RE: Scamming the Engines...

Hi Folks:

Dennis wrote:

<<Never assume the search engines operate in the dark.  :) >>

Just so's you don't get the wrong idea - my research was for design only.  I 
don't cotton to this kind of trickery and frankly, it could end up backfiring 
for any clients who put their trust in me. :-)

The Captain wrote:

<<The . . . most reasonable . . . way to fix this seems to be to put
"invisible" links on the index page of Http://www.vendor.com to make the
connection to the other areas for the spiders, but keep them invisible to
consumers . . . or P.I.T.A. manufacturers.>>

That's one for my library - but the "invisible" links on this page were also 
just a bunch of keywords rather than a link to another page.  

Looks like so:

<.a href="Aqua-Pure, Aqua-Pure, Water Solutions, Water Filtration, Water 
Filters, Water Treatment, Water Conditioners, Water Conditioning Systems, 
Water Problems, Simplex, NSF, Water, Filtration, Drinking Water Systems, 
Drinking Water, Potable Water, Reverse Osmosis, Water Softeners, Backwash 
Systems, Iron Removal Systems, Acid Water Neutralizers, Ultra Violet Light 
Systems, Whole House Filtration, Point of Entry, Point of Use, Ice Maker 
Filters, Under Sink Filters, Counter Top Filters, Taste & Odor Filtration, 
Graded Density Filters, Carbon Filters, Chlorine Taste & Odor Filters, 
Chemical Reduction, Cysts, Cryptosporidium, Giardia, Lead, Hard Water, 
Sediment Filters, Dirt & Rust Filters, Replacement Filter Cartridges, 
Replacement Filters, Replacement Cartridges, Specialty Filters, Clearly Great 
Water, The Choice of the Professional Plumber, Plumbing Productsey also 
repeated same with a comment tag, <. a name>,  and <.noscript> tags.

This is what I can't understand..I've never seen this technique and can't 
figure out how it fits into gaining an advantage....

Someone went to an awful lot of trouble here.....

- Jeff K.

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