Comments on: Black Hat SEO Technique Exposed- No.1 on “Payday Loans”

By: Maneesh

Maneesh — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 07:56:23 +0000

I am sharing this one , good job Razvan , top class analysis.

By: Razvan Gavrilas

Razvan Gavrilas — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 08:10:30 +0000

I sent you a mail with the correct email address … why would i have architect @ can ?! 🙂

By: Gideon Wellins

Gideon Wellins — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 07:04:23 +0000

Thanks Razvan!

I was only looking at the surface level through the SEOmoz toolbar. I know that after an in depth dig into these sites you will more than likely find some interesting information. Time to go digging! 🙂

Have a great weekend.

By: TraiaN

TraiaN — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:02:11 +0000

Razvan, I tried to contact you on architect at cognitiveseo dot com but Remote host said: 550 5.1.1 … User unknown

😕

Is there any other way to get in contact with you?

Cheers!

By: Razvan Gavrilas

Razvan Gavrilas — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:44:08 +0000

Google is still trying to work these things out. Anyway “salute” to them for the good work they done in the past years.

It is the job of the search engine to police its results. Competition is fierce in some fields …you just need to stay ahead of the curve. It’s like chess … strategy

By: Razvan Gavrilas

Razvan Gavrilas — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:41:53 +0000

I wanted to write about these first but then decided on the No.1

It is tricky. They do have back links (either coming through redirects) / and checking the back links is very important with what tool you do it, either tool it needs to have the index update daily to be able to check this real time results.

By: jardine jones

jardine jones — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:48:04 +0000

Wow! it is really unfair for honest seo marketers who are doing fairly with their seo techniques and not spamming or hacking a website just to rank on top of Google. Good thing that Google really did a good job of detecting this kind of techniques.. Good research Razvan

By: Gideon Wellins

Gideon Wellins — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:18:50 +0000

Firstly, Great post, thanks.

I don’t usually come out of the woodwork but this has been bothering me for some time.

I also see these SERPS on a daily basis and I and I’m pretty sure everyone who practices white hat SEO totally agree with you that some serious work needs to be done on Google behalf conserving the spam filter.

I have found that it is even more drastic than you have portrayed. I have noticed that there are sites that have absolutely zero metrics raking at the top of the SERPS and quite frankly have no idea why.

For example, in Google.co.uk there are 2 sites with lower than average metrics ranking for the term ‘Payday loans’ followed by 2 sites with zero metrics and zero links. Then there is an SEO company ranking and some compromised site. What is going on? Check it our for yourselves…

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By: sajan kota

sajan kota — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:19:17 +0000

For anyone working in this vertical or other highly competitive verticals, this shouldn’t be a huge shocker. The SERPs for these types of queries have been a mess for weeks, and Panda/Penguin/etc haven’t corrected that. Between hacked sites, cloaked 301 redirects, and spam links, these guys continue to rank, and will do so until Google finds a way to *quickly* / automatically identify these tactics and devalue these sketchy tactics.

By: Razvan Gavrilas

Razvan Gavrilas — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:11:04 +0000

I am glad you found it useful.

The first think that any SEO should do when taking a new client or analyzing a new niche would be a similar backlink profiling like the one i did above.

It is quick and if you know at what to look you should get the main idea of the new niche in ~30 minutes.

Backlink Analysis will give you insights into what those guys are doing to be ranked there, and you could easily see how much(or not so much) work would be needed to get in the top 3.(if you can)