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There is plenty of content on that page. I'm sure there are also many pages on boltaconsumer.com which link to it boosting it's internal links all being mostly relevant. It may or may not have external back links, but when I search zong sim blocked or related searches there are very few sites with those phrases on them.
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Don't resubmit the report. That won't accomplish anything.
Google won't necessarily punish the offending site directly. They have expressed a preference for using reports like yours for identifying tricks and techniques (patterns) and updating their spam fighting algorithms to automatically handle this. This allows them to improve the whole system instead ...
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Google does not just ignore links in sections that are display:none.
Consider DHTML multi-level drop down menus. In such a menu, you hover over the top level menu item and a list of links drops down. That is a case in which the links are in display:none initially, but user interaction with the page shows them. Using drop down menus like this is ...
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That raises a huge red flag for me. There is nothing you can do just by having a "server" or any special software to improve SEO in the manner they are speaking. This sounds like they are using black hat techniques in an attempt to rank pages better. I would tell them to give you a detailed explanation of what this server does and if they don't tell you ...
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FYI, this won't hurt your website from an SEO point of view. Unsolicited one way backlinks can never hurt you (if you purchase links those one way backlinks can hurt you). If they could then tactics like this would be an easy way to sabotage your competition. At worst, one way backlinks have no value. This is probably the case with the links you are ...
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I wouldn't be suprised if Google had done something temporarily to their algorithm to take those protesting SOPA into account (seeing as they're also opposed (obviously!)).
This is the only proper way for wikipedia to do this. They've said themselves that they don't want to cause major disruption, and leave all content accessible should people need to use ...
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If you feel that a website is ranked well due to heavy spam so you can use following Google tool:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport?hl=en
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/request.py?contact_type=rich_snippets_spam
But, don't be negative to rank well with your target keywords. There are too many factors to rank well in Google. We ...
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The quality guidelines section of the Google Webmaster Guidelines contains this link for submitting sites which use blackhat/spammy practices. I believe the feedback page on Google search results also has a link to the same form.
Edit:
Google has also released a Chrome extension to easily report spam sites. It provides a browser button that'll take you ...
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I read about link-wheels both the link you posted and this one that is more detailed: http://www.squidoo.com/LINK_WHEELS
1st of all I would say that link wheels are actually NOT real black hat SEO, they might be called gray hat, because Matt Cutt's himself suggests to spread over web 2.0 sites the existence of your main business/website by writing ...
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Google recommends the following in its Webmaster Guidelines:
Don't deceive your users or present
different content to search engines
than you display to users, which is
commonly referred to as "cloaking."
Instead of giving users a hard link to the AJAX data provider script, why not just provide the index.php link by default and use Javascript to ...
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Agree with @Joe's answer, but here are some links which maybe of use
Google's spam report page - this includes a list of "problems"
and the quality guidelines at the bottom of this page
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I think the king here is the URL
http://www.boltaconsumer.com/complaints/zong-sim-block#comments11
That directly contains the word
Zong
Sim
Block
the reputation of the site http://www.boltaconsumer.com is probably good with Google. Genuine traffic across different parts of the country, no spams, the word complaints in URL may also contribute to its ...
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Semantically the bold tag doesn't mean much and therefor I wouldn't consider it to be black hat SEO tactics. If however you were to do the same to the strong or em tags you are definitely abusing their use.
However, it might not be explicitly mentioned but like everyone has been saying it probably won't do your SEO any good. John makes a good point, why ...
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I did a backlink audit of a potential client's website a couple months ago, and they were previously working with a digital marketing firm. They had many backlinks, in the high hundreds, with well optimized anchor text consisting of only a few phrases. Upon further review, I found that many of the links were coming from obvious content(link) farms with low ...
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It is generally accepted that a third party cannot harm your rankings directly although they obviously can use black hat techniques in an attempt to outrank you. But that would not be a direct attack upon your website.
Most SEO ranking factors are related to on-page content of which you have full control. So if a competitor is abusing your site (i.e. links ...
