REPORTING BLACK HAT SEO IP DELIVERY AND GEOLOCATION CLOAKING AND RELATED TRICKS: A CLOAKING WORKOUT TEST FOR BLACK HAT SEO TRICKS USED ON WWW.BEAU-RIVAGE.CH

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

A CLOAKING WORKOUT TEST FOR BLACK HAT SEO TRICKS USED ON WWW.BEAU-RIVAGE.CH

Test how good you are to spot cloaking tricks:

Get ready: you got 20 minutes to check out this problem and tell me why..... :
www.beau-rivage.ch indexed pages for www.beau-rivage.ch (site:http://www.beau-rivage.ch/) appears with pages such as www.beau-rivage.ch/fr/reservationrestaurant.htm or www.beau-rivage.ch/fr/acces.htm
but, wow, if i click these pages in Google, i arrive on the Home...

what do you think.......? How does this site manage to give (white hat) SEO a bad name?

(20 minutes, not more, i got the answer ;-) )
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See next post for answer on the cloaking tricks being used.

CLOACKING 101

Reporting IP delivery changes, geolocation changes, and cloaking tricks found on sites doing black hat seo is a way for the few of us who do proper, often W3C valid, and 99.9 WHITE HAT SEO to respond to the ongoing use of scripts and low level, fast result black hat seo IP DELIVERY AND CLOAKING TRICKS which frankly give seo a bad name.

It is important to note that the sites mentioned may alter their source code over time. We base our posts, and save to a file the source code which contains a date and time as cached by Google.

We do not aim to attack or damage the reputation of any given person, firm, webmaster, or sponsor. We aim simply to respond to the use of black hat seo - with our right for free speach and our right to report cloaking and other forms of spam generation on the internet.

We will shortly be offering viewers who wish to support this project to submit sites they find which contain CLEAR indications of (black hat) cloaking.

TWO BLOGS TO REPORT BLACK HAT SEO CLOAKING ON WEBSITES

ABOUT OUR TWO BLOGS ON CLOAKING
REPORTING BLACK HAT SEO IP DELIVERY AND GEOLOCATION CLOAKING AND RELATED TRICKS IS BASED ON TWO BLOGS AT THE SAME TIME. THERE IS NO "DUPLICATE CONTENT" THERE IS SIMPLY A NEED FOR VARIOUS REASONS TO SWITCH BETWEEN THE TWO AS WE REPORT ON SITES WHICH ARE CLOAKING AND OR WHICH ARE USING BLACK HAT SPAM TRICKS. THE MAIN REASON FOR THE TWO SITES IS TO ALLOW US THE TIME WE NEED TO LOOK POST BY POST AT THE SAME SITE, AND INTERNAL PAGES WHICH USE CLOAKING. HENCE AT ANY GIVEN TIME ON EACH OF OUR ANTI-BLACK HAT SEO BLOGS YOU WILL FIND 10 TO 30 POSTS ABOUT A GIVEN SITE. ALLOWING US TO WORK ON 2 SITES PER MONTH. AND ALLOWING US TO REPORT ON SITES USING SEO BLACK HAT CLOAKING TRICKS IN DETAIL.

THE TWO URLS TO OUR SEO BLACK HAT REPORTING PAGES ON SPAM AND CLOAKING:
http://ipdeliverygeolocationcloakin.blogspot.com/
and http://ipdeliverygeolocationcloaking.blogspot.com/

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CLOAKING:
Cloaking: Serving different content to users than to Googlebot. This is a violation of our webmaster guidelines. If the file that Googlebot sees is not identical to the file that a typical user sees, then you?re in a high-risk category. A program such as md5sum can compute a hash to verify that two different files are identical.