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The fact the story was published at 8 different urls was the cause of the issue http://sphinn.com/story/71911
Google found a new version of the url and assumed it was a new story. The crap CMS is to blame for the entire fiasco.
Related posts from this week:http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/are-keywordspy-spamming-you-as-well/
http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/keywordspycom-spammers.html
Judging by the referrer strings they search from google.in for any sites that mention their competitor, spyfu, and then spam the hell out of them.
To be clear, I do think it's a great product, didn't want people to think this was a negative post......
Yahoo is indexing loads of search results and category pages from within the site I think. Either that or Dave has set up 40,000 doorway pages ;-)
I'm hoping that other people will come up with evidence to say "yes" or "no". :-)
Kimota - The use of this on my site was merely an illustration, if you rank for a url your biggest competitor has been promoting offline then you should be able to figure out a way to offer them value.
And even with the example on my site the visitors couldn't find the link without my help so I'm guessing they went away happy.
When I try to register blogstorm.co.uk it says the site is already registered?
Google just updated their robots.txt to fix it:
http://trends.google.com/robots.txt
If they think these don't belong in the index why do they let other people use the same tactics?
The linkbait was a good plan. If nobody had found out the story was fake this site would have got a load of good links.
I'm sure the client was totally aware of the possible ramifications, they aren't exactly white hat.
I wonder if the badges have tripped some kind of filter? Or has a manual editor decided badges are unnatural links? Or is it because the page is too long?
Jane the page is still in the index but it isn't being cached.
KenJones it is some kind of penalty/filter (intentionally given or otherwise). Seoco probably hope that by writing about it we can all discover what happened and therefore avoid doing the same to our own sites.
Jane it appears with the info: operator.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&newwindow=1&suggon=0&safe=off&q=info%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.seomoz.org%2Fweb2.0&btnG=Search
Rizoh nobody has really gone down that route before so I don't think anybody could anticipate the reaction. Not all was negative - most people just were reporting on the new wave of marketing tactics.
http://tinyurl.com/6j92qq
54 pages they have indexed from blogstorm by filling in the forms.
I knew some were being indexed but I didn't know 54 were until I read your post and tried a query. I'm going to leave it and see what happens.
How exactly is Google going to be able to verify the accuracy of a news story?
I don't think the post is spam. You might not like the article but why is it spam?
Did it work though?
https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/advsearch;_ylt=Amb3N2zul7NJBCykXv6aHbDbl8kF?p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.money.co.uk%2Farticle%2F1000390-13-year-old-steals-dads-credit-card-to-buy-hookers.htm&bwm=i&bwmo=d
1500+ links already. Success in my book.
Ironically this did quite well on digg (66 diggs without me even trying) but because my domain is blacklisted it got buried.
It took me a while but you can see them by clicking the right button!
Story: Googlebot Causes United Airlines Stock to Plummet Says Tribune Company