March, 2010

Matt Cutts is calling for linkspam report. As he motioned in his post:

Google has been working on some new algorithms and tools to tackle linkspam….

In order to respond, I decided to write some about Chinese Black SEO. They are active at Google.com, not at Google.cn.

Why is Matt calling the linkspam report?

As he used the “words has been working”, I assume that Google has employed the new algorithms for their search results already. Currently, they wanna the feedback of the modification to see if the new algorithms is positive. So that they can confirm that the new algorithms make their users happily. That’s great! I appreciate Google’s spirits. As one of the Google Search users, I can feel their sincerity. As one of guys who is learning SEO(Search Engine Optimization: the techniques that help the search engines to get the webpage/website with higher relevance ), I saw the results wheel in last two weeks(It seems Google has modified the new algorithms more than one time, although I just monitor few results in the given topic). And now, seems everything goes steadily. I suppose that the new algorithms has been implemented already don’t take fatal filters to combat with linkspam. So is Matt asking the reports for further modification of the algorithms.

Where my supposition comes from?

A dozen of sites, owned by Black SEOer who comes from Fuzhou, China, still get the decent rankings at Google. Even one of their site get the #3 ranking in Google SERP after this shakes. As I known, the site has been dropped ago. I have no idea why its ranking was raised again. Few sites belongs to them got the increase of Google ranking after the new algorithms was applied as well as.
I really hate those guy, as they are really spammers. They use XSS/SQL inject/FTP Crack to get the control of lots of sites. And then add the hide links to the sites/web pages. Their most favorite are China government(gov.cn) and education(edu.cn) sites(Why? Read the TrustRank Algorithm). The most webmasters of those sites even don’t heard of SEO. On the other hands, those sites are vulnerable. The hidden code for links they would like to use are the following:<marquee width="1" height="5" scrollamount=9721>some related words+link+some related words</marquee>. No any words such as display:none or visibility:false requires via the tag marquee. And it has a good opportunity to escape from the cloaking detections. Another type of favorite of them are related sites. However, they got those sites via generating new sites by themselves. IMO, it can be accepted as no doorway pages are there at least.

Although, I have no mentions about the special sites or phrases here. I have reported them via authoritative Google spam report form. Where is you?

In order to add the nofollow into the result of wp_get_archives(), you may need a few PHP skills. But it’s simple, means can be understand easily.
The main elements are:

1. Use the echo feature of the built-in function wp_get_archives
2. use the PHP function str_replace to add the nofollow tag into the return built-in function.


<?php
//step1, built-in function usage; pay attention to the echo=0
$month_archives=wp_get_archives('type=monthly&echo=0');
//step2 replace the <a with <a rel="nofollow"
$month_archives=str_replace('>a','>a rel="nofollow"',$month_archives);
echo $month_archives;
?>