CSS SPAM - Out of Control!

Written by Ken Webster


CSS SPAM - Out of Control!

Every newer technology has loopholes that draw multitudes of Spammers. The newest Spam technique onrepparttar scene is hiding text and URL gateways using CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) methods.

More frequently we are finding top listed sites owned or controlled by SEO and Web Development companies using this technique.

There are many ways to hide text and links using CSS and it is seems to be running completely unchecked byrepparttar 118358 major SE’s at this time. Up to nowrepparttar 118359 search engines haven’t been able to parse CSS files and combine that information withrepparttar 118360 page code to determine if spamming techniques were being used.

Most methods deploy a separate attached CSS file and use “hide” terms, such as:

keyword keyword

This morning I was doing a GOOGLE search for “web development pricing” and found a Site in top positions using a similar technique to hide hundreds of links to pseudo URLs with a full spectrum of web design, development and promotion key terms. Each page wasrepparttar 118361 same “gateway” page.

Here is a small sample of their technique:

Web Site Programmers, Web Site Programming, Web Site Promotion, Web Site Promotion Marketing, Web Site Promotions, Web Site Traffic,

Obviously,repparttar 118362 links were hidden in microscopic detail, utilizingrepparttar 118363 smallest text possible and CSS colorrepparttar 118364 same asrepparttar 118365 background. Of course this method required very little space atrepparttar 118366 bottom ofrepparttar 118367 page afterrepparttar 118368 layout table for hundreds of links.

The search engines thrive on “relevance” to maintain market share. Almost every algorithm shift targets Spam, filtering out anything irrelevant possible. Recent Search Engine history is replete with algorithm updates that severely punished Sites and Site Owners that chose to deploy similar “Black Hat” Search Engine Optimization techniques.

Why do so many flock to new “Black Hat” SEO techniques every time another one surfaces?

These practices are strictly forbidden inrepparttar 118369 top 3 SE’s published “Webmaster” and “Site Owner” guidelines:

Google: http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html

MSN: http://search.msn.com.sg/docs/siteowner.aspx?t=SEARCH_WEBMASTER_REF_GuidelinesforOptimizingSite.htm&FORM=WGDD

Yahoo: http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/basics/basics-18.html

It shouldn’t be very difficult forrepparttar 118370 Search Engine developers to take in external CSS file considerations and incorporate them into algorithm changes inrepparttar 118371 near future. Withrepparttar 118372 extent CSS is being misused now, we should expect an update correcting this problem inrepparttar 118373 near future.

Advertising on a Shoestring Budget When You Can't Afford the Shoe or the String

Written by Glenn Haertlein


The best way to make money with your website, no matter whatrepparttar business, is to get it noticed. To get it noticed, you need to advertise. But how do you do that when you're on a shoestring budget that's so tight you really can't affordrepparttar 118357 shoestring, let alonerepparttar 118358 shoe you took it off of? Well, there are three things you can do that won't cost you a dime. And you can get started with them today.

First, get yourself signed up for several hits-for-clicks sites. For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, a 'hits-for-clicks' site is a site from which you surfrepparttar 118359 net and get points for viewing websites. In return for surfing, you get points. You use those points to get exposure for your site(s). Most hits-for-clicks have free signups and most will let you enter up to three (sometimes five) URLs into their system. Here are some hits-for-clicks sites I use:

Fontoon (http://www.fontoon.com/?refid=3446) StartXchange (http://www.startxchange.com/index.php?referrer=htack210) TrafficG (http://trafficg.com/index.php?member=htack210) Profit Charger hits (http://profitchargerhits.com/www.profitchargerhits.com/?refid=10717) Traffic Pods (http://www.trafficpods.com/index.jsp?ref=htack210) MyTrafficStorm (http://www.mytrafficstorm.com/?ref=385) Traffic Swarm (http://www.trafficswarm.com/go.cgi?329064) SurfMaster Club (http://www.webideas4u.com/team/htack210/smcp1.shtml)

Second, you need to get yourself a good browser that allows you to do tabbed browsing. What's a tabbed browser? I'm glad you asked! A tabbed browser, simply put, is a browser that lets you browse several sites at once using tabs instead of separate windows. To getrepparttar 118360 most out hits-for-clicks sites you need to surf fromrepparttar 118361 hits-for-clicks site's start page. The more you surf,repparttar 118362 more points you get. The more points you get,repparttar 118363 more exposure you get. You could surf from each one of your hits-for-clicks sites one at a time, but you'll make better headway surfing from as many of them as you can at once. Now imagine how cumbersome it would be to have each ofrepparttar 118364 above sites open in a separate window! Having each site open in a separate tab inrepparttar 118365 same browser window is much more convenient because then you can move from tab to tab and surf several sites at once.

"What are some good tabbed browsers?" you ask. Well, one that comes immediately to mind is Netscape 7.x. It has tabbed browsing built in. All you do is open one site, hit CTRL+T (onrepparttar 118366 PC) or COMMAND+T (onrepparttar 118367 Apple), open another tab, open another site, and so on and so on. Then, all you need to do is tab betweenrepparttar 118368 sites all inrepparttar 118369 same window. Another tabbed web browser that comes to mind is CrazyBrowser available at crazybrowser.com (where else?). Crazy Browser works in muchrepparttar 118370 same way as Netscape 7.x and allows you to open whole groups at once. So, if you organize your hits-for-clicks sites in one folder under Crazy Browser, you can opt to open allrepparttar 118371 links at once and Crazy Broswer will open each one in a separate tab.

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