but this goes beyond that. Most of these sites appear to be doing nothing
but capturing search terms and dynamically generating urls and pages to
match.
I can't even figure out what the business strategy is. Why go through the
effort to register, code, host, etc a site called "shop.popcornmonsters.com"
or "www.teamprescription.com" and sell compound miter saws for someone else?
I get affiliate marketing, but this is wacky.
This hit looks like it tells part of the story: "tools.pyramidplaza.com",
and I picture these sites being put together by the poor shlubs that see the
cheap signs that say "Work at home and make thousands a week with just your
computer". But I'm beginning to wonder if there's more to the affiliate
program than just pyramid marketing. Maybe a pantload of these sites are
actually created and run by Amazon. Like Jeff Bezos is the new L. Ron
Hubbard and Amazon is the new scientology. Rumor has it that Hubbard's books
were top sellers because the CoS paid their people to go buy every copy.
-Kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: Google hax (was Re: Cute)
> Following some of those links, they're all obviously using Amazon's
> affiliate program. I haven't signed up for it, but does Amazon
> basically say "Sure, you can scrape our site, as long as we get the
> sale!", or is this more along the lines of scurrilous link-hoarding via
> Google hacks? I'll posit the latter.
>
> - Jim
>
> Kevin Graeme wrote:
>
> >Speaking of that, I've noticed some really bizarre search results lately.
> >When searching for reviews on a product, I'll often find lots of urls
that
> >point to exactly the words I searched for, the content on the page
includes
> >the exact search phrase in a paragraph, and ultimately it's just Amazon
> >content on the page.
> >
> >For instance:
>
>http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=bosch+4
412+review
> >
> >The first links are directly to Amazon, but then it's followed with pages
> >and pages of sites with scraped Amazon info. But I'm beginning to wonder
if
> >they aren't on-the-fly pages and even urls based on the Google search.
> >
> >-Kevin
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Jim Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 10:10 AM
> >Subject: Re: Cute
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>A lot of people have figured it out. I was searching for something
> >>moderately benign the other day, and the first ten links were almost all
> >>taken up by placeholder pages for half-assed "search" sites. Click on
> >>one and you're bombarded by Xupiter install requests, "Would you like to
> >>set your homepage to shittywebpage.com?", pop-ups, pop-unders, banner
> >>ads and (shudder) MIDI tunes.
> >>
> >>Google does respond to complaints, though. I sent my search query and a
> >>list of results that were obviously nothing more than hijack links, and
> >>they were extricated from future results. I wish I could remember what
> >>the searches were for, now :)
> >>
> >>- Jim
> >>
> >>Kevin Graeme wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>The link Philip gave is the clue.
> >>>
> >>>One of Google's biggest determinants in ranking is how many sites link
to
> >>>
> >>>
> >a
> >
> >
> >>>site. Also, Google pays particular attention to the actual wording of
the
> >>>text within the <a href>. So by having lots of bloggers include this:
"<a
> >>>href="" failure</a>" on their posts,
> >>>there is a multitude of that specific phrase pointing to the white
house
> >>>site.
> >>>
> >>>It's a basic search engine placement strategy that has been turned on
> >>>
> >>>
> >it's
> >
> >
> >>>ear into a Google hax. Now the real question is what happens with the
> >>>
> >>>
> >next
> >
> >
> >>>administration? Will those cobwebs still be there, or will they have
> >>>
> >>>
> >dropped
> >
> >
> >>>enough by then to negate the effect?
> >>>
> >>>BTW, this came up in some additional reading:
> >>>http://www.gwbush.com/
> >>>
> >>>-Kevin
> >>>
> >>>----- Original Message -----
> >>>From: "Ian Skinner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>>To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>>Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 9:42 AM
> >>>Subject: RE: Cute
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>After enjoying a nice giggle, the geek in me wanted to know how this
was
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>set
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>up? Any ideas? Would it had to have been done from inside by a
> >>>>employee, or could somebody set it up from outside? Could it have
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >somehow
> >
> >
> >>>>happened unintentionally, even though neither the words "miserable" or
> >>>>"failure" appear anywhere on the page?
> >>>>
> >>>>The geek in me wants to know.
> >>>>
> >>>>--------------
> >>>>Ian Skinner
> >>>>Web Programmer
> >>>>BloodSource
> >>>>www.BloodSource.org
> >>>>Sacramento, CA
> >>>>
> >>>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>>From: Jim Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>>>Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 4:49 AM
> >>>>To: CF-Community
> >>>>Subject: Cute
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Google for "miserable failure".
> >>>>
> >>>>- Jim
> >>>> _____
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >
>
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