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

Posted on April 30th, 2008 by Kevin Gibbons

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

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11 Responses to “Blackhat Techniques Which Shouldn’t Work in Google But Still Do”

  1. Google Tutor says:
    April 30th, 2008 at 12:21 pm

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

  2. Favorite Browser says:
    April 30th, 2008 at 2:01 pm

    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 :)

  3. Chris Regan says:
    April 30th, 2008 at 5:33 pm

    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…?

  4. Brent W says:
    April 30th, 2008 at 11:57 pm

    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.

  5. PPCblogger says:
    May 1st, 2008 at 9:09 am

    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.

  6. Gregor Spowart says:
    May 1st, 2008 at 11:26 am

    Very interesting.

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

  7. Dudibob says:
    May 1st, 2008 at 12:58 pm

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

  8. Marc says:
    May 1st, 2008 at 4:38 pm

    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.

  9. Internet Marketing says:
    May 2nd, 2008 at 12:13 am

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

  10. Yesha says:
    May 9th, 2008 at 5:57 pm

    Very funny! didnt get to read the article..

  11. SEO Canada says:
    May 11th, 2008 at 1:57 am

    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 ;)

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