SEO Spam Cops started analysing the Norwegian SEO firm Prioritet.no in April 2007 and found out that they used Doorway pages and “Hidden” Menus to boost ranking for their SEO Customers. Prioritet.no used the same techniques for their SEO customers that resulted in a heavy penalty for Bolia.com. After analysing and documenting the implementation of the techniques for all their clients websites we ran position analysis for all doorway pages and keywords. The report was submitted to our friends in Google June 6.th 2007.
Now, from July 10.th, the first reaction is visible. Prioritet.no is banned from Google and it’s no longer visible in Google Serps. They still have Page Rank but this has to do with the fact that Google Page Rank is only updated 5-6 times per year.
We are monitoring all Prioritet.no clients and we will publish the report we submitted to Google when the effect of Googles penalty is visible and stable.
regards
SEO Spam Cops
Gunnar Bråthen, Roar Eriksen and Per-Erik Skramstad
July 18, 2007 at 3:39 pm |
Good work. Now you only have 1 billion more spam sites to report on!
July 19, 2007 at 8:10 am |
If it is true I can’t belive how the seo company can do such a thing and use such a black hat seo tactics. You can always do something that do less harm and you can’t be banned for that and it still works and affects serps but doorway pages and hidden navigation.
Bad company bad !!!
July 20, 2007 at 6:09 am |
I remember Google banned BMW sites for sucha thing. A so called SEO Firm emplying such tactics is ridiculous.
July 23, 2007 at 12:07 pm |
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July 27, 2007 at 3:04 pm |
Good to see that Google is starting to crack down more and more on sites that are ‘at it’. Sad to hear abour clients getting kicked out by their SEO agencies inability to work within the basic rules of what to do.
August 6, 2007 at 10:25 am |
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October 17, 2007 at 6:15 pm |
Prioritet out for ages
It’s Wednesday night, and as promised SEO Spam Cops will give a short update on the Norwegian SEO company Prioritet in Googles index.
As we all know, Prioritet got thrown out of Google’s index three months ago. Three months and one week, to…
October 24, 2007 at 12:16 pm |
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December 2, 2007 at 1:14 am |
I am glad that there is additional policing on such matters. There are so many people out there working hard to get additional attention from the search engines and seeing people taking shortcuts is terrible. People implicitly trust the search engines and do not realize how much work it takes to provide the best answers to a search engine query. I remember not that long ago for example how powerful Alta Vista was… That system is now just a drop in a bucket.
People keep trying tricks everyday… Remember how some people would try to rob PR by doing a redirect of their entire domain to another domain? Arg…
The internet is still very new, but evolves very quickly as so many people keep working and monitoring it.
All the best.
Dexter
December 24, 2007 at 6:18 pm |
I agree with Dexter, but what’s sadest still is the inability to love the readers.
I learned in Radio (no less) that the best thing to do is love your audience. Give them what they want, and the search engines will come. If you decide to go for search engine marketing, know the market, love the market, and then begin building sites FOR THE MARKET.
Search Engines are, although smart, are not at all the last thing we need to be worried about. It’s the readers, the customers, and the actual searchers.
The engines are bending to the people who search, and we are trying to bend to the engines. Hmm…
January 4, 2008 at 5:41 pm |
I completely agree with Dexters comment on the policing the internet as far as search marketing goes. HOWEVER, seeing people take shortcuts may NOT be so terrible for the people who ARE doing it right. The reason is because those who spend their time and efforts doing it wrong will be caught and banned as you have seen in the previous post. Those methods will NOT outlive or outrank (at least over the longevity) the sites and business builders who are doing it right. The search engines have an all out war against spam and black hat techniques and they are winning and will continue to win because they control the cards. This is good IF you are someone who understands the search engine marketing game and white hat techniques. It is hard work BUT WILL pay off.
I also completely agree with Bryan, there are 2 faces to SEO. One is optimization for the search engines themselves and the other side to it is for the visitor. People often focus their efforts on getting ranked highly but forget that the visitor (an actual human) is the one who is actually taking out their credit card or clicking through to an affiliate link, Google ad or so forth. The visitor is where the money is made. Technical search is a tool to get your message to your market. But if you can’t sell the visitor when they’re at your site, what does it matter anyway?
Great post Bryan!
May 1, 2008 at 11:04 am |
Very well said Bryan. The search engines are generous enough to award the real positions. The white hat seo is a brilliant way to reach searchers. The google is reaching those were/are involved with the Black-Hat-SEO-Techniques, and they are being banned, and penalized. Well done Google!
September 10, 2008 at 12:10 am |
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What would you say if I told you it was possible to get your site listed in Google ON THE FIRST PAGE and still within 60 minutes?…
October 1, 2008 at 8:08 am |
thankstomyteacher.com…
Charles Knight of the Alt Search Engines blog (mentioned above) has been working tirelessly to promote an alternative vision: to band together a bunch of alts to create a Universal Interface. This seems the best strategy for the group as a whole- altho…
October 8, 2008 at 2:09 pm |
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