Google: Don't Worry About Links Sales - Just Get The Basics Right

Matt, please sort out hidden text, surely it can't be something too difficult to achieve with all those data munging servers working round the clock.

A simple search for "chocolate easter eggs" (I work a few months ahead of events) shows a site in tenth place that is blatantly taking the piss (I've highlighted the hidden text":



What's worse, there's 633 pages with hidden text and they're getting away with it.

The thing is, Google seems hell bent to cause havock with well-intentioned webmasters that work hard to create unique content, but because they don't link in the way you like, they get penalised!

This sort of tactic has been going on for at least 10 years and nothing seems to be done about, but some of my sites with a few too many "buys" in them are removed from the index! Tiz not right, and you know it. Now do something about.

Yours,

Pissed off from Warrington

P.s. Take a read of the Yack Yack blog for a carbon copy of my views about Google of today.

In that post Dan Jenson says "I don’t think it will take long for some clever peeps in the community to devise a way to hurt Google." You don't have to be that clever. All every webmaster (or the majority) has to do is robots.txt them out of their sites and there would be no Google. The results would be empty. At the moment, Wemasters are being foreced in to Google's desired incarnation of the web. You can so much as sneeze or link to your other sites ans you'll get hit with a penalty! It's just not cricket!