Comments on: LinkSpam Bombed… But How and Why?

By: David

David — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:48:12 +0000

It seems like this domain has had some interesting subdomains over the past 1-2 years

https://www.majesticseo.com/search.php?q=dontexist.com&folder=&x=0&y=0

The case and point is that Don’t exist is a free domain provider so it’s fairly easy to use their platform for spam
.-= David´s last blog ..Foxcom fails SEO =-.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:35:17 +0000

That is actually the accurate subdomain!

By: Singapore SEO Expert

Singapore SEO Expert — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 07:05:32 +0000

It would be great if you could list the actual URL of the dontexist.com. A check on site:alons819.dontexist.com at Google, shows nothing is being indexed from that sub-domain.

By: Scott Hendison

Scott Hendison — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:49:56 +0000

**** update****
Over Sunday night, the hosting account for the domain was suspended due to excessive CPU usage. – (actually it was suspended because nobody heeded the warning email from the server admins, but I digress…)

Examination of the log files showed these backlinking domains to be the cuplrits – WTF? – Is this some wort of weird Spamlinking / Denial of Service combo attack?

I don’t have time for this crap, and I am SO GLAD ITS NOT A CLIENT SITE, but that could happen tomorrow for all we know, right? Then what?
.-= Scott Hendison´s last blog ..Fetch As Googlebot Shows Something Wrong =-.

By: Darryl

Darryl — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:34:54 +0000

I have a feeling as these are all related to DynDNS they are all user owned sites, but I imagine this must be an automated process to setup the multiple accounts and link them all to you. The interesting thing is that for these links to get indexed the sites would have needed to have been linked to from somewhere.

If you do a query such as site:dontexist.org you can see that these subdomains are used extensively for some kind of spamming behaviour, I guess someone has figured out a system to make money doing this on a large scale, still none the wiser as to how your site would have been involved/targetted through this though.

By: David

David — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:18:45 +0000

@Scott that's easy enough to do with a meta tag to prevent google caching the sites .-= David´s last blog ..Facebook censors links =-.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:16:02 +0000

Thanks Chris – Good ideas – I spoofed as Googlebot and then revisited a few links, but they’re still not found – info: gets me very little – site: does show that most of the pages are indexed, but none seem to be cached. Huh – oh well…

By: David

David — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:01:21 +0000

@Scott could it just be that the other sites had been hacked and its purely random? .-= David´s last blog ..Whats a website Worth =-.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:57:42 +0000

Thanks Stephen, yep, riding it out seems to be my only option – I SUPPOSE I could submit a question in Webmaster tools, but that may just draw unnecessary scrutiny. Pretty strange stuff…

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:56:20 +0000

Yeah, it’s affiliate, but all good content, with legitimate reviews and it’s 100% on the up and up – there’s nothing “thin” about it – so maybe, yeah, its mostly scraper bots.
The really weird part though is the disappearance of nearly all of ‘em! Oh well, i’m not too worried about it, since rankings or traffic haven’t dropped – still, it IS a bit unnerving – glad it’s not happening to a client!