Dec
18

How to get Fake Reviews & 5 Star Ratings on Google… Even on Google’s Own Sites

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Niall on December 18th, 2011

How to (mis)use Microformats & Rich Snippets for improved Click-through rates It became apparent recently that Google is automatically whitelisting any microformat data which webmasters put on their websites – such as reviews and ratings. Google is giving these websites enhanced listings on the SERPs. While this is great for the user experience, this also [...]

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Dec
15

UK Newspaper websites selling links to online gambling spammers… Again..

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Niall on December 15th, 2011

Despite the fact that selling paid links can hurt your search engine rankings, It seems that the Express group are selling BUCKETLOADS paid links.. to online gambling spammers. It’s not so long ago that other media / newspaper groups were caught, outed and punished for selling links. e.g. Bingoport is buying links on the Express [...]

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