Long folder names with keywords

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Long folder names with keywords

limbo

1:43 pm on Jan 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

I was browsing Google and hit upon a website that ranked as all top 9 entries under the keywords I entered. Bemused as to how they could have monopolised this fairly non specific search I had a look at the source on various pages and found this trick:

IMG src="widgets4you, widget rental in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and France_files/photo.gif"

Huge folder names! Every page and all its gifs were posted in separately named folders all with this 'stuffing' technique used to name them

This is surely spamming? Isn’t it?

If not, I like it alot ;)

heini

1:52 pm on Jan 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

This is almost 100% not the reason why that site ranks.

limbo

1:57 pm on Jan 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

>> This is almost 100% not the reason why that site ranks.

Is it possible it helps page rank?

Macguru

1:58 pm on Jan 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

limbo, I would be surprised to see the same domain name using all the top spots.

I see this often for people using the same content on different domains names or sub domain names. But I never saw the same domain name take more than 2 spots per page. Are you sure it's the same site?

>>Is it possible it helps page rank?

No, Page Rank is calculated with links to a page. Nothing to do with "on page" content.

[edited by: Macguru at 2:00 pm (utc) on Jan. 21, 2003]

heini

1:58 pm on Jan 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

>helps page rank
No.
With stuff like this it's done rather on the odd chance it will give a page an additional 0,1% boost or so.

pendanticist

2:00 pm on Jan 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

IMG src="widgets4you, widget rental in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and France_files/photo.gif"

If it were the 'alt' tag, I definately say no, there is nothing wrong with it.

Filling the 'alt' tag with descriptive material is quite ok and normally used so the visually impared (using 'readers') can 'see' what the image is.

That sure is a loooooooong pathway though. Yikes!

Pendanticist.

limbo

2:08 pm on Jan 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

>> Are you sure it's the same site?

positive - even had another look to make sure.

>> That sure is a loooooooong pathway though. Yikes!

Well that's what i thought - So why would somebody go at such great length to do this if it had no impact on SE ranking?

Brett_Tabke

2:23 pm on Jan 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

>helps page rank

Sure can. Images transfer pr...

heini

2:34 pm on Jan 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

>Images transfer pr...

Yes, but that would only work if it was crosslinking the images. In this case it looks like it's done rather for adding keywords to the page.