaster.
- hahahafail 13y agoGoogle's automated systems should still be smart enough to figure out the situation...
- peapicker 13y agoIt is Google's fault that their pagerank algorithm isn't sophisticated enough to handle understanding that internet domain ownership isn't static, and for not understanding that spam sites pointing to 404s on another site are a prime indication that a change has happened.
- revelation 13y agoSpammers are certainly able to have the whois data on a domain changed. It's simply a catch 22 for Google.
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- darkarmani 13y ago> It is Google's fault that their pagerank algorithm isn't sophisticated enough to handle understanding that internet domain ownership isn't static Nothing about their algorithm cares about domain ownership -- and why should it? Ownership can be gamed. If your domain has a bad reputation other reputation based services like SiteAdvisor are going to affect your domain as well.
- tzakrajs 13y agoThen you have sites returning 404s to Google spiders for illegitimate links once they've expired their use.
- PaulHoule 13y agoPageRank is smoke and mirrors. Usage data, sampled either from Google Analytics or the Chrome browser, is orders of magnitude more useful.
- kevingadd 13y agoHow does an unmaintained phpBB install count as a 'spam history'? By that metric probably half the amateur websites on the internet are 'spam websites' because they have a forum that isn't actively maintained. I run across spambot-afflicted forums on a regular basis.