Black Hat SEO dominating in the SERPs, take action please!

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Yes it seems they are now exploiting Google News, since it shows above all else, sometimes even the adds. The news simply redirects to the same Affactive page, obviously Affactive owners doing it. I mean at least sign up for one of your competitors casinos and make a little commission sop we don;t think you are cheating. Very blackhat stuff though lol. The root domain that Google thinks the news is coming from is palebluenews()co.uk. One of the redirect news headlines reads: "Club World Casino a Scam"

Cheating is one thing but lying is another. This is starting to upset muffin...
 
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muffincrumbs said:
Yes it seems they are now exploiting Google News, since it shows above all else, sometimes even the adds. The news simply redirects to the same Affactive page, obviously Affactive owners doing it. I mean at least sign up for one of your competitors casinos and make a little commission sop we don;t think you are cheating. Very blackhat stuff though lol. The root domain that Google thinks the news is coming from is palebluenews()co.uk. One of the redirect news headlines reads: "Club World Casino a Scam"

Cheating is one thing but lying is another. This is starting to upset muffin...
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Yep I see it.. Wow, that is new.. Comes up for US search terms as well as club world.. I will be reporting that one.. Blackhat and misleading...
 
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Doing a search from the UK for "aristocrat pokies free" comes another pale blue news story titled, "Aristocrat pokies download for android
Pale Blue News ‎- 1 day ago If the issue persists and your devices OS is up to aristocrat pokies download for android, Prism invites you to play free online slot machines first"
It directs to another affactive black hat site called topkasino.info with all their casinos listed & obviously no free Aristocrat pokies to be seen for a country mile. Reported it and a few more of them, hopefully someone from G will press the special button on them. Regardless of G not liking affs when it starts costing them money as punters are clicking on these Affactive spam links somethings gotta give. This sort of stuff tells us a lot about the integrity or lack of it that Affactive has.

Same spam comes up for Aristocrat slots search & again right at the top with a nice big news picture!, Affactive must have thousands of these out there at present.
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Here you go, wheres the Aristocrat slots?
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Interestingly enough they can apply a termination clause to an aff from their very own terms for the exact same BS LOL!
Termination By Us. We may terminate this Agreement, with or without cause, upon written notice to you. Further, we may terminate this Agreement immediately, without notice, upon the occurrence of any of the following events:

i. You materially breach this Agreement;

iii. We determine that you have used Spam, Adware, or Spyware or have engaged in an unauthorized marketing technique.


muffincrumbs said:
Yes it seems they are now exploiting Google News, since it shows above all else, sometimes even the adds. The news simply redirects to the same Affactive page, obviously Affactive owners doing it. I mean at least sign up for one of your competitors casinos and make a little commission sop we don;t think you are cheating. Very blackhat stuff though lol. The root domain that Google thinks the news is coming from is palebluenews()co.uk. One of the redirect news headlines reads: "Club World Casino a Scam"

Cheating is one thing but lying is another. This is starting to upset muffin...
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Hi,


just saw this post and want to make clear that we are taking the proper measures regarding this affiliate.
 
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Unfortunately this kind of spam is a no loss game for the casinos. Its great if they cut off a spamming affiliate, but they still enjoy all the traffic the affiliate brought and then have the added benefit of not having to pay the commission.
 
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New best aff friends for the hacker, search term "usa slots" # 1 position again via palebluenews.co.uk hack to topkasino.info

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wow they have just changed ads to revenuejet brands
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Yup looks like it's finally gone. I mean if I had an unlimited budget and I owned a few casinos I would try to run them right by cycling that money to my winners. Looser games and fast payouts. No spam and generosity pays itself back. Look at operations like 3Dice that only need one or two good affiliates and they do great on trust alone.

Then again, who ever did it is having a drink and laughing at me since they probably banked over 5k a day for more than a week... =D
 
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a while I asked Affactive to shut down this affiliate that blatantly copied my content and made redirects to xxw.winpalace-online.com now guess what he is still very active just google "all stars slots no deposit" / "usa slots" and you will find his news snippet from his site album-review.co.uk. Clearly he does not want to stop ............I get the strong impression Affactive also not......
 
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I believe a big reason why there's more and more BH sites in the SERPs is simply because google is allowing negative SEO to work. So the higher the value of a keyword, the bigger the risk of getting neg seo'd becomes, especially in a niche like gambling... So professional affiliates are giving up their long term websites and just focusing on short term, but in quantity. If you actually read black hat forums, which I sometimes do, many people are converting to the "dark side" because their high quality websites got nuked off the serps overnight and that's the only way for them to stay alive anymore.

Just my thoughts.
 
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Good point Mike. Google kills good sites when changing the algo. and pushes owners of those sites into blackhat techniques (probably they are quite motivated to figure it out, too - seeing as the new "enemy" is the one that snuffed out their now 'defunct' site.

xxhttp://www.album-review.co.uk/ <--- this is the new PaleBlueNews

Report it!

SEOmike said:
I believe a big reason why there's more and more BH sites in the SERPs is simply because google is allowing negative SEO to work. So the higher the value of a keyword, the bigger the risk of getting neg seo'd becomes, especially in a niche like gambling... So professional affiliates are giving up their long term websites and just focusing on short term, but in quantity. If you actually read black hat forums, which I sometimes do, many people are converting to the "dark side" because their high quality websites got nuked off the serps overnight and that's the only way for them to stay alive anymore.

Just my thoughts.
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Hi,


as mentioned on my previous post, we already took measures against this affiliate and disabled his account.
 
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