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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 1615 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

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from AndreyMilyan 1615 Days ago #
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Good detective work ;)

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from Nengorama 1615 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/

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from toprank 1615 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.

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from Carter 1615 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

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from iBrian 1615 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. :)

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from Feydakin 1615 Days ago #
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At least they aren’t paid links.. Those are evil.. Oh, wait..

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from cemper 1615 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

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from cemper 1615 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

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from Feydakin 1615 Days ago #
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@cemper - I left off the sarcasm tag - sorry :)

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from BrendanPicha 1615 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."

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from ChrisD 1615 Days ago #
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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

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from SEMDude 1584 Days ago #
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That’s pretty crazy... I am surpirsed that it still works...Is it fixed now?

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