Hidden Links

How come this wasn't caught?

[JaedensTwin]

After doing a search for my keywords I noticed a new player in town, and they are in the number three spot. They basically did an exact copy of the number 1 site, including all of the hidden links. The funniest part is, their hidden links don't make a hit.

Now how did this pass by Google? Why did they make it to number 3 when I get shot down for playing fair? I've been letting the number 1 guy get away with cheating because I don't want to be responsible for taking them out of business, but come on now, try something original.

You just have to see it to believe it.

Jaeden

[edited by: heini at 8:38 pm (utc) on Nov. 4, 2002]
[edit reason] no specifics please thanks / specifics go to Google spam report [/edit]

[djgreg]

I also have a site on which there is hidden text. I simply forgot to delete it, because the site is not very important. But the site is on NR1 position for a keyword with 1,800,000 results. I don't do a damn to change something, it seems as if something stops my competitors from going in front of me. And also this site has only one backlink from a PR4, which is not shown when searching for link:mysite.com.

Something is wrong at google i think

[Powdork]

Yes these two sites do offer the same content. But all the hidden links are internal. They are simply linking to all their pages from the home page in an attempt to pass on pr to the product pages.
Either report the site or go make your unedited post somewhere your allowed, Google.groups-google.public.support. I think the duplicate content combined with the hidden internal links may be enough to bring about some quick action.