Could Time Warner be using Black Hat Search Engine Optimisation to Simply Help Search Rankings? - Rewritten

That is an exclusive story, written and researched by Eric Van Buskirk How is it possible that MarkMonitor, Inc, who call themselves a global leader within the fast-growing market for online corporate personality is privately hiding links with respect to TimeWarner? Is this being accomplished on subdomains of timeinc.net in order to rank high in the various search engines? You choose. MarkMonitor owns the domain name timeinc.net, a site with a website which re-directs for the primary Time.com site. So it would appear they are running this web site with respect to TimeWarner. If you visit the timeinc site and see some of the source code of the pages, you'll find error pages that have links below a graphic map at the bottom of the page, links which are hidden from viewers and added to boost the search engine position of other Time Warner properties. Discover additional info about url by going to our fine link. This link-hiding practice is often known as Black Hat Search Engine Optimization. An image map tells the browser how to produce an image. That is its only purpose. Nevertheless, a number of the pages on timeinc.net have links invisible to people next to the image maps. If one views the source of sub-domains for example img.timeinc.net or i.timeinc.net, it is clear you can find four links to other TimeWarner properties: <MAP NAME='brandsmap'> <AREA SHAPE='rect' COORDS='0,0,69,27' HREF='http://www.time.com/'> <AREA SHAPE='rect' COORDS='71,0,141,27' HREF='http://www.money.com/'> <AREA SHAPE='rect' COORDS='144,0,213,27' HREF='http://people.aol.com/'> <AREA SHAPE='rect' COORDS='215,0,287,27' HREF='http://www.fortune.com/'> <AREA SHAPE='rect' COORDS='288,0,357,27' HREF='http://www.ew.com/'> <AREA SHAPE='rect' COORDS='360,0,429,27' HREF='http://www.parenting.com/'> <AREA SHAPE='rect' COORDS='432,0,501,27' HREF='http://www.instyle.com/'> <AREA SHAPE='rect' COORDS='504,0,573,27' HREF='http://www.onmagazine.com/'> </MAP> </BODY> </HTML> Did MarkMonitor,inc, a massive company and a genuine leader in defending manufacturers online get this domain, re-direct the traffic to Time.com and find places to cover links to other Time websites from pure altruism? Its possible, but hard-to believe. It should be noted that we now have essential registration pages o-n other sub domains of timeinc. This is not a website that was cast away and has no value for relating. Altruism towards Time seems an unlikely motive, since it would appear if MarkMonitor actively hid links. There's an increasingly fine line with what is appropriate and what is not for seo. At ClickStream, we feel the last class that needs to hire techniques to rank high are fortune 500 companies. Basically, these firms will be the ones that have whole bands of sites. Yet, search engines may exclude people that create multiple sites with the objective of creating a link group and linking to one another. Time must be in a position to link in a circle having its various media businesses. That might seem an unfair advantage, but they are distinct entities that have the same parent company. What truly seems unfair is in order for them to take further advantage of the circular linking by covering links that only the search engines can easily see. The recent storm has just passed over the BMW being removed from the Google se pages. BMWs German site was found using entry pages to position for his or her site and build traffic. Google surely could report that BMW's German internet site used the search engine results to obtain a top ranking if people searched for 'used car. Looking for BMW Germany provides no results. BMW.ge was well rated but it dropped entirely out of the index in a matter of 2-days.

Might Time Warner be using Black-hat Search Engine Optimisation to Greatly Help Search Engine Rankings? - Re-written