People say every percentage gain in market share is worth around $1 billion to the search engines. Wouldn’t you think they could employ an intern somewhere to keep checking search results such as this one and this one? If MSN hired 5 people to monitor this stuff and delete spam urls every day then they would probably have 50% less visible spam at a cost of $100,000 per year.
Google doesn’t fare much better either but they already have people to check search results, maybe they need a list of 100 often spammed queries so that they can prioritise.
It’s interesting how often Technorati profiles and forum threads are sent to the top of these sort of queries. I wonder what the effect of having 50,000 spam links pointed at your forum would be on long term SEO?
A couple of weeks ago I setup a 301 redirect for ukgoogleconsultant.co.uk (an old domain I used ages ago), redirecting this to a new Google consultant webpage on the seoptimise.com domain instead.
Two weeks later here are the results:
Google
Yahoo!
- Old domain homepage still indexed, internal pages have disappeared though.
- New webpage also indexed.
- The old domain is still ranking in Yahoo at #5. Yahoo! seems to take ages redirecting pages, the current #1 result for this search is a Wikipedia entry for Google consultant which was redirected to their search engine optimization page around 6 months ago!
Windows Live
- New page indexed
- Old domain has 2 remaining webpages indexed, one of them the homepage.
- New version is the one appearing for live.com searches, which is still at #1.
So far I haven’t seen any other ranking increases throughout the seoptimise.com domain as a result of the redirect, but to be honest I wouldn’t have really expected this to have a noticeable effect anyway.
