Porn Sites Using Blogspot To Game Google

from the this-is-a-surprise? dept

Tue, Aug 3rd 2004 8:43am — Mike Masnick

I think the only thing that's really all that noteworthy about this story is that it didn't happen sooner. In fact, it probably did happen sooner, but the press is just catching on. For quite some time now, people have realized that blogs tend to get higher Page Rank in Google due to their frequently updated nature, and tendency for cross-linking, so a group of porn sites have gotten together and are using bogus Blogspot blogs to boost the Page Rank of their own porn sites. Of course, as the article points out, this will now get to be much more popular, search engines will adjust and it will become useless again.

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Simon, 4 Aug 2004 @ 3:32am

I wonder if Google hasn't caught this already
My (blogspot-hosted) blog used to show up quite high in Google's rankings if I vanity searched my own name. Now (as far as I can tell) I'm not in the top 100 on Google, but I'm #1 or #2 on a whole lot of other search engines.

Possibly Google has lowered the pagerank of blogs?
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Former owner of Porn Sex n XXX free porn video web, 5 Nov 2013 @ 6:14pm

I once owned a free porn and sex video site at the address Porn, Sex 'n' XXX at around this time, was quite interesting, I used to put posts on blogspot blogs to try and up my google ranking, but I left the domain registration unrenewed years ago, good luck to who ever has it now, if anyone
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