Is something fishy going on or am I nuts?

[wisedup]

I just put history of ymmss into google & I see something that catches my eyes....
There are tons of google ads that show ymmss that have nothing to do with ymmss & they all seem to go to the same site that says it has been suspended....
Could it be something was going on using google to generate funds or hits?
Any feedback?
It just seems really odd to me...........

[Casandra]

I just put history of ymmss into google & I see something that catches my eyes....
There are tons of google ads that show ymmss that have nothing to do with ymmss & they all seem to go to the same site that says it has been suspended....
Could it be something was going on using google to generate funds or hits?
Any feedback?
It just seems really odd to me...........it's fishy, but not like you think :D

What I think this might be is what some call keyword spamming.

Some SEO "experts" suggest that placing "important" keywords on your web page (even just in the keyword list where they can only be seen by search engines in the header info of a page) will make your page appear more important to the search engines.

In an ignorant attempt to make their pages seem more important to the search engines, some people will take the top searched on keywords and spam their pages with them. Their hope is that the search engines will see their pages as wildly more popular than similar pages and give them higher ranking and thus more free targeted search engine traffic. Many of these pages don't last long on the internet, partially because their fishy way to promote them doesn't work. The page you captured is from a domain company and shows their display placeholder page given when for whatever reason a page is suspended.

There's another fishy scheme that could be an explanation as well. Expired domains are used by people to make money. You can buy a bunch of expired domains...these are domains that once were on the search engines and drawing traffic already. You should look for prime virtual real estate. "Prime" means high paying ad keywords or keyword related for high traffic. Of course these domains have not got pages anymore as the original owner has left the web. So you buy some up and then redirect them to what is called a "domain parking host" such as Sedo. The parking host will provide you with a directory structure of advertising to run on your domain and split the income with you.

So people go to a site like Mike's Marketing Tools and do a search for the top keywords searched on for the past 24 hours or the past 90 days or they do a keyword analysis to see related keywords to their domain name. And they seed this page with ads related to these words. The top 20 keywords in the past 90 days contain
Nos Keyword Count
1 myspace 206573
2 google 190592
3 britney spears 159916
4 ebay 155358
5 myspace.com 146455
6 yahoo 138323
7 paris hilton 130349
8 games play 127968
9 ps 2 game cheats 107883
10 game cheats for ps2 107209
11 girls 90910
12 yahoo.com 86139
13 mapquest 81827
14 akon 76937
15 youtube 69060
16 carmen electra 63973
17 jenna jameson 61253
18 test 58184
19 naruto 58156
20 dogs 56367

So of course you will want to include those if you can and someone must have found "YMMSS Success Through Advertising" on a search engine popularity keyword list sometime...it could have been in the top 500 sometime ago.

Now the search results you found for things like "roseville online mortgages" tells me that someone has spammed the search engines using ymmss. That particular domain is a parking site for Lucid Domains. It's just full of Google ads with a Lucid ad at the bottom. They will take advantage of the traffic the keywords associated with this domain draws and hope to maybe find a buyer for this domain. I don't see how YMMSS is associated with that page now. Lucid Domains might have a new way to spam search engines such that they return their page listings related to various keywords being searched. Anything is possible with black hat as I'll show you.

Aside from this, there is a way to spam the search engines with keywords. I actually bought a program that will do this. It's called Rank Attack and I didn't really know what it was when I got it. With this software, I could actually make the search engines think that people are searching en masse for whatever keyword I choose. It will run day and night if I let it sending queries from a remote server to the search engines for whatever keywords it's given. Then at the end of the month when the stats are gathered and published for search engine searches... wow! Look at what what people wanted to read more about... WELL...now all those unscrupulous web page keyword seeders will want to put my chosen keyword in their pages all over the web. It doesn't matter how stupid the keyword I seeded is, they will put it everywhere. They hope to ride on the coattails of the traffic interested in this stupid keyword. This is how I found out how that Rank Attack software works :eek:

So what you have seen on the search engines has probably got nothing to do with YMMSS, but everything to do with black hat SEO and people trying to get traffic to their parked domains page advertising.

Sorry, it's just that....

[drankoolaid]

Beautiful Explanation Casandra --

Thanks - Me Thinks You Know yer stuff on
a myriad of topics -- good on you!

Best Regards, :bow:
Michael

PS - Casandra is right on the money
Now if she could just find Kim's numbered accounts! LOL

[skippy]

My God!

Is everyone on the internet a damn crook? :head:

[drankoolaid]

But its a very large percentage --

Michael