John C. Dvorak wrote about what every black hatter has been envying on last couple of weeks.
About this! This link tells you that Google has just indexed, on the last 24h, 77,000 spam .cn pages. Yes, you read it right, 77 thousand. Check it against dot info or dot edu and you’ll notice the difference.
One think to retain is that Matt Cutts himself has posted an update where he says:
“this spam was a little different than the typical brute force attacks that people have tried before (.be, .info, etc.) and that we were looking at making some infrastructure changes to better tackle any .cn issues we saw.” In other words: we’re getting now-where, in removing .cn spam.
Lesson to learn here: even though .cn domains can cost you only a couple of pennies, they are just TOO HOT to touch right now as Google may very well decide, on a last desperate move, to depreciate all .cn domains.
Considering how many pages some blackhats throw up in a day, 77,000 doesn’t seem like that much. Also, with .cn at 15cents up to a few days ago, I would expect millions of pages a day to come. We’ll see.
Do we know how the hell they’re getting indexed yet? I’ve yet to see any spam, any splogs, and after checking yahoo, any backlinks.