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Originally Posted by jetset
I'm perhaps showing my (affiliate sector) ignorance here, but surely the best way to attack this sort of bad practice is to inspan the search engines themselves?
Do they not care? Surely this is clogging up the works for them, too and any substantiated complaint would result in direct action where it counts - from the search engines themselves?
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The engines do a little mopping up by hand if they receive sufficient numbers of complaints that have all the necessary info. Real people do look at the spam complaints.
Mostly the complaints are used to devise new algorhythms though, which will hopefully prevent the same type of spam from recurring.
This is an ongoing battle which recently has been taken to it's all time high by groups like Casinopays actively holding contests to locate webmasters using such spam programs and willing to spam the engines for them.
Once located, these webmasters are hired to continue.