Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
hey Followgreg, if youadd EN (in capitals) to the end of the domain name of that website, you get a big list of pages all signed :s lol
I know! :-) That is what's driving so many people insane. these guys are very well known in Europe for years for using dirty tricks on thousands of sites (When I say 1000's it IS 1000's).
No penalty in Europe...they decided to start doing it in US now :-) Well Google says nothing at all so they continue of course...
And guess what, Google penalized here and there their clients sometimes but NEVER this company while they had they link on the cloaking pages or spam page! Easy to find out WHO must be penalized. ...But no, so far nothing, or they are under watch or they have someone working for them at Google, I start wondering because these guys are really well known for what they do.
It is not actually cloaking, they are using a script that says if the page is not loaded into a frame then redirect to the homepage. Very old school - bit like a 0 second refresh.
Bit surprised we are seeing so many examples of white text on white backgrounds though. (I would have thought that Followgregs example would have been picked up for that at any rate)
[edited by: Dayo_UK at 10:35 am (utc) on Nov. 3, 2005]
Well, I know it will be deleted maybe for the best of all I dunno, I just wanted to make a point, not that Google isn't a good engine, but that these type of companies (talking about the mother ompany, do a backlink analysis) should be penalized so competition is fair.
Now I'm not a very technical person, for me the definition of cloaking is: a page that is, stuffed with keywords and keywords rich hyperlinks, that search engines can see but human visitors can't, and THIS is the case.
Note: If you guys want me to delete my posts before any moderators do and avoid the extra work, I will but let me know quickly because I have to run out in 5 min. and won't be back before a few hours :)
[edited by: followgreg at 10:38 am (utc) on Nov. 3, 2005]