This spam trick is a little hard to believe, but some get higher rankings in Google’s regular results using this “technique”
It seems that some webmasters hire cheap Chinese workers to get higher rankings on Google. As strange as it sounds, these webmasters pay couriers on bikes to drive to various Internet cafes, search for their keywords and then click on the listing of the webmaster’s site.
Over time, the listings go up. Actually, Google does have a click tracker in the result URLs. Until now, it had been unclear for what purpose Google uses this tracker. If this story is true, Google might use the number of clicks that a listing gets to determine the ranking of a web page.
October 17th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
sounds interesting but it could start to get costly if it does work
October 18th, 2008 at 12:16 am
Hm, pretty interesting indeed. Kind of hard to believe though.
October 18th, 2008 at 2:55 am
That’s just evil…
October 18th, 2008 at 8:36 am
It is evil! But it worked! These tactics will get out anyway sooner or later!