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[JudgeJeffries]

I'm being totally screwed by a competitor on numerous terms that repeatedly appear on the HTML coding when I look at source but dont appear anywhere on the page that I see.
When I look at Googles cached version the page is blank.
The people are in the same professional organisation as me and would almost certainly change it if I complained to then but I dont want to raise a false alarm.
Could someone give me a hand?

[Nick_W]

So, you can see the words in the source but not on the page right?

Check by highlighting the text on the page and see if anything shows up you didn't see before. If it does he's probably either putting text on the page the same color as the background or using CSS to hide the text.

Nick

[JudgeJeffries]

I've tried that and the text does not appear.
Its repeated 7 or 8 times but no sign of it on the page.
Does the fact that the cached version is blank mean anything?
Their PR is 2 but they are beating all comers to #1 for lots of keyphrases all of which appear multiple times in various pages coding but cannot actually be seen on the page.

[Nick_W]

Well, you'll have to work out why it isn't appearing. If it's in the source, it's on the page. At least as far as an SE is concerned.

Try using Opera and turning of the CSS.

>blank
What, like a totally white page?

They may well be showing up just because of good backlinks and link text also. Try a link search on alltheweb.com

Nick

[JudgeJeffries]

There 4 backlinks, non of them anything special.
Except for Googles heading the cached page is blank.
The opera thing is beyond me.

[JudgeJeffries]

Sorry, cached page has eventually appeared and its exactly the same as the normally displayed page.
No visible sign of the multiple repeats of the keyphrase that shows in the coding.

[Nick_W]

Well, there's one more way that that might happen I guess.

The content that has all the keywords could be contained in a <noscript> tag and the content you see contained in a <frame>

If that's the case, and I suspect it is then you might want to contact them, it's quite likely they no nothing about this and are not aware that it's a G no no....

Nick

[JudgeJeffries]

Many thanks.