While doing some homework attempting to figure out how they get away with this I found this detailed summary on how PissedConsumer.com is scamming and spamming the search engines to get high ranking. Have look at this article here: http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/pissedconsumer-link-farm-dominating-google-serps
For those not tech savvy here is what they are doing in a nut shell:
- Google ranks sites (page 1 verses page 2) based on the relevance of inbound links.
- Pissed Consumer bought lots of other websites (RipOffReport is one of hundreds) and places links from RipOffReport to PissedConsumer
- Google sees these links and thinks RipOff is relevant to a Pissed Off Consumer - so they give them ranking credit. (highly simplified, but you understand)
- PissedConsumer then charges the business mentioned in their PissedConsumer report to help manage their poor reputation for a monthly fee. Think I'm kidding? Have a look for yourself: http://www.pissedconsumer.com/business-solutions.html
Think of the thousands of large companies paying PissedConsumer $250/month to "manage" their consumer comments? Can you say extortion?
Pissed Consumer = Web Extortion - it is that simple.
I think ever business in America should block Google on their firewall until they get their act together on this one.
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