Bing Allows Search Result Spam By Domain Name Keywords
Posted on July 17th, 2009 by admin in Domain News, Traffic Building | 5 Comments »
It appears Microsoft’s search engine Bing allows search result spam by keywords in the domain name – judging by the ongoing discussion on the subject at Bing’s own forums.
Deducing from the discussion, for now at least, some sites are appearing at the top of the search engine’s results based on domain name and keywords alone – take for example the website architecturalrenderings.com – a site with not much content at all, yet it’s on the first page of results for the terms architectural renderings.
It’s interesting also to note that people were able to put up a competitor’s site for spam review via the forum discussion – and it was done quickly.
So, at least for now, keyword rich domain names can get you far on Bing’s results page – think this will change soon? I think so.
5 Responses to “Bing Allows Search Result Spam By Domain Name Keywords”
jp, July 17th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
Hopefully they can fine tune this and not change it completely. I think stuff like MusicalInstruments.com should appear at the top if someone searches for “Musical Instruments”, but only as long as the content on the site is relavent to musical instruments.
admin, July 18th, 2009 at 8:21 am
It’s definitely something they will fine tune, as can be read from a comment on that forum thread from one of the members of the Bing team.
When Google got popular a lot of people exploited this exact scenario to get huge traffic for their parked or affiliate websites that don’t sport much content.
humor, July 18th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
Don’t forget bing is a new search engine… We will see many changes…
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Nameclerk, July 17th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
ArchitecturalRenderings.com is a little light on content but it has a PR of 4 and appears to be unique and contains enough to get indexed.
I’m more baffled by Renderings.com which is ranked 5th and appears to be 100% flash with no index-able content visible to SE’s. The site also has a PR of 4.