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<<I found this page (below) in your index - it redirects to the sites homepage after using a hidden page filled with keywords and links to gain position. Right click on the main heading link and choose "save target as" to save the hidden page to your desktop then open that page (it appears blank) and view the source to see the keywords and links to other similar pages with keywords in them.
I've also attached that page to this message for you.
My question is - is this technique ok with Google? If so I may use it for the site I administer but I would need guidance from you first as I would never allow a site under my control site to make use of misleading or improper techniques.
I look forward to your reply.>>
Left the details out of this post of course - but will I get a reply? and will Google check the page in question?
If not I might as well do the same thing!
My question is - is this technique ok with Google?
See Google Information for Webmasters Quality Guidelines-Specific Information [google.com]
but will I get a reply
You may or may not get a response.
Welcome to WebmasterWorld. [webmasterworld.com]
Their positions have improved and it's unfair that they can get away with this while others do the right thing.
will they get away with it?
Hard to say. Watch the site's positioning for the next few months, sometimes it may take awhile.
Google Spam Report [google.com] If you feel you must, report it and then work on improving your client's site, don't waste your time dwelling on it. Just realize that resorting to the same techniques may expose your client to the same scrutiny if someone else reports it.
I've already reported it through that form plus the email.
Please don't think I stop work on my clients site and dwell on issues such as this - I won't use the same techniques but I'll do my best to ensure that no one else does either.
I'ts not much consolation to my client that we are doing "the right thing" if their competitor has the good search positons and they don't.
It's up to Google to follow up on these things otherwise their results will be littered with these sort of spamming sites.
If they don't?
<added> legitimate feed program? Surely this is not legitimate practice elsewhere?
If that is the case there seems little point in playing fair.
What we have here is a situation where you can play by somebody else’s rules (Search Engines) or you can play to win.
If you chose to use those technics just be sure to discuss the full extent of the possibilities with your client, before you take any action. That’s playing fair in my book.
If your competition climbs over the top of you by breaking the rules then it's good business and makes good sence to point the finger at them.
If their tactics are ok then use them yourself, if not they should be penalised as you would expect to be.
All I'm trying to say is that in most cases the reporter's primary objective is getting the site removed from the index, and that doesn't seem to happen very often.
IMO - I tell the client everything and let them decide what they want to do - most of the time they want the money. Those that don't want the money right away usually change there mind when the "dodgy" sites keep beating them out of money.
