Are you a conduit for spam
In the good old days I used to seek and find conduits all the time, now I’m going back quite a few years when I used to play that game lol, but it still surprises me how often the conduit door is left open and how many web masters just don’t get it ( here is a little clue NOFOLLOW ain’t going to stop it happening and if you spam the search engines to much you will pay the price!)
Now a conduit isn’t supposed to help you ranking it just there to pass people from google to your spam site. Take the case of Squidoo lens this is a great conduit but it’s on Google’s radar already and they have some great rankings like Twitter Applications
but when you have a conduit you exposed to this http://www.squidoo.com/hoodia-gordonii-weight-loss and it doesn’t take long with a few site: searches to find out what’s going on take http://www.squidoo.com/Hoodia-Report this is a classic if you check out that page
If you notice the line that says “Read what Oprah Winfrey has to say about Hoodia.t-Click Here!” this is actually my 3rd choice of conduit spam, and the reason why it works is the squidoo page is nice and clean, good information and a great call to action even I want to know what Oprah thinks about Hoodia
Now if Squidoo is ranking for Twitter applications I’m sure you could make it rank for loads of terms
so My Top 3 conduit spam techniques
1) The straight redirect ( google is much better at detecting these so you will need to tool up for bulk insertions)
2) The Big picture (use a Image with a link, but the image is so bug it pushes everything off page)
3) The Endorsement ( using celebs names to help push the point “what would Matt Cutts say !” )
but I’m sure you can be creative
DaveN



Efusjon 929 days ago
Nofollow doesn’t work because most of the spammers don’t care. They just use bots anyways and hit up everybody.
A commercial spam plugin would work. You need to build something and charge like just a few bucks a month.. .make it small enough that you can get a million sites to use it.
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