New Optimization Tactic

Very hard to detect

[WebMonkey]

For those of you who are thinking of new ways to beat the Google police, try this one out:

Instead of hidding text by making it the same colour as the background or using microdot links which are easy to detect, you can hide it behind an image! There's nearly no way a robot can detect it.

Anyone else got any techniques the robots can't easily catch?

[Ready To Roll]

Is there a site on the Internet where you can view a webpage on NN4, even though you use IE6?

And fodder for all the conspiracy theorists out there who wonder why the spam reporting page is ineffective:

Payola ;)

(just kidding; please don't remove my sites or hurt my dog!)

[cminblues]

Ok, so let's see:

1] I'm a spammer, because I use tricks with Google to gain higher positions than my competitor.
I assume also that my site has the same quality/relevance than competitor site.

2] I'm not a spammer [maybe I don't know how to do].
I want to beat my competitor.
So, I trick this forum.

So, what is 'better'?

[Note that here we are in Webmasterworld home, not in Google home.]

cminblues

[wingslevel]

maybe its possible for someone to harm a competitor this way - but reporting sites works too (just takes about 3 months longer).

but in this case webmonkey acted pretty guilty since he was awful quick to remove his site from his profile (but not quick enough).

[Whoa]

Web Donkey might be the right nickname for this guy.

But, seriously, I like the post that differentiates between quality content and focused content.

After getting listed in Google, I did find it annoying that Google could find my site for "widget" but not for "widgets" or "widget selection" because I have "widget" on the page but just don't happen to have "widgets" or "widget selection" on my pages. (Keywords have been changed to protect the innocent)

So, yes, I set up some new pages that have "widget selection" and "widgets" on them so that I am found on those keywords too.

I for one don't think that's spam. I think it's going the extra mile to be helpful to searchers and simultaneously paying homage to Google. I'm curious -- Does Google think that's a spam technique even if the visitor to the site is thankful for having found it and doesn't view it as anything close to spam?

[Digimon]

1] I'm a spammer, because I use tricks with Google to gain higher positions than my competitor.
I assume also that my site has the same quality/relevance than competitor site.

2] I'm not a spammer [maybe I don't know how to do].
I want to beat my competitor.
So, I trick this forum.

Definitly, the first. We are all triying to get high positions. Good content is not always a guarantee and little tricks (of course, not this trick but others) can be helpful.

[rrl]

I feel compelled to point out that webmasterworld is not on the radar in google for 'widget'.