Is this legit SEO?

Hi

Are the words at the bottom of this page ok?

http://www.ricardo.ch/default/defaul...rticleTyp e=0

I would be tempted to say no and they've done it on all the pages.

What I don't understand is why these pages don't get penalised by
Google???

On 14 Nov 2006 07:45:58 -0800, christian9997 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com wrote:

Hi

Are the words at the bottom of this page ok?

http://www.ricardo.ch/default/defaul...rticleTyp e=0

I would be tempted to say no and they've done it on all the pages.

You are correct. This falls under hidden text category. Although not
completely hidden, it is also very spammy

What I don't understand is why these pages don't get penalised by
Google???

Have you reported it ?
May help if you do.

plh
Paul

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christian9997 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com wrote:

Hi

Are the words at the bottom of this page ok?

http://www.ricardo.ch/default/defaul...languagenr=0&A
rticleType=0

I would be tempted to say no and they've done it on all the pages.

What I don't understand is why these pages don't get penalised by
Google???

Did you report it via: http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html ?

If nobody does, how does Google know?

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You are correct. This falls under hidden text category. Although not
completely hidden, it is also very spammy

There is completely hidden text on the page as well.

John Bokma wrote:

Did you report it via: http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html ?

If nobody does, how does Google know?

Thanks for the answers and thanks for the link.

I always find that filing a spam report is a bit cowardly.

Thing is I thought that with the experience Google has gathered along
the years they'd have created an algorithm to detect such behaviour and
punish it automatically.

christian9997 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com wrote:

John Bokma wrote:
Did you report it via: http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html ?

If nobody does, how does Google know?

Thanks for the answers and thanks for the link.

I always find that filing a spam report is a bit cowardly.

If everybody thinks the same, the spam stays. Note that you're just
reporting something you consider spam. I mean, asking here if it's legit
makes clear that from your point of view it isn't. Reporting spam is
identical to asking here if something is spam. It's *Google* who decides
if it's spam or not. You just ask them to look at it.

Thing is I thought that with the experience Google has gathered along
the years they'd have created an algorithm to detect such behaviour and
punish it automatically.

The number of ways to generate hidden text are numerous. Too much to have
a computer program decide fast. Even a bunch of keywords can be legit, I
mean:

perl, script, seo, programming, software, active state

keyword stuffing, or a list of tags?

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