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Originally Posted by Louise
But surely the site in question can't be called a SPAM site (not that I'd know what one was). Just a one-page landing site set up by someone who's had the foresight to buy a good keyword domain that immediately bounces vistors on to the insurance site to earn their commission (no different to the tactics of hundreds, probably thousands of other affiliate marketers out there).
Clearly there's nothing clever or informative about the site, but there's nothing sinister/SPAM about it either. Frankly, if I'd searched for cheap boat insurance, then it would be the link I'd be most likely to click, and why not? I can't see why I'd want to waste time reading loads of SEOd-up articles/content over multiple pages about cheap boat insurance - I'd just want a quote, so it does it's job quickly and efficiently, using a great domain.
I can understand why it would cause annoyance to get such a high position without any apparent effort at all - other than buying the name - but why would that make it SPAM? (genuine question, by the way, as I don't understand the workings of google at all and can't see what it's doing wrong).
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Agreed it does what it says on the label.and yes it does get up us hard working honest snake oil salesmen who slave over a hot pentium all day only to see some upstart buy a decent domain stick a few words up and beat us.
I think it says a lot about googles so called quality rants as much as anything.
They are loosing the plot big time IMHO.
Alvin