{"id":186,"date":"2010-05-10T15:13:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T21:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irishwonder.com\/blog\/?p=186"},"modified":"2010-05-10T15:13:31","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T21:13:31","slug":"buy-viagra-serps-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.irishwonder.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/10\/buy-viagra-serps-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Buy Viagra SERPs Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google’s<\/a> updated<\/a> interface<\/a> has finally been rolled out across all the datacenters so I thought I’d check how it affected the “buy Viagra” SERPs.<\/p>\n

“Everything” results are pretty traditional for this query – they are just regular search results. Highlights: #1 is a spammed .edu with a redirect. #2 and 3 are online pharmacies with 37,000 and 48,000 backlinks each, most of which seem to be comment spam. #4 is a bit more interesting – an online pharmacy with top backlinks coming from a network (akin to the one Paul Madden described<\/a>) built circa 2006. Overall, the prescription for ranking in the top 10 for “buy viagra” seems to be owning an aged (at least a couple years old) domain and spamming a few thousand automated links to it.<\/p>\n

“Updates” seem to be all from Twitter. I really like the timeline feature – it lets you discover interesting tendencies in the SERPs. For example, it let me see that the most buy viagra Twitter spam this year occured on March 25 – I wonder why?<\/p>\n

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In “Images” there is a mixture of actual Viagra images (from online pharmacies and such) and SERP screenshots – watching the “buy viagra” SERPs is getting more and more fashionable it seems (interpreting them correctly is quite another story – but let’s leave discussing the people trying their hand at it for some other time). I wonder if the above screenshot will end up ranking there as well at some point?<\/p>\n

“Videos” – surprise surprise – only 1,010 results! Seems like an opportunity, no?<\/p>\n

In “Maps” some people are having quite a lot of fun with all kinds of Maps spam – but these SERPs are more saturated than Videos, with over 6,000 results.<\/p>\n

“News” – oooo looks like Viagra spammers do not know yet how to plug their stuff into Google News \ud83d\ude42 Only 100 results at the moment.<\/p>\n

In the “Blogs” SERPs there is more evidence of constantly updated parts of networks used for pushing the main sites up for Viagra queries<\/p>\n

In “Discussions” there are a bucnh of spammed forums and question and answer sites such as Yahoo! Answers and Amazon’s Askville. My all time favorite one is a profile of\u00c2\u00a0 German speaking Viagra spammer in one of the forums with the user name of “Dr. Pfizer”.<\/p>\n

Conclusion: Because so many alternative versions of the SERPs have become more available to the searchers it makes sense not to discount them any more. So, I predict that it’s only a matter of time until “buy viagra” SERPs in those alternative views becoem as competitive as the regular ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google’s updated interface has finally been rolled out across all the datacenters so I thought I’d check how it affected the “buy Viagra” SERPs. “Everything” results are pretty traditional for this query – they are just regular search results. Highlights: #1 is a spammed .edu with a redirect. #2 and 3 are online pharmacies with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irishwonder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irishwonder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irishwonder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irishwonder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irishwonder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.irishwonder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"http:\/\/www.irishwonder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irishwonder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irishwonder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irishwonder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}