Lost in the Snow!

[oskar]

Can anyone shed any light on this?

I've been thinking of putting an ad on this site.......

thevillafinder.com

I've noticed there's an awful lot of white space at the bottom of the page which appears to have links in it to the pages of the site. What's all that about?

[charles]

Hidden text links or a developer's mistake = a sure way to get into trouble with search engines.

Below is some of what it's showing - all in very small text and with the same colour as the background.

Would be surprised if Paolo left your link as it is - good example of a site behaving badly IMHO.

Charles

Search for a property by reference

QUICK LINKS

Abanilla vila Adra vila Aegean Sea Coast vila Aguilas vila Albir vila Albufeira region vila Albunol vila Alcaucin vila Alcora vila Alcoy vila Alfaz del Pi vila Algorfa vila Alhaurin de la Torre vila Alhaurin el Grande vila Alicante area vila Almanzora vila Almeria vila Almunecar vila Alonnisos vila Alsace & Lorraine vila Altea vila Amorgos vila Andorra vila Andros vila Anguilla vila Antequera vila Antigua vila Arenales del Sol vila Arenas del Rey vila Arenys de Mar vila Arizona vila Arragon vila


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Villa DA106066 Villa DA106083 Villa DA106096 Villa DA106134 Villa DA106142 Villa DA106274 Villa DA106294 Villa DA116033 Villa DA116167 Villa DA116171 Villa DA116172 Villa DA116184 Villa DA116199 Villa DA116214 Villa DA116224 Villa DA116238 Villa DA116245 Villa DA116323 Villa DA116324 Villa DA116327 Villa DA116336 Villa DA116337 Villa DA116338 Villa DA116339 Villa DA116341 Villa DA116348 Villa DA116377 Villa DA116392 Villa DA116400 Villa DA116408 Villa DA116416 Villa DA116418 Villa DA116428 Villa DA116431 Villa DA116439 Villa DA116456

[paolo]

You just beat me to it, Charles. I've deactivated the link because this site is spamming the search engines by using hidden text. It's pretty amateur stuff because the search engines are wise to this now, and it will backfire on them.

You can see they also have in this hidden text some common mis-spellings to try to rank high for typing slip-ups:

Southern Italy vila Southern Tuscany vila Southern Umbria vila Southwest Coast & Vineyards vila Spain vila Sri Lanka vila St Barthelemy vila St Kitts & Nevis vila St Lucia vila St Maarten vila St Petersberg/Clearwater area vila

I wouldn't advertise with a site like this. I also wouldn't advertise with them because they cold-call me and I don't like that!

[oskar]

Thanks again!

Yes, I'd a cold call too. They must be following us around!

Just shows you how good forums like these are in saving you money.