February 07, 2006

Google death penalty

An interesting article in SMH about Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and what happened when BMW Germany took the practice a bit too far.

Posted by catsavard at February 7, 2006 12:47 PM
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Beware the wrath of Google.

Looks like BWM.de were not the only offenders.

A good lesson for any SEOer

Posted by: OffBeatMammal on February 7, 2006 04:05 PM

and check this for a breakdown of how Google treats HTML even it if's not a rigged page. Nested tables are (apparently) bad!

Posted by: OffBeatMammal on February 8, 2006 01:19 PM

Reread the article:

Conclusion: The mere appearance of many nested tables in your code does not have a strong enough negative effect to be considered a drag on search engine ranking.

His results are interesting but hardly scientific.

Posted by: Yazml on February 26, 2006 07:16 AM
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