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[pas]

Check this site out:

[URL snipped]

It's ranked number one for "tattoo designs" on Google:
http://www.google.co...G=Google Search

#8 on Yahoo:
http://search.yahoo....earch&fr=fp-top

"tattoo designs" is a pretty popular search term (231609 searches on Overture in June 03)

The site's page rank is 5/10. The site itself doesn't offer any "tattoo designs" content.

And it has only about 17 links to it! Only two of which are tattoo-related (Google and Yahoo directory entries).
http://www.google.co...G=Google Search

I don't get it.


PAS

Edited by Jill, 27 August 2003 - 08:41 AM.

[Bernard]

Pas,

Yes, that page looks real bad. A clear attempt to subvert traffic from a highly-sought (though not very competitive) search term to something completely different.

[Tenyque]

I don't get it.

Seems like some pretty quick and dirty SEO - site was made made part of a link network to provide anchor text for "tattoo designs" and PageRank, then a list of "related words" to cover all the related searches and boost keyword density. For example http://www.google.co... tattoo designs.

As Bernard pointed out, not a high quality site. Since it involves a link network of some kind Google may take action to penalize it appropriately if it gets reported. Especially since the other sites in the network I looked at share the same technique (loaded anchor text pointing to each other, related terms).

Google can and will be tricked, reporting networks and pointing out poor search engine results (even ones that don't include SEO spam!) can help them out.

[pas]

Wonder why the URL was snipped...

[qwerty]

pas, have a look at this thread.