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TheWebographer - 2:07 am on Jun 28, 2003 (gmt 0)


I recently found a popular web design company that ranks very well on certain competitive keywords. In looking closely, I found they use a deceptive redirect method. The pages that google ranks highly are pages that you and I do not see. Rather, when you click on the links to the highly ranked pages you are instantly redirected to something different.

I checked the keyword density of the highly ranked pages and found them to be exceedingly high in competitive keyword percentages with no extraneous words at all. I doubt if such a page would make for coherent reading. The pages that are actually served to joe surfer are very different.

I contacted google about this deceptive practice. To your knowlege does google usually look into such things if they are reported? And if google does, what would they do about it?


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