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dave A · 12-15-2006, 10:51 PM

Yesterday I indexed a website into my New Zealand based search engine and within a few seconds our webspider nearly fell over.
Talk about "Keyword Stuffing!" who ever had designed this site had spent ages adding pages of keywords within the CSS pages.
Text the same colour as the back ground and it even tried the now famous "Two hundred links!" from the sub domains to ourselves routine.

I just wonder "What next?" as web designers strive for higher and higher rankings.
The sheer maths of it all just don't work out. The volume of Supposed "SEO advisors" each of which claims to get your site into the top ten results and with a few billion websites not everyone can come up in the top ten results it is a maths impossibility.
The other night I was at an industry related function and I met an "SEO Master) his words. He told me that he could guarantee to get my site into the top ten results of any search engine.
So I mentioned my search engines name to him. He replied "I know the guy that owns that search engine, he's a friend of mine, All I need to do is have a word and your site will be in the top ten! He then suggested a figure of around $1000 bucks.
So I said I would like to know more and then I gave him my business card.
At the top of it is my search engines logo, my name, my email and phone number.
Ten minutes later the penny dropped! and he came over to explain, so I informed him that because he was such a good friend of mine any sites that were linked to his would all come top of the results for "Creative Bullshit!" becuase I can make sure it happens with a few digits in the database.
Then he tried to say that he didn't mean what he had said. So I advised him to get his keywords optimised and his content checked..

He and his company are now prime candidates for the "Prize prick of the years awards my company is now thinking of introducing.. Grin..

12-15-2006, 10:51 PM	#3
dave A Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Levin, New Zealand Posts: 2	SEO ( or Creative bullshit?) Yesterday I indexed a website into my New Zealand based search engine and within a few seconds our webspider nearly fell over. Talk about "Keyword Stuffing!" who ever had designed this site had spent ages adding pages of keywords within the CSS pages. Text the same colour as the back ground and it even tried the now famous "Two hundred links!" from the sub domains to ourselves routine. I just wonder "What next?" as web designers strive for higher and higher rankings. The sheer maths of it all just don't work out. The volume of Supposed "SEO advisors" each of which claims to get your site into the top ten results and with a few billion websites not everyone can come up in the top ten results it is a maths impossibility. The other night I was at an industry related function and I met an "SEO Master) his words. He told me that he could guarantee to get my site into the top ten results of any search engine. So I mentioned my search engines name to him. He replied "I know the guy that owns that search engine, he's a friend of mine, All I need to do is have a word and your site will be in the top ten! He then suggested a figure of around $1000 bucks. So I said I would like to know more and then I gave him my business card. At the top of it is my search engines logo, my name, my email and phone number. Ten minutes later the penny dropped! and he came over to explain, so I informed him that because he was such a good friend of mine any sites that were linked to his would all come top of the results for "Creative Bullshit!" becuase I can make sure it happens with a few digits in the database. Then he tried to say that he didn't mean what he had said. So I advised him to get his keywords optimised and his content checked.. He and his company are now prime candidates for the "Prize prick of the years awards my company is now thinking of introducing.. Grin..