www.bigmouthmedia.com - Matt Cutts is coming
- 16th Apr 2007
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Bigmouthmedia change your CSS, Just a heads up guys ..
But if you read Matts post on hidden links, I kinda feel that your Home page bigmouthmedia which I really like ( the video kills me ) is really in Googles eyes spammy now.
snippet from your home page content :
Here at bigmouthmedia, we’re in the business of search engine
optimisation, e-marketing and internet marketing.We’ve been voted best in the SEO industry again and again. In fact,
our mantlepiece is positively brimming over with industry awardsWe’re inspired by our commitment to offer big name brands trustworthy
solutions for positioning their brands online, overcoming software
hurdles to good listings, making database driven sites
searchable and increasing their ROI performance. We like success -
success by design.We’ve almost a decade of search engine experience. Search is what
we do, it’s not a bolt-on and never has been. We were search
engine optimisation gurus back when everyone thought AOL ‘was the
Internet’ and email was the preserve of just database geeks
and software boffins.
when I used My clickability Tools the (old and busted version of Lynx) I can see you have 36 CSS links That blend into the content.
Again here is a snippet with the links been numbered.
Here at bigmouthmedia, we’re in the business of [2]search engine
optimisation, [3]e-marketing and [4]internet marketing.We’ve been voted best in the SEO industry again and again. In fact,
our mantlepiece is positively brimming over with industry awardsWe’re inspired by our commitment to offer big name brands trustworthy
solutions for [5]positioning their brands online, overcoming software
hurdles to [6]good listings, making [7]database driven sites
searchable and increasing their [8]ROI performance. We like success -
success by design.We’ve almost a decade of [9]search engine experience. Search is what
we do, it’s not a bolt-on and never has been. We were [10]search
engine optimisation gurus back when everyone thought AOL ‘was the
Internet’ and email was the preserve of just [11]database geeks and
software boffins.
DaveN
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It looks like part of the design rather than intentional hidden link because it is human readable.
still fighting the fight eh Dave? :)
Digg, Yer agreed I’m sure there are hundreds of sites out there that will get hurt of this.
DaveN
Hi Dave
This post caught my eye enough to blog about it.
John
It does indeed seem like a shady practice. It’ll be interesting to see the shake-up that results. [ watches for falling rankings ]
Let’s start a witch hunt. Matt is even telling us how to become a snitch (http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/how-to-report-paid-links/) so it can’t be bad ;)
As long as we only rat on the stupid and obvious search scams like the bigmouth one, we only cleanse the neighbourhood, or not?
Nah, don’t think so. If Google cannot even get the junk out algorithmicly they aren’t worth helping. Matt’s post to me seemed like a cry for help: “Help, we can’t clean the serps ourselves. There are just too many search engine spammers and tactics we cannot detect!”
Look at it like this - if you wanted a website, would you trust a webdesign company that thought making links invisible was a *good* idea?
Don’t you think BMM knows this?
Hidden links.
Yes, Dave. Keep fighting the good fight. Somebody that can afford to absolutely has to. Listening to SP and reading these last few entries I have been shouting “Amen” for my whole Apartment complex to hear.
Google has crossed the line. Welcome to Microsoft 98 Territory.
BMM do it because they know if users could see all the links on each page then they would realise that a load of old content leads to duff made-for-SEO pages and at times a single small article can have dozens of keyword links to the same page.
But if you ask them, you can get the amusing response of a company brainwashed by its own bull. ;)
1. Hidden Links Good For Design
2. Hidden links bad for Google etc
3. Hidden Links bad for accessibility and usability
In BBM defense, these links use to have a clear - red - hover state (which seems to be missing from Matt’s example on hidden links), but looking at them now … they are underlined - very light grey underline but still underlined - way to go Dave! I guess they were afraid to be bittten once again - remember last time they got dropped? (http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/archives/2006/02/20/bigmouthmedia-bye-bye/)
BMM slavish affection for all things Google (read their daily blog) will ensure they will have to do something pretty drastic to get penalised again. AG’s crusade against paid links and their astronomical spend on adwords should ensure that any ambiguous SEO techniques will not get picked up by the big G.
Like they say its not what you know its who you know - oh and how much you spend
I am quite suprised to see the huge amount of SEO companies still with CSS errors too. Look at our results http://www.webefforts.co.uk in validator.w3.org.