Hissingsid - 1:12 pm on Mar 20, 2006 (gmt 0)

Hi,

I have a competitor who scraped all of the links from the home page of one of my sites and stuffed them all into a <noscript> section on their home page. As a result they went from nowhere to page one.

I've not reported them as spam or asked them to remove them because half of the links are to pages on my site and I have no idea what effect it is having on my own rank.

I know for a fact that links from this noscript section result in the competitor site ranking very well for a three word term which we previously ranked #5 for. I've removed the link from my page which included this term but it is still in their page in <noscript> The site linked to is #1 for the term and the dodgy <noscript> site is at #8. The word <edited> is one of the three words and it only occurs in the link text in the <noscript> section.

Regards
Sid

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[edited by: tedster at 7:32 pm (utc) on Mar. 20, 2006]