A short while ago, Threadwatch member Adam_C discovered what for all appearances seems to be Google pulling dirty SEO tactics on it’s own pages and thus going against it’s own guidelines in an effort to rank highly within it’s own results.

There is no need to give away valuable Page Rank to affiliate programs. You signed up to make money, not to increase their search engine rankings.

My favorite sessions at the SES conference were those where Google and Yahoo appeared on the same panels. You could almost always count on some crackling tension between the two search giants.

The “Meet The Crawlers” session was no exception.

Page cloaking can broadly be defined as a technique used to deliver different web pages under different circumstances. There are two primary reasons that people use page cloaking:

One of the more controversial strategies in search engine positioning is cloaking. But, is it a “beauty” or a “beast” in the world of search engines?