is spam tier2/3 still working ? [2017]

darulez said:

you mean the one from 2009?

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I know SEO said:

Ok so this morning while I should have been catching up with the marketplace/reports I was very bad and got side tracked for 5 mins...

We had a forum spammer leave this URL which was quickly removed:

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newmusclesupplements (dot) com (slash) clinamax

I don't feel bad about "outing" them as they spammed our forum... Please don't cry about that.

If you run the site through Majestic you can see the kind of scale of their link building. They are hitting it kind of hard:

100k links since mid-April, it's not that highly spammed but clearly they are playing the game here.

Running it through SEMRush (so the data is a little hit and miss) they are ranking for some terms, nothing ground breaking... but you can see their spam is working (boost muscle from #52 to #6, buy viatropin #11 to #6, testoboost free trial #7 to #2) and their site is also very poor and has a page not found error for a home page. With a better site and more content I bet they would see way better results, but putting that kind of effort into a spammy site might not be economical.

And this is with Tier 1 spammed links... If Tier 1 spammed links are working then of course Tier 2/3 is also going to work.

Most of the spammed sites I see are "satellite" sites which the spammers just blast as hard as they can and then this domain links back to the main website where the "real" offer is. Next time I come across some of these I will try and add to this thread so you can see what they are doing... If they are going to spam us I have no issues sharing their tactics, URLs, keywords or anything else.

I imagine this low(er) effort method works well for them or they wouldn't keep doing it...

Edit: if you're looking for more sites that are actively working with spammy links like this and ranking just dig through the results for "buy viagra online" and similar pharma terms... If you're a whitehat it will probably make you cry, for everyone else look at what they do. It still works...

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