its funny how you avoided basically every real point in my post and focused on the one where i try and show you that i am not some kind of asshole trying to get people banned or hating on everything. i did the keyword thing back before i knew what i was doing. the site that got banned was an old abandoned site that only got a few hundred hits a day, maybe 25 from google. i guess someone must of been pissed at me to report it. i figured they had bots scanning sites for such violations. maybe not. and i never did it to get hits from google, google didn't even exist when i made that site. and i think there is a huge difference between cloaking and redirection and having a few lines of keywords the same color as the background. if the keyword thing made me 10k, i would still disagree about using it.
anyways, the only point i was really trying to get across is its impossible to compete with black hat tactics with sites who value their content and domains and can't and won't risk them getting banned.
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Originally Posted by fr0gman
Google is just like eBay in that they do not police their listings. In order to attract the gaze of the Google Eye you have to have been reported.
This post has convinced me to stop listening to anything that you say. You admit to using blackhat tech to help get hits from Google (albeit, old and unproductive tech, but you DID IT nonetheless). Then in the next breath you condemn people for using what is offered successfully.
I have one last question for you: If your same-colored keywords had made you say $10k would we be having this discussion?
Your statement reminds me of a story told about the late W.C Fields.
Mr. Fields was at a posh gathering in London and the subject turned to world?s oldest profession and Fields asked one of the more vocal female conversationalists, ?Would you have sex with me for a million pounds?? To which the female replied, ?Of course, who wouldn?t??. Fields then asked, ?Would you have sex with me for 10 pounds?? and the woman said, ?Of course not. What do you take me for a common whore?? Fields concludes with, ?Madam, we have already established that. Now we are negotiating price.?
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