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There has been a lot of buzz in forums and in message
boards on how search engines have to handle the bad ethics of a
bad practice SEO company, Search engines are there to provide relevant
information to users, They are using lots of advanced algorithms
to rank different sites in their database. But there are some companies
who figure out the way the sites rank in the search engine algorithm
and use some bad unethical tactics to rank their client sites.
Search engines have always frowned on these types
of unethical practices by some SEO companies. But Search engines
like Google have always liked to fight spam using automated spam
filters, This is because if one spammer is suppressed now an other
one will rise using the same tactic, SO if they fight a particular
tactic with automated filters they can prevent further exploit by
companies using the same tactic, This is very good on the part of
search engines. But sometimes they do manual penalties too when
some SEO company frustrates using the same tactic again and again
to lots of clients. One such company is Traffic power.
Traffic Power is a company which is involved in
advertising and marketing but concentrating in SEO optimization.
It is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.Their marketing tactics have always
brought a lot of anger and frustration among other SEO companies.
Their main targeted customers are innocent website owners and webmasters.
Traffic Power just calls them by phone and explains to them about
the nature of the SEO business and they give fancy offers to clients
saying they will get very good ranking in major search engines.
Many people have fallen for this type of marketing hype. Infact
the very concept of using telemarketing methods is not very acceptable
when it comes to SEO companies. Due to their ignorance many companies
have fallen prey to these techniques and paid huge amounts to Traffic
Power to get their sites ranked high in major search engines.
Infact Traffic power did what they said by phone.They got good ranking
for their clients.Everything was working well for Traffic Power
when suddently fate struck them. Problem came from the tactic they
used to rank their client sites.Some of them have had their sites
banned by Google while others are suffering great financial losses.
They used a technique called Javscript Mouseover
redirect, They create many keyword rich spam doorway pages and when
a person lands on this doorway page from the search engine he is
immediately redirected to the appropriate business page, This happens
when the person does a mouseover on the page itself. In other words
Traffic Power has been using a bannable technique to raise traffic
for their clients. They create keyword rich pages and add a javascript
mouse over redirect to that page. The users ignore the page they
land on and concentrate on the page they are finally redirected
to.
This technique is not appreciated by search engines.Google
especially is very strict on these type of tactics.They are aggressive
towards people who use these tactics and ban them if those SEO companies
use it to manipulate their search results.
Another tactic used by traffic power to improve
rankings is the use of doorway pages. Doorway pages are machine
generated pages having excessive use of keywords, unrelated text,
uses strings of words rather than complete sentences and lacks in
unique content. The use of doorwaypages is also a technique frowned
upon by Google. These doorway pages also had links to other client
websites and the own network of traffic power,
Another technique that is being used is the renaming
of doorway pages. They even have a page giving a brief distinction
between advertising pages and doorway pages. Traffic Power says
that advertising pages contain site related text and has a significant
amount of unique content. Google however seems to disagree with
all this. They consider these advertising pages and doorway pages
to be the same. Anybody going in for search engine optimization
should take care not to be fooled by these dirty tricks.
Google started removing some pages of the clients
of TP ( trafficpower ). When a thread was started in webmasterworld.com,
leading forum for webmasters by some stranger, a Google employee
named GoogleGuy said they detected these type of pages and it was
removed.
This was what he said in http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/24523.htm
I know that we pulled the plug on some
specific spam pages recently. If you paid an SEO and they
somehow convinced you to put spam like sneaky redirects
using an obfuscated JavaScript onMouseOver on the body
tag on your pages, or other stuff like links to their
doorway domains or their other clients, please make sure
that you read http://www.google.com/webmasters/seo.html
http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html#quality
before contacting Google.
First, you need to make sure that you've removed any redirecting/spammy
pages that were on your site. Make sure that every junky
page like that is completely gone before you write, then
you can send an email to webmaster [at] google.com with
the subject line "reinclusion request" as give
us as much detail as possible about the situation.
I believe that one SEO had convinced clients either to
put spammy Javascript mouseover redirects, doorway pages
that link to other sites, or both on their clients' sites.
That can lead to clients' sites being flagged as spam
in addition to the doorway domains that the SEO set up.
Again, make sure you completely remove
any doorway pages or links to spam that an SEO convinced
you to put on your site before you write to Google about
reinclusion. It reflects badly on your site if you write
about reinclusion and then we check and the spam pages
are still live on your site.
