Comments on: Does Google Finance open the doors to blog spam? http://www.webpublishingblog.com/does-google-finance-open-the-doors-to-blog-spam.htm Internet publishing, a multidisciplinary approach. Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:26:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Steve http://www.webpublishingblog.com/does-google-finance-open-the-doors-to-blog-spam.htm#comment-930 Steve Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:04:08 +0000 http://www.webpublishingblog.com/does-google-finance-open-the-doors-to-blog-spam.htm#comment-930 A little late getting in on this thread (just discovered your blog from a link to your plentyoffish interview)... I also noticed a huge spike in one of my blogs that covers a product with the same name as its company - aqnd traced it to incoming traffic from Google Finance.. However that traffic crashed to a halt after a few days and then I noticed my blog had disappeared entirely from both the Google and Google Blog search engines! :( However a very similar (and competing) product's blog I have, hosted at that same site in a different subdomain, is still in the Google search index. Actually those blogs of mine *are* autogenerated, like the spammy Gold one you linked to above, but my blogs are much cleaner with less intrusive ads and imo do have some value - in fact I see many repeat visitors coming in from my.msn and my.yahoo, indicating they've subscribed to those blogs' RSS feeds... However one good lesson learned is now I know that if a subdomain gets deindexed, it doesn't appear to affect any of the other subdomains. That site's home page is a PR 5 and all other (similarly autogenerated) blogs are still indexed with PR... Dunno how mine got deleted and that Gold one is still around today - maybe someone "complained" or maybe Google is eventually sifting through the blog results that appear. Since I always try to get good, non spammy results when harvesting blog posts for my aggregator sites, I know that Google is on an uphill battle if they hope to keep spam out of their Finance page blog sections. (and note my aggregator sites only publish other blog posts' summaries, with links to the original post without a nofollow tag). After seeing the traffic jump to that one blog, I was tempted to create a Finance-only farm of blogs. But decided that might not be such a great idea after having that one deindexed. :) Just my 2 cents. Great post and blog here, btw. Am subscribing to your feed now. A little late getting in on this thread (just discovered your blog from a link to your plentyoffish interview)…

I also noticed a huge spike in one of my blogs that covers a product with the same name as its company - aqnd traced it to incoming traffic from Google Finance..

However that traffic crashed to a halt after a few days and then I noticed my blog had disappeared entirely from both the Google and Google Blog search engines! :(

However a very similar (and competing) product’s blog I have, hosted at that same site in a different subdomain, is still in the Google search index.

Actually those blogs of mine *are* autogenerated, like the spammy Gold one you linked to above, but my blogs are much cleaner with less intrusive ads and imo do have some value - in fact I see many repeat visitors coming in from my.msn and my.yahoo, indicating they’ve subscribed to those blogs’ RSS feeds…

However one good lesson learned is now I know that if a subdomain gets deindexed, it doesn’t appear to affect any of the other subdomains. That site’s home page is a PR 5 and all other (similarly autogenerated) blogs are still indexed with PR…

Dunno how mine got deleted and that Gold one is still around today - maybe someone “complained” or maybe Google is eventually sifting through the blog results that appear.

Since I always try to get good, non spammy results when harvesting blog posts for my aggregator sites, I know that Google is on an uphill battle if they hope to keep spam out of their Finance page blog sections. (and note my aggregator sites only publish other blog posts’ summaries, with links to the original post without a nofollow tag).

After seeing the traffic jump to that one blog, I was tempted to create a Finance-only farm of blogs. But decided that might not be such a great idea after having that one deindexed. :)

Just my 2 cents. Great post and blog here, btw. Am subscribing to your feed now.

]]> By: Chris http://www.webpublishingblog.com/does-google-finance-open-the-doors-to-blog-spam.htm#comment-834 Chris Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:21:35 +0000 http://www.webpublishingblog.com/does-google-finance-open-the-doors-to-blog-spam.htm#comment-834 You make a great point about the SEC. When I signed in to my blog statistics on Tuesday, I was amazed at the traffic increase. Come to find out, several of my posts on specific stocks were clicked-through from Google Finance. My traffic has increased two-fold over the past several days. I don’t know if this will backfire in the future but I’m loving it right now! I will use Google Finance to my advantage as I did with my latest blog post today on SWN. We’ll see how it works out. You make a great point about the SEC. When I signed in to my blog statistics on Tuesday, I was amazed at the traffic increase. Come to find out, several of my posts on specific stocks were clicked-through from Google Finance. My traffic has increased two-fold over the past several days. I don’t know if this will backfire in the future but I’m loving it right now! I will use Google Finance to my advantage as I did with my latest blog post today on SWN. We’ll see how it works out.

]]> By: Chris http://www.webpublishingblog.com/does-google-finance-open-the-doors-to-blog-spam.htm#comment-818 Chris Wed, 22 Mar 2006 23:13:14 +0000 http://www.webpublishingblog.com/does-google-finance-open-the-doors-to-blog-spam.htm#comment-818 How weird! I was just looking up the gold price on Google earlier, and I ran into that exact page by accident! How weird! I was just looking up the gold price on Google earlier, and I ran into that exact page by accident!

]]> By: Joe http://www.webpublishingblog.com/does-google-finance-open-the-doors-to-blog-spam.htm#comment-805 Joe Wed, 22 Mar 2006 03:20:55 +0000 http://www.webpublishingblog.com/does-google-finance-open-the-doors-to-blog-spam.htm#comment-805 I wonder if they learned anything from the release of Google Base... If Google's builds it, they (spammers) will spam it. I wonder if they learned anything from the release of Google Base… If Google’s builds it, they (spammers) will spam it.

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