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Went to book a flight on opodo .. I had JS off at the time oops, which let me see their Noscript links .. oh hum

DaveN

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16 Comments | Leave a comment »

  1. 1. Christoph | October 30th 2006 @ 2:01 pm

    Perfect Navigation for when JS is “not available”. I don’t see no Spam there…

  2. 2. Richard | October 30th 2006 @ 2:17 pm

    Interesting find, lol. It’s amazing what comes up sometimes when you disable JS.

  3. 3. DaveN | October 30th 2006 @ 2:22 pm

    Christoph .. your joking right

  4. 4. Dan Abbamont | October 30th 2006 @ 5:44 pm

    Wow, it just gets worse the deeper you dig on that site

  5. 5. Shane | October 30th 2006 @ 5:54 pm

    So what is the problem with the deeper pages???

  6. 6. ukgimp | October 30th 2006 @ 5:55 pm

    Spot the schoolboy error on this page

    opodo.co.uk/hotels/sitemap_hotels.html

    nice sitemap, but not sure how well it will work with the url as localhost :-)

  7. 7. DaveN | October 30th 2006 @ 5:57 pm

    Btw I’m backing from Holiday :)

  8. 8. Shane | October 30th 2006 @ 5:59 pm

    Welcome back….. ???? Back from holiday and booking flights already ?????

  9. 9. DaveN | October 30th 2006 @ 6:09 pm

    yep .. clients to see in europe … and ses chicago to book

  10. 10. Dan | October 31st 2006 @ 11:29 am

    I can see a lot of noscript links on opodo.com but the UK site seems to have a quite good no script.

  11. 11. Marcus | October 31st 2006 @ 4:48 pm

    it seems like, they just eliminated the noscript… LOL :-)
    Nice Job!
    (you can still see it in the google cache though… :-)

  12. 12. » Opodo spammte | October 31st 2006 @ 5:51 pm

    […] Opodo spammte An dieser Stelle darf ich schon in der Vergangenheitsform sprechen. David Naylor hat gestern in seinem Blog auf Spam von Opodo.com hingewiesen. Es handelte sich dabei um Links in einem noscript-Bereich. Diese haben auf Sitemaps von Opodo.de und Opodo.fr verwiesen. Opodo hat es wohl mit der Angst bekommen und die Links auf diverse Sitemaps entfernt. Derzeit ist das Wunderwerk der Suchmaschinenoptimierung aber noch im Google Cache zu bewundern. […]

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  14. 14. boyer-draeby.dk | November 2nd 2006 @ 9:00 am

    Hey David, next time, could you screendump for us all? It makes it a lot easier to see what you see and doesn’t require us to go turn of js and check the site :)

    Thx, and best regards
    Jakob

  15. 15. DaveN | November 2nd 2006 @ 7:55 pm

    Jakob yep for sure

  16. 16. Joe | April 1st 2007 @ 1:47 pm

    Well yeah some sites can be dodgy. By the way, you should be using http://www.FerrisFlights.com to book your flights because it searches major websites all at the same time.

    Also its one of the only sites to allow you to search with flexible dates.

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