Text bewteen NOSCRIPT tags

Is this unethical?

[bluemi]

What are your experiences with putting up keyword rich text within the NOSCRIPT tags? Google does index it but it is invisible for the site visitor. Highly unethical, or only a little bit...:-)?

[Macguru]

>>but it is invisible for the site visitor

Well, for 92 % of them. A lot of people disable JS these days. They get tired of pop ups, redirects and other JS abuse some designers use. For about 8 % of visitors, the spam is obvious.

I would not play with such tricks. The competition may react to it.

Like most SEO guys and galls, I use Opera to analyse competitors, it saves me a gazillion clicks a day just to switch between a JS and non a JS support for the browser.

I report any irregularities to my clients. If the client decides to blow the wistle to SE about the competitor using such cheap tricks, I provide him all the URLs required, for a very small fee.

Bottom line is, dont use quick fix stuff, it's risky, spammy and passé.

[bluemi]

Thanks, Macguru. I'm still more or less a newcomer, and for me it's quite surprising how many sites are still using such techniques, rather than trying some legitimate ones first. The site where I saw this noscript thing has, on first sight, at least 10 big mistakes that prevents it from getting a better position. So they are trying with spam, and they are spending money for Adwords. That's going to be a nice and easy job for a serious search engine optimization company...