an SEO trick.. or spam waiting for a ban?

blade007

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someone showed me a website that ranks no 1 on google under a popular search phrase.

I was curious how a site could do it ... the <title was loaded with 300 keywords, which were repeated in the keyword meta tags, and then repeated in the <body text at the bottom of the page in a small font.

personally I would class that as twisting the system too much.

what's the view people?
 
I suppose it makes the "relevancy" very high on all keywords.

but if a human were to review it they would see that it is just a catch-all spam technique. it was like .. "cars staffordshire, cars cheshire, cars shropshire, cars worcestershire, cars surrey, cars london, cars west midlands, cars kent, cars .... etc" something like that and then it went on and on... for all counties and areas possible.

having read a bit about seo it seems apparent that you can load the title with a few keywords related to your site, and include these in your meta, and then you have to have them in genuine content, in other words this IS your business and you are just promoting it.
 
Beansprout said:
Report it to Google :)
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Can't stand sites that abuse search engines like that. They deserve to be hit with a ban. I got PR7 without a single trick other than using some backend processing to give out clean URLs to Google and limit the content indexing a bit (my site can generate an almost infinite number of page variations, so such tricks are essential).
 
I post this because I now work for a company and the owner wants me to get him a better ranking in google and customise his sites for him. That no 1 slot, (we are number 10) is occupied by the spam site.

He asked me to do the same, but I refused and told him that he'd get black marked if got reported.

So ... it's an unfair fight. My company uses Adwords and invests a lot of resources in his internet marketing but to get beaten easily by a spam site (even though it might be genuine) winds him up. (and me)

I am reluctant to report the spam site, after all, it might be someone's livelihood and he might have a family. But it is cheating the system and unfairly.
 
blade007 said:
I am reluctant to report the spam site, after all, it might be someone's livelihood and he might have a family. But it is cheating the system and unfairly.
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Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

Report it.
 
here is a true story about bending the seo rules too far

I heard this through a friend, which came from another of his friends.

... company had an IT guy who worked miracles for google ranking. the company was occupying no1 slot. the IT guy left. shortly after they had a call from google ... they were being delisted. Why? on their site, in many obscure places had been placed links to very high profile companies, something on the scale of linking to VW or apple or some other corporation. These linked companies were huge, but not relevant or authorised and were just PR gathering. (there was no link back of course). Corporation does a marketing exercise and follows all the links to it ... finds unautherised linking. Corporation reports it. The small company is then under delisting from google.
someone from the small company had to go to google offices and explain, apologise, and say that it would be immediately changed. fortunately google gave a second chance.
 
How frequently do Google check the spam reports?

If it's anything like the URL submission you might not see any action taken for quite a while.
 
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