whitenight - 12:29 pm on Jul 23, 2006 (gmt 0)

It is perhaps surprisingly likely that that site ranks well despite, not because of such violations of our Webmaster Guidelines

Come on Adam. Are we supposed to take this seriously?

I recently commented on (and reported) a site that was using a particularly efficient cloak/redirect.. the landing page was nothing more than 3 sentences of keyword loaded useless info, but wait...there was adsense at top.

These particular subdomains were dominating thousands of two and three-word "money" keywords (not only "blue widgets in anytownville", but terms like "buy blue widgets" "cheap blue widgets", etc).

Went bye bye, and now is back - ranking...but instead of it redirecting to MFA (guess you closed their account), it redirects to a dating site, for ALL the keyword terms.

Are you telling us this site ranks "in spite" of being useless?!