The Norwegian SEO firm www.optimaliser.no is one of those firms in the SEO business that think that Norway is to small for Googles Spam detectives and that breaking the Google guidelines is an easy way to ranking success for their clients. Well, optimaliser.no may have gone to far.
One member of the never sleeping team SEO Spam Cops: Per-Erik Skramstad, found out what was going on and posted an article on his Norwegian blog: “Søkemotoroptimalisering med skjulte lenker“. In english: “SEO with hidden links”.
In this Norwegian article Per-Erik Skramstad writes that Optimaliser.no on their home page have a hidden menu at the bottom of the page with links to all their clients. This hidden menu is made with the intention of giving their clients a higher PageRank, but Per-Erik doubt that it will have any effect.
Anyway it is a hidden menu ment for Search Engines only. And the clients are optimized by heavy use of Doorway Pages hidden behind different types of icons often placed at the bottom of the clients Home Page.
We, The SEO SPAM COPS, know that Google is working hard to put Norwegian SEO spammers out of business. So our message to all optimaliser.no clients is this: We hope you know what you are doing and what you’re gonna do when your brand is no longer visible in Googles SERPS.
Per-Erik has documented the technique in this video with english text:
July 16, 2007 at 8:07 am |
Fantastisk! Good catch. Doorway pages and hidden links, what do they think this is, the nineties? I would be going absolutely insane if they’d dared to do this to my site. Hairdressing and Travel are utterly unrelated!
November 30, 2008 at 9:58 pm |
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