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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. the new status quo by Greg@RageNet · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The new status quo for search engines seems to be to charge for submission, as many of them now require you to go through a third-party that charges to add your site to the database. The variation of that (ie yahoo) has 'sponsored' sites in each category that appear at the top of the page. A friend runs a site that uses this 'sponsored' system and I'm told those sponsors bid against each other and whoever has the highest bid appears.. kinda like an EBAY for search engines.

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  2. this trick works every time by Dr.+Awktagon · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Here's one I use all the time.. just follow these easy steps:

    1. Create a well-designed, easy-to-use web site that follows accessibility and useability guidelines.
    2. Fill the web site with useful, relevant information on a selection of topics.
    3. Make sure the information is kept up to date, and don't let it become stale.
    4. Allow this web site to become popular and authoritative, so lots of people link to it and reference it.

    Now, watch your Google ranking rise to the top! IT'S THAT EASY! And you'll laugh all the way to the bank!