Comments on: Jazus, some of the results in Google are worse than terrible these days http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/16-02-2013/jazus-some-of-the-results-in-google-are-worse-than-terrible-these-days/ Search Engine Optimisation Ireland Tue, 31 Mar 2015 10:03:56 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.1 By: Richard Hearnehttp://www.redcardinal.ie/general/16-02-2013/jazus-some-of-the-results-in-google-are-worse-than-terrible-these-days/#comment-873682 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 12:33:26 +0000 http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/16-02-2013/jazus-some-of-the-results-in-google-are-worse-than-terrible-these-days/#comment-873682 Aha.

]]> By: Jim Munrohttp://www.redcardinal.ie/general/16-02-2013/jazus-some-of-the-results-in-google-are-worse-than-terrible-these-days/#comment-873654 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 11:48:43 +0000 http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/16-02-2013/jazus-some-of-the-results-in-google-are-worse-than-terrible-these-days/#comment-873654 I meant that the provision if the disavowal tool was the time that they came clean, finally.

]]> By: Richard Hearnehttp://www.redcardinal.ie/general/16-02-2013/jazus-some-of-the-results-in-google-are-worse-than-terrible-these-days/#comment-873653 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 11:31:04 +0000 http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/16-02-2013/jazus-some-of-the-results-in-google-are-worse-than-terrible-these-days/#comment-873653 I'm not sure they've ever been up front about this issue Jim.

]]> By: Jim Munrohttp://www.redcardinal.ie/general/16-02-2013/jazus-some-of-the-results-in-google-are-worse-than-terrible-these-days/#comment-873652 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 11:21:06 +0000 http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/16-02-2013/jazus-some-of-the-results-in-google-are-worse-than-terrible-these-days/#comment-873652 I see what you mean, Richard. Yes, I agree and think the entire NSEO saga has been clumsily handled but I guess we should consider ourselves lucky that they have stopped lying about it.

]]> By: Richard Hearnehttp://www.redcardinal.ie/general/16-02-2013/jazus-some-of-the-results-in-google-are-worse-than-terrible-these-days/#comment-873629 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 11:10:59 +0000 http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/16-02-2013/jazus-some-of-the-results-in-google-are-worse-than-terrible-these-days/#comment-873629 I'll give you an example. I'm seeing a site rank at #2 for a language school related keyword. The keyword wouldn't have huge volume, but it's really valuable to the schools chasing this niche.

This site has come from nowhere.  It's got the following stats:

Referring Domains 30 (26 in the last 5 years)
External Backlinks 58 (60 in the last 5 years)

Links are coming from comment spam (to show how low quality many are from nofollow .edu blogs) and direcory links.  I cant find a single "quality" link.

The interesting thing is that most of their links started to appear after Nov 2012, so really fresh. I'm seeing more and more of this – dodgy link patterns that rank well because they are fresh. This makes an already bad SEO problem even worse because it means the junk SEO offers you get in your spam box daily can work initially.  Later on your site will likely be dinged, but that's after the fact (and after you've paid the "SEO" agency).

I really think Google has created a dreadful black hole all due to their reliance on links for negative signals, and therefore enablement of NSEO. Sadly Google are creating NSEO with this silliness.

]]> By: Richard Hearnehttp://www.redcardinal.ie/general/16-02-2013/jazus-some-of-the-results-in-google-are-worse-than-terrible-these-days/#comment-873628 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 10:59:21 +0000 http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/16-02-2013/jazus-some-of-the-results-in-google-are-worse-than-terrible-these-days/#comment-873628 Just my theory, but I suspect dirt doesn't stick for some time so spam will inflate rankings initially. After time the dirt will stick, but all this means is that the rinse and repeat strategy will likely work nicely (as seen in payday).

]]> By: Jim Munrohttp://www.redcardinal.ie/general/16-02-2013/jazus-some-of-the-results-in-google-are-worse-than-terrible-these-days/#comment-873627 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 10:51:11 +0000 http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/16-02-2013/jazus-some-of-the-results-in-google-are-worse-than-terrible-these-days/#comment-873627 How do they "avoid Negative SEO", mate?

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