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Though the name Traffic Power is not expressly
mentioned by him, almost everybody in the SEO business knows that
he was referring to Traffic Power. Search engine genie believes
not to mention the names of any company. But since people should
be aware who is involved in this we are mentioning the name of the
company,
Traffic power had more than 6000 clients. Out of
which more than 2000 clients are using Traffic power’s SEO
services. This simply means lot of manipulation of Google results.
Google immediately woke up to the occasion and
penalized many of Traffic Power's clients.This brought a lot of
chaos among many of Traffic Power’s clients and they started
asking for money refund. Many online SEO forums started bashing
Traffic Power and their services. Penalty by google has brought
a lot of loss for the Traffic Power SEO/SEM company. They had massive
celebrations for their search engine success but now they are suffering
massive loss.
Some people have filed law suits against Traffic
Power. Even The Best Business Bureau has posted more than 35 complaints
sent by Traffic Power clients. Edward Lewis of SEO consultants has
added specific section in his SEO consultants site to bash traffic
power. Though we are not exactly sure of his motives, it has saved
many people from falling for Traffic Power’s fake optimization
services.
We believe that Google did the right job by penalizing
Traffic Power’s clients. It will definetely teach companies
like Traffic Power to change their tactic and stop spamming search
engines.Google rarely penalizes sites for any sort of spam but traffic
power has really tested Google's patience.So what Google did against
Traffic Power is right in the opinion of Search Engine Genie. We
respect the results of Google and we always like clean results in
Google. Irrelavant pages are always a bad look in search engine
results. It shows that the search engines are not clean. By cleaning
out these junk pages search engines look much more clean.
There are many arguments about the victims ( clients
of Traffic SEO power) being innocent or not. While some of Traffic
Power’s clients were truly innocent and did not know anything
about spamming and other illegal tactics, the same can’t be
said about everybody. Some clients do know that this SEO company
is using tactics on their site that can be detected as spam in search
engines, but still they allowed Traffic power to do that. Those
type of people should be ignored, The innocent ones had given their
site to Traffic Power for professional search engine optimization
but it backfired. The other clients suffered as a result of their
tactics. As far as they are concerned, they have learnt the hard
way that fraud does not pay.
Latest reports suggest that Traffic Power has adopted
a slight change in their company names. They have renamed themselves.
They are now called as "1P" or "First Place".
But we at search engine genie are not worried about that. We don’t
have any personal hatred about any SEO company, We just don’t
like people being scammed in SEO. For us search engines are a great
resource and we hate seeing a search engine spammed by some SEO
company.
If you were a Traffic Power client whose site has
been banned, it is important to see that your Spam pages or doorway
pages have been removed so that your site can be re enlisted in
the Google index. It is nice to see that you get a second opinion
before you actually submit your site for optimization to any search
engine. This will prevent you from making the same mistake twice.
A good SEO company like search engine genie will clear all the pages
of traffic power and will message google for re inclusion into their
index,
This does not however mean that all SEO companies use illegal methods
or spam. There are lots of SEO companies doing legitimate business.
Search engine genie is a SEO company that does not use any of the
illegitimate methods which were being used byTraffic Power. We don’t
believe in using spam or other illegal methods for search optimization.
We have very acceptable methods in making your site rank high in
the major search engines.
We are not saying this because we have any enemity
towards Traffic Power. True, they are our competition but so are
the other SEO companies out there. That does not mean that we go
and badmouth our competitors. We are confident enough to perform
our work and produce results without talking ill about our competition.
Search Engine Genie is a specialized search engine
optimization, marketing, promotion and ranking firm. At search engine
genie, we specialize in search engine optimization. Search engine
promotion and search engine-marketing services. We set very high,
but realistic goals and do not believe in misleading our clients.
Search Engine Optimization also known as search engine Ranking is
a gradual process as we all know and at the end of the time frame
agreed upon, we guarantee top-ranking results in search engines
which top the list today.
We assure you that at search engine genie we use completely tested
and perfectly legal methods to optimize your website for different
search engines. We have people who are highly qualified and understanding
any complex search engine algorithm. Our team of search engine optimization
consultants and Search engine marketing specialists are well versed
with the algorithms of every major search engine.
For more information on Search Engine Genie’s services, contact
us at webpromotions@gmail.com
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