The Search Agents » white hat http://www.thesearchagents.com Online Marketing Intelligence Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:49:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Top 10 reasons you know your plumbers’ website is optimized to rank #1 (circa 1999 black hat SEO) http://www.thesearchagents.com/2009/06/top-10-reasons-you-know-your-plumbers-website-is-optimized-to-rank-1-circa-1999-black-hat-seo/ http://www.thesearchagents.com/2009/06/top-10-reasons-you-know-your-plumbers-website-is-optimized-to-rank-1-circa-1999-black-hat-seo/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:22:27 +0000 Grant Simmons http://www.thesearchagents.com/?p=409
  • The word ‘plumber’ appears 42 times in the first paragraph
  • Your ‘links’ page contains 500 links with site categories such as ‘Used truck parts’, ‘Beverly Hills real estate’ and ‘Dry cleaners’
  • There’s 120 words that coincidently match the exact same color as your page background
  • Keywords Meta tags contain the words ‘clean your pipes’ and ‘leaky faucet’ in 72 different combinations
  • Page description is “Welcome to our plumbers page for plumbers who plumb in our area. This plumbers page is very plumber-like so plumbers can get plumber information on plumbing easily.”
  • You have 50 inbound links from ‘www.IDoNotSellLinks.com’
  • The page code is *very* well commented <!–// plumbers content for leaky faucet starts here for plumbers plumbing //–>
  • You have a large number of <noscript> tags that contain plumbing information, even though you have no scripts in the page
  • Your Google analytics shows your traffic is generated by highly optimized single page ‘doorway pages’
  • You cannot find your plumber’s website in Google (circa 2009)
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