Aleksika’s link farms may be excluded by Google

One of the comments from Aleksika is that the link farm pages they use to lead search engines to the doorway pages are not indexed by Google and have no effect on the ranking of their customers.

norobotstxttantologidk.jpgNot one of the link farms we have checked, have robots.txt requesting a nofollow or noindex to the search engines. So when a link farm is not indexed, it is excluded by Google because it violates the guidelines and – indeed – have no value for users. Google does not want these link farms in their index.

The main point with these link farms is that they are used to lead search engines to doorway pages otherwise not accessible to users.

The link farmes have inherited PageRank from their previous owners, as the print screens show.

The link farms appear to be banned from Google recently since thay haven’t lost their PageRank, but since Google seldom talks about the sites they ban, we may never know if this has happened as a result of the report or if they have targeted Aleksika’s link farms some other way at an earlier stage. The interesting thing is that they are not in the Google index. And Aleksika have not shut Google out with a robots.txt - that we have checked.

See for yourself:

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This means that the domain still has a PageRank (which normally indicates that it is indexed by Google). It also means that there are site(s) linking to the domain. At the same time the domain is not indexed by Google, which is a sign that the domain is banned.

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One Response to “Aleksika’s link farms may be excluded by Google”

  1. Marcel Fuursted Says:
    February 18, 2008 at 3:14 pm

    I’m not from Aleksika - nor am I friends with any of them, but why should they exclude search engines from Robots.txt? The search engines chooses to crawl everywhere without any invitations - so if these pages are something that Google doesn’t need in their index, it is up to Google NOT to include it in their index… I’m pretty sure, that Aleksika don’t care wether the pages are indexed or not, IF in fact the pages aren’t meant for link farms ;-)

    I’m not taking any sides here - just adding a little something for the debate :-)

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