Craigslist Spam
I came across three different posts today talking about spam on Craigslist. What I found most interesting about all the stories is the fact that no one seemed to get the SEO connection.
The increase in affiliate related spam everyone’s seeing is due in large part to Google’s infatuation with the Craigslist domain. Google routinely puts Craigslist pages on the first page for search terms that return between 1-2 million results. And if you throw a little link love at a Craigslist post, you can get it to pop for phrases even more competitive.
If you still don’t think its being done for SEO value, ask yourself why someone would waste their time posting affiliate products on the small market CL sites like Albany, Asheville, or Allentown? Those sites don’t come close to having enough human traffic to make it worth the effort. But what they do have is a post life of 45 days, instead of the 7 day limit found in the major markets. That means the post has a smaller chance of getting flagged, and it can last long enough to get indexed and listed in Google. Since Google doesn’t discriminate based on the size of the city, it becomes the best place to post.
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hehe… good point - I guess you just revealed a top parasite host pissing of some people of the crash&burn SEO segment
oops - did I just press the SPAM button on CL ?
Those CL pages are dead now (flagged)