austtr - 12:03 pm on Jun 8, 2003 (gmt 0)

SlyOldDog

There is a heavily cross-linked family of sites in my part of the world, who find it necessary to also create the links in white text on a snow.gif background. Gee, I wonder why?

They are still carving up the seerps many months after having been dobbed... so my guess is that cross linking has not kicked in nor has the more problematic of the hidden stuff filters.

On the subject of penalties and their deterrent factor.. a mirror merchant who also dabbled in some crude hidden stuff on all pages recently did 30 days in the sinbin. His get-out-of-jail solution was to do up one squeaky clean new home page and get it spidered, then resume the links to all the original internal pages that were still exactly as they were at the time of penalty.

The original inbound links were still in place so he has more or less resumed exactly where he left off, all for the cost of a new home page.

I'm trying to make up my mind if this is a very stupid operator or an ineffectual review system for releasing sites back into circulation that obviously have no intention of cleaning up their act.