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Footprints and Big Foot prints in SEO

By Mert on Apr 9, 2008 in Black Hat SEO

OK guys, the below blog post is a secret magic code language that only very advanced SEOs will get.. This is really a question rather than criticism because the whole thing does not make sense to a big fan of Greg Boser.

Greg is a great SEO. I have no doubt of it. One of my first posts in this blog was about him talking about not leaving footprints for Google. Greg just pulled off a great marketing stunt for his Property town site through a SEO competition that he and I criticized (below quote from that post).

The thing that most contest participants don’t consider is the fact that everyone is watching. (Including search engine engineers).

That great marketing move also created not a footprint but a Big Foot imprint in the snow for Google and your competition. Next question is from a great admirer who himself is an SEO. Is Property Town really worth it?

UPDATE April 10, 2008: Greg Boser has put a robots.txt command that blocks all bots. Still not sure if the site got penalized or not. I like the “Go Away” message.

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  2. By Mike Dammann on Apr 10, 2008 | Reply

    We are all being watched, the biggest mistake SEOs make is to think that they have outsmarted Google when in reality their stunts are simply being tolerated. You overdo it, you disappear. It’s really that we are all pawns in their algorithm.
    The best strategy is to be passive aggressive. Find something that works and continue doing it!

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