| Hey Jacques Sorry for the delay, I don't come to HN very often. I sleep quite easily at night. Google is very bad at what they do when it comes to spam. They deliberately under-resource their spam team and have maintained a fairly incompetent hack managing said team for a long time now. Their motivations? Anyone's guess, but that's the fact of the matter. Search for payday loans and this result comes up on page 2: http://www.suryavanshi.org/disadvantages-of-payday-loans.php This page is spam, pure and simple and falls foul of Google's own guidelines. > Who are you to determine what a low quality website is? Google puts out these guidelines so people can determine the quality of websites. Pure and simple. Unfortunately, their own algorithm isn't good at recognising these bad actors. This is where Negative SEO comes in. As stated elsewhere, nSEO is only genuinely possible where a site is sitting on the edge (as above) OR, unfortunately, to attack small businesses. I'm NEVER going to attack a legitimate business. I AM going to attack spammers, and YES my clients do benefit. I don't like spammers, you don't like spammers, and it just so turns out that Google is not so great at dealing with them, mostly because they don't care that much. Quite frankly, I'm not going to sit around and wait for them to haul their asses into gear 18 months later to fix it. I don't just do nSEO, I also report spam listings to TripAdvisor and any other site who listens to my spam notifications. Of course my competitors benefit when I remove spam to their advantage. Why shouldn't they? |