Thoughts on this SEO technique

dcristo · 01-12-2005, 06:26 AM

I would appreciate if someone could take the time to checkout the source code of http://www.seoforgoogle.com/ They submitted their site to my directory, and upon looking at their code Ive noticed they have used the <DIV id=information> tag and stuffed it with all these keywords. This looks very spammy to me so Im probably not going to link out to it. Any thoughts would be appeciated.

Cheers

webyourbusiness · 01-12-2005, 07:43 AM

it's "hidden" by pushing it way off to the side using CSS

from: style.css on the site in question
#information{position: absolute; z-index: 10; visibility: visible; left: -1000px; top: -1000px;}

While I think Google won't penalize them without it being SPECIFICALLY reported as a spam site, it's definitely at the lower end of food chain, as it's pure keyword stuffing using "hidden" text - something that google frown upon and one of the techniques they ask about on their spam result reporting page;

http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html

It is a technique that is very hard to detect without human reports...

dcristo · 01-12-2005, 07:50 AM

Cheers mate for looking at it for me.

webyourbusiness · 01-12-2005, 07:56 AM

no worries!

regards

Greg

ps - where in Sydney?

dcristo · 01-12-2005, 07:58 AM

About 20mins from the Sydney CBD.. hopefully heading your way later in the year to attend a search conference, I'll see.

m2k · 01-12-2005, 09:26 AM

As a side note, I don't believe that image replacement method works in IE5... therefore, all the keywords that were stuffed in the header tag will actually appear on-screen.

polarmate · 01-12-2005, 12:53 PM

Interesting that the page has:

Code:

<META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE">

So you can't use Google's text cache to figure out if there's something not right.

But you know what? You can always check it out using a text browser:
http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview....rgoogle.com%2F