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An interesting article revealing some spamateur techniques used by Fortune 500 companies:
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Alan Perkins Fortune 500 Sites Use Hidden Text To Fool Ses Dec 21 2005, 09:54 AM
Jill What struck me as particularly peculiar was that t... Dec 21 2005, 10:05 AM SearchRank I doubt it. We had a particular Fortune 500 client... Dec 21 2005, 10:12 AM Alan Perkins Maybe so. But the companies in this article are p... Dec 21 2005, 10:16 AM qwerty Some of these companies are big enough that they p... Dec 21 2005, 10:21 AM
Alan Perkins Fully agreed. Just put the text on the page (or o... Dec 21 2005, 10:30 AM SearchRank What is ridiculous about this is that so often the... Dec 21 2005, 10:27 AM Robert813 I loved his analysis of H@rry and D@vid's ...... Dec 21 2005, 10:30 AM hooperman The GM Cars example that I looked at didn't lo... Dec 21 2005, 11:04 AM Alan Perkins The GM Cars example that I looked at didn't lo... Dec 21 2005, 11:19 AM chrisbiber what a great article. I loved the Briggs&Stra... Dec 21 2005, 11:07 AM Jill Large companies have too much red tape involved wh... Dec 21 2005, 11:14 AM incrediblehelp
Yup.
This is exactly where I start with every n... Dec 21 2005, 12:49 PM qwerty It didn't really make a mess of the page, beca... Dec 21 2005, 11:29 AM hooperman It certainly didn't look pretty! :spam: Dec 21 2005, 11:29 AM Jill An easy way to usually view this sort of spam is t... Dec 21 2005, 11:48 AM Scottie Funniest thing is... these companies don't NEE... Dec 21 2005, 12:49 PM incrediblehelp
That is my point above. They probably don't... Dec 21 2005, 01:07 PM Jill I can actually understand if these were done by so... Dec 21 2005, 01:43 PM incrediblehelp
Yikes omg Dec 21 2005, 02:03 PM torka Since we're talking Fortune 500 here, I'd ... Dec 21 2005, 02:35 PM Alan Perkins Great word! :smart:...Coke spends Brazllians e... Dec 22 2005, 04:25 AM Jill One thing to note, however, is even if a company i... Dec 21 2005, 03:17 PM Raphael Color me unsurprised by all of this. Big money tal... Dec 21 2005, 08:46 PM projectphp Yeh, web marketing for some businesses is a waste.... Dec 21 2005, 08:50 PM Raphael
Y'know, I sat here for about 10 minutes tryi... Dec 21 2005, 08:53 PM qwerty erm..... Would that be on the Sao Paulo or the Rio... Dec 21 2005, 11:28 PM projectphp OFF... Dec 22 2005, 06:35 AM jonbaker How do you use the text only cache? Dec 27 2005, 03:18 AM chrishirst click the "cached" link in the SERP, the... Dec 27 2005, 06:07 AM Jill As an FYI, the guy who "outed" the sites... Dec 27 2005, 10:02 AM Randy I've not seen it cross any of the RSS feeds I ... Dec 28 2005, 12:11 AM qwerty This is the only place I've seen it too, and I... Dec 28 2005, 12:57 AM Jill And speaking of Matt Cutts...
Mr. Medford believe... Dec 31 2005, 10:07 AM torka It will be interesting to see if the comments ever... Dec 31 2005, 06:33 PM Jill Well, according to Robert, to him, his comments ST... Dec 31 2005, 09:22 PM Randy Who knows. Maybe Matt is saving it to do a blog a... Dec 31 2005, 10:30 PM Jill But, Randy, can you explain why Robert can see his... Dec 31 2005, 10:49 PM Randy It's just a cookie thang.
Matt uses WordPres... Dec 31 2005, 11:38 PM torka You are correct, sir! (insert Ed-McMahon-style... Jan 1 2006, 01:45 AM Jill Randy, or someone, could you please go to Matt... Jan 1 2006, 12:49 AM Randy Yours is in the same SEO Mistakes entry Jill?
If ... Jan 1 2006, 01:11 AM Brian Turner The blog thing - may see the words "Your comm... Jan 1 2006, 07:41 AM qwerty Absolutely. <noscript> should be used so tha... Jan 1 2006, 09:50 AM torka Only if the <noscript> is serving identical ... Jan 1 2006, 10:19 AM Jill
Not gray at all. You can use the noscript tag a... Jan 1 2006, 10:29 AM qwerty There are visible comments in there made after you... Jan 1 2006, 11:02 AM Jill
Yep. Which is what makes the whole thing intere... Jan 1 2006, 11:40 AM Brian Turner True, using hidden CSS attributes isn't exactl... Jan 1 2006, 11:40 AM Jill Well, Brian, you may very well be right, which is ... Jan 1 2006, 11:41 AM Randy
If they think they are, they're evidently ri... Jan 1 2006, 11:52 AM Randy
Obviously this is true Jill. The sites in quest... Jan 1 2006, 11:57 AM qwerty Google Mantra, v2.0: Do as little evil as is econo... Jan 1 2006, 11:57 AM Randy :rofl:
Economically expediate evil. Too funny Qw... Jan 1 2006, 11:59 AM Scottie At Chicago SES 2004, there were plenty of examples... Jan 1 2006, 12:09 PM qwerty I once posted a comment (without indicating what d... Jan 1 2006, 12:21 PM Jill
Which would be understandable. But, according t... Jan 1 2006, 01:13 PM qwerty Either they're no longer reading here, or the... Jan 1 2006, 01:22 PM Jill
LOL...that's it! I betcha they are part ... Jan 1 2006, 02:28 PM harpsound Jill try posting on an unrelated topic somewhere e... Jan 1 2006, 04:02 PM Jill I have made a comment or two in the past. (I... Jan 1 2006, 04:10 PM qwerty This is interesting... the link you posted points ... Jan 1 2006, 04:39 PM Jill Perhaps some gaps could be explained by people pos... Jan 1 2006, 04:45 PM qwerty Yeah, you're probably right. I hadn't take... Jan 1 2006, 04:56 PM incrediblehelp Remember in WordPress once a author is approve by ... Jan 1 2006, 07:22 PM Jill That's a very good point, Jaan, it might be ex... Jan 1 2006, 08:07 PM incrediblehelp I know I posted a similar comment on TW, but I mus... Jan 1 2006, 08:39 PM Scottie Matt hasn't posted in the thread since Dec 30.... Jan 1 2006, 09:38 PM incrediblehelp
I agree, or the personal requests to Matt on ... Jan 1 2006, 09:47 PM qwerty It would make a lot of sense for him to reconsider... Jan 2 2006, 12:05 AM robwatts
Agreed, he might as well allow all comments and ... Jan 2 2006, 05:24 AM Jill Well, I really wish Robert Medford would post here... Jan 2 2006, 12:15 AM incrediblehelp [Company removed] well that explains it a little. ... Jan 2 2006, 12:31 AM incrediblehelp Sorry about adding the name Jill. I understand no... Jan 2 2006, 10:55 AM qwerty Well, it looks like we may have an explanation for... Jan 2 2006, 02:06 PM Jill Wonder if he'll delete all those flames once h... Jan 2 2006, 03:15 PM DonL Having taken the time to read the searchengineopti... Jan 5 2006, 10:16 AM Alan Perkins Welcome to the forums DonL :aloha:
Obviously these... Jan 5 2006, 11:16 AM Jill
Yep, and I think that was said earlier in this t... Jan 5 2006, 10:38 AM Jill Well, here's exactly what he said:
In fact, I... Jan 5 2006, 12:02 PM Robert813
Here we have a company apparently engaging in on... Jan 5 2006, 05:27 PM qwerty Matt was only commenting on a site that put the hi... Jan 5 2006, 01:01 PM Randy Well it's all good then, right?
:oops: Ma... Jan 5 2006, 01:16 PM Jill Well, it's certainly confusing to me.
I wou... Jan 5 2006, 01:36 PM Scottie Sounds to me like he's saying they ignore text... Jan 5 2006, 02:26 PM Jill
That does sound like he's saying, but I thin... Jan 5 2006, 04:22 PM qwerty Well, it goes to the intentions of the search engi... Jan 5 2006, 05:42 PM Jill
I don't have a problem with that.
Now, if h... Jan 5 2006, 06:00 PM projectphp To put it into biblical terms, a sin is a sin is a... Jan 5 2006, 06:02 PM Randy :rofl:
Not quite that bad Mike. Even though it... Jan 5 2006, 06:31 PM qwerty But you're thinking in terms of punishment, Ra... Jan 5 2006, 06:55 PM Jill There's also the option of allowing them to sh... Jan 5 2006, 07:33 PM Scottie The bottom line is if you're a big, important ... Jan 5 2006, 07:55 PM Jill
That's not what Matt said though.
Who to be... Jan 5 2006, 08:16 PM torka I'm going to have to go with Scottie on this o... Jan 6 2006, 09:29 AM Jill omg ya think Matt is not being completely honest? ... Jan 6 2006, 09:36 AM torka Depends on how you define the words "not,... Jan 6 2006, 10:45 AM qwerty We made SEW's list of the threads of the week,... Jan 6 2006, 11:01 AM Jill Doubt it. He doesn't seem to like us for some ... Jan 6 2006, 11:36 AM foreignthinker Several people touched on this, but since contextu... Jan 9 2006, 01:50 PM  |
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