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Originally posted by Sly_RJ
What was the Spider Trap?
There's no reason to try out anything even remotely risky with search engines. Just do the work, wait a month or two, and you'll start to see results. Continue working, then month after month you'll see your listings climb.
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It was a few years ago.
Hundreds of people all signed up for it. You had your links with your keywords all on a page on each other's domains, and that page was spidered through blank a href tags. Hundreds of domains with the same exact set of hidden link pages. The link pop shot through the roof. I was getting #2 in Alta Vista (when AV was THE search engine) for "free porn".
Unfortunately, the people at AV didn't like their results being manipulated like that. So a whole buttload of us got thrown off various engines. To this day despite a zillion conversations with Alta Vista I can't get some of my domains back there (not as big of a deal as it used to be, but still...)
That was the last time I ever even considered doing anything to try and fuck with the engines. Now I just build my pages, make sure they're all linked somewhere, and let the spiders find em.