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October 24, 2005

Is Google Unspammable?

Of course not. But a post over at SEOBlackHat raises some interesting points about the limitations of blog spamming, for one:

For the past year cvs has had #1 result on google for the keyword pharmacy and can you actually imagine a fuckin script kiddie knocking them off. close to 1 million search a day on yahoo for the word pharmacy and google gets 7 times that so you can imagine the dough cvs pulls in from that shit and as every action has an opposite and equal reaction what it would take to reach 1st result on big keywords would be the equivalent of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars out of cvs’s hand and a simple wp-comments.php robot wont cut it.

One fairly consistent observation regarding the latest Google update is that the little guys are being moved out of the big money keywords. Of course, that's been going on for a long time, so it's not much of an observation. But the serps have started to look a bit more Fortune 500-ish.

The obvious (but accurate) response is in the comments:

Most black hat sites I know of aren’t targeting “viagra” or “pharmacy.” They are targeting “buy oxycotin from horny midget lesbians,” “cheap online phentermine perscription(sic)”and about 30k plus other similar terms per site, to catch not only much lower volume search terms as well as topically related unique search terms. It doesn’t take a whole hell of a lot of blog spamming to rank well for that..

Tru dat.

On a side note: looks like SEOBlackHat finally got some toolbar PageRank with this last update. I was starting to think maybe they were being snubbed for discussing verboten topics.

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