Search Engine Tricking and Traffic Stealing

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Originally posted by RWF

One way could be to make a site check robot, that actually picks not necessarily all entries, but at least random entries, and checks more thoroughly for things such as redirects.

Actually - this is already done by Google, the problem is that there is a very easy way around it that Im not going to post here - but it is exactly how all of those sites get into the top positions - of course there are some that are considered authority sites like the mac and bumble site you mentioned that get ranked well because of the way the Google algo has been for the last 6 months or so and is unlikely to change, but the redirect page type sites are done specifically with the Google robot in mind.

Secondly, there are many of us that do report bad pages all of the time - and things do get done about it - the part that we cant control is that as fast as they are removed, the same group of WMs can replace those pages with the touch of a key - its not rocket science.

Welcome to the game and understand if we sound cynical its only because in the past some here have reported sites only to have their own sites get reported or caught up in an algorithm "improvement" that was triggered by complaints.