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Google Advertising Loves Link Farms
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I <3 Internet
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That's quite an interesting write-up... if not a bit heated. I rarely use AdWords but just getting started again so I'd like to see what everyone else has to say.
Not to be nitpicky, but the title seems to read "Goodle Advertising Loves Link Farms" ![]() |
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So it does. Fixed!
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And I always thought that a linkfarm was a bad neighbourhood.
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I still see Goodle in the title
![]() I think a lot depends on where those parking pages/link farms, whatever you want to call them get their traffic. If they get organic SE traffic or type-in's for your niche keywords, they could actually be sending you good traffic. |
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That's interesting. However, as Anat said, if the links are for a keyword that you are looking for they could be a good link. Not many people know what link farms and parked pages are, so they'll go to them and just hit a link that looks like what they are looking for.
They could actually be pretty good, though a bit shady. |
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Are you talking about parked domain pages?
If so, they do actually convert pretty well mainly because people that click those links are searching for something and aren't the most savvy web users. They do convert. I could be wrong but I read that AdWords was offering the option to opt-out of parked page advertising. |
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So it is not good at all. Google should be discouraging that type of business model. |
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Why should Google discourage a business model that brings nice money?
In business it's always about profits vs risks ratio. Almost no risks involved because just several people on forums like this talk about the issue and say that this is lowering the quality of search results. As the risks for the cr*p to smell bad are very low and the profits high - this is great for Google. |
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There is a bad image being attached to link farms. And Google's reputation will suffer by association. Also the quality of the search results, as you rightly pointed out, will be effected. People like us in these forums will keep talking about the issue until such time that people in general wise up and stay away from Link Farms. Only then will Google be forced to listen.
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I agree with Rageh. I immediately leave any site with google adwords on it. It would be cool, for me, if google had a filter to not show me search results with adwords on it. Of course that won't happen but I have a dream. imo, if someone has to offset their hosting costs or make a profit, yeah right, by getting me to click a link that takes me somewhere else they don't deserve 3 seconds of my time even if they do have the answer I'm looking for. just a thought.
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This is kind of funny. Look at this http://www.google.com/domainpark/ . Aren't these parked pages just MFA sites? Isn't google supposed to be against those?
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Excellent post. The problem that you have listed with Google Advertising and their Adwords program is a real serious problem. Adwords is just an invitation to click fraud and spamming the Internet with untold number of sites that have nothing on them but "Ads by Google". I tell you this from experience, I work, well I volunteer work which means I am paid little, by AnooX search engine. And one of the biggest things we have to look for and clean are 1000s of sites submitted to us daily, for Indexing, which have little of any value/content in them but to be a link farm for "Ads by Google".
OTN, that is why I started volunteering for Anoox search engine, because it is a not-profit-motivated search engine that cares little about maximizing revenues, profits or share prices, but looks for every way possible to deliver the lowest cost in search engine PPC advertising and to open up the search engine business/process in as much as possible. If you guys want to make a difference I invite you to also look into volunteering for Anoox, we are looking for few great guys & gals to program in Java, JSP, MySQL, PHP or (look & feel) HTML. Cheers, |
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And this will take place only in case each of us spreads the news to at least 10 people and they do the same, etc. |
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Don't think it will happen, that is the (Big) Media to expose the serious problems with way Google is dominating, or at least attempting to dominate, the Internet. Since the Big Media has Big stake in Google, in form of Billions of Dollars of Google stock. But that does not mean we that should at least try what you have suggested, that is at least expose how wrong Google link farm creating effects are in populating the Internet with Junk/Spam.
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With a title like "Google Advertising Loves Link Farms" i had to pop in here.
Thats interesting, however isn't it the domain hoarders that are at fault. The more sites converted to "parked link pages" the more traffic there is going to be sent by them. However... i agree i would be upset to if that much paid traffic was coming from parked pages. The #1 reason is that parked page visitors often click 2 and 3 times on the same page after thinking "hey that link must be dead" let me click another one. I know this because i have a few websites parked on "parked.com" and i may get 3 visitors, but 6 clicks? |
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What does it take though for the media take interest? Google will be scared to death and will "clean up" |
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never the less, adwords remains the best advertising tool available with the best conversion rates
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Info is interesting. Google is highly developed site and having a right do thats better for it)
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Firstly, it's an important issue to raise but Google has shown it's appreciation for link farms for a very loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time now. The whole issue of made for adsense sites has been discussed to death and the end result seems to be that Google is very reluctant to protect the webmasters' copyrights who find their content scraped and syndicated by the MFA blackhats.
I myself complained a couple of times via their spam report forms to no avail in each case. |
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What does it take though for the media take interest? Google will be scared to death and will "clean up"


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