Re:Sequoia-Backed Chinese E-Commerce Company's Black-Hat SEO
by powertower on Saturday April 30, 2011 @09:58AM
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Historically, Google has made little effort to combat any type of spam which generated revenue.
When I used AdWords, I would say that 30% of the clicks where fraudulent and 90% of those came from Google "content" partners who where nothing more than link farm pages.
This has existed for the last 8+ years and Google has absolutely done nothing about it, except for odd case here and there.
They even went so far as setting up their own domain parking service (Google Domain Parking) to allow this type of behavior (and monetize it).
For the most part, Google only penalizes those who make Google look stupid... JCPenney.
When I used AdWords, I would say that 30% of the clicks where fraudulent and 90% of those came from Google "content" partners who where nothing more than link farm pages.
This has existed for the last 8+ years and Google has absolutely done nothing about it, except for odd case here and there.
They even went so far as setting up their own domain parking service (Google Domain Parking) to allow this type of behavior (and monetize it).
For the most part, Google only penalizes those who make Google look stupid... JCPenney.