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Modern Day Search Engine Manipulations

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what-happened-to-just-being-popular? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I fondly recall the days of yore when search engines could be manipulated just by sticking thousands of extraneous filler words in the META tags or hidden at the bottom of the page. Nowadays search engines work by more advanced techniques that generally don't fall prey to these simplistic tactics, but it'd be folly to presume them impervious. Does it still happen?"

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  1. who cares? by reaper20 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nine times out of ten, when using Google, exactly what I am looking for is in one of the first few links.

    I had a boss that was asking me "How do we improve our site on google?"

    Answer: Provide actual information instead of some glossy maketrdroid garbage that is so prevalent in webpages today and you wouldn't have to worry about the search engines would you?