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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. if he is so good at it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    then why is when you search google:
    http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&ie =utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=search+engine+optimizer
    why isn't he listed ?

  2. Miserable failure... by tka · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This just reminds me of a <a href="http://www.google.fi/search?q=miserable+fai<nobr>l<wbr></wbr></nobr> ure">miserable failure</a>.

  3. Boost? by Nexboy · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Just in the interest of science, this posting is a test of this Google-boosting strategy. Now if everybody on /. replies to my post, my company's page ranking may start to approach that of the professional index-spammers.

    Seriously, I wonder why Google can't just filter out links to sites which don't have any relevant key words....

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    Nexsan Technologies SATA RAID