Tuesday, February 13, 2007

How to Spam Google, Earn Lots of Money and Get Away with it

Do you think it is possible to SPAM Google and get away with it? It means getting high ranking in Google Search Results in multiple keywords by spamming the Googlebot, earning lots of money with those traffic coming from the Google search engine, and getting-away with it without any penalty. Is it possible? Maybe! Look at the case study below:

Website: http://www.buyandsellph.com

Visit the website above. Then scroll at the bottom of the page where you will see a large white space. Try selecting the large white space with your mouse and guess what! There are hidden content in that space. It is actually a HUGE collection of keyword-rich HIDDEN-text (white text over a white background) which is definitely being used to fool Googlebot with the content of the website.

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Try searching Google with any of the keywords included in that hidden-text content and you will notice that the website is always included in the result page (either 1st page or 2nd page of the results). Even the actual content of the page visible to normal users is not related to the searched keywords, that page will still be included in the search result because of the keyword SPAM.

Now, many will say that it is just a matter of time before Google notice it and ban the website. "Just a matter of time" might be too long and anyone doing this might have already earned a lot of money before Google take action and ban the website! Why? Check this page dated September 2004 in Archive.org:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040914082530/http://www.buyandsellph.com/
Scroll down at the bottom of the page and you will see that this website has been doing the Hidden-Text Keyword SPAM technique since 2004 and has not been banned until now.

Here is another website which is a sister website of the one above: http://www.jobfinderphilippines.com
Do the same thing. Scroll at the bottom and select at the huge empty blue space. Another Hidden-Text Keyword Spam!

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Here is the archive of the same website from February 2005:
http://web.archive.org/web/20050208084624/http://www.jobfinderphilippines.com

So, can you SPAM Google, earn a lot of money from the traffic generated, and get away way it? Maybe!

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