News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Published: Sep 10, 2007 - 11:00 am
Story Found By: lorenbaker 1615 Days ago
Category: SEO
13 Comments
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News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Published: Sep 10, 2007 - 11:00 am
Story Found By: lorenbaker 1615 Days ago
Category: SEO
13 Comments
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Maybe Matt could take a break from hunting for paid links and look into how this kind of spam keeps showing up in the Google SERPS
Good detective work ;)
Hi, it’s also a growing technique in the Spanish SERPs, see what El Telendro said about it: http://telendro.com.es/2007/08/15/los-enlaces-en-los-contadores/
Nice one Loren. The link counter thing is such an old tactic, I’m surprised it’s not algorithmically filtered out.
Great article. Ranked #1 for "payday loans" - man, they must be raking in the cash. It really pays to game the search engines. :D
Agreed with toprank - additionally, also proves that off-topic links work, which is something a lot of SEO’s just refuse to admit. :)
At least they aren’t paid links.. Those are evil.. Oh, wait..
Amazing one Loren! I really like how in THIS case - where Google obviously earns $ for the traffic to the hitcounter sites that spamming works like a charm even still 5 months after the tactic being posted on Matt’s blog
@Feydakin: they ARE paid links... they paid Google Adwords to get people to put the counters on their sites
@cemper - I left off the sarcasm tag - sorry :)
Great work Loren! Gregory (Scotland Yard detective): "Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?" Holmes: "To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time." Gregory: "The dog did nothing in the night-time." Holmes: "That was the curious incident."
Same counter backlink issue made the mainstream press here in Australia last May http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21702687-7582,00.html
That’s pretty crazy... I am surpirsed that it still works...Is it fixed now?