SEO Misinformation
 

I did a little search today, and found some people who are using my name in their filenames to get higher Google rankings. Of course I do not actually appear on their sites. The URLs are ones like:

http://www.jordan-capri.info/blowjob...e_blowjob.html

www.www-mac-and-bumble.com/ cumshots/ellinude_blowjob.html

www.adult-entertainment-xxx.com/ blowjob/ellinude-blowjob.html

http://www.www-webyoung-com.com/blow...e_blowjob.html

These show up as "Supplemental Results".

Obviously they are messed up URLs entered solely for the keyword values. But how do I find what SEO person is doing this, and how to I ask them as nicely as is humanly possible to STOP using my keyword?!

There's nothing you can do about it to my knowledge. If you would like to try to ask them to stop, do a whois on the urls.

I see noone has replied. Interesting. So has noone ever had this happen to them?

It's obviously an SEO person, because the URLS have the same space and extra www- at the beginning. So I hate to bug the domain owner, who is very unlikely to know exactly what tricks their SEO guy is up to.

I am not a big search engine person but I would think you could report the abuse to the search engine(s) in question... bump

best idea.

It happens all the time and it sucks. I've been told that unless you have your name trademarked, there's nothing you can really do. This happens to all of the big and even small guys.

What you COULD do is run a WHOIS on the domain, contact the owner and try to work out some sort of deal with him. If I remember correctly, you don't have an affiliate program, but maybe you could offer something in return. Odds are he won't care and you'll just have to get over it.

A couple people pissed me off doing this. So guess what I'm doing? Taking the spots back. :winkwink:

I have complained repeatedly to Google, but either they don't dump the URLs in question or the guy is very persistant in submitting.

lol
those sites are generated automatically

they created a big keyword list and the script does the rest
your site name was in there... This doesn't happen on purpose believe me.
they dont give :2 cents: about you and your site lol

I hope you appreciate that honest answer ;)

yep. Chances are they never even heard of you. You could try complaining to their hosting company.

they will laugh at her.
If her name is no trademark or copyrighted she can do NOTHING

what are they doing that is illegal besides the SE spam lol?
Elli is a normal name
It doesn't make a difference if it is
Elli nude
Fred nude
whothefuckeverwhosnameisnotprotected nude

you can do nothing!

Yes, thank you for your honesty. I didn't realize it was a generated script. Oh well, I only sent 4 emails so far. :(

you can kindly ask if they could remove you from the script
whine a bit saying its your only income or something

apart from that I wouldn't expect any big changes
sorry :(

what exactly is your point? You think you are the only one in the world that is called Elli? :winkwink:

Ok, thanks for the help. I will see what I can do and how charming I can be. :)

No, but I do have a site at ellinude.com, which is the keyword they are going after.

hes a big SE spammer, seen him around alot

So, my next question would be:

How do I find the lovely person who has written the script? Or does it come up with popular Google searches on its own?

Results 181 - 190 of about 7,750 for ellinude-blowjob.

That's 7,750 pages using that script at least.

http://www.lesbian-sex-free.biz/blow...e-blowjob.html

how do they get away with that beats me.

To be honest Google will do nothing. Best case scenario (and very doubtful it will ever happen), they remove the page. Whats to stop the SE guy from doing it again on a new domain.

WG

As for your best bet, contacting the webmaster and hoping he'll remove you from his keyword list is best. If he still won't listen, try going through his sponsor lists (primarily the ones he's targetting from pages with your name in them) and see which ones you're on good terms with. Try contacting them and see if they can relay the message to the webmaster. More than likely, there is very little you can actually do about this however since ellinude is not a trademark (it might be but I didn't check). Without a TM, the sponsor programs are just contacting the webmaster out of courtesy, nothing more...

Hopefully this works out for you :)
WG

Yes, that is what I found, so I gave up contacting Google about it. I wish I had more weight to throw around, but I'm just a single person. Ah well. I guess I could buy the same script.... :Graucho

Thanks WG :) No, it's not trademarked. I'll see what kind of reply I get from the first four, if any.

I've always depended on the kindess of strangers. :winkwink:

Perhaps, it depends on the person. From personal experience alot of times the host will pick up the phone and let the site owner know there was a complaint. I suppose the name Elli wouldn't carry alot of weight but if it bothers her then why not try at least?

I've personally written about a dozen scripts to gather keywords from data sources. I know others have done the same many times over. You'll never find them

Yeah, that's what I suspected.

Darn you all! Darn you ALL to HECK, I say!!

On the good side of things, for ellinude and "elli nude" you outrank this webmaster. Seeing that surfers are getting to your site first and finding what they were looking for, I wouldn't be too worried about it.

WG

I do now, but i didn't before. Those are the ones Google actually did remove for me that haven't been replaced yet.

It's true though, checking your name against some of the more common data sources (ie: overture, wordtracker), your name came up a couple times:

487 elli nude
28 elli jpg nude

Webmasters who don't both filtering their keywords (just targetting massive amounts of keywords without checking if its relevant) will often grab traffic for your name.

WG

lol, report what ?
neither "Elli" nor "Nude" is trademarked/copyrighted.

Well, success has its price, I suppose.

We really do need a "rolling eyes" smilie.

Very true. I've written keyword farming scripts trying to exclude terms such as various adult, illegal, etc. You can never get them all out. I definitely wouldn't think to flag "Elli"

Didn't I just darn you to heck? Why are you still here?

:Graucho

at least you know your famous now. :)

haha, I live in Louisiana so I was darned to heck 26 years ago. :winkwink:

Well that's unfortunate. Ah well, at least you have good Cajun food down there! Good luck finding good Cajun in Vancouver! :disgust

Hey I'm a pretty good cook, maybe I should move to Vancouver and open a cajun restaraunt. I'd get damned a whole lot less that way.

Same here, I usually filter out the common ones like child, kids, lolita, under age and then manually filter the rest. I know too many people who don't care and just target anything they can get.

WG

sorry for your luck i dont think there is much you can do about except make sure your rank higher than them.

I think this calls for some ice cream to cheer us all up. Who's up for some Cherry Garcia? :Graucho

Some time ago something like that happened to me too, but they were targeting my domain.com instead of just the keyword. As I am a rude bitch and my modals are not so refinated I just hacked the server, changed all their fotos with horses, sheeps and goats and then reported to their hosting provider that they were hosting animal porn on the server. It took me a couple of days to upload 5 GB of animals content, but after reporting them they lost their 1 year in front paid dedicated box. After that they complained to me by email but I don't care about them.

I find more stuff like that from time to time, but I have found a more productive method to deal with all those :)

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

lol ... that rocks

:thumbsup

damn man thats one step shy of going to their house with gasoline and a baseball bat.

Elli-

Actually you can do something about it. You can copyright your name, and document all of the records that goes with it, as well as document in what context you use your copryright. Obviously it's your personal name, and you use it to brand yourself and your content, which is 100% legal in regards to the keyword they are using. Those URL's are all cloaked, as you can see when you click on them they automatically redirect to some other page. To find the individual do a WHOIS on their ass, and get into contact with their host with a nasty letter or something saying that they are violating copyright laws. But do this after you've really gone through the legal process of copyright.

Justice may have been served, but if you had gotten caught for that, you'd be in deep shit, not only with them, but with the cops. Next time think before you act.

Thanks for the advice! I have been putting that off for too long, I think!

Maybe she can take a look at the domain registrar !