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A Search Engine Manipulator's Tale

Posted by Zonk on from the skeezy dept.

NevDull writes "Well known Search Engine Optimization expert Greg Boser of WebGuerrilla shares how he manipulates search engine results, using simple techniques, with Wired Magazine." From the article: "The search engines live in a fantasy world...Every link is a vote. But people buy and sell links."

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  1. Search Engines just Advertising Now? by lecithin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not too long ago I could do a search on google and actually find something that was usually close to what I wanted. These days I get bogged down on the sites advertising there services and links to ebay.

    I dunno. I would really like a search engine that isn't being used to 'spam' me with services that I really am not looking for. I wouldn't mind the ads so much if clicking them got me to the root of what I was searching for to begin with.

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  2. Call these people by their real titles please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful


    they are not
    Search Engine Optimization experts

    they are
    Search Engine Spammers

    and they are just polluting the search engine, remember if your searches cease to be relavent then those customers they are seeking will just go elsewhere