Google Hot Trends: A new way to trap web spamming sites

Google Hot Trends (www.google.com/trends) is a utility that shows in almost real time what most people are searching right now on the Web.

While it is a great tool for learning what happens around the world, many webmasters have been abusing it, by posting keywords from Google Hot Trends on their site, in order to get high ranks in Search Engine Results (SERP).

However, it appears that such abuse has made angry the Google team (and it is logical) because is considered as web spamming. The result is that sites that abuse the Google Hot Trends tool are de-indexed from Google very soon or get a -30 to -950 penalty, eliminating the 90% of their visitors.

I don’t blame Google about this. It is the correct thing they do. Many sites where posting an article having a title with keywords from Google Hot Trends and its text contained just nonsense. This catched high results in search engine ranks, but it was completely useless for the visitors trying to get info about the specific keywords.

Google doesn’t like web spamming sites and tries to display only useful results, by filtering spamming sites. And I find it logical because none of the Internet users like them too.

So… stop abusing Google Hot Trends by posting keywords from it on your site, without any useful content. Your site will get soon de-indexed or penalized and you will loose all your visitors.

Post useful, unique and rich content. This will give you much visitors within a long period but they will remain forever. Getting 10.000 unique visitors within 2 weeks you create your site (eg. by abusing Google Hot Trends) will set off the web spamming alarms and your site will be de-indexed.