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Delete this if against the rule, but... how about this guy?

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Post February 2nd, 2005, 9:57 am

I came across this photographer's web site.

They basically listed every single city in California 2-3 times.
They have repeated the words "wedding, photography, photographer" over hundred times.

This guy is totally dominating MSN results. Dang... I am so angry...
It doesn't seem right.
But, it's not against the rule, because texts are not hidden in the background...?
Not sure...

What do you think?

PS. Admin, please delete this message if not suitable. Sorry.
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Post February 2nd, 2005, 9:57 am

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Post February 2nd, 2005, 11:22 am

Well, you didn't help the situation by adding a backlink for his site at a high PR site. It's not really against the rules to post something like this, but you're completely hurting your cause by doing so. I'd suggest you leave the post, but edit out the link.
"There's no place like 127.0.0.1 except for ::1."
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Post February 2nd, 2005, 12:08 pm

Of course, I don't want to help that guy...
I deleted the link. Thank you for the tip.
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Post February 2nd, 2005, 1:17 pm

Fortunately I visited the link before it was deleted :)

I am very suprised that MSN have not caught this site and penalised it for its blatant attempt to manipulate. I hope that MSN have not taken the Beta label off too early...
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Post February 2nd, 2005, 2:30 pm

Google has not been doing their job filtering these spammy sites out too!! :-(

I have been reporting for more than a month about my competitor's site that has about 200 characters in their title tags

hmmm..
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Post February 2nd, 2005, 3:09 pm

ATNO/TW wrote:
Well, you didn't help the situation by adding a backlink for his site at a high PR site. It's not really against the rules to post something like this, but you're completely hurting your cause by doing so. I'd suggest you leave the post, but edit out the link.




Actually a link from Ozzu wouldn't help one bit as it would be redirected by the counter script first ;)
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Post February 2nd, 2005, 4:01 pm

Are you sure, Jess?

If so, then I'm confused by THIS

How did all those get indexed and OZZU happens to be some of my best backlinks if that's the case?
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Post February 2nd, 2005, 4:04 pm

Crawlers don't follow signature links in this forum because of the exit script, so therefore they are not counted as backlinks. The search you performed ATNO only finds the text 'www.boastingrights.com' on a page.

Can anybody clear this myth up once and for all?
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Post February 2nd, 2005, 4:07 pm

I realize they are not counted as backlinks (signature links), but our poster didn't post the link in question in a sig. It was in the post body, hence wouldn't it be recognized as a backlink?

//edit -- with that being said, my backlinks from OZZU obviously aren't as many as those indexed links according to Google, but it is still my best site for backlinks.
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Post February 2nd, 2005, 4:09 pm

As far as I know all links from posts or otherwise are effected by the exit script.

Let's test it: http://www.example.com
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Post February 2nd, 2005, 4:09 pm

yep
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Post February 2nd, 2005, 5:47 pm

all links whether in footer or posted as part of a message are redirected, hence they cannot be followed by spiders.

The only direct links from here come from the Image Button :)
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Post February 2nd, 2005, 6:00 pm

OK then... this is the guy's web address.

http://www.photographybyregina.com/
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Post February 2nd, 2005, 6:01 pm

*lol -- OK -- call me blind *duh
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Post February 2nd, 2005, 9:13 pm

The tactics used here are indeed "un-ethical" as far as SEO is concerned and are down right dirty.

As gardenstew said, I'm also surprised they haven't been penalized.

Theres a design company here in Chicago that uses tactics like these - I'm suprised this isn't one of their clients. Maybe not to this extreme extent, but its close enough. It's shame too when a company is responsible for dirty SEO.
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