Comments on: Amazon Tags are Ripe for Spam http://www.danperry.com/blog/amazon-tags-and-spam/ Discussing golf marketing, internet marketing, SEO and golf course reviews Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:23:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Expendable http://www.danperry.com/blog/amazon-tags-and-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-9111 Expendable Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:55:24 +0000 http://danperry.com/wordpress/amazon-tags-and-spam/#comment-9111 Most people never see those pages unless they really want to look at the tags for some reason, or they see the page listed in Google. Tags are used by Amazon to populate product pages with similar products which have been categorized (ie., tagged) by their customers. The mistakes you see are primarily user errors that are made when customers tag the products. The reason the TAG pages are public and can be found in Google is because Amazon has found a clever way to use the tags as Search Engine SPAM. As customers tag products with unique keywords, Amazon dynamically creates a page for each new tag. These pages, as you've seen, include links to all the similarly tagged products, a forum, links and any other related content and even advertising. The purpose is to create millions of interlinked pages with keyword-embedded links and DESTROY everyone else on the planet in relevance to those keywords. With 6,360,000 useless pages (I just checked) connecting products to their related keywords, some would call it GENIUS. Any spammer would give his left arm to do that. Why Google let's them get away with it, I don't know. Special treatment? So, anyway, I think the answer is Search Engine SPAM. A) The TAG pages really have no other value. B) There's no reason for those tags to be exposed to the public other than as juicy keyword SPAM. C) If it looks like a duck... Yeah, it's definitely Search Engine SPAM. :) Most people never see those pages unless they really want to look at the tags for some reason, or they see the page listed in Google. Tags are used by Amazon to populate product pages with similar products which have been categorized (ie., tagged) by their customers. The mistakes you see are primarily user errors that are made when customers tag the products.

The reason the TAG pages are public and can be found in Google is because Amazon has found a clever way to use the tags as Search Engine SPAM. As customers tag products with unique keywords, Amazon dynamically creates a page for each new tag. These pages, as you’ve seen, include links to all the similarly tagged products, a forum, links and any other related content and even advertising.

The purpose is to create millions of interlinked pages with keyword-embedded links and DESTROY everyone else on the planet in relevance to those keywords. With 6,360,000 useless pages (I just checked) connecting products to their related keywords, some would call it GENIUS. Any spammer would give his left arm to do that. Why Google let’s them get away with it, I don’t know. Special treatment?

So, anyway, I think the answer is Search Engine SPAM. A) The TAG pages really have no other value. B) There’s no reason for those tags to be exposed to the public other than as juicy keyword SPAM. C) If it looks like a duck… Yeah, it’s definitely Search Engine SPAM. :)

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