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April 30, 2008

Blackhat Techniques Which Shouldn’t Work in Google But Still Do

Filed under: google, seo — Kevin Gibbons @ 10:23 am

Update: This post has been removed because we have been politely asked to delete references to any examples being displayed.

11 Comments »

  1. nice piece kevin, but i think you are missing quite a lot of BH techniques that still work in google. unfortunately!

    Comment by Google Tutor — April 30, 2008 @ 12:21 pm

  2. I think all BH techniques are still working (if you know what you are doing and got some knowledge). Not talking about something like cloaking with no bot ips or so :)

    Comment by Favorite Browser — April 30, 2008 @ 2:01 pm

  3. Kevin,

    Awesome piece, and those two sites are exact examples of lame BH tricks — funny, laughable, but they obviously work. Let me echo the comment of ‘Favorite Browser’ — yes, even massive keyword density, complete gibberish, is being used *and* works in SERPs. Follow my conscience or follow my…?

    Comment by Chris Regan — April 30, 2008 @ 5:33 pm

  4. Don’t forget scraping. I recently found a website that had the entire DMOZ directory mirrored on it. They took top spot on the serps for about a week until they were reported. Seems the Google algo can’t even catch this type of blatant ruse.

    Comment by Brent W — April 30, 2008 @ 11:57 pm

  5. Hello mate, Good spot on the Legalmove site.

    The concerning thing is one of my clients is using these guys for their SEO.

    Think we might need to have a chat.

    Comment by PPCblogger — May 1, 2008 @ 9:09 am

  6. Very interesting.

    I feel a bit depressed that these things are still working though.

    Comment by Gregor Spowart — May 1, 2008 @ 11:26 am

  7. You would of thought Google would have a simple filter for >:(

    Comment by Dudibob — May 1, 2008 @ 12:58 pm

  8. It’s not so much a question of whether these tactics work…For the examples you gave, these onpage tricks aren’t enough to get those rankings. I think it’s more of why has Google allowed them to rank in spite of the onpage garbage.

    Comment by Marc — May 1, 2008 @ 4:38 pm

  9. Lol, I liked the logo websites use of the css. So silly and funny.

    Comment by Internet Marketing — May 2, 2008 @ 12:13 am

  10. Very funny! didnt get to read the article..

    Comment by Yesha — May 9, 2008 @ 5:57 pm

  11. D’oh I missed the post. If you want to see some black hat link bomb tactics in action Google the phrase Wow Power Leveling and do some back link analysis ;)

    Comment by SEO Canada — May 11, 2008 @ 1:57 am

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