Eric Gehler SEO Richmond Virginia

Squidoo – Outing The New Black Hat SEO Tool

How the mighty may fall again?  Squidoo is a company generates it’s business on user generated content.  We the people create “Lens” for a small share of the profit.  Well with all good potential things, bad things can also happen. Enter the Black Hat SEO’s

For some reason the Techie’s over at squidoo are letting Black Hats Spam the joint up with 100′s of backlinks while allowing the links to be Hidden, with in a style sheet  style=”display: none;  code.

The Black Hat Squidoo Lens builders are not to bright,  when viewing the source code there are showing  <!– full lm bio –>  with the style sheet  style=”display: none;  code  and evening adding a  marketing message to there spam Links

Squidoo Lens Creation For Our Customers. We actually do SEO for over 1 million customers over the world. Top http://  www.  submitedge.com  >SEO Services</a></b>.
 We also offer Link Building and many other SEO services.

If you look here  http://goo.gl/Bb16U you will see backlinks for one company and the laundry list of squidoo websites using the black hat SPAM

Let’s take a look at one:

www.squidoo.com/london-plumbers

Do A view Source, Search For <!– full lm bio –>  and see the laundry list of Black Hat links that are hidden and against google’s TOS.

You can see a text file list here – it scrolls for days and several 100  spammy HIDDEN LINKS.

Will google do anything about it?

The outing  campaign start’s here:
Will Google Do anything out it?  They did something about JC Penny’s back hat links because a publication in a Popular NYC newspaper, but will they do anything when you report SPAM through Normal channels and post about it from a minor source?

Next I will post something in the Google Webmasters Forum.

Is SEO all about Brands?

We have seen the SERPS overtaken by brands. Here is a funny video by Aaron Wall of SEOBook.com

But Matt Cutts denies via Twitter

The debate rages on, but the SERPS are full of the Brands that previously were not seen.

A look at Guru Launch in Internet Marketing

Wow, this video really makes some good points on the IM internet marketing game..