Comments on: A Web Site Has the Top Eleven Spots in Google…Smart SEO or Marketing Trick? http://blog.cre8asite.net/archives/495 Building Better Web Sites Together, For A Better World Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:17:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Al http://blog.cre8asite.net/archives/495#comment-117365 Al Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:55:43 +0000 http://blog.cre8asite.net/?p=495#comment-117365 Gray? It is not gray - it is black hat. I've turned companies in for doing this for keywords and watched their sites disappear. It is pure manipulation of the serps and G frowns on this. If the sites are dramatically different and not working for the same purpose, I feel it will pass muster. But, if they are just using different text/wording to get past the filters, then it is spam. Many companies hide the owner of the urls in the registry information (one company had an agent in Australia obtain the url), but once you went to the web site you could see who the actual owner was. I simply compiled this information, forwarded it all in a G Spam Report (re-submitted once for safety) and the problem was fixed in a month or so. Gray? It is not gray - it is black hat.

I’ve turned companies in for doing this for keywords and watched their sites disappear. It is pure manipulation of the serps and G frowns on this. If the sites are dramatically different and not working for the same purpose, I feel it will pass muster. But, if they are just using different text/wording to get past the filters, then it is spam.

Many companies hide the owner of the urls in the registry information (one company had an agent in Australia obtain the URL), but once you went to the web site you could see who the actual owner was. I simply compiled this information, forwarded it all in a G Spam Report (re-submitted once for safety) and the problem was fixed in a month or so.

]]> By: Pay Per Click Journal http://blog.cre8asite.net/archives/495#comment-117298 Pay Per Click Journal Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:41:25 +0000 http://blog.cre8asite.net/?p=495#comment-117298 Interesting read! It certainly is a gray area and many people can dispute it but as long as they are totally unique sites with all unique content, we guess it shouldn't matter who owns it. As long as they rightfully earned the positions...although #1-11 does seem beyond impossible to attain unless it's some oscure keyword. Great discussion though! Interesting read! It certainly is a gray area and many people can dispute it but as long as they are totally unique sites with all unique content, we guess it shouldn’t matter who owns it. As long as they rightfully earned the positions…although #1-11 does seem beyond impossible to attain unless it’s some oscure keyword. Great discussion though!

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