Re:Google Search Results Plagued with spam “.it” domains
by gary_0 on Saturday July 23, 2022 @07:36PM
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> move to creating and using new domains
This is a decades-old spammer trick. Google used to not rank brand new domains very high for this reason.
It's hard not to think that the only reason Google abandoned most of its old site ranking heuristics was that they were filtering out too many sites with lots of Google ads. The spam sites now infesting Google's first-page results don't look very different from the spam sites I saw back in the early 2000's. (There's more JavaScript, but modern search spiders run every page in a VM before reading the DOM, so that doesn't fool anyone.)
Would they just move to creating and using new domains with the same content as soon as traffic to the old becomes drops? (What looks like the spammers in the original post are doing)
But something does need to be done to these sites.