This concerns me the most, you can trick the bots until you have a total monopoly on keywords. Yet, if someone reports you to google (and it happens) for hijacking traffic (only have to look at your competitors) and they then find you're hacking the bots, they blacklist you.
Ontop of that, do you really want to trick your customers into going to a site thats of no relivance. What about if the flash swf fails or they can't load it? then what... I used to work for *one* of the worlds adult content providers, my job was to farm adult sites out to reap search engine / ecommerce rewards. Our strategy was like a solider based system, where we would create lots of this annoying crappy little websites all over the shop using geocities, anglefire and all that crap to link back to first tier domains, which were upsell sites. We would then populate these tier domains with more established content and so on until it went back to key / rich content based sites where the actual cc transactions would begin. I've seen some talented folk use tricks that have me giving mass-golf-claps as to how well they counter-acted it - yet i've seen yahoo / google pounce on them fast. Google prides itself on being a fairly clean / noiseless search engine so that if my kids search for "Dallas" they get results based on the city - not - DEBBIE DOES DALLAS FOR 98th time. Actualy relivant key words returning such results. any h00t be mindfull of who your traffic will be, and what risks you take in tricking bots. On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:55:39 -0500, dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not saying its the best but it's not to bad actually and fairly easy to > do. > Cause you know how it goes, all your clients with no money want to be #1 in > the engines but they cant afford to pay you to do it better or to have a pro > do it, so this is what I do for them and it seems to work fairly well:) > > ---------------------------------------- > From: "Bryan Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 5:47 PM > To: CF-Talk <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Search engine question > > Ahhhhh...well there are other easier ways of having bot content to > index....just supply custom content based on user_agent....as long as that > content is not different from what's IN the Flash (i.e. not spamming the > bots with extra content etc.)...then you can defend your use of this > technique...but I may have missed something about the Dave's > technique...just kickin in my 2 cents ;-) > > Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. > VP & Director of E-Commerce Development > Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. > phone: 250.480.0642 > fax: 250.480.1264 > cell: 250.920.8830 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > web: www.electricedgesystems.com > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:201099 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
