Targeting Spam > Is Google Becoming A Junkyard For Spam? ~ bradleybradwell

[Lockergnome Blog Network] Currently, it’s believed, that Google determines relevance through the number of links pointing to a website rather than judging by traffic and other statistics. This has lead to reciprocal linking and link exchanges, essentially fooling the search engine into believing that their website is “important,”

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[Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO] Communication in other languages: While it’s probably not too hard to detect when it’s being used legitimately and when not is not such an issue (based on my previous post that image replacement is used sparingly on most sites, and is restricted normally to h1-h3 tags), it’s hard for Google to understand when text is being hidden on a large scale using complex CSS methods where this visibility of the tag not explicitly set by some display or visibility attribute set on the tag in question or one of it’s parent tags, but rather implied by a series/combination of attributes (in this case overflow, padding-top, and height).

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