"Hijacking" Google search results then putting them on a parasite webpage:Good or bad

[Clint1]

Sheesh.....cursed short title boxes.

"Hijacking" or stealing Google search results then putting them on a parasite webpage: Good or bad for the websites that are *ON* the page?

Check out this useless parasite website. Does anyone know the point of a webpage like this? factorysource[dot]net . Scroll way down. WTF?? Yeah. (I did not make it clickable on purpose, I'm not about to give it any IBL credit). They've apparently "hijacked" or stolen a G feed, at the very least copied it (which should be illegal). So would this harm those websites that are in the result feed, help them, or neither?

Notice the first crap-load of them are search results for employee and awards. But next they are search results for toys, fundraising, incentives, then electronics, wholesale, consumer, battery operated, ethnic doll, and on and on. Wow, that's a load of OBL's.

Of course, G rewards this blatant blackhat BS with a first page placement for fund raising toys while honest site owners such as myself get screwed by them.

(I'm not in the same genre as they are by any stretch, I just happened to accidentally find that webpage while checking how badly my white-hat pages had dropped.....again, and it's BS like in the index that pi$$es me off. Sorry but it's frustrating and maddening. Maybe we can get a forum started or a sticky thread started about blackhat websites, where we can post garbage like this! Oh, but I guess that would be good for them because G would reward them with IBL credit and increased PR. Everyone would have to remember to always type the URL so they would never be recognizable by bots).

So I'm curious as to the point of all this and what it hopes to accomplish. Hmmm, I guess I answered my own question since they have first-page-placement. It obviously works for them. But what does it do for the websites that are in those results that appear on the page? I see this a lot at countless websites.

[wige]

Interesting. A nice way to generate a collection of related outbound links if done correctly I suppose. Anyway, at worst it is a link from a spam site that Google will not count, and at best, it is an inbound link from a barely related site.

I don't know how they rank so well, the whole site reeks of spamminess. Talk about keyword packing in the headers... and a "revisit-after" tag? Seriously?

I'd just report them and move on.

[crankydave]

Sheesh.....cursed short title boxes.

lol... try and thing of them like the title element of a a web page.

Dave

[inertia]

It wont have any effect on the sites in the list. It will probably have a positive effect! If the site is ranking then Google still rates it and therefore it will acknowledge the links.

I've been doing similar stuff with RSS feeds recently (not spamming on this level though - only displaying half a dozen links). RSS feeds of Google News results for the keyword you're targeting work great! Youtube feeds are pretty cool as well.

[crankydave]

It appears is that all they are doing is using the google search url and displaying the results in a table.

other than adding text to the page it's likely doing them more harm than good.

As so far as their page one ranking... they're #1 for an allinanchor: search for that phrase so again, I suspect they are doing themselves more harm than good otherwise they'd be ranking higher than they are.

Dave

[ronchalice]

The sad thing about it is that the guy who owns the business, who's likely been selling this kind of stuff from his Atlanta location for years (long before the internet) probably got screwed by some p-o-s web "development consultant" who charged him a fortune to build that site.

[crankydave]

The sad thing about it is that the guy who owns the business, who's likely been selling this kind of stuff from his Atlanta location for years (long before the internet) probably got screwed by some p-o-s web "development consultant" who charged him a fortune to build that site.

Very true.

I do believe, if they yanked all that nonsense could easily be higher than they are, and all they'd need to do add some decent text.

Dave

[dean]

That site gets very little traffic anyway. There is an icon for the free xtremetracking service where anyone can view the sites statistics by clicking the icon.

[ron angel]

I think it was a very clever & simple thing to do cant see anything black hat about it, as promoting not damaging goggles results, while maybe getting extra related traffic to his site.
I also discovered something unexpected: the website name factorysource.co.uk SS Richard Montgomery matter was not
registered... It is now... & redirected to my main site for the present. I have quite a few website names that are totally relevant to my site & content. I may experiment with a similar method on these pages to see if it improves my traffic.

[jonisolis]

>RSS feeds of Google News results for the keyword you're targeting work great! Youtube feeds are pretty cool as well.

I have been thinking about doing adding a few RSS feeds to my site but how does one learn to add RSS feeds to a site?