Matt Cutts mentioned this project by a Googler that lets you use Google Charts to create a Map of where you’ve been in the world. I went to check it out, and it inserts the code, anchor text back to the site, and some Dutch anchor text that when ran through Google Translate comes out as German Website Translation. Isn’t this why they banned some of Oatmeal’s stuff? But a Googler can get away with it. Jeez.
Update: It looks like every time you hit the Go button you get a different secondary link, with anchor text to all kinds of different (slightly bizarre) places.
Random Examples:
visited 6 states (12%)
Create your own visited map of The United States or vertaling nederlands duits?
visited 6 states (12%)
Create your own visited map of The United States or Best time to visit Bogota
visited 6 states (12%)
Create your own visited map of The United States or Best time to visit Venezuela
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Cutts “If you run a website, the Google Chart API is a great/free way to add pretty charts to your website or dashboard easily.”
ah…that’s what my site is missing…..pretty charts!
Wow, interesting find. It will be interesting to see what Google has to say about this one.
Dave Dugdale
What a douche. Google is so hypocritical.
It’s actually quite funny that one of the anchor texts that shows up when you hit the Go-button has two typos.
When you search for ‘jurisdische veraling duits’ (which is the phrase with the typos), you’ll see the site show up at #1, just below the two ‘did you mean…’ results. When you search for ‘juridische vertaling duits’ (spelled the correct way), a different page of the website shows up somewhere around #25.
In other words:
- the website probably doesn’t deserve it to rank that high, otherwise it would’ve shown up for the correctly spelled keywords (see here the strength of *exact* anchor text), but…
- …widget spamming still works (at least if you work for Google)