DirektMedia hiding Prioritet menu

Most Prioritet customers try/tried to stow away the Prioritet menu as much as possible. DirektMedia.no hides it completely.

Prioritet still out

This week, rumors went on Prioritet being back in the Google index. Anonymous commenters where running around in Norwegian weblogs spreadding the word.

Google has been experimenting with a new filter, resulting in displaying Prioritet in some search results, but that does not mean that Prioritet has been re-included in the index. The index will not be stable until Tuesday 16th, but after that I believe that we will not find Prioritet in the index.

The following screenshot shows how Prioritet is not listed in the Google index:

Until Tuesday, stay tuned!

Hebbs.no with hidden H1-flooding

Norwegian website hebbs.no have tried a curious trick to lure keywords through an H1-tag without users seeing them.

Do they think Google don’t care? - Update

Just a few Prioritet.no customers have removed the Menu and the accompanying Doorwaypages. SEO Spam Cops is monitoring these websites and reports the findings weekly to Google. Here is the list per Sept 20.:

Since Aug.22 the following sites have removed Menu and DP:

Hidden links to SEO Prioritet

Here are some examples of links that the banned SEO company Prioritet had hidden on their customer’s web sites.

Optimaliser.no is cleaning up

The SEO company that made a Prioritet like semi-hidden menu with links to all their customers is now cleaning up. They have taken action to remove all the dirty stuff on their clients’ pages. This is very good news for them and their clients.

Do they think Google dont care

This article has been updated. Read the new article here:
do-they-think-google-dont-care-update

The reports that caused Google penalty for prioritet.no is released

July 10th Prioritet.no was excluded from Google Serps. The reason was not, as many believed, the SEO technique Prioritet.no used on their own homepage, but the massive implementation of “hidden” menus and Doorway pages on most of their customers homepages. The reports are now available.

Matt Cutts on Keyword Stuffing

Head of the Google Webspam Team, Matt Cutts, has written a funny blog post about a company that does not understand why they have been banned by Google. It is hilarious! I hope none of our readers uses this kind (or ANY kind) of keyword stuffing.

Read the story on Matt Cutts’ blog: SEO tip: Avoid keyword stuffing

Why Google banned Prioritet.no

There has been some discussions why Google banned Prioritet.no and not their customers. The technique Prioritet has used on their customers websites is clearly breaking the Google guidelines but what they do on their own website may be seen as bad usability.