Education Blogs Are Spam Nets
Recently, I have shared on how to find dofollow blogs on .edu and .gov suffix. It is known that .edu and .gov dofollow backlinks gives more value towards our ranking in google. I have done some searching on .edu and .gov blogs for last couple of weeks. Out of 10, 8 dofollow .edu blogs are heavily spammed with pharma, gambling, adult, etc links. These blogs have auto approval on comments using captcha. Surely, I don’t want to get a backlink from there, even though the page’s PR value is very high (PR4+).
But, what I’m worried here is our competitors can use this to attack us. We know well that google gives penalty or don’t give credit to backlinks from bad neighbourhood. If our competitors posted a link at this pages, surely it’s going to effect our ranking. The only advice given by google is to contact blog admin and ask to remove those links. I would doubt that blog admins who don’t have time to moderate their comments, will check our link in the big spam comment list.
I wonder why Google is still giving good PR for those pages with heavy outgoing links (more than 100) especially on education blogs that is pointing to some pharma, gambling or adult websites. Of all, I’m just worried this can be used by our competitors to knock us down from SEPR, PR and other rankings with chances of getting us penalty from google. What is your thought about this?
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July 24th, 2009 at 8:31 am
I think its difficult for SEs to perfect the anti-spam measures against this kind of offenders. I think this is the reason why they are not revealing their algorithms today so that it can’t be abused by others.
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July 24th, 2009 at 11:01 am
I hope they have some ways to identify this. Or else, it is easy to mark some sites linked with bad neighbourhood links.
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July 24th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
Another way for the competition to harm you is to get you banned in spam filters. All they need to do is post enough spammy messages as you on different blogs and sure enough you’re site will get banned there.
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July 29th, 2009 at 7:13 am
You are right. Anyone can do that to attack our site. Even, I have asked several times from Akismet to remove my name from their spam filter list. They did it.
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July 24th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Good points Atniz…I’m still shocked as to what I see Google allow still regarding backlinks and good rankings. I sometimes think I have no clue what to do anymore lol.
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Online College Reply:
July 27th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
I agree with you linkbuilder. It is a game of chance, at this moment.
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July 29th, 2009 at 7:17 am
There are some sites that are not heavily spammed gives good credit. But, majority of edu blogs that allows auto approval with only captcha, definitely gets good hit by heavy spam comments.
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July 24th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
Rather than worry about the type of domain extension, its better to just focus on the quality sites that either have “relevant content” (similar KW) -OR- provide useful information on a topic that is relevant to EVERY web site (like this one).
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July 29th, 2009 at 7:20 am
Agreed. Natural or organic links will surely turn in if we have quality contents.
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July 25th, 2009 at 10:01 am
Though there are 100 outgoing links on edu sites but they are edu sites which Google gives heavy value.I only think how these valuable edu sites are left with no care and maintenance at all.An edu site should not have spam comments in it instead the comments should be highly relevant to the topic posted.
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July 29th, 2009 at 7:25 am
I also wonder where these edu blog moderators gone missing. We can find almost any adult, gambling links from there.
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July 25th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
I think SE are sensitive to damage competition can do and they weigh that when determining how much to penalize sites from bad neighborhoods.
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July 29th, 2009 at 7:31 am
Too sensitive is bad for everyone. Anyone can make use of it as a weakness to attack some good authority sites.
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July 26th, 2009 at 3:55 am
I think the whole idea of a negative score or landing in the sandbox is a myth. If this were true, it’d be so easy to hurt a competitor’s website and so the SE’s can only nullify a link’s contributory score but that’s about it.
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July 29th, 2009 at 7:39 am
This have not been tried yet. Maybe, some black hat seo expert already done this to knock their client’s competitors.
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July 26th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
My understanding, which is of recent note, is that although backlinx from .edu and .gov sites have more value than .com, .org, .net, et cetera, it is not a good idea to get a lot of such backlinx in a short period of time. Defining ‘a lot’ and ’short period of time’ is probably beyond my learning-curve ken at this moment, but does anyone know if thee is some truth to this, the case being that Google will punish you somehow.
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July 29th, 2009 at 7:51 am
It is not .gov or .edu only. It applies to all TLDs too. Any sudden increase in backlinks will surely triggers google spam alert. Getting it done at moderate level with consistent link building activity will not get us punish.
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July 27th, 2009 at 5:58 am
hello atniz i am MrPJH yes it is true that there are a large number of non moderated educational blogs also Google penalize to commenting on those blogs but in other hand as bot is not a human it gives PR value based on that high PR back links and i think the other bot that takes aye on content penalize not why i think so
because i check on my web Google boot always take 2 types of visits
on pages and on headers i mean content
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July 29th, 2009 at 8:09 am
Hi MrPJH,
I have never encountered penalties from having links from bad neighbourhood before. As long as google don’t see this links as bad source, then it is good.
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July 31st, 2009 at 1:40 pm
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August 6th, 2009 at 8:45 am
“I wonder why Google is still giving good PR for those pages with heavy outgoing links (more than 100) especially on education blogs that is pointing to some pharma, gambling or adult websites.”
Google is probably lacking in sophistication when it comes to blocking or disabling links that are spams.
“’m just worried this can be used by our competitors to knock us down from SEPR, PR and other rankings with chances of getting us penalty from google.”
If you’re site is not good enough, then you can expect to be knocked down by these sites.
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August 8th, 2009 at 3:57 am
I hope they do have some algorithm to disable links on spams nets. Also, even though a site is good enough, it is easy to get knocked in serp ranking if our competitors have utilized it well.
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August 15th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
I think it may be possible. But as i know google gives much weightage to .edu and .gov. I have seen the effect of this links. My site is ranking well by this backlinks.
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August 18th, 2009 at 6:08 am
The best is to stay away from spammed pages to get backlinks. Google clearly explained it. Probably, other search engines can still give some benefit, surely not google.
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