Many "blog sites" have high rankings & just redirect traffic to affiliate campaigns!!

[Michel Z.]

I noticed that many "blog sites" (= sub-domain of a blog, like yourname.blogspot.com) have high rankings within search engines, for example - MSN Search & just redirect traffic to affiliate campaigns!!

How is it possible that such sites get a top-5 ranking within search engines (i.e. MSN Search) & the only thing what those personal blog urls do is "re-directing" you to affiliate offers whereby you will NOT see the original blog itself at all?

What is the 'trick' here to get such a high position?

Thanks!

[John Scott]

Got a specific URL in mind that I can take a look at?

[DarrenC]

Look at No.3 for travel blog in Yahoo - its a blogspot with no content.

Not that I'm jealous or anything

Sorry make that No1!
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=tra...&cop=&ei=UTF-8 WTF

[John Scott]

travel-1.blogspot.com ?

I'm seeing it at #1. That is crap.

[DarrenC]

Originally Posted by JohnScott

travel-1.blogspot.com ?

I'm seeing it at #1. That is crap.

John, agreed

Not sure why it's no1.
Baffled why this one has got there.

Would it be naughty of me to create a blogspot blog and link to my travel rants blog?

[Sabeur]

Alot of people do, i heard if you link to your site even with GeoCities you get hits and high ranking on yahoo.

[Ferre]

I have noticed a while ago that most of those redirected sites are heavily promoted by spam bots adding the URL to numerous forum members lists and blogs.

It's a pest for the internet and makes it less pleasant for anyone who searches the net for useful information.

edit; Just picked up another of those spammers; fromrefinancingloanscom.blogspot.com

[GoWFB_SEO]

yes, i've bumpped these spam blogs a couple of times. guess these search engiens really should do some update to catch that

[theChronic]

Alot of people do, i heard if you link to your site even with GeoCities you get hits and high ranking on yahoo.

I didn't quite catch that, you mean making a geo cities and linking to your regular site?

[Johan007]

That really is astounding. There is no reason that should be there and just goes to show how feeble most Search Engines are.

[sixty6]

Do you think they might be using cloaking on MSN? MSN might be the only Search Engine gullible enough to take it too -> Wonder if Yahoo! does the same?

[cwsteam.com]

Wow, that's a hillarious #1 ranking. But the keyword is not as big as it feels like it may be. Overture says: 5041 travel blog

[DarrenC]

Is that 5041 visitors a day or month?

Anyway, who uses Yahoo to search nowadays, not many.

I did some more research on this dodgy site @ No1. and look at linkdomain on the site - full of spammy geocities, and blogspot sites, over 1,000 of them all interlinking in some way or another.

When someone says Yahoo has got ridden of it's spam I now just laugh in their face and say look at this crap I've got a little blogspot experiment going, will provide more information when I have some stats to back it up.

[sizzler_chetan]

Good Blogs are placed at the top.

no matter it has no content it has many viewers i suppose.

But none of my blogs are in Top 10 in google but 1 blog in MSN is 1st.

[DarrenC]

Sorry Sizzler, but that is absolute crap!

Where did you hear that good blogs are always at the top?

[sizzler_chetan]

Originally Posted by DarrenC

Sorry Sizzler, but that is absolute crap!

Where did you hear that good blogs are always at the top?

I heard it in many other forums.
Sorry but cannot share the link of the forums here