Doorway Page Alog

[AussieDave]

I'm seeing some positive results, since G unleased the beast. Certainly the number of H'ed doorway pages aren't overruning the serps like they used to. How are you guys doing?

 

[azureus]

I still see them all the time, especially for long-tail and non-English terms. This must be really huge. I think this is one person/company who managed to hack thousands of Wordpress sites. Now he's flooding them with subpages so the websites look OK on the homepage but have casino content on many subpages. He also started using iframe cloaking which Google seems to ignore and indexes different content than what visitors see.

You can try "casino roulette games turkey" or "binary options turkey" and 6 or respectively 7 results on the first Google SERP are hacked sites.

The sites are still promoting the same "old" brands and some of them shifted from casino to binary options (promoting IQoption and brokerclicks now). So I have to say this is still very huge and I'd guess the person is cashing at least six digits or even seven digits $ monthly. All thanks to people who did not bother to secure their Wordpress and installed every plugin they found.

 

[Ari2013]

Seeing the same here in the UK, especially for long tailed keywords, seems to be the same people that have hacked loads of sites..

 

[WagerPod]

I think it's got worse with hacked site, mainly when the hacked site has credibility, they can knock sites down 10-20 places, certainly for long tail keywords like slot titles.

 

[WCD Admin]

yeah sadly, I'd have to report the same. doing fine, but still see lots of the hacked sites using our contents, names, etc...

 

[AussieDave]

Must have been a short term thing, cause the long tails as mentioned here are being overrun, again. This is getting extremely worrying.

I've recently had two (2) regular monthly players ($3-8K per/m) lock their accounts. I know this wasn't the program playing funny buggers, cause the accounts were locked then unlocked. They lost more cash and then locked again. While I'm happy they've decided to lock their accounts, as it seems both have a gambling problem, it still leaves me short of 2 decent players.

Before these hacked pages, it wouldn't have concerned me, as I would have filled these spots BUT with my serps, which are mainly long tails, I'm certainly feeling the pinch in obtaining fresh signups, thanks to the hacker(s)

I'm not in dire straits yet. Even if I was, I wouldn't give up, without a damn fight.

Have to resolve myself to the fact, relying exclusively on Google for organic traffic these days, is not going to work. Need to find other means of gaining highly targeted players, which are NOT susceptible or more to the point immune, to blackhat or hacking etc.

 

[jopaa]

Need to find other means of gaining highly targeted players, which are NOT susceptible or more to the point immune, to blackhat or hacking etc.

Good luck with that. I've tried some alternatives but none of them worked.

 

[AussieDave]

Good luck with that. I've tried some alternatives but none of them worked.

Success comes from, never giving up