Affiliate Marketing Blog: Keyword Stuffing With Div Style Visibility Hidden Still Works

Monday, 21 January 2008

Keyword Stuffing With Div Style Visibility Hidden Still Works

Anyone want to know how to stuff loads of keywords into Google and they can't see it? Well it looks like they haven't done anything about it yet?

Well take a look at this:

I've personally spent half an hour to set up a site to test how these lists of words are treated. And from the looks of this offending site, it seems to stay in the index at the very least. I'd just hopped these tactics went out with the arc!

mmm interesting stuff

I wish I hadn't thrown my black hat away :-( when you also see stuff like this:

5 Comments:

At 21 January 2008 at 22:15 , Anonymous said...: But that's what your misspell tool is for ;)
At 22 January 2008 at 00:05 , Dio Bach said...: Hmmm, I've seen a few spammy bingo sites recently using this sort of keyword stuffing and scraping on top. They seem to pop in and out of the SERPs. I'd have thought that hidden div trick wouldn't work when the page was being spidered, only make it invisible to human searchers?
At 22 January 2008 at 01:03 , Anonymous said...: I don't want to rain on your parade but you haven't mentioned anything about the time your sites had these keywords and the rate inwhich google is crawling it.

In 3-4 weeks it should be gone from search engines and de-indexed and unlikely you will ever get the domain back to a reputable level.

Also showing people 'how to stuff keywords' is hardly useful. The Blackhats who do this type of work produce 10-100 websites a day with a domain listing span of around 20days. Now if you don't have the resources to do that then there is little point.

Ohh and some newbie who just followed your 'suggestion' just got their site de-indexed after working on it for 2months. nice one.
At 22 January 2008 at 08:41 , getvisible said...: @ Phil - lol, I was thinking people would use it for PPC rather than SEO, but never mind ;-)

@Dio - yeh it looks like Google are picking it up and indexing. I've not analysed the long-term success of the tactic as I'm not black hat!

@Anonymous - I've lost the will to live, I really have!

I don't have "sites" using this tactic! I don't do black hat stuff! All I have meerly done is openly i.e. not hidden lists of miss-spells to pages about merchants - much in the same way as MyVoucherCodes does and they're getting shit loads of traffic from Google.

Please re-read the post then if you think I'm still black hat, see who has commented on the blog and ask them if I'm black hat.

If you're still unsure, choose some posts at random and read them. You'll see a theme running through my posts - I don't advicate using black hat tactics! I advocate abiding by their TOS's.

The point of my post was that people are getting away with breaking Google's TOS's! It's that simple - do you understand now?

"Ohh and some newbie who just followed your 'suggestion' just got their site de-indexed after working on it for 2months. nice one."

I'm glad you have sufficient intellect to form an opinion, but I'm afraid you don't have enough to understand the nature of the post. I'll say it again - I was not advocating black hat stuff!!

If newbies want to try this tactic after reading this blog then they deserve to get kicked out! I've said constantly about creating sites that people like and want to refer, be it by linking or by recommending to their network.

If you're still unconvinced then my IM details are on the top right of this page - we can discuss it further.
At 23 January 2008 at 16:55 , Anonymous said...: i think hidden keyword is not good idea!
all keywords write in title is enough!