Comments on: Googler Caught Widget Spamming

By: Marceline Rugama

Marceline Rugama — Mon, 17 May 2010 22:28:09 +0000

Consider boy, these facts* using proof* away will certainly posting* lol :P

By: Wiep

Wiep — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:06:05 +0000

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)

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:47:08 +0000

What a douche. Google is so hypocritical.

By: Dave Dugdale

Dave Dugdale — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:20:35 +0000

Wow, interesting find. It will be interesting to see what Google has to say about this one.

Dave Dugdale

By: andrew wee

andrew wee — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:57:10 +0000

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!