I have noticed that Google is currently rewarding the following practices:
1. Cloaking – a large number of the top sites are doing this even though Google claims it is expressly forbidden.
2. PR Inflation Schemes via purchased non reciprocated links. A great illustration of this can been seen in the Google SERPs for “Online Casino” and other high value terms. A couple of links is one thing, but to buy thousands of inbound links skews everything in favor of those with the largest link budgets. This will quickly lock out honest webmasters or those with legitimately good content and design if it is allowed to continue unchecked.
3. Web Log and Guest Book Spamming. Another technique that is supposedly banned and will get you penalized is being used by a large number of Googles top listings.
It’s laughable how the SEO geeks come to the forums and apply liberal doses of saliva to the balls of the Google Algo engineers and appluad the ‘much better’ returns. Are they blind or do they pay this lip service to cover THEIR tracks?
I never hear one of these elitist assholes utter a peep about all these deceptive techniques which are being handsomely rewarded by Google.
Makes you wonder, huh?