amanda21 - 4:46 am on Nov 12, 2002 (gmt 0)

Just seen an interesting set of results for a search on teoma, thought you might be interested.

Its a 2 word competitive consumer orientated search term (£5+ per click in overture UK). The search was run without quotes etc.

The top 7 results are sites operated by the same company and have been live for between 1 and 5 years (I know this for a fact).

All have near identical content and optimisation -

Keyphrase appears as follows:
once in title
once in meta title
twice in meta description, along with numerous variations
twice in meta keywords, along with numerous variations
3 times on page (one bold, one linked and one plain), along with numerous variations

meta desciption is repeated in comment tags three times on the page (top, middle and footer).

all the top 7 results mentioned above plus about 10 other sites are linked to each other using 1x1 pixel images a the top of the page.

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Before you try this at home :) I should mention that the sites average a pr3 in google. The rankings in google for the oldests of the sites have plummeted since the new sites went live.