Glenn Canady - more about his banning
I was planning to post some more information about possible reasons for Glenn Canady’s sites getting banned from Google (as if what I posted yesterday wasn’t reason enough !), but I’m running short of time today. So, what I’ll do is post a link to a forum which seems to shed a bit more light on what Glenn Canady was up to when he was getting people to link to pages that he was FTP’ing to their servers.
It’s been suggested that he was using Traffic Equalizer. Now I don’t know if you are familiar with Traffic Equalizer. It’s a program designed to generate thousands of doorway pages for your web site, with each page optimised for a particular keyword. The idea is that these rank well in the search engines, and even if each page only brings 1 or 2 visitors to your site then thats a few thousand more than you would have had otherwise. Sounds great doesn’t it ?
Think about it. How many times have you been searching for something only to find page after spammy page of this sort of thing ? Pages that contain no real content, just a bunch of keyword optimised ‘filler’ text, a link to the sites main page (sometimes a redirect), and almost always a bunch of Google Adword/Adsense boxes down the side.
It’s not difficult to see why the search engines HATE this sort of thing. If just one site is generating thousands of spammy worthless pages with no content, then imagine what it must be like if there are thousands of people doing this ? How many millions of pages must there be in Google and the other search engines that are doing nothing but polluting them, diluting the results, and vastly reducing the value and effectiveness of the search engines. To my mind, the really bad thing about these sort of programs is that they undermine the honest, hard working webmaster. The kind of person who takes time to work and create genuine and useful content that people would want to read . These poor guys often end up buried underneath the sea of worthless crap that the Traffic Equalizer users churn out.
Traffic Equalizer users, instead of spending money on stuff like Traffic Equalizer, why not use the money to buy something like WebPosition , or pay someone to optimise your web site ? Instead of spending time generating thousands of keywords and FTP’ing them to your server, why not spend the time writing some REAL content that people would want to come to your site and read ?
I’m mentioning Traffic Equalizer because it is the product mentioned in the thread about Glenn Canady. I don’t want to single Traffic Equalizer out as a ‘bad’ product, because there are a lot of similar offerings out there. I’m sure most webmasters have either used, or considered using software that claims to boost their traffic by fooling the search engines somehow. I’ll be quite honest, I have in the past ! Sometimes we desperately want to do well, but at the end of the day there is no substitute for hard work, knowledge, and experience. The search engines have rules, break them and eventually you WILL pay the price. A lesson Glenn Canady seems to be finding out.
Here is one of the comments from the discussion thread :
Glenn is actually putting spammy pages on other people’s sites (Freetrafficblast.com) and collecting on Adsense as his “compensation” for increasing other people’s traffic.One of these “spammy software” owners told me that Glenn got an unpaid copy of their script to do this and refused to answer any questions or emails from said “software owner”.
I would be very reluctant to have Glenn put any of these pages on any of my sites. If he’s gotten banned from google because of his practices, make sure he doesn’t bring you down with him.
And here is the link to the thread.