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That is the very definition of black hat SEO. You are serving up different content to the search engines for the explicit purpose of manipulating their rankings.
The solution offered by S.gfx is the correct one. Additionally, search engines know that permalink is for that page. There's no need to stuff keywords in there. It won't make a difference anyway.
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You'll find most black hat tactics have their roots in white hat practices, it's my understanding that the mini-net and link wheel concepts are taken from main stream media. Most newspapers and magazines own far more then just one publication they have many niche publications and usually somewhere on each of them it says its owned by x or it's an x ...
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From the sound of it you have taken down all your real content and only left the index page. This is probably one of the worst things you could do because Google is not able to refresh the content and keywords on those pages. You shouldn't return a HTTP status 410 either because that implies the content will never be coming back (although I believe Google ...
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No, because comments are ignored by search engines.
Although Flash based websites at are a disadvantage SEO wise because they lack semantic markup and usually lack internal linking as well, they do still benefit from incoming links from other websites in addition to other factors like page title, etc.
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I just came across a recent YouTube video from Matt Cutts on this topic. Google is now letting webmasters disavow links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=393nmCYFRtA&NR=1
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You appear to be asking "can I alter the AdSense code on pages served by a proxy to get clicks for my AdSense account" - this sounds more like scumware than any kind of black hat practice.
If you observe to the AdSense sign up process, you should see the requirement to (a) identify which domains your AdSense code will be used upon and (b) the clause below ...
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It is absolutely fine in this day and age to hide elements so that pages are heavier but also liter at the same time - in fact it enables a more rich experience
Google understands display:none elements and takes this content into account when working out rankings. As long as you have JavaScript that gracefully displays the content on click or any other ...
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You won't be able to trap Google bot, they crawl specific links and if a script is generating false links where there is no content they'll stop crawling you and possibly manually review why Google bot got stuck.
Google is very capable of avoiding calendars on forums which turn into endless loops of links with dates going on for ever. So if they can ...
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This is a really fishy question to me (I'm suspicious/cynical by nature, so excuse me if I'm way off the mark) for a few reasons:
Like greg robbins says, if you don't know if an SEOer will use black hat techniques or not, then a sensible/ethical business would just hire someone else. Even though the SEO industry as a whole is pretty sketchy, it's still ...
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Google's algorithms for determining how to rank sites are ultra top secret, but factors may be:
linking between the sites
hosted on the same server
Webmaster tools could be a factor as well
But above and beyond all that, common sense is the rule here. If you are worried about a new SEO guy doing Black Hat techniques, don't work with that guy!
Make sure ...
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Googlebot doesn't have a "viewport size." It's going to see whatever your default layout is.
Assuming you're set up with Webmaster Tools, try out the "fetch as Googlebot" feature. There are some third party tools that try to approximate this(search for something like "view as googlebot"), but this is obviously the official reference tool, so you might as ...
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The best way is to use a program like XENU's Link Sleuth to mine their backlinks to look for suspicious links and other black-hat tactics. If anything is not in line with Google's webmaster guidelines then you can report them. With the release of the Penguin update from Google, hopefully it will only be a matter of time before they get spanked.
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You might want to check the backlinks of the website using:
site:domain.com
in yahoo. Another alternative is Open Site Explorer:
http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/
I'll bet that most of the backlinks are spam, probably from Scrapebox or Xrumer.
Greetings from another unethical SEO :)
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Xrumer gets garbage links. Even if there isn't such a thing as link velocity (and I don't personally believe there is) the links that software gets won't make any kind of difference in a page's rankings. Quality links is what webmasters want. Not garbage easy to grab links that aren't relevant or valuable in any other way.
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Regarding your question about whether or not to inform Google of this issue: no, this appears to clearly be a technical issue on the hosting side. After resolving it on your side, it'll automatically get resolved as Google recrawls your URLs.
If this were a web-spam issue (which from your description does not appear to be the case), you could submit a ...
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