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Google Loves Transparent Links & Hit Counter Spam

Went Hot: September 10, 2007 - 11:00 am
Posted By: lorenbaker 664 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO

A look into how hit counter spam and hidden links are ranking a site at #1 on Google for a million dollar term : Payday Loans.

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from socialmedia 664 days ago #

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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

from AndreyMilyan 664 days ago #

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Good detective work ;)

from Nengorama 664 days ago #

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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/

from toprank 664 days ago #

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Nice one Loren. The link counter thing is such an old tactic, I'm surprised it's not algorithmically filtered out.

from Carter 664 days ago #

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Great article. Ranked #1 for "payday loans" - man, they must be raking in the cash. It really pays to game the search engines. :D

from iBrian 664 days ago #

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Agreed with toprank - additionally, also proves that off-topic links work, which is something a lot of SEO's just refuse to admit. :)

from Feydakin 664 days ago #

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At least they aren't paid links.. Those are evil.. Oh, wait..

from cemper 664 days ago #

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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

from cemper 664 days ago #

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@Feydakin: they ARE paid links... they paid Google Adwords to get people to put the counters on their sites

from Feydakin 664 days ago #

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@cemper - I left off the sarcasm tag - sorry :)

from BrendanPicha 664 days ago #

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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."