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Thanks a ton and I enjoy reading your blog

Re footprints, basically when we talk about footprints we are talking about the trail of evidence that we leave when we build millions/billions of computer generated websites.

Here’s the thing, we can give Google shit, but they tend to be somewhat good at what they do, and they want to get rid as much as they can of all our spam websites.

Identifying footprints is one of the most efficient ways of doing this. When Google finds one website and determines that it is a spam site it is going to “remember” what the website looked like, what the sources of its link popularity were, the time it took for the website to grow in content, the keyword density, the internal linking architecture, and a myriad of other elements.

All this information is stored in Google’s memory and when/if it comes the time when they find a website that looks and feel similar, that’s a hint that they are facing another spam site.

When they find 10 million websites that share these sort of characteristics… well BINGO! they found a footprint. Some Black Hat Monkey probably gave it to them in a silverplate.

You are dead on re: footprints. The biggest hurdle for me is understanding what is and what isnt a footprint.

Thanks for your posts!