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Captain wrote:Looking at Google it looks like the online casinos are taking prime positions and some gambling portals are slipping or gone.
This is the same on Yahoo also
I see a few (even newer casinos) ranking well above portals with REAL content. Check those pages carefully for the casinos ’cause it looks to me like they are doing something a bit sketchy, like (possibly):1. cloaking – i.e., feeding the SE’s a bunch of keyword rich crap and then feeding surfers their homepage
2. Hiding text within the site
3. Using affiliates to rank higher (alt tags, title tags that are keyword directed)
In any case, they are ranking well and we are probably partially to blame for not removing alt/title tags from the URLs
Hey kwblue,
Thank you for your imput. I have been using rel=”nofollow” for affiliate links for quite some time. Maybe this helps!@kwblue 160978 wrote:
1. cloaking – i.e., feeding the SE’s a bunch of keyword rich crap and then feeding surfers their homepage
2. Hiding text within the site
3. Using affiliates to rank higher (alt tags, title tags that are keyword directed)
They are also buying up small sites just to link to themselves, as well as trying to buy direct links on smaller sites. I have been appreached by an assortment of casinos wanting to buy plain text links on small sites.
However, it is starting to look like google is getting away from linking and moving back towards meta tags… so the usefulness of this may soon be gone.
They have been involved in linking to boost their position for a long time. No one should be surprised since the programs started attending webmaster world, SES and Web 2.0 and SEO conferences over the last few years.
Guess they figured they could emulate a lot of what we do then they dont have to pay long term commissions for players.
