Ahmed Farooq @ ahmedf.com - Google spamming - the newest way!: "For the past few months, the big thing in spamming was to fire away at guestbooks. People would spend a huge amount of time just signing guestbooks. Of course with this, they would always leave their: 'Come visit my phentermine and viagra sites!!

Google, ever-based on sites linking to you, and the text they contained, would send these sites skyrocketing in the rankings. No where was this more evident than for 'web hosting' in which for the spots 10-20, about 7 were guestbook spammers.

Of course the dilemma posed is that it is very possible that a competitor could be posting your links, hoping that you get banned. So instead of simply banning such sites, google has to filter out these results.

It took them some time, but most guestbooks were eliminated. Of course this came amidst their disastrous April [and last real] 'google dance' and a lot of people missed it.

Spammers, being the ever resilient cockroaches they are, turned to the current poster child of the internet.

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