Sneaky ?
Sneaky ?
Hi
An established web creator suggested this to me :
If you have a website that consistently comes No1 for your chosen keywords (often official tourist or listing sites ?) adopt an "if you can't beat them, join them" approach.
He said why not try to attract their visitors by including them :
in your meta tags
in your text (not too visible)
in logo type ad (far bottom left) with text behind
The theory is that when people search on, say XXXXXXXX tourism (or whatever) , your site comes up just below them.
Worth trying ?
Peter
An established web creator suggested this to me :
If you have a website that consistently comes No1 for your chosen keywords (often official tourist or listing sites ?) adopt an "if you can't beat them, join them" approach.
He said why not try to attract their visitors by including them :
in your meta tags
in your text (not too visible)
in logo type ad (far bottom left) with text behind
The theory is that when people search on, say XXXXXXXX tourism (or whatever) , your site comes up just below them.
Worth trying ?
Peter
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Hi
Google says :
Quality Guidelines - Specific recommendations:
Avoid hidden text or hidden links.
Don't employ cloaking or sneaky redirects.
Don't send automated queries to Google.
Don't load pages with irrelevant words.
Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.
Avoid "doorway" pages created just for search engines, or other "cookie cutter" approaches such as affiliate programs with little or no original content.
Some of the search engine blogs talk about hidden text. The consensus is that robots can detect it, and it is seen as trickery that should be avoided. Plenty of sites do it though !
Peter
Google says :
Quality Guidelines - Specific recommendations:
Avoid hidden text or hidden links.
Don't employ cloaking or sneaky redirects.
Don't send automated queries to Google.
Don't load pages with irrelevant words.
Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.
Avoid "doorway" pages created just for search engines, or other "cookie cutter" approaches such as affiliate programs with little or no original content.
Some of the search engine blogs talk about hidden text. The consensus is that robots can detect it, and it is seen as trickery that should be avoided. Plenty of sites do it though !
Peter
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Absolutely. its a dangerous game playing with the search engines. I know that this is a big no-no.If I was to add all the names of my relative competitors including the tourist office to my home page and then make the font white ( I have tried a test and it does disappear) Would the engines penalise me for this?
The only answer is relevant, specific content.
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Just picked up on this thread - the following website
rivetiere.club.fr/index.htm
does well on some key words for obvious reasons, if you look at the top of the first page. Google does not seem to have penalised it as it has been top of the searches for 'chambres sarthe' for weeks!
Phil
rivetiere.club.fr/index.htm
does well on some key words for obvious reasons, if you look at the top of the first page. Google does not seem to have penalised it as it has been top of the searches for 'chambres sarthe' for weeks!
Phil
Real name Phil
Moved to France in 2004
Likes ducks, nature, gardening, furniture restoration, DIY, rugby, blah, blah.
Moved to France in 2004
Likes ducks, nature, gardening, furniture restoration, DIY, rugby, blah, blah.
Hmmmm
However devious (and it is devious and unattractive) it's not the same colour as the background. Poor old Google, being a thick rule driven computer rather than a human being, therefore puts it on page 1 and gives it a PR of 2, nicely illustrating the stupidity of this search engine. I am getting sick and tired of making legitimate searches and google presenting me with gobbledegoook results based on this type of idiocy!
However devious (and it is devious and unattractive) it's not the same colour as the background. Poor old Google, being a thick rule driven computer rather than a human being, therefore puts it on page 1 and gives it a PR of 2, nicely illustrating the stupidity of this search engine. I am getting sick and tired of making legitimate searches and google presenting me with gobbledegoook results based on this type of idiocy!
Sometimes i sits and thinks - and sometimes i just sits...
I'm with you on that one but it's still numbero uno - ichiban! <sigh>I am getting sick and tired of making legitimate searches and google presenting me with gobbledegoook results based on this type of idiocy!
I'm finding more joy using services such as del.icio.us and Technorati for hunting down good content. And have started to make good use of RSS - specific content coming to me, not the other way around!
Also, I spent a good few hours at the weekend loading and tagging all my bookmarks in del.icio.us (a very decent and honest little service which was bought by Yahoo I believe but still maintains it's independence, seemingly). I'm sure Yahoo will go and spoil it, as they are starting to do with Flickr.