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Re:How Google Nuked Sports Media Watch For A Crime It Did No... by sharkweek on Monday February 24, 2014 @01:32PM (#7292492)
Yep - not uncommon for spammers to create powerful link networks by buying up a bunch of quality domains, and then spamming links at what they want to rank for.

It normally takes Google a few weeks/months to catch this stuff, so for super competitive terms, it's easy to make it worthwhile by ranking for something like "fast payday loans." Then when the domain gets penalized, rinse/repeating.

Someone teased Matt Cutts with this a while back:

http://www.seroundtable.com/google-payday-loan-cutts-16940.h...

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Re:How Google Nuked Sports Media Watch For A Crime It Did No... by diminoten on Monday February 24, 2014 @04:54PM (#7293665)
It consistently blows my mind how effective spamming actually is, given how much money, effort, and time spammers are willing to throw around.
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Re:How Google Nuked Sports Media Watch For A Crime It Did No... by saraid216 on Monday February 24, 2014 @05:30PM (#7293864)
It's easily one of the best illustrations of how naturally skewed our worldviews are.
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