News Source: http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com
Published: Apr 27, 2008 - 09:36 am
Story Found By: SlightlyShadySEO 1852 Days ago
Category: SEO
So I’ve put together some tips for paranoid SEOs to resist the penalization power as long as possible. Hope it’s helpful. And yes, some is grayhat. Weigh out each option in your own mind before implementing.
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Buying links is the most gray/blackhat thing I do, but I like the pseudo linkbait idea. Thanks!
Interesting...
You’re not paranoid enough :-)I’ve done a redirect similar to your #6 (although not with 301, just meta, being interested in the occassional traffic, not a ranking boost). Disallow Googlebot, noindex, nofollow, to make sure Google doesn’t frown upon it.Still, in a week or two, that page appeared in the Webmaster Tools "External links" report for the destination site.I’ve doubled the redirect (so it doesn’t even directly go to that site but through another intermediary), and eventually the link disappeared from the report.But to me this shows that Googlebot will, on occassion, behave like "oops, sorry, I couldn’t brake in time" and index stuff regardless of any robots protocol, just to have a peek under your hood. They are the paranoid ones.
With the domain I tested on, Google was NEVER allowed to access it. Maybe that’s the difference(they happened to request the homepage before robots.txt for you perhaps?). Not positive. Either way, if all else fails a straight up cloaking rig so they CAN’T see it would be ok I guess...though perhaps moving a bit more from gray to black in terms of hats.
Oh! How does this work so far?