EBay Subdomain Spammers
Posted on June 17th, 2007by Michael Gray in Grayhat SEO
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At SMX someone from EBay had the nerve to say they weren’t subdomain spamming, sorry I beg to differ, while looking for a white desk with a return [white desk return] I came up with one indented ebay listing followed by two additional listings, cruise to page two the non spamming continues with two more subdomains. Aren’t spamming indeed, and when you have the nerve to stand up at a conference and say you aren’t spamming you’ve given up any right to not be outted.
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June 18th, 2007 at 2:37 am
How can anyone be outted for something that he isn´t doing?
June 18th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Hi,
Can you explain yourself a little more, as I don’t see the great number of subdomains here. I only see two, cgi and express.listings. These are two very different pages, so what is the issue here?
Furthermore there are pages from different eBay sites indexed.
June 18th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
here you go
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=566019267&size=o
June 18th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
Wouldn’t we all love to have 6 results on the first page.
June 18th, 2007 at 7:34 pm
I don’t get it. What is the spam in this?
The first two pages are View Item pages of eBay.com
The second two pages are express view item pages on the eBay.com express site, which is a complete other platform, the last two pages are two view item pages from eBay.com.au again a complete other platform.
It seems that Google finds these pages relevant for the search query you used.
June 18th, 2007 at 7:34 pm
I don’t get it. What is the spam in this?
The first two pages are View Item pages of eBay.com
The second two pages are express view item pages on the eBay.com express site, which is a complete other platform, the last two pages are two view item pages from eBay.com.au again a complete other platform.
June 19th, 2007 at 12:51 am
It is all the same crap.
sporting-goods.listings.ebay
sporting-goods.search.ebay
search.ebay
popular.ebay
etc etc etc
http://www.seobook.com/images/ebay-subdomain-spam.png
June 19th, 2007 at 2:58 am
I feel u, sometimes they can hold dozens of slots in the top 100 for certain phrases and it sucks. I can see how it could be a tough problem to handle though as only giving two slots per URL would mess up sites like Wordpress.com etc. the only solution that I can see possible would be to make legitimate sites (like wordpress.com) have to apply to get more then two sub-domains showing up for search queries in the engines.
July 5th, 2007 at 5:55 am
Michael,
We found this and thought that you might enjoy it!
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&rlz=1B2GGGL_enGB209GB209&q=nikon+d40+screen+hood+protector&btnG=Search&meta