I must be tripping. How is this site ranking for the term "SEO Company"??????
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When I go to Google non-custom search results and search the term: seo company
The website "greencowseo.com" is ranked 3rd. OpenSiteSearch shows nothing.
And get this... the domain was registered 14 days ago by somebody in Egypt.
Do I need to quit my SEO Moz membership and hire this guy?
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they are number 1 for seo company now/
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Just wait till the next Penguin refresh. They'll likely tank.
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Laugh remind you of anywhere much - http://www.r2media.co/ - just screams seomoz
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hurry up! everyone write up a few niche one pagers and slap adsense on them for prime keywords and hire these guys before there tactics get obliverated!
Haha. I'm just kidding of course
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Looks like a build and burn job to me, it wont last long....
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Its the same for SEO UK, the number 1 site there is just a spam site with 1000;s of pages all created for local searches and all pointing back at them.
Its a shambles at the moment the quality of the web is going downhill however, Googles last quarter results are up and i suppose to them it shows they are going in the right direction.
Surly Google can see all of this its not quality any-more
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I'm predicting the future here...
bluecowseo.com <= Future spam site
seoration.com <= Future spam siteplimun.com <= Feed site
spekt.com <= Feed site
autson.com <= Feed site -
Agreed, it is impressive no matter how they did it. I guess if Google isn't smart enough to catch the spam domain, they wouldn't be smart enough to tie the two domains together (unless somebody rat them out of course).
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If they are doing what I think they are then it's actually quite a clever way of getting business.
They don't want to damage their main rankings by generating a mass of links quickly so they leave that as a quality website with a quality link profile.
But to get the business in they setup a separate domain and use aggressive link building their instead, maybe they rank for a few days or a few weeks, within that time they will pick up lots of work because of the shire search volume on the keyword.
That's my spin on it anyway.
Either way about it, they must know what they are doing because I still see it as quite an accomplishment to rank for that term black hat, white hat, aggressive link building whatever.
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Just called the phone number on the website and it lead me to this company:
ciplex [dot] com
Which has the same address as what is listed on the spam site.Does this in any way put their non-spam domain in harm's way?
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They are trusted by Dell lol,
With this kind of link activity im sure they will have their 3-4 days of fame and disappear.
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Sites do of course go viral. Rarely within the first 14 days and with only 2 keyword anchor texts. I didn't think penguins hibernated but I'll have to check into that now. This would be a far cry from a natural linking pattern, especially considering they are 2 highly competitive keywords. I've seen this type of stuff many times before, but nothing like this since April of this year.
Maybe Mr. Cutts should take a moment away from the camera and dig into this one. Until Big G (who puts all these rules on us) stops rewarding these blatant disregards for the rules quicker, this guy will keep doing it time and time again with different domains... and in different niches.
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Does Google really reward white hat?
Yes.
_Since this is now obvious to us as to what he's doing, it begs the question as to WHY Big G can't tell what's going on here. _
The internet is a big place, sites go viral all the time and exhibit the same kind of link velocities. Given that ..I think they do a good jump of weeding out those who are faking it.
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So let me ask you this...
Since this is now obvious to us as to what he's doing, it begs the question as to WHY Big G can't tell what's going on here. A domain that's 14 days old with thousands of backlinks, all (or almost all) of which are keyword targeted.
Can anybody shed light on this?
A domain these days only costs $8. The b.s. strategies he's using probably cost him under a couple hundred bucks. He's got to be making a boat load of more money on this even if he gets ONE client.
Does Google really reward white hat?
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ugggh...in bold "We provides Innovative" solutions.
1. He won't last long.
2. OSE is updated once a month. So don't expect fresh links to appear in the index.
Majestic says he's got 11,000 backlinks, Ahrefs says 15,000. All using just "seo" and "seo company" as anchor text. He's also ranking #9 for seo. Check out the links created per day over at ahrefs:
https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/backlinks-new/subdomains/www.greencowseo.com
Yep, definitely a rank and bank operation.
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