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What are these spam sites on Google? - kbartek - 08-11-2019
So, I was googling the other night for free Minecraft VPSes to play with my friends. I was digging really deep, so I was on like, page 11 of results. And I see all of the results are some weird links to sites that belong to food companies, or some telecommunications company in Italy! Now, why are these sites hosting such articles? I don't think "cakesoncalls.com" would be hosting a tutorial on how to get a free VPS with 4GB of RAM. Also, these articles look like they were generated! I'm not even joking. If you wan't to check one of these sites, see this site on the WayBackMachine:
http://web.archive.org/web/20160407042124/http://foyfoods.co/page-25445/
(it's on the web archive as their website shut down. I wonder why? Hmmm.....)
This is REALLY weird. Is this to increase traffic? Or is this some money laundering operation going on? Also, the weird sub-pages shown by google seemed like they belonged to a legit company. What are your opinions about this?
RE: What are these spam sites on Google? - Sn1F3rt - 08-11-2019
I understand your concern about this being wired. These sites usually pop up in the last page of the search index.
This is mostly done even by legitimate companies to drive traffic. The traffic in turn increase their ad revenue.
The other day I'd come across a PHP tutorial on a cosmetics blog on the 5th page of the search regex. The two have absolutely no link.
As far as I think these are strategies to boost revenue. This is an interesting topic and I would love to hear others' opinion on the topic.
Regards,