Philip Larsson’s BMW.de post seems to have started a fad of sorts. This spam reporting craze is suprisingly similar to the tried and tested black hat tactic of removing competition by pointing them out for the spam cops to catch.
Other theories about why Google penalized these:
- A Black Hat SEO filed a Google spam report against us. Actual two such reports were filed during the contest but similar reports are said to have been filed against almost all Nigritude Ultramarine sites. This is a standard Black Hat technique to lower a competitor’s rank.
Everyone wants cleaner SERPs but is this witch hunt really healthy for the SEO community? First it was squabbles between SEO generations. Now it’s just SEO vs. SEO. I hate to see this spiral out of control.
When you think about it, the most relevant site for BMW Germany is BMW.de. Now that the site’s out of the index, is Google still returning the most relevent results?
March 11th, 2006 at 7:33 PM
I have noticed the craze that you refer to and I don’t understand it one bit. I have no interest in reading about who is spamming who, and can’t understand why anybody would be interested in it.
Let he who is without spam cast the first spam